{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-11", "file": "debates1946-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "41805bc014b12c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.26.5", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY (COAL INDUSTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "preceding_text": "In any further recommendations or considerations of this sort, will the Government bear in mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.26.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-11", "file": "debates1946-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "41805bc014b12c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": " people a false sense of security. It gives them the idea they can get something for nothing— that the State, or somebody else, can keep them if necessary from the womb to the tomb. There is a law, a natural law, older and more sacred than human-made enactments. If any man, or any Government, breaks that law, the law will break him, and it says this, \"If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-11", "file": "debates1946-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "41805bc014b12c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "anger of epidemics. He might have addressed those words to the Government and people of this country. I now come to a question put by the hon. Lady the Member for North Hendon, and I answer it by quoting an extract from \"A Word on the Future to British Socialists,\" issued by the Fabian Society. It is remarkable that a society which, in my opinion, has done so much harm to this country in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-11", "file": "debates1946-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "41805bc014b12c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "g us tonight to give a preview of the April Budget, I air afraid he is going to be tremendously disappointed. We will be prepared to face the Money Resolution on this Bill, but, so far as the Bill itself goes, it would make our procedure too elastic if we were to have a pre-Budget Debate two months before the Budget is due. The Second Reading of a Bill is, broadly speaking, a battle of principles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-11", "file": "debates1946-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "41805bc014b12c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "ussion is quite out of date. During the 10 years from 1935 to 1945, from the last General Election before the war to the first General Election after the war, there was very little political activity, but, at the same time, there was a good deal of thinking going on, which, coloured by the events of six years of war, led the electors to the view that the Labour Party's policy was the one for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-11", "file": "debates1946-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "41805bc014b12c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"That is tomorrow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ry Rip-van-Winkles of this House have sat on those benches. I do not propose—it would take up too much time—to recite instances of Tory resistance to steps which the public have felt in their minds, and public opinion has proved, to be vital to our national interests. Nor would it, at this stage, be proper for me to enlarge on the vindictive and repressive legislation of the 1927 Trades Union Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-11", "file": "debates1946-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "41805bc014b12c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "the existence in our midst of unmerited poverty—poverty over which the strongest characters may triumph, but poverty which has seared the souls, warped the minds and twisted the bodies of millions of our fellow citizens throughout the generations. The Tory Party, in the words of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for South Kensington—I still come back to him— claims to be the champion of freedom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-11", "file": "debates1946-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "41805bc014b12c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "throughout the generations. The Tory Party, in the words of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for South Kensington—I still come back to him— claims to be the champion of freedom.[Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"] In the past, the poor have been free to make the best of their poverty and insecurity, tempered by grudging concessions wrung from reluctant Governments of the Conservative or Liberal Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-11", "file": "debates1946-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "41805bc014b12c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "e must, therefore, in our view—and nobody on these benches or opposite is going to disagree with me— get rid of poverty if we are to become an effective democratic community with a dignified life. Something can be achieved by a redistribution of our national income, but that is not the only problem, though I will say a word about that in a moment. The truth is, the national cake is not big enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-11", "file": "debates1946-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "41805bc014b12c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "the wells of social justice ever since. Volume I ended with the beginnings of a new conception. It now remains to translate that into practical form, and I hope this Bill will not be delayed a single unnecessary day, with a view to achieving a finality which experience and the growing social conscience of our time will prove in a few years not to be final. In other words, this Bill is not perfect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-11", "file": "debates1946-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "41805bc014b12c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "o achieving a finality which experience and the growing social conscience of our time will prove in a few years not to be final. In other words, this Bill is not perfect. [Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"] Well, I have said it. Hon Members need not repeat it. This Bill is not perfect. It is the best we could do, in the time we had at our disposal, and in the circumstances. We have still a lot to learn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-11", "file": "debates1946-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "41805bc014b12c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood:", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows he is pressing for something that Governments very, very rarely give.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-11", "file": "debates1946-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "41805bc014b12c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "This is really an impossible position. The Government take the view that it is possible, under concessions, given, in a Minister's speech, to his supporters, to extend the period of un-covenanted benefit which will impose an unknown charge on the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-11a.137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.187.0", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION (ANGLO-AMERICAN AGREEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Owen Thomas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Owen Thomas", "preceding_text": "On that point of Order, Mr. Speaker. Are you aware that there is general complaint on these Benches about the poor acoustics of the Chamber and of the fact that we can hardly hear any speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.192.7", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "e who say, as Conservative propagandists outside this House have said— we shall wait to hear whether they repeat it here— that this is a Bill which is intended to legalise and encourage the. general strike are saying that which is. completely false. This Bill will legalise nothing that was illegal in 1927. In so far as this Bill improves, as it undoubtedly will improve, the atmosphere in industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.192.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker. I am sorry to interrupt, but my capacity for following the hon. and learned Gentleman in his important speech is being heavily impeded by the muttering of a group of political nondescripts on my left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ion is a piece of mere dead wood upon the Statute Book, we propose to get rid of it. From one point of view it is quite academic to discuss what the law will be in regard to this matter when this particular Section is repealed, but the House is entitled to know our view upon it, and I will endeavour to explain it. Let me say at once, quite frankly, that it is a matter which is not free from doubt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ht to remain in work; and suppose he said, \"Look here, Tom, if you stick out we shall be beaten, and if we are beaten. they will bring all our wages down, and you will lose money in the end, the same as the rest of us.\" Perhaps hon. Members may think there is nothing very terrible in that, but that is intimidation under the terms of the 1927 Act, and that conduct would be punishable on indictment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " or an official of the union, goes along to see the non-unionist, and says, in a perfectly friendly and peaceful way, \"Look here, Bill, come and join us,\" and points out the advantages of trade unionism to the industrial worker, and says, \"Come along and join us, and become a member of the union, for if you don't we shall refuse to work for old Tom Noddy, the employer,\" that would be intimidation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " Election, who, speaking with all the authority of a great political leader over the wireless system of this country, said: \"The Gestapo will get you if you don't watch out. There will be a political police, I assure you of it, if you vote Socialist.\" Such a man, if there were such a man, would be liable to be fined 40s. at the instance of some timid housemaid who had been caused a restless night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The 2nd June was not in the middle of the strike.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "mply strong enough to deal with any question of improper pressure or intimidation which may arise. I am going to read now the language of one, who spoke with far more authority than I can do—the Conservative Home Secretary at the time. He said on 2nd June, 1926, in the middle of the general strike—he had referred to the words of the Statute, but I will not bother the House by reading them all out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "d not be bothered to fill in a form, and, as a result, the contributions to the political funds went down. The position differed in the different unions, and it is very difficult to compare a position like that, because the membership of the unions has increased very greatly, on the one hand, and, on the other, during the past six years, there has been little political organisation and canvassing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "Why did the right hon. Gentleman ask for two days to discuss it?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "phe at the moment. Mr. Clynes, who was very much respected by all sides of this House, said that the Bill was motived by the idea of reducing the trade unions to impotence in their relation to employers of labour.\"— [Official Report, 2nd May, 1927; Vol. 205, c. 1339-] I have no doubt that Mr. Clynes believed that at the time, but is anybody suggesting that that is what happened in fact after 1927?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "hat about the great bitterness, and the industrial disputes which were going to take place after the 1927 Act? That was the other main burden of criticism which runs all through the speeches of the critics of the Bill at that time. Between the great war and the general strike of 1926, the number of working days lost in industrial disputes fell below 8,000,000 in only one year—rather a tragic fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.221.1", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"You refused it then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " the primary object of that strike was not industrial, or at any rate so it would be interpreted by anyone giving expression to the Bill of 1931, and, secondly, it also made it clear that under the Bill of 1931, introduced by the then Labour Government, such a strike would have been illegal. I ask the Government why they have not taken up again the Measure which they themselves introduced in 1931?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Hicks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Blackmail.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Hicks", "preceding_text": "over hundreds of thousands of workers. It was very likely to come on again unless it was stopped, and it could not be stopped by argument, it could not be stopped by good reason, it could not be stopped by splendid advocacy, and it could not be stopped by honeyed words. The only possible way to stop it was to cause sufficient inconvenience in industry to compel the other side to sit up and listen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kendall", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Or the food.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kendall", "preceding_text": "on side, and rather nasty ones, about the fact that a lot of houses have not been built and that there is a food shortage. This has been public political propaganda against the Labour Party and the Labour Government. I am not entering into that. I am wishing the Labour Government well. I do not think the Government have had time enough yet to get on with the tremendous tasks they have before them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": ", but there is one that I will mention. This is a matter of really vital importance, since the Labour Party gets most of its support from the trade unions. The figures given in the report of the 40th Annual Conference, in 1941, are rather striking. I quote from the statement of receipts: Labour parties, subscribed including arrears,£ 5,839; Socialist societies,££ 72 9s. Id.; trade unions,£ 38,513.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": " doubt as to whether it would be necessary to discuss that matter at all, but we have had from at least two hon. Members on the other side what has amounted to an attempted complete justification of the general strike. The hon. Member for East Woolwich (Mr. G. Hicks) and the hon. Member for Walton have shown very clearly to the House, I suggest, that they are not the least bit ashamed or penitent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not a bit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "omplete justification of the general strike. The hon. Member for East Woolwich (Mr. G. Hicks) and the hon. Member for Walton have shown very clearly to the House, I suggest, that they are not the least bit ashamed or penitent— [Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\"]—and that the Socialist movement as a whole—and I am pleased to hear the cheers—is not the least bit ashamed or penitent about the general strike", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nonsense\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "preceding_text": "he trade union movement in this country. However, instead of crippling it, we have seen a far different result, reflected on the benches on this side of the House tonight. I wish the Party opposite would learn this lesson, for it is a very important one.Right through the industrial history of this country they have been seeking to put obstacles in the way of collective efforts of the trade unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": " favourites with the Party opposite. The first is the argument that because something is found in the Labour Party election programme, it is therefore sanctified and hallowed by the mandate f the electorate. The Attorney-General referred more sonorously, and perhaps a little more pompously, to the verdict of the people. That is an argument which I should have thought was wearing a bit thin by now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": " to define the new principles which should govern the trade unions with Parliament. It is true, of course, that the troubles of 1926 were the occasion of the legislation. That is the way in which things happened in this country and elsewhere But it is untrue, and it is a complete perversion of the truth, to suggest that the principles of the 1927 Act were in fact animated by any vindictiveness or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "ority was not very big; what difference does that make? The learned Attorney-General seems to think that the smaller the minority the less' it matters. That is not the view we take on this side of the House. In this instance also I am bound to say that the learned Attorney-General seems to have been infected with the virus of Nuremberg and to have come out with swastika spots all over his red tie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "he forces of inertia to secure the farthings of those who cannot be bothered to contract out of paying them. If hon. Members opposite were members of a local authority they would be committing a serious offence by doing this. It is only because nobody has ever thought of anything so abominable being done in Parliament it has not already been legislated against. There is much else that I could say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Intimidation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "ed to contract out of paying them. If hon. Members opposite were members of a local authority they would be committing a serious offence by doing this. It is only because nobody has ever thought of anything so abominable being done in Parliament it has not already been legislated against. There is much else that I could say— [ Interruption. ]—and if I get much more interruption I shall say it all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And lockouts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "e. More potential strikes have been settled than have actually occurred, and sometimes we have got into bad blood with our own members because of stopping a strike rather than with the employers. It has not always been easy to keep the thing moving, but no conciliation, arbitration or similar procedure will be of avail in the long run if there is no power to strike, and if there is dissatisfaction", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "to refuse to work. Incidentally, I remember when the right hon. Gentleman himself went on strike. What is more, I remember one of his colleagues joining in a sympathetic strike with him—and they had a vast volume of support from the country in respect of that sympathetic strike. The right hon. Gentleman took up an attitude which is to his credit. But was that not a strike to coerce the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "f the House. Of course not. I went all through that strike, and I believe it was the finest example of one man showing sympathy for and comforting another that we have ever seen. I happened to be, at the time, the leader of a printing trade union, and I assert, without any hesitation, that it was never in the minds of any one of us that it was an action that challenged the power of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.299.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.305.8", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "As so many Members of the Socialist Government are giving large entertainments in luxury hotels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.305.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.305.12", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "I will give another case and I will give the name in this one. I shall not budge from what I have said. What we want to do is to get a settlement with those hotels and not show them up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.305.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.307.0", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I was rising on a point of Order. If the repeal of the Trade Disputes Act has something to do with employers and the unions which serve them, I would consider the right hon. Gentleman was in Order. I do not know whether this Bill which the Government have introduced, has anything to do with that particular aspect. However sympathetic we may be with the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.306.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOODS AND SERVICES (PRICE CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " matter, because hon. Members must realise that these Orders have the force of law, and there may be a time when an Order is signed by a Minister and it is not published for the world or even published for the benefit of this honourable House of Commons. Proceedings may be taken against an individual who knows nothing about the Order, even though the House of Commons knows nothing about it either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.312.5", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOODS AND SERVICES (PRICE CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"To waste time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "complete ignorance owing to the burdens of his trade. We have to take these matters seriously. It may be that in this new House of Commons Members on both sides have got out of the practice of examining these things meticulously. These things are not done to make difficulties in the machinery of Parliament: they are done very definitely for one purpose, and one purpose alone, in order to maintain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.312.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.331.5", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": " laid in the House of Lords on the 12th December, but for some reason which our Department is unable to explain the House of Commons did not record the laying of the Order until 17th December. Now perhaps the hon. Gentleman would give me his attention. So far, we are unable to satisfy ourselves that our Department is not without some responsibility in this matter. We cannot say that the Department", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.331.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.337.3", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "I am very glad to support what the hon. Baronet the Member for Sutton Coldfield (Sir J. Mellor) said about this House being fully informed. I congratulate the Minister on being the first to have the courage to come down to the House and candidly admit that there has been a lack of informing the House in due time, and taking the House fully into the confidence of his Department. I congratulate him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.337.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.342.3", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (FOOD)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": "e which has made recommendations to that effect. What is desirable is that these Orders should be laid before they come into operation, and Members present this evening will have noticed that, in practically every case brought before the House, the date of coming into operation has been considerably subsequent to the date on which they were laid, although there has been some delay in presentation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.342.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.343.2", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (FOOD)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A Prayer, not a Resolution.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "It may be the only Parliamentary method, but it does not seem to me to serve any useful purpose that this House should- tonight pass a Resolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.343.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.343.4", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (FOOD)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Prayers.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members who have been responsible for putting these Motions on the Order Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.343.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.343.6", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (FOOD)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Prayers.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members who have been responsible for putting these Motions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.343.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-12", "file": "debates1946-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "1551e55580c7859b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (FACTORIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Private printers would have done it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I would again refer the hon. Gentleman to the argument made on the first Motion tonight. I wish he would study this. The Order could have been set up in type on the 17th all ready for circulating. The necessity was known long before, and it could have been ready to be run off and we could have had notice of it before the House rose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-12a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL EMPIRE", "cue_speaker": "Major Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major Bruce", "preceding_text": "No improper insinuation was intended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.373.3", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL EMPIRE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order, Mr. Speaker. I have been here for ten years and time and time again not only insinuations but direct charges have been made against me from the other side. What he said was true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.373.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.381.5", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman consider how long this terrible racket in Poland can continue? Is he aware that the Provisional Government is busy Communising the whole country and attempting every method from deportation to murder to gain its own ends?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.381.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "The facts have been published again and again. There is what is known, I believe, as \"rough music \"—people attending near a worker's home, night after night, making loud discordant noises, rattling tin cans, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "The facts have been published again and again. There is what is known, I believe, as \"rough music \"—people attending near a worker's home, night after night, making loud discordant noises, rattling tin cans, and so on. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members may laugh, but that sort of thing is surely not to be encouraged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Will you? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": " is the only Trade Unions Act carried in the history of this country in regard to which the Government of the day refused an inquiry and refused to allow trade unions to state their case. Time after time, I spoke to Mr. Baldwin, as he then was, and the then Minister of Labour, and I said, \"Before you tamper with the trade union law, will you set up a public inquiry and allow us to state our case?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "role of enemies of the State, and while as an individual I have been a trade union leader for 20 years, I never have been an enemy of the State. I have been as big a constitutionalist as any Member on the other side of the House, and I am fighting to remove the stigma which the Tory Party in 1927 put upon me, as the leader of a trade union. That has been the burden of my claim all the way through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "our people back to work on the new basis. Then came the Election of 1924 in which my hon. Friends opposite were returned to power, not on a Trade Union Act, but on a \"Red letter.\" Within a few months, Mr. Baldwin put the greatest financial expert in the world in charge of the Treasury, the right hon. Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill), and the chief official of the Treasury was Sir Otto Niemeyer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"But it is irrelevant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "Election of 1924 in which my hon. Friends opposite were returned to power, not on a Trade Union Act, but on a \"Red letter.\" Within a few months, Mr. Baldwin put the greatest financial expert in the world in charge of the Treasury, the right hon. Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill), and the chief official of the Treasury was Sir Otto Niemeyer. [ Interruption. ] I am telling the story authentically.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: Why return to it now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": " say that one of my first acts, on entering the Coalition Government, was to try to restore that wage to a decent level. Five years later I asked Montagu Norman why he had done it and he said \"Well, if a man is working, and is living on£3 or£4 a week, he causes so many imports and upsets the exchanges and the gold situation cannot operate.\" I asked him why he returned to it, and he did not answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Bretton Woods.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "t, was to try to restore that wage to a decent level. Five years later I asked Montagu Norman why he had done it and he said \"Well, if a man is working, and is living on£3 or£4 a week, he causes so many imports and upsets the exchanges and the gold situation cannot operate.\" I asked him why he returned to it, and he did not answer. [Hon. Members: Why return to it now?\"] We are not returning to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.400.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.405.1", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.405.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.405.7", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "do not think I am doing Lord Baldwin an injustice when I say that perhaps the wisest decision he ever took was to put the right hon. Member for Wood-ford in charge of the \"British Gazette,\" because, if he had not, that gentleman might have landed the whole country in a series of Sidney Streets, instead of the strikers and the police playing football together as they did. Turning to the Act itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.405.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "The trade union law of this country up to 1927 evoked no complaint, and there has been little difference since. It is the stigma we are endeavouring to remove, not the law. The actual change you made came about very curiously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Very significant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": " strike was illegal. I thought that rather curious, but it is on the records of my executive today—the whole of the correspondence is there. I declined to do it but later—I do not know how it came about, perhaps it was a coincidence, and I make no accusation or no charge—I saw the judgment to obtain which it had been suggested to me that I should use one of my members. That too, is on the records.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.409.0", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "he industries of the country against them when they wanted increases or improvements, but you denied to them the right of association to improve themselves and others. That also is a totally unjustified position. The right hon. Member has been Chancellor of the Exchequer. There would have been some validity in your arguments if you had been willing to become a model employer, which you never were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Basil Nield", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Basil Nield", "preceding_text": " well to scan the Statute Book for the last century and a half. They would do well to remember the words of one of their earliest and greatest leaders, James Keir Hardie, when he wrote: As a matter of hard, dry fact from which there can be no getting away, there is more Labour legislation standing to the credit of the Conservative Party on the Statute Book than there is to that of their opponents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nield", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It is there, you have what you want.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nield", "preceding_text": "alf or on behalf of a trade union or of an individual employer or firm in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, to attend at or near a house or place where a person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information, or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donovan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donovan", "preceding_text": " supporting cheers behind him, that he had been able to sit in this House for 40 years without meeting his countrymen face to face. The significance of his remark was that \"Those one does not know one does not understand, and those one does not understand one cannot very well trust,\" and the Conservative Party neither knows nor understands and does not trust the working population of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.415.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Maiden speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Sanderson", "preceding_text": "Grossly unfair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.426.3", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "e case for repeal is overwhelming in the two Sections I have mentioned. But I am not at all sure that the case for the substitution of contracting in is at all overwhelming. I doubt whether, if that were the only thing in the 1927 Act, we should be bothering about it. The truth is that, in either system, an awful lot of wangling goes on. Personally, I hate wangling and all its attendant phenomena.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Not up to your standard.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "e would be no trouble with wage demands from their members. They were kept sweet, but either the price of \"sugar\" rose alarmingly, or something slipped up, so that the story came to light and Messrs. Browne and Bioff are now serving a term of imprisonment. Anything that gives the employer the right of imposing the closed shop whether that employer is a local authority or not, is a thing I dislike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.440.0", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Maiden speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "May I interrupt?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.448.1", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "—and a correct definition of Liberal policy. Why was the Amendment moved?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.475.3", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": " and that was that the interview was between one person and a recalcitrant trade unionist. It was supposed to have been a friendly interview, and all he told him was that, if he did not join the union, which he had a perfect right to refuse to do if he did not want to, he would have to report the matter to the employer, who would take action against him. That simple, friendly statement by one man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-13", "file": "debates1946-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "dff4d8f7f718b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.498.3", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENAL REFORM", "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": "were ordered in Cardiff gaol. That was a case of a most deliberate and well thought out attack by young gangsters upon a prison officer, in circumstances which made it impossible for the.man to. defend himself. I am bound to: say that I. think the action taken by the visiting justices in that case was fully justified, - When -we come to some of the other matters which my hon. Friend has mentioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-13a.498.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "There is an imputation there against an hon. Member, which I think the hon. Member should withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.522.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.553.0", "colnum": "553", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is the Minister of Agriculture?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "y of the Government to take all possible steps to increase at that time the production of food grains in this country. Did they do it? On Tuesday— I ask the House to note this—on Tuesday of last week the Minister of Agriculture said that he had that day despatched a letter to the county committees. Why on that day? Why not weeks before? We are now told that the storm had been gathering for months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllister", "preceding_text": "s a master of this subject of food, recollects that Lord Woolton persistently and continuously, throughout his term of office as Minister of Food, resisted the raising of the extraction rate of wheat, per sistently defended a white bread policy and the introduction of synthetic vitamins. He even abandoned the synthetic plan which would have been of great value during the war and now to the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Does the Minister agree? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "preceding_text": "We are at no variance on this point, as I shall prove. I say, quite truthfully, that when the right hon. Gentleman spoke in that Debate it was on the basis that there was—and he now agrees—plenty of wheat in the world to meet the requirements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.563.3", "colnum": "563", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read on. It is the next line.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "preceding_text": "Let me continue. I went on to point out that until recently wheat was one of the few foods of which there was no shortage—and this is where I say there is no variance between the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Oxford University and myself—and that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.563.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.565.5", "colnum": "565", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "preceding_text": " effort by all peoples is necessary to deal with this pending the return of good harvests. Finally, when I arrived at Southampton on 23rd January, I warned the Press that the situation regarding the world shortage of wheat and rice was not promising, though I said as little as I could to them. Surely this in itself is a sufficient refutation of the statement by the acting Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.565.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.565.5", "colnum": "565", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Lack of planning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "preceding_text": "n well known to anyone who cared to inquire? The general facts of the position have been well known for a long time. This is recognised, at least, by two weeklies that are not noted for their Labour sympathies, \"The Economist\" and \"The Spectator.\" Both of these papers in their current issues emphasise that many warnings have been given. What are the circumstances which led to the present position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.565.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.569.1", "colnum": "569", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "preceding_text": "t of myself and Mr. Clinton Anderson, that he would increase their extraction rate from 72 per cent. to 80 per cent. Let us not be under any illusion. That fact will not give back the 1,750,000 tons. If all the economies are effective, the total saving we will get will be 1,200,000 tons. Perhaps I might now revert to India. On second thoughts I will leave it, as I may have said enough about India—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "preceding_text": "I will do my best. I was trying to shorten a very long speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.575.1", "colnum": "575", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "preceding_text": "sued to caterers is concerned, it amounts to less than one domestic allocation. Its withdrawal would have an adverse effect on the quality of meals provided in catering establishments including the many industrial canteens throughout the country. I have dealt now with those foods which have been most in the public eye during the past few days. I don't want to leave the impression that all is well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "preceding_text": "I am hoping so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.585.0", "colnum": "585", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman perhaps did not follow me. 1 was talking about the import programme of the United Kingdom. Shipping being short, we had to allocate the tonnage available. One cannot allocate anything which is short without a system of priority. The minimum demands of food came before anything else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.585.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.590.2", "colnum": "590", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E.' P. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wages were low.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E.' P. Smith", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady would allow me to interrupt, may I ask her whether it is not a fact that food was cheaper in this country in the year 1900 than it had ever been?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.590.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.594.0", "colnum": "594", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "one: Psychological murder mystery, concerns. a subtle wife-killer in love with the younger sister of his wife, and to get her he disposes of his wife on their fifth wedding anniversary. Everything points to them being an ideally married couple and he remains unsuspected. There is an enthralling climax when, suspecting his own sanity, he goes back to the scene of the crime to make sure she is dead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.594.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman deny that he asked me to send wheat to Germany?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.601.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.605.3", "colnum": "605", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Salter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Lastly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Salter", "preceding_text": "s such a glut of food, that it is time for him to help the home producer by creating scarcity? I am surprised if he thinks anything of the sort. The last among my immediate proposals is again to press for a White Paper of the kind I have been asking for for over four months. As I have spoken of that often before I will not press that suggestion further at the moment. I turn now to my final point.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.605.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.607.1", "colnum": "607", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "he House. Members have complained that everything has been kept in the dark, and that there has not been sufficient information from the Government. Having said that, they went on to explain how they, individually, seemed to have many more facts than I ever knew, and were well informed on the subject. The fact is that this has been another dishonest campaign of trying to discredit this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.613.3", "colnum": "613", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Hare", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Hare", "preceding_text": ". The official mind has decided that manure is damaging to concreted or tarmac surfaces. The effect \"of the restriction, when worked out, is that about 15 miles of fencing would be required for an average airfield. Such a position is ridiculous. Owing to lack of labour and material the farmer cannot undertake such a task, and the result is that the maximum use is not being made of these airfields.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.613.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "h this general submission to the Minister of Food, that if he can find any device, if he can develop any means at all, if he can show any resource, any initiative, to secure as rapidly as possible some improvement of this situation, he can rely on the full, enthusiastic and confident support of the people on these benches. I feel, speaking for myself, that his speech today was a reassuring speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "tion is daily getting worse with the lack of rain in certain parts of the country. There are no reserves held by the Government and there is no carryover from past years. The right hon. Gentleman spoke as if the news of this situation in India was of relatively recent date as far as he was concerned. I do not wish to make party capital out of it, but I think it will be found as early as last July—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "preceding_text": "purpose. In spite of some of the speeches, and looking at the matter objectively, I think Ministers and, indeed, the whole House must realise that beyond doubt they are facing a very sharp explosion of indignation on the part of the housewives of this country at the present moment. The hon. Member for Central Bradford (Mr. Webb) said he was fortunate' enough not to get any letters on this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cutting his hair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "rse of his speech today gave us an account of his missions at various times in connection with these matters, and my right hon. Friend the Senior Burgess for Oxford' University (Sir A. Salter) compared him to a Biblical character, namely, Job. He seemed to me in his own account to be like blind Samson, eyeless at Gaza. There he was and he did his best, no doubt, but what were his colleagues doing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Dried eggs? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "23 millions; manufactured goods,£23 millions; films,£9 millions; other items negligible. The percentages are: food and agricultural products, 56 per cent, in value of the total imports; raw materials 33½ per cent.— between them, therefore, that is 89 per cent., which does not leave very much outside—tobacco 4½ per cent; manufactured goods 4½per cent.; films 1½ per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They were.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " millions; other items negligible. The percentages are: food and agricultural products, 56 per cent, in value of the total imports; raw materials 33½ per cent.— between them, therefore, that is 89 per cent., which does not leave very much outside—tobacco 4½ per cent; manufactured goods 4½per cent.; films 1½ per cent. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Dried eggs? \"] Dried eggs are food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-14", "file": "debates1946-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5d19f4308cc3cb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " programme of generosity to others, taken in isolation,. will have its passionate advocates and a great case may be made for it, yet if accepted in the aggregate they would sink us; and we do not intend to sink. Therefore, there must be a strict limit from now on. In conclusion, I would say this House has debated this matter in a non-partisan spirit and we appreciate the tone of the speeches made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-14a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-15", "file": "debates1946-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "d06db4e77ecf389f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-15a.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All of them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Agricultural workers, farmers and farmers' sons are all in the same category. They will all be eligible for release under Class B.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-15a.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-15", "file": "debates1946-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "d06db4e77ecf389f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-15a.697.3", "colnum": "697", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "we were going to get more labour, and he instanced 90,000 men in the Forces whom he expects to be out. Will he say what proportion of that 90,000 are in fact going back to the land or that he expects to go back to the land? Some inquiries have been made in my own county of Wiltshire and we find that fewer than 50 per cent. are going back. This rather upsets the right hon. Gentleman's calculations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-15a.697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-15", "file": "debates1946-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "d06db4e77ecf389f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-15a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stubbs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stubbs", "preceding_text": "ral executive committee before I came here—and I want to pay tribute to the splendid and wonderful work that has been done through their activities. They tramped for miles and miles, they had to do things nobody cared to do, and I am surprised—in a way, possibly, I should not be—that hon. Members on the other side of the House are asking the Minister for a balance sheet, a profit and loss account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-15a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-18", "file": "debates1946-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d0cea4ecf55b895f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-18a.797.9", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Gentleman answers that question, will he say precisely, or tell us in the OFFICIAL REPORT, how he makes up such a figure as this? Does it include the \"big boys\" of the City of London represented on the other side", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-18a.797.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-18", "file": "debates1946-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d0cea4ecf55b895f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-18a.818.0", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Unmarried wives.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "I rise to support the eloquent appeal made by the hon. Member for North St. Pancras (Mr. House). I believe this matter was discussed at the beginning of the war, when those who were described as \"a man and woman living together '' were considered with regard to dependent allowances. I cannot remember whether or not they were called acting wives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-18a.818.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-18", "file": "debates1946-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d0cea4ecf55b895f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-18a.907.6", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Would not the workman still be entitled to produce his own medical certificate to a tribunal?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "ns under Clause 26, the man shall forfeit his benefit. It would be wrong for me to deal with Clause 32, which will be dealt with in due course, but the position is that if the workman does not obey the regulations, and, therefore, the directions which are given to him, he is liable to forfeit his benefit. That certainly is a far more stringent position than the workman is in under the present law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-18a.907.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-18", "file": "debates1946-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "d0cea4ecf55b895f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-18a.907.7", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "It must be remembered that we are dealing with a system where the witness, as it were, for the right hon. Gentleman, is his own doctor appearing before a Tribunal appointed by the right hon. Gentleman, a very different situation from that which obtains under the present system where independent parties come before an independent court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-18a.907.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-19", "file": "debates1946-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3564def346ebdac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.954.6", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BROADCASTING B.B.C. Charter", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is the Minister of Information?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.954.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-19", "file": "debates1946-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3564def346ebdac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.989.5", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Major Milner)", "preceding_text": "I think it will be for the convenience of the House if all the Amendments to this Clause are taken together. May I take it that the House agrees?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.989.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-19", "file": "debates1946-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3564def346ebdac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I have seen many presumptuous Englishmen presuming to understand a monolingual Welshman, and that might explain the vast amount of misunderstanding in England with regard to Wales. But I really feel very deeply about this matter. We are all human beings. What assurance can I have that every one of the inspectors appointed may not be biased from wrong experience against a working man?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-19", "file": "debates1946-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3564def346ebdac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1007.3", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "d anything because there is already a sufficient limitation upon the scope of the Clause by reason of words which are already within it. May I call the attention of the House to those words? In the introductory words to Subsection (2) one finds: \"for the purposes of the execution of this Act. Those words at once embody a limitation upon the scope of the inquiry upon which the inspector may embark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1007.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-19", "file": "debates1946-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3564def346ebdac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1012.4", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I have already dealt with that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1012.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-19", "file": "debates1946-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3564def346ebdac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ut. It is a complete travesty of the situation to try to deal with this on the footing that inspectors are going to start beating people up. We must give the inspector reasonable powers to do the minimum that he must do if he has to discharge the functions he has to discharge. If we do not give him those powers we may as well wash the Clause out. There is no alternative machinery to this machinery", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-19", "file": "debates1946-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3564def346ebdac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1021.1", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " said: Why do you need paragraph (c) when you have paragraph ( b )? Paragraph ( d ) simply fills in the loopholes. It means that the inspector shall be enabled effectively to discharge his duty. Paragraph ( b ) gives powers which are conceded to be legitimate. They are given in wide terms. Paragraph ( c ) deals with the specific form in which those powers can be exercised. It does not extend them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-19", "file": "debates1946-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3564def346ebdac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1028.4", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They are not \"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "ert Peel brought in a Bill originally establishing the Police Force, efforts were made to give the police powers not possessed by ordinary members of the public. Again and again we were told that it would be contrary to the whole spirit of British ideas that there should be police in this country like the Continental police. That is what the Government are seeking to do in respect of an inspector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1028.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-19", "file": "debates1946-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3564def346ebdac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "ow area. If the House doesnot accept the arguments which have been put forward, not by one side but, one might say. all sides of the House against this, the country will take note of it and will be very disturbed at this evidence of interference with the rights of the ordinary citizen and subject to a degree which is not necessary in order to carry out the effective administration of this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1028.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-19", "file": "debates1946-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3564def346ebdac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (SERVICES FOR INDUSTRY)REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "preceding_text": "t, after consultation has taken place between the President of the Board of Trade and the industry, I cannot see anywhere in the Order whether consultation is to take place about how the money is to be spent after the levy has been put upon the industry, and by whom. The Board of Trade can say how the money is to be spent, apparently, and how much is to be spent. I regard this as a shocking Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-19", "file": "debates1946-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3564def346ebdac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (SERVICES FOR INDUSTRY)REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "preceding_text": "he next point to be answered by one of the Law Officers because I think it is rather a curious point. During the Report stage of the Emergency Laws (Transitional Provisions) Bill the number of this Order was placed in the Schedule. If we are successful—and I hope we shall be—in annulling this Order tonight, I would like to ask what the situation will then be? If we succeed in annulling this Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-19", "file": "debates1946-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3564def346ebdac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (SERVICES FOR INDUSTRY)REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. Belcher)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. Belcher)", "preceding_text": ". Gentlemen opposite. I am surprised at the violence of the attack which has been made on this Order, and particularly of the form of the attack made by the lion. Gentleman who has just sat down. What we are suggesting is not entirely new and neither is it something which has just come out of the brain of the President of the Board of Trade, that ogre who has such evil designs on British industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-19", "file": "debates1946-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3564def346ebdac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1078.3", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (SERVICES FOR INDUSTRY)REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Who is he? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": "Lord Templemore.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1078.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-19", "file": "debates1946-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3564def346ebdac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1089.2", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "preceding_text": " they find them. They insist on looking with curiously coloured spectacles on the facts and distorting those facts into something quite unreal with the result that when they try to put their theories into operation, somehow or other the theories do not work. I venture to think that people who do not take things as they find them will not reach better results than people who look facts in the face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1089.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-19", "file": "debates1946-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3564def346ebdac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"At what price? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": " must not leave property empty, and you must occupy it fully; but, if you want to put it under the jurisdiction of the local authority, why not allow the local authority to buy it? Why not say that the person who wants to sell the property shall have the option to require the local authority to purchase the house rather than have it requisitioned? It seems to me that that Is the right thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-19", "file": "debates1946-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3564def346ebdac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Prices are up three times.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "risdiction of the local authority, why not allow the local authority to buy it? Why not say that the person who wants to sell the property shall have the option to require the local authority to purchase the house rather than have it requisitioned? It seems to me that that Is the right thing to do. [Hon. Members: \"At what price? \"] At the price laid down in the Town and Country Planning Act, 1944.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-19", "file": "debates1946-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3564def346ebdac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "le capital locked up in a house which he will never see again. He is probably unable to find a house in the place to which he goes and he does not know how long his premises are going to be requisitioned, and he is left in a wholly unjustifiable position. I hope the right hon. Gentleman will be able to give us some assurance about this use of requisitioning powers. The next point is a shorter one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-19", "file": "debates1946-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3564def346ebdac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The Tories.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": " coveted, and if the Minister explains that he is able to have it to secure the sufficiency of supplies and services essential to the well-being of the community. then all sorts of ideas arise. Suppose there is a strike. Suppose it is a great strike, a strike not organised by the friends of the Government. Suppose it is a strike organised by the enemies of the Government, but a sympathetic strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-19", "file": "debates1946-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3564def346ebdac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "y these powers have been taken. There is not even an explanatory Memorandum, not a word. Well, I have spoken and I hope the right hon. Gentleman will agree with me that the first part of my complaint about this sacred volume is absolutely justified. On the second part of the argument I hope I have advanced sufficient reason why we should have an explanation from him of why these powers are needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-19", "file": "debates1946-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "3564def346ebdac5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1112.3", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Major Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " to requisition chattels. Though it be comparatively late in the evening and though we are hamstrung by these methods that the Government, for their own reasons, have seen fit to adopt for taking these powers, we are entitled to have an answer on this. I would say one thing more to hon. Members opposite who by their attitude to this question— 1 say this deliberately— of frivolous irresponsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-19a.1112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-20", "file": "debates1946-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "d6dbab7755965101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-20a.1133.7", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN SERVICE (RECRUITMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn Levy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn Levy", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that while nobody on this side of the House desires that the Foreign Service should be recruited on a party basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-20a.1133.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-20", "file": "debates1946-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "d6dbab7755965101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-20a.1151.2", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: She has just done so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "preceding_text": "Certainly you may have an answer. I was not aware personally, naturally, of any of the faults that have been attributed to these people. I have put the onus on to the hon. Lady to report to me if she finds anything on these occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-20a.1151.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-20", "file": "debates1946-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "d6dbab7755965101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-20a.1151.4", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ayrton Gould", "preceding_text": "I immediately informed the police, who said it was the business of the enforcement officer. I at once put a Question down the next day in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-20a.1151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-20", "file": "debates1946-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "d6dbab7755965101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-20a.1151.5", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The answer is a lemon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "preceding_text": "How can I answer a question of which only my hon. Friend has knowledge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-20a.1151.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-20", "file": "debates1946-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "d6dbab7755965101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-20a.1157.6", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "en a source of shame and regret to the hon. and right hon. Gentlemen concerned. I suppose the doctrine of Cabinet responsibility is still in force. The Minister of Health told the House of Commons in January, 1945: We sent British troops to Greece to satisfy the political ambitions of the Tory Party. \"— [Official Report, 19th January, 1945; Vol. 407, c. 575.] Is that the reason we keep them there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-20a.1157.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-20", "file": "debates1946-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "d6dbab7755965101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-20a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on \"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "preceding_text": "dustry or population than in these islands. By these measures we appear to be terribly weak. I would appeal once again to Russia not to be deceived in judging this country's stragetic strength by outward appearances. It is our great failing that we appear very weak when we are nothing of the sort. We are a most peculiar country in that respect. At the risk of detaining the House for a minute more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-20a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-20", "file": "debates1946-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "d6dbab7755965101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-20a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "retary that sometimes we make mistakes in foreign policy. If it is true that we are encouraging a change to a monarchy in Spain we might get ourselves into a very difficult situation. During the Spanish civil war, the present Spanish Pretender offered, on more than one occasion, to fight for General Franco. He has recently expressed very Liberal views. He may, I do not know, have become a Liberal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-20a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-20", "file": "debates1946-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "d6dbab7755965101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-20a.1214.0", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "I would be much obliged if the hon. Member would go into details. Brigadier Mallaby had gone to negotiate a truce and \"killed in action\" implies that there was aggression on one side. It was not aggression on our side as he was negotiating a truce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-20a.1214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-20", "file": "debates1946-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "d6dbab7755965101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-20a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "the peasants. They are nationalising the industries. The Tories are very concerned about Poland. What is their concern? Democracy. They are so anxious about democracy. Day after day there are questions about democracy, but let any one raise in this Chamber a question about Franco Spain, Portugal or Argentina, and the Tories do not want any interference with the internal affairs of another country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-20a.1218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-20", "file": "debates1946-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "d6dbab7755965101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-20a.1223.3", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "away by a distraction of that kind. I have done with that. I was here in theHouse all the time, and I was prepared at any time, whenever any question was raised, to face the Tories on the policy they were pursuing at the beginning of the war. I was prepared to support the war against Fascism, but when the right hon. Gentleman's Friends started trying to get Fascist Italy in on the side of Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-20a.1223.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-21", "file": "debates1946-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b539146a9dc9760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1275.3", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1275.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-21", "file": "debates1946-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b539146a9dc9760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1296.1", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oddenino's.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman seems to me very well informed. I did not give the names of the cases, and yet he says he has investigated them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-21", "file": "debates1946-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b539146a9dc9760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "I am sure the hon. Gentleman does not mean there is no sympathy in these cases. Every sympathy is given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-21", "file": "debates1946-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b539146a9dc9760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1307.9", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"February\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "On Monday, 25th January", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1307.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-21", "file": "debates1946-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b539146a9dc9760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1313.5", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ertheless, I would ask right hon. Gentlemen, particularly the Leader of the House, to consider this question which I am about to put. Is it not really blackmailing an Opposition upon its virtues, for the Government to treat it as we have been treated on this occasion? The Opposition has not pressed for this Debate during weeks during which it might have been perhaps embarrassing to the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1313.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-21", "file": "debates1946-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b539146a9dc9760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1313.5", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "sterday and today, and the kind of attend ance on the Ministerial Bench that we had yesterday and today— with all respect to the eminent and agreeable figures now adorning that enviable situation— to have a Debate in this order and with this kind of attendance really is an improper use of the Government's rights in the matter of distributing Parliamentary time. I pass from that preliminary remark—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1313.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-21", "file": "debates1946-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b539146a9dc9760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "The whole point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-21", "file": "debates1946-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b539146a9dc9760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ationist, because the strict party line seems to be against any giving up of sovereignty. Let us try to use it with some degree of similarity of meaning. For example, I do not see what is left of the accuracy of sovereignty when there seem to be bodies in the State, not being or forming its highest or sovereign body, who yet claim the right to participate in its outward relations and obligations.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-21", "file": "debates1946-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b539146a9dc9760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1360.10", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "n I do not secure one Polish soldier a bit of land back in his own country; or what good is it writing articles when I do not solve the problem in consequence? Let this be said: His Majesty's Government take this view— and this is very dear to us however much anybody in this House agrees or disagrees— that when men have fought with you, or stood by you, it is against our religion to let them down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1360.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-21", "file": "debates1946-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b539146a9dc9760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1391.2", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "or the United Nations to deal with and solve. Let us look at the last 25 years, and see how the difficulties have arisen by this lack of a clear definition in the Declaration itself, in the Mandate and in the series of White Papers issued. As an illustration, I will take the White Paper of 1939. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford described that White Paper as a breach of the Mandate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-21", "file": "debates1946-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b539146a9dc9760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1391.2", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "ndate and in the series of White Papers issued. As an illustration, I will take the White Paper of 1939. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford described that White Paper as a breach of the Mandate. [Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am again prepared to accept that. He alleged that it was a breach of the Mandate. The Government of the day clearly thought it was consistent with the Mandate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-21a.1391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-22", "file": "debates1946-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "e53be9c06a9d1508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-22a.1509.1", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COASTAL AREAS(REHABILITATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "hopping with my wife, and see if he could buy unrationed foods in Eastbourne. He would not be able to do so, because of the shortage caused by the increase in the population which is still increasing every day. There is another point I would like to make concerning the Ministry of Food. The town clerk goes on to say: With regard to the first allocation of bananas, someone made an unfortunate slip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-22a.1509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-22", "file": "debates1946-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "e53be9c06a9d1508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-22a.1509.1", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COASTAL AREAS(REHABILITATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " hours, weeks and months going round the various Government Departments.\" Let us have a Minister put in charge of our rehabilitation problem. I do urge the Government to treat this matter seriously. We have been going on too long, year after year, trying to make this case and we have had nothing in return, nothing. The Government have done nothing. I hope that now this new, heaven-sent Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-22a.1509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-22", "file": "debates1946-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "e53be9c06a9d1508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-22a.1531.3", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COASTAL AREAS(REHABILITATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "acility for information passing from one Department to another about the matter. The claim has been made that we ought to have a Minister for Reconstruction for coastal areas. Quite frankly, I do not think that that is the way in which the problem should be tackled. Wherever possible, arrangements are made, when specific problems are presented, for them to be passed from one Department to another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-22a.1531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-25", "file": "debates1946-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8d577413d542134d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1584.1", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": " control over the rent being increased in consequence of the demand for farms. I would give another instance of a farmer farming some of the best land in Scotland, rented at about 40s. per acre. He received in 1936 in beef and wheat subsidies over£1,200. It is never the farmer nor the agricultural worker, however, who reaps the real benefit from subsidies; it is the landowner alone who reaps them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-25", "file": "debates1946-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8d577413d542134d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1586.1", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "My only concern is that this Government should not make the same mistakes as previous Governments. I will confine my remarks to the Government's policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-25", "file": "debates1946-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8d577413d542134d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1605.1", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Major Ramsay", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Ramsay", "preceding_text": "away, so that educational authorities do not find themselves in the same boat as the Minister of Agriculture the other day, after the announcement by the Minister of Food. How- ever, I was worried about this, because the question of the schoolchildren is such an important one. In my constituency if we grow 28,000 acres of potatoes we will harvest 17,000 of them with the help of the schoolchildren.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-25", "file": "debates1946-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8d577413d542134d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1617.5", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Are there any? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "—price to pay for a good brain from Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1617.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-25", "file": "debates1946-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8d577413d542134d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1631.5", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "emes to produce water in a short time. I expected the Government to encourage them, and not to say: \"We want a large scheme to cost£ 750,000, taking five years to bring about.\" Take electricity It is the most vital amenity. By threatening nationalisation in the electricity industry, the Government have damped down all electrical development throughout the rural areas. They cannot get away from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1631.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-25", "file": "debates1946-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8d577413d542134d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1631.5", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "te in his constituency than I am, if electrical development is taking place there. I ask the Parliamentary Secretary to give us details of it in his reply. Those who have had no extension of electricity will then know that some areas are being better treated than others in the country. I ask the Government to consider this agricultural industry, which has been neglected and pauperised in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1631.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-25", "file": "debates1946-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8d577413d542134d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1660.3", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That is what he said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "That is a very different matter indeed. Everbody knows that the right hon. Gentleman who is now Foreign Secretary and who was then Minister of Labour and I both brought pressure to bear on the respective sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1660.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-25", "file": "debates1946-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8d577413d542134d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1675.1", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "as well as I do the intricacies of this matter. Every one of them knows that wage negotiations in this country, all regulated in one way or another, are perhaps the most complicated piece of machinery we have in industry. Is it the idea of hon. Gentlemen opposite that the whole of this machinery should be scrapped, or what precisely do they. mean? I think we must be honest and face up to the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-25", "file": "debates1946-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8d577413d542134d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1678.3", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"POULTRY\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "through the Minister of Labour, has invited representatives of the unions into conference on the matter. They are obviously considering, as all people know because it has been reported publicly, the suggestion of the Central Wages Board on that matter. It would be undesirable for me to elaborate too much the wages question, while those negotiations are in progress. I regret that the time has gone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1678.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-25", "file": "debates1946-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8d577413d542134d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1678.8", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "It is disgraceful. The Parliamentary Secretary did not answer a single question. It is gross discourtesy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1678.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-25", "file": "debates1946-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8d577413d542134d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1699.3", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Wavell Wakefield", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It is very simple.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wavell Wakefield", "preceding_text": "t for the words \"for war production\" there were to be substituted the words \"for essential production.\" I should like to know what is essential production? War production is a reasonably definable thing, but what is essential production? Who is there that can define essential production? What is considered essential production now may have been a luxury 100 years ago. What is essential production?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1699.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-25", "file": "debates1946-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8d577413d542134d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1701.3", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": "That paragraph is required in case the President of the Board of Trade may want to use these powers.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1701.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-25", "file": "debates1946-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8d577413d542134d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1702.1", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": "I have already given way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-25", "file": "debates1946-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8d577413d542134d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1702.3", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Wartime.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": "o be debated in the House, but should be left to the Ministers and their Departments; in other words, delegated legislation. I can only say that my right hon. and learned Friend should be extremely grateful to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wood-ford (Mr. Churchill) who was head of the Government responsible for introducing the Order which is here being carried on for a further five years", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-25a.1702.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1723.3", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "There are hundreds.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Webbe", "preceding_text": "Who had them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1723.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1741.2", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "Part of the difficulty arises from the fact that the legal status of the W.R.N.S. is different in this respect from that of the W.A.A.F. and the A.T.S.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1741.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1766.4", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "May be.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "cution. Mr. Baldwin's Government in 1926 did not do so. They had no doubt the strike was illegal; they did not attempt to suppress it by the processes of the criminal law. Looking back on it now, it is difficult to imagine anything that would have done more to exacerbate the situation. You cannot settle these great human movements wrong and misguided as they may be,\"— and I call attention to that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1766.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1767.5", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "What happened was quite clear. The vanguard, led by the Minister of Labour, came out 24 hours before anybody else. The hon. Gentleman says the next wave then came out, but the third wave never came out, because the whole thing collapsed. Does anybody suggest that the strike of 1926 was not promoted as a general strike?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1767.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1776.0", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, 'hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "e to the general question. Let me begin at the beginning, namely, at the general strike. It has been made apparent this afternoon that a great many, if not most, hon. Members opposite think that the general strike not only was not illegal, but was not improper. At the end of all these years, hon. Members opposite, in looking back upon the general strike, think that it was a perfectly proper thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1776.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1776.0", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "llenge to the sovereignty of Parliament. Therefore, the Liberal Party, through the mouths of all its leading spokesmen, except one— and I think I may say that Mr. Lloyd George was in an impish mood at that time and regretted his attitude afterwards—condemned the general strike. I say that Liberal opinion today, and I believe national opinion, would still condemn a repetition of the general strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1776.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1778.3", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "erted and simultaneous refusal to continue employment or work, is an unlawful conspiracy. Those were the words the Liberal Party endeavoured to put into the Statute that made that point plain. Why did they do it? I think it is clear to everybody that the legal situation in 1926 was doubtful. I think everybody agrees that it was doubtful. The Attorney-General has said so, and everybody has said so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1778.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1778.3", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "erfered with under the Act of 1927? That not one person who participated in any of the disputes has been prosecuted or penalised in any way under the Act? Has any strike, primary or sympathetic, been stopped under the Act? No. I am bound, therefore, to draw the conclusion that the Act has proved, and particularly the terms of Section 1, to have had the deterrent effect which it set out to provide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1778.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1778.3", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ry or sympathetic, been stopped under the Act? No. I am bound, therefore, to draw the conclusion that the Act has proved, and particularly the terms of Section 1, to have had the deterrent effect which it set out to provide. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] This is only one other consideration I would put to the Committee. We Liberals are left here as the honest defenders of old-fashioned individual liberty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1778.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1780.1", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haworth", "preceding_text": "period to trying to create a state of peace in the coalmines, they devoted it to having labels printed and getting motor cars and lorries ready in order to try to break the trade union movement. If legislation is required to prevent a state of things like that, it is not legislation against the trade unions, but legislation to try to drive intelligence into the minds of Members of the Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1784.0", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": " how absurd those statements were, but once again hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite are, in my submission, attempting to fog the issue in this Debate by misrepresentation of the 1927 Measure; and I believe that it is their desire that the country should not know what the Bill is actually intended to do. The 1927 Act casts no stigma or slur or insult on the leaders of the trade union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1784.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1785.2", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes, it has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": "by making equally fantastic statements either against Members on this side or concerning what they still fear the Act of 1927 might do. What does the repeal of Section 1 of the 1927 Act entail? Or if hon. Members like, if this repeal becomes law, what freedom would be restored to trade unionists or anyone else? Certainly not freedom to strike, for that freedom has not been touched by the 1927 Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1785.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1789.1", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Who told you that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "We also had a speech from another Member of the Government. He was even more frank. The Foreign Secretary spoke in the Second Reading Debate. We on this side of the Committee appreciate that the Foreign Secretary has been losing a good deal of his popularity with hon. Members opposite. We know that he has very largely forfeited the support of the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1794.1", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ir, that it is not treating Members of the Committee with complete sincerity, to make the observations which the hon. Member did make, and then to seek to justify his remarks by saying that he was thinking of only one Section of the 1927 Act. To prevent the slightest possibility of a recurrence of any such misapprehension among Members opposite, I will read the relevant provisions of that Section.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1794.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1795.1", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Major Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " The trade union law of this country up to 1927 evoked no complaint, and there has been little difference since.\"—[Official Report, I3tb February, 1946; Vol. 419, c. 406.] It would appear that in the opinion of the right hon. Gentleman there had been little difference since 1927 and that the law. as existing then, evoked no complaint. If that be so, then why is it necessary to repeal this Section?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1795.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1798.0", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Beaumont. The noises made from the other side", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1798.2", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I wish to ask you, Mr. Deputy-Chairman, to consider whether anything yet uttered by the Attorney-General is in Order on this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1798.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1806.4", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "—they have large families, and they represent a considerable and important section of the community. Anybody who has listened to the Second Reading Debate on this Bill, anybody who addressed meetings in the constituencies at the time of the General Election, must know that the existence of the 1927 Act upon the Statute Book was a source of the greatest resentment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1806.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1808.0", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": " of the Committee will acquit ourselves nobly in the battle. The hon. and learned Attorney-General made an assertion which is totally unjust and totally untrue. He said that many on this side deplored the fact that men belonged to trade unions. That is a false statement. The Attorney-General should be given an opportunity to withdraw it. I give him an opportunity now if he cares so to withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1809.3", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the learned Attorney-General would explain what he did say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1809.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1834.0", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Are we now discussing the divorce laws?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1834.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1834.5", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "Can I say that for a long time I have been awaiting an opportunity to tell the hon. Gentleman, that I very often feel very tempted to grab him by the back of the neck", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1834.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1837.0", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "t is illegal to intimidate a person in order to compel him to do or to abstain from doing anything which he has a lawful right to do. That is forbidden by the law. But, unfortunately, the courts have taken a rather narrow view of what the word \"intimidation\" includes. The word \"intimidation,\" according to this narrow construction, is limited to physical violence or the threat of physical violence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1845.2", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e than they would encourage it by active speeches which, I am sure, would be quite repugnant to their nature. We do not think it ought to be encouraged by legalising any form of intimidation and we seek only a form of words which will satisfy hon. Gentlemen opposite because it is their own form of words. Let them produce whatever form of words they choose, provided it meets with our point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1845.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1851.2", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Draw the line.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "appened in that case—it is quite clear, there is no doubt about it—was that a member of the union went, as far as can be seen, in a perfectly friendly way to the member of the breakaway union in order to compel him—to induce him, use what words you like, those are the words in the Section— to come into the main union, and said, \"Look here, Joe \"—Bill or George or Quintin, or whatever his name was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1851.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1858.1", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": "timisation among employers' associations that that justifies victimisation among the ranks of the trade unions. If the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Labour really believes that there is victimisation or intimidation on the part of employers, then I would suggest to him that he should bring in a Bill to- morrow to stop it. If he did that he would get the support of hon. Members on this side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1864.0", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Basil Nield", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Basil Nield", "preceding_text": "reatened as to his employment. It is in such a way, and by subtle means, that a man may be threatened. Indeed, in order to protect the individual, it is necessary to produce a new definition of the word \"intimidate.\" That was done in the 1927 Statute, and it is that definition which we on this side of the Committee feel should be retained. There is no political partisan business about this at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1864.0", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Basil Nield", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Basil Nield", "preceding_text": "ide of the Committee feel should be retained. There is no political partisan business about this at all. [Laughter.] Hon. Gentlemen laugh because they only see this as a political Bill from their own point of view. I am looking at the matter, I hope sincerely, from the legal point of view. I say to hon. Gentlemen that the law will be losing in its power if we remove the definition of intimidation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1867.2", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Of course, it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": " multiply opportunities for conflict, not only between strikers and those who do not strike, but between strikers and the police? It is one of the best features of our social and industrial relations that during a strike, for the most part, the relations between the police and the strikers are relations of friendship and mutual helpful- ness. There is no doubt about that. It is, in fact, the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1867.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1868.1", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Lockout.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is woefully mistaken. During the strike in the mining industry, the number of cases brought into court—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1869.2", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that if he disclosed these facts out side the House to-morrow, he could be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act? If he says \"I am not disclosing my recollection of affairs when I was Under secretary. When I was Home Secretary, I looked back and wiped them out of my memory, and then proceeded to re-inform myself as Home Secretary and now make the disclosures.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1869.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1871.1", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "deed. I urge them to reconsider their attitude. If they think that Section 3 of the Act of 1927 was unsatisfactory in its wording, if they think it went too far, if they think that some of the references to actionable wrong, for example, went too far, let them look at the words again, but let them hesitate before they expunge from the Statute Book a provision which was intended to clarify the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1871.1", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": " example, went too far, let them look at the words again, but let them hesitate before they expunge from the Statute Book a provision which was intended to clarify the law. [Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"] Yes, it was; it was intended to make clear the duties and obligations of strikers on the one hand, and those who want to go to work on the other hand, and the police, who want to be friends with everybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1872.6", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "( Seated and covered ): I want to raise a point of Order in regard to the Motion which has just been moved. It is the second or third time that such a thing has been resorted to as a method of gagging the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1872.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1872.6", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE UNIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "( Seated and covered ): I want to raise a point of Order in regard to the Motion which has just been moved. It is the second or third time that such a thing has been resorted to as a method of gagging the Opposition. [Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"] I have taken no part in the discussion on this Bill up to date, because it is a silly Bill, butI must protest against this gagging—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1872.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1881.2", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATHOLIC SOCIAL GUILD (PUBLICATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "On 30th January I asked the Attorney-General whether his attention had been drawn to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1881.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1881.5", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATHOLIC SOCIAL GUILD (PUBLICATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "I shall endeavour to make the hon. and gallant Member understand, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1881.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-26", "file": "debates1946-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6b2c939ef4826b2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1881.5", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATHOLIC SOCIAL GUILD (PUBLICATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "I shall endeavour to make the hon. and gallant Member understand, but— [Interruption] —I do not intend to respond to the wishes of hon. Members opposite, because I have learned by experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-26a.1881.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-27", "file": "debates1946-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3516d0c069deca78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.1938.4", "colnum": "1938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "ng on one side some of those streamlined Bills with which we on this side of the House are becoming so painfully familiar; in short, by setting itself to close rather than widen some of the deep cleavages which separate the great political parties. If I may say so with respect, the violent propaganda which is carried on, with a virulence unequalled since the 18th century by the organs of the Left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.1938.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-27", "file": "debates1946-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3516d0c069deca78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.1945.1", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "roducing goods for civilian use ordered by the Supply Departments are included in ' Home market ' or ' Export.' That is a complete refutation of the defence which is sometimes put up. I turn to other disquieting features of employment. The most disquieting, and the greatest cause of our disappointing rate of production, is the fact that we are not working as hard as we should. Output per man-week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.1945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-27", "file": "debates1946-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3516d0c069deca78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.1945.1", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " which we could give them in certain industries, in which production was extremely low. They could not make out what the reason was. The reason was that life was too drab. There was a uniformity of wages and a uniformly dull choice to the consumer. I know that this is a poor form of Socialist doctrine. The Socialists rather believe in cutting the tops off everything and making everything the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.1945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-27", "file": "debates1946-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3516d0c069deca78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.1949.1", "colnum": "1949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "rly, I apologise, but that is my point. I think we ought, at the present moment, to take a pull. Secondly, let us use more imagination, and devote more attention to the study of new industries which can be developed here, when we get the labour. That study ought to begin now. Does the Government's imagination extend beyond the watch and clock trade, about which they are taking active measures now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.1949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-27", "file": "debates1946-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3516d0c069deca78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.1962.1", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ere are some whose labour it is easy to measure, to say whether they are doing good work or not. Other people one cannot measure quite so easily. Some are, perhaps, held up as examples of slacking just because they happen to be in the public eye. I also make an appeal to older people to stay in industry during this difficult time. We do not want to think too much in terms of \"output per man-hour.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.1962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-27", "file": "debates1946-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3516d0c069deca78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.1965.1", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Colonel Byers", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Colonel Byers", "preceding_text": "n basic industries and certain essential ser vices, because I believe that the Government—that is, the nation—must accept responsibility for these things. I do implore Members of the Party opposite not to throw public ownership into disrepute by regarding it as a punitive expedition to be carried out on private enterprise. It is going to make things much more difficult for us when we are in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.1965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-27", "file": "debates1946-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3516d0c069deca78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.1970.1", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "ghted with the part that they are playing. They are doing exactly what the workers expect them to do, and if they continue to act along those lines the workers will never let them down. They are in there for keeps. We have produced another type of Socialist Government which is all for nationalisation, but I also know that we have the same old employers, out for profit at the expense of the worker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.1970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-27", "file": "debates1946-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3516d0c069deca78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.1974.1", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "ence with engineers all over Britain in order to increase production. I was delighted to do so. I remember that when Lord Beaverbrook fell foul of the employers in my presence, not once but many times, he told them, \"I want production, and if this request \"—he always called it a request, and not a demand—\" by the workers is not reasonably met you will have to give in to the workers.'' Beaverbrook—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.1974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-27", "file": "debates1946-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3516d0c069deca78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.1974.1", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Requests.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "ent Noble Lords to me as well. Lord Beaverbrook caught the enthusiasm of that time, with the result that we beat all records. On different occasions we interviewed shop stewards. We believed that that was not the time for wild words, and we got results. It is because of that experience that I believe that, if the Government take the workers into their confidence, and meet their legitimate demands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.1974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-27", "file": "debates1946-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3516d0c069deca78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.1981.0", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": " some of us on these benches tried to persuade the Minister of Labour at least to have an investigation into these evils and restrictions on output. We got nowhere, and all these practices are going on today in exactly the same way as they went on in the years of 1929 and 1933, or at any period of depression. With regard to coal, there is a lot of talk about a five-day week and a seven-hour shift.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.1981.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-27", "file": "debates1946-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3516d0c069deca78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.2011.1", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Raise wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": "bvious way in which that production can be increased? It is by giving an incentive to production. Surely, it should be the duty of His Majesty's Government to see how far they can relate earnings to production in every conceivable industry. The urgent need is to see that a man gets more as he produces more. That will automatically solve the problem of discipline and also the problem of production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.2011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-27", "file": "debates1946-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3516d0c069deca78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.2020.1", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ies and tell the people the truth of the position. The choice before us is either to work or to starve. May I say this to the right hon. and learned Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade? Knowing that he will appreciate it, I will give him the reference. In the 4th chapter of the Book of Nehemiah, the prophet had to face a similar position to the one the right hon. Gentleman is facing now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.2020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-27", "file": "debates1946-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3516d0c069deca78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.2020.1", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"There will be a lot starving.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "tter reception than he has got. One hon. Gentleman said the present was like the time of Dunkirk, except that there was no blood in it—toil, tears and sweat. The question of manpower is important; but it is more important to get everybody to work. Those who will not work shall not eat. It is our duty to say that, no matter what station in life people belong to, only the people who work. shall eat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.2020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-27", "file": "debates1946-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3516d0c069deca78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.2022.1", "colnum": "2022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Baird", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Baird", "preceding_text": "should have access, through their national trade union, to the controlling body for the industry. They should be able to suggest ways and means of increasing efficiency in industry, and should also have the power to criticise the management if they considered that it was inefficient. In conclusion, I would appeal to the Government to see that in this first Session, which will be a glorious Session", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.2022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-27", "file": "debates1946-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3516d0c069deca78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.2049.1", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES(TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "an to take back his Order, remove this particular regulation and represent the Order without it. My hon. Friend the Member for Monmouth has already stated, and I want definitely to underline what he said, that the reasons why the regulation was brought into existence have disappeared, and the circumstances have absolutely changed. I must ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he will not admit that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.2049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-27", "file": "debates1946-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3516d0c069deca78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.2063.1", "colnum": "2063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES(TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "r by employing \"A\" or \"B\" licence holders. They are not allowed to travel more than 60 miles by road with an \"A,\" \"B\" or \"C\" licence vehicle. They can do that brightly and happily, provided the vehicle is operated by the Road Haulage Organisation. The real answer to the problem is that somehow, somewhere, inside the Ministry, somebody has to justify the existence of this Road Haulage Organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.2063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-27", "file": "debates1946-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3516d0c069deca78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.2067.4", "colnum": "2067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES(TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "1,000 tons. With regard to commercial traffic of this description, there is approximately 140,000 tons of long distance traffic moved each week, and 283,000 tons, short distance, each week. If we take the case of the meat organisation, the traffic is 71,000 tons per week, and livestock 100,000 head per week. The organisation also has to move opencast coal—between 200,000 and 250,000 tons per week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.2067.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-27", "file": "debates1946-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "3516d0c069deca78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.2068.1", "colnum": "2068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES(TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wavell Wakefield", "preceding_text": "Sir Wavell Wakefield (St. Marylebone) rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-27a.2068.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2110.10", "colnum": "2110", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Will it be before Easter?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has the advantage over me. He has seen the Bill. I have not. I have not seen the Bill yet, although I know something about it. I cannot give a date, but reasonable time will be given between its presentation and the Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2110.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2113.10", "colnum": "2113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": " not think we are yet heading for the State to take a hand in fixing wages for particular trades or industries, at any rate more than it is pushed or kicked into doing so. If ever we get a complete Socialist State, it will be another matter. Even then, there will be some argument about it. It may not be free from discussion. But we are not there yet, and we are not going to be there for some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2113.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2122.1", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am not blaming the right hon. Gentleman. The Ministry can only issue, at a given time, the figures then available. I am doing my best not to quarrel with the right hon. Gentleman, tempting as it is. I am only saying that we all ought to be on our guard, in this period of rapid movement and rapid change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2122.1", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e things, therefore, it is because we, in this country, are not yet making enough of them, and because we are not making enough of other things which foreigners want to be able to buy enough of them from abroad. Therefore, it is futile—and a little regrettable and dangerous even— to talk as if someone—my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade, or the Minister of Supply, or what not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2122.1", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about coal? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "f pre-war output Electric household appliances' output was multiplied nine times during 1945, and such useful things as electric irons are, I am advised, widely on sale in the shops. During 1945, vacuum cleaners were stepped up from nil to 17,300 per month. The output of carpets and linoleum was doubled during the year. The House will be pleased to know that the pram output went up by 60 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2136.1", "colnum": "2136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Irons.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "talking about goods produced last December—the figures for the end of the year—it would appear that some of them should have found their way by now into the shops. I confess I thought I did see a slight look of inquiry on the face of the right hon. Lady the Minister of Education sitting next to the right hon. Gentleman when he mentioned the wonderful increase in the production of electric kettles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2136.1", "colnum": "2136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "made by the Prime Minister and that has been repeated today by the Lord President of the Council. The Prime Minister in his speech yesterday chided my right hon. Friend the Member for Aldershot (Mr. Lyttelton) for being too pessimistic, and in that he was sedulously followed this morning by a leading article in what one must now regard as one of the most expensive of the Government's daily organs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2137.1", "colnum": "2137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "ve politicians are concerned, in the words of the right hon. Gentleman himself we can \"take it.\" It may be annoying to have our efficiency—after all, we cannot all go to the London School of Economics—and our motives impugned all the time, but we have to read day after day the sort of article that appears under the name of the hon. Member for Dcvonport (Mr. Foot), which I regard as typical of all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2157.1", "colnum": "2157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "preceding_text": " was said here yesterday, let no one be deceived. In the ultimate, economic salvation depends first and foremost on output per man hour in those industries upon which we depend for export. And when I hear of one, eminent and influential above all others in his calling, talking in terms of increased output per man hour jeopardising future employment, I am bound to say I am both shocked and alarmed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2193.1", "colnum": "2193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Just one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "The party to which the right hon. Gentleman belongs and the Press which supports them. I have no time to read them all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2193.3", "colnum": "2193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"For all of us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "tenths of us a chance to get at least ten times as much individual, private, property—ten times as much clothing, houses, gardens, motor cars, supplies of food, furniture, and the like as we ever get today. There is nothing about hard work, nothing about production. Yesterday the Prime. Minister came along and reversed all that, and said the solution of our present domestic problems was hard work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2204.1", "colnum": "2204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": ", at the request of the industry, to improve matters by getting out a better wage system, and that Mr. Justice Evershed's Committee has accomplished with skill and speed. There have been no results because the recommendations are still under consideration. It is of the greatest importance for the revival of the cotton industry that a final decision on these recommendations should be taken quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2220.1", "colnum": "2220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Major Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "cember, when the Home Secretary, whom 1 am glad to see on the Front Bench opposite accepted a Motion from this side of the House. I would commend his action to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, who I understand is to reply tonight. I would remind him that only a strong Minister is able to admit that he has been wrong and to accept a limitation of powers for which he has asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2229.1", "colnum": "2229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "great, upsurge of the people,\" yet by this very, regulation that is what the Minister's right hon. Friend is trying to do They are sitting in apparent amity beside. each other, but will have to argue it out between themselves when they get outride. We know that hon. Gentlemen who support the Minister will, in. due course, come trooping in and will riot have known what has; gone on in this Debate.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2234.3", "colnum": "2234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "n in peacetime is very relevant to the Debate. I do not think it is possible to carry on a regulation of that kind in peacetime; nor do I believe that we shall get an efficient Civil Service by having men compulsorily held in it. If we want an efficient Civil Service, we must pay proper salaries and encourage men to go into it by making it attractive, as is done in industry. That is the right way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2237.1", "colnum": "2237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Ness Edwards)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Ness Edwards)", "preceding_text": "We have had a very interesting Debate on this regulation. Come of it was in temperate, some of it was genuinely seeking after information, and some of it was quite derisory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2238.4", "colnum": "2238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\" Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "I have not that precise information at my disposal at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2238.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2238.4", "colnum": "2238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "I have not that precise information at my disposal at the moment—[Hon. Members:\" Why not? \"] I have said that I was so advised, and that advice came from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2238.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2238.6", "colnum": "2238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "A genuine question was put to me and I have endeavoured to the best of my ability to give an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2238.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2239.1", "colnum": "2239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, a war was on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": " the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) said in a debate in August of last year: 1 agree with the words used by the Foreign Secretary when he was -Minister of Labour in my Administration, namely, that the tremendous winding up process of the war must be followed by a methodical and regulated unwinding.\" He added: It is necessary for the Government to wield exceptional powers for- the time being\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2240.5", "colnum": "2240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"During the War.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "There is no attempt, as I was going to say, to introduce anything new. All that is being done is to continue what was brought into existence by hon. Members opposite for the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2240.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2240.5", "colnum": "2240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How many? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "t there; that the men in the mines shall be kept there; that nurses shall be drafted to hospitals in certain areas. How many times in this House have Members raised questions of hospitals being shut down, about health services being prejudiced and jeopardised, and how many times has the Minister been asked to direct midwives and doctors to various areas of the. country to maintain health services?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2240.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2243.5", "colnum": "2243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "Many of these men were directed by the Government which was composed very largely of hon. Gentlemen opposite. Whatever their conditions, they were directed by hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2243.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2243.5", "colnum": "2243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is no answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "Many of these men were directed by the Government which was composed very largely of hon. Gentlemen opposite. Whatever their conditions, they were directed by hon. Gentlemen opposite. [Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"] These men were taken from their ordinary civilian life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2243.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2247.1", "colnum": "2247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "that reason this Debate has been initiated today. Regulation 58A is one of the most important that we can discuss. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour prayed in aid a quotation from my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill), who spoke of the methodical unwinding of the war situation. That speech was made six months ago, and we are entirely with him in thinking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-02-28", "file": "debates1946-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "420e1ff8e647ec1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2247.3", "colnum": "2247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman prayed in aid that quotation from my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford, speaking on 16th August, of the unwinding of the war arrangements. Of course, we all agree that the unwinding should be methodical We also recollect that it is over six months since that statement was made. Some of the unwinding might by now have proceeded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-02-28a.2247.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-01", "file": "debates1946-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "a5945ceb624b11a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-01a.2321.0", "colnum": "2321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT (PLOUGHING UP OF LAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Thomas Williams)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Thomas Williams)", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Members opposite that the National Farmers' Union agree with our policy? They have not made any request for a retrospective date to July, 1945. They think that this is one form of helping the Government to achieve the objects of the Government, and they have not gone beyond that. Therefore, I cannot believe that hon. Members are really serious in asking us to go back to July, 1945.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-01a.2321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-01", "file": "debates1946-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "a5945ceb624b11a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-01a.2324.5", "colnum": "2324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT (PLOUGHING UP OF LAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "enceforth is not quite what it ought to be, but I can hardly appreciate his argument if he thinks£2 per acre is not enough for land ploughed up sub sequent to July of last year. The hon. and gallant Member for Salisbury (Major Morrison) could only refer to the possibility of unfairness. I do not think hon. Members really believe in their heart of hearts that there is any unfairness attached to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-01a.2324.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-03-04", "file": "debates1946-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d343fad0ba639bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-04a.16.3", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE (ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMITTEE'S INQUIRIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman say whether he would attach any importance to any assurance given by the Soviet Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-04a.16.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-03-04", "file": "debates1946-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d343fad0ba639bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-04a.18.6", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Russia.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman say whether there is any other country in Europe in which the formation of an independent Socialist party would lead to action by the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-04a.18.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-04", "file": "debates1946-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d343fad0ba639bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-04a.20.3", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLISH ARMED FORCES (REPATRIATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"When? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Member had better await a statement by my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-04a.20.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-04", "file": "debates1946-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d343fad0ba639bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-04a.53.0", "colnum": "53", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will they get a prize? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "e country. A girls' school won the prize by referring me to two instances only, two glancing references in the novels of Jane Austen to the wars of that day; one, if I remember rightly, was a reference to the battle of San Domingo, and the other to somebody's relative who was an \"Admiral of the Blue.\" If anybody in the House can send me any further reference they will add to my growing collection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-04a.53.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-04", "file": "debates1946-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d343fad0ba639bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-04a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "preceding_text": "d Paper 4827, which I will ask hon. Members to look up in the Library. I would also ask them to look up the Debate which took place on nth March, 1935— this is almost the anniversary of that Debate — and read the speeches in the light of subsequent events. It is worth doing. That Debate arose on a White Paper drawn up by a Labour Government — by a Coalition Government with a Labour Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-04a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-04", "file": "debates1946-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "4d343fad0ba639bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-04a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "If I had my way, I would say '' Abolish it now,\" but the Government are not in that position; they have got to deal with the facts as stated in their White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-04a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-05", "file": "debates1946-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cec634869bc7531e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllister", "preceding_text": "nd irresponsible way of treating a matter of this kind that the ancient and Royal Burgh of Rutherglen should have its green belt invaded and tampered with without any prior consultation? Is he not aware that the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen wrote to him in December last year regarding this matter, and was instructed to get in touch with the Clyde Valley Regional Planning Committee, that they did so —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.169.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-03-05", "file": "debates1946-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cec634869bc7531e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.173.6", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (BROADCASTS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "There is no coal in the fire.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "Could I ask the right hop. Gentleman to arrange for fortnightly fireside talks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-05", "file": "debates1946-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cec634869bc7531e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.178.2", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "Is it not very strange that hon. Members opposite should be smiling at this Question, when at the same time they are very anxious to get money free of interest from America? Can we riot get money free of interest from our own folk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.178.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-05", "file": "debates1946-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cec634869bc7531e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.179.6", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What is the difference? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "The Question I was asked last week related not to foreign bonds in general but to Japanese bonds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.179.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-05", "file": "debates1946-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cec634869bc7531e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.179.9", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "No Government, either Labour or Tory, ever advised shareholders to buy Japanese bonds. It was on Japanese bonds that the Question was asked and it is on Japanese bonds I have given my answer. I have further added that I intend to see representatives of the interested parties before long, and it will not advance the interests of clients of hon. Gentlemen opposite if I —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.179.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-05", "file": "debates1946-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cec634869bc7531e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I submit respectfully that the last answer of the Chancellor contains an imputation. The general meaning of the word '' client \"means there is a financial basis between the two parties, and I suggest he is imputing that hon. Members on this side of the House who asked these questions are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-05", "file": "debates1946-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cec634869bc7531e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Corbett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Corbett", "preceding_text": "ds somewhat better than conscription. I think the benefits are many and considerable. Many of the men I met during my service in the war, who had been brought into the Army, were extraordinarily ignorant even about their own country. I remember on one occasion when I was driving out in my car saying to my driver, \"'We go to Oxford next.\" I was surprised to discover he had never heard of the place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-05", "file": "debates1946-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cec634869bc7531e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "country a large financial burden. We are compelled to take our manpower away from the workshop, factory, mine, and office, in order to evolve a machine that will ultimately be used either to defend their own homes in the Empire, or else to prevent the people of these countries from rising, seizing power and ruling themselves in their own way. I am not prepared to subscribe to defence of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-05", "file": "debates1946-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cec634869bc7531e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Leah Manning", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Leah Manning", "preceding_text": "rds India and Egypt, the time is coming when we shall have large forces freed from those countries. We are not expected to sit much longer on the necks of those peoples. They have told us in no uncertain terms that they want to be rid of us. Those countries will look after themselves, and we shall have large forces freed. If we can give India her freedom, which is agreed in all parts of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.250.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-03-05", "file": "debates1946-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cec634869bc7531e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": ". Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vernon Bartlett", "preceding_text": "out conscription which should be made clear. The Government yesterday, in a statement by the Prime Minister, said that there would have to be conscription for some time. He gave no indication that it might not be for a very long time. It would have been possible for the Opposition to make capital out of that, and it would have been very easy for them to say, \"Do away with conscription right away.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-05", "file": "debates1946-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cec634869bc7531e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "evere reduction in the output of weapons and equipment for the Forces is essential not only in the interests of our economic recovery, but also to avoid the accumulation of obsolescent munitions. One would think, by that, that the battleship had been a failure in the recent war. I will deal with the future in a moment, but no one can really argue that the battleship has been a failure in this war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-05", "file": "debates1946-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cec634869bc7531e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.296.3", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "end the Member for Gainsborough (Captain Crookshank), I want to say, as I said on a previous occasion, that we are very grateful to the hon. Gentleman. the Member for Nuneaton for his support in this matter. This is not really a party matter. It affects the House of Commons. I ask the Solicitor-General and the Leader of the House who, at this moment is engaged in an intimate conversation with him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.296.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-05", "file": "debates1946-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cec634869bc7531e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "May I reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr. Bowles)? It would be out of Order to refer to future legislation, but, obviously the Amendment that has been made will have its repercussions outside the terms of this Bill. I am grateful for the dainty meal I am offered, because the Amendment put down by the right hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Gateshead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-05", "file": "debates1946-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "cec634869bc7531e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRIOT TRADE UNIONISTS (IMPRISONMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "preceding_text": "he whole world can be brought about only in the change in the existing regime. It is then that the Labour movement which starts to embrace Socialism and to direct its efforts towards the application of that system. It is a fantastic state of affairs when Labour rules at Westminster, and Socialism is a crime according to the law of Cyprus. Considerable comments were made at the trial about Marxism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-05a.300.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.314.2", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Fox", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the driver of No. 42196 said he had come for the Chief Whip? Is the Chief Whip entitled to travel in a Service car? Would it not be much better to use other transport? Is it not a gross misuse of Service personnel, and if airmen were not so misemployed would not demobilisation be quicker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.318.9", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL EMPIRE TOBACCO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "The most careful consideration has been given to the representations from the delegation which came here, and in the Colonial Office itself there is active consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.318.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Limit the price.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "s of my right hon. Friends and hon. Friends on this side of the House, an exposition of proposals which are satisfactory or adequate to the needs of the day. Indeed, there was nothing novel in the principles which the hon. Gentleman described. They were what we expected, and they are of limited scope and marked by a political prejudice, in our view, which is going to limit the progress of housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "preceding_text": "as a burning and dominant issue at the General Election, and I am sure that very large numbers of people were influenced to vote for the Labour Party candidates because they felt that only by pinning their faith and hopes in a Labour Government would it be possible for this great need of housing to be satisfied. I think that history is already beginning to prove that their faith was not misplaced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "preceding_text": "ech of the Parliamentary Secretary describing this Bill I believe that we are going to have well built houses and that the standard is to be improved. These houses must be built to be let under the subsidies suggested in the Bill at rents which the people can afford. Past experience has proved without a shadow of doubt that this can only be effected by entrusting the duty to our local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "preceding_text": " and moral obligation. It has always been assumed that good estate management meant that the owner of the estate had to provide, out of his own resources, a sufficient number of cottages on his farms to enable those farms to be cultivated properly. Our opponents have failed in that duty; now they come to us, and ask us to find money to relieve them of an obligation which they have too long evaded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.372.1", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Hare", "preceding_text": "919 Housing Act. Towards the end of that year he panicked—I hope the present Minister will not do so—and he gave private enterprise subsidies far greater than it need have had. The result of his efforts, as we know, was complete failure. It was not until 1923, when the late Mr. Neville Chamberlain became Minister of Health, that any real progress towards dealing with the housing problem was begun—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": " provision?\" Well, this matter again has been referred by the Minister to the Hobhouse Committee of which I am a member. That committee have produced an interim report. I do not know whether it is the intention of the Minister to publish that report. All that it would be proper for me to say at the moment is that I do believe that in the present critical housing shortage, all means should be used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUSPROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "towns, but it was not the\" wicked landlords \"who were responsible, but the wicked industrial system which bled the country white. I want to see houses built to repopulale the countryside. In the last 90 years the parish in which I live has lost over 50 per cent. of its population, and I have seen cottage after cottage disappear. Only two cottages have been built in the parish in the last 50 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUSPROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "bsidy, which has already been referred to in sober yet challenging terms by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Woodbridge (Lieut.-Colonel Hare), would have been the greatest period in the house building of this country; but it is well known that it was not so. The greatest period in the house building of this country was in fact the period of the least subsidy, the period from 1927 to 1939.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUSPROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "untry I take the typical case of any one house. It is not difficult to assess, at any rate, in average and general terms, the cost of construction of a house today. I have not been assisted in this matter by the Parliamentary Secretary, who, for some reason which rests hidden in his own breast, saw fit to deny to the House this afternoon the information which his Department had given it yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUSPROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "oved, and certainly there may be a great deal of preliminary development, because we know from the figures that it is not the shortage of sites, taking the country as a whole, which is holding up progress. But when I come to look at what is happening in my county of Lindsey, with a population of some 400,000, I find that there is no permanent house completed and only 34 temporary houses completed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUSPROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fifteen guineas.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "te provision for assisting the building of houses by private enterprise. This has been discussed throughout the day and indeed the right hon. Gentleman would have appreciated, even if we had not said it, that we would not have approved a Bill which gave so little assistance in the agricultural areas, although there is the very small provision in Clause 13 where the subsidy is put up to 10 guineas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUSPROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "hich gave so little assistance in the agricultural areas, although there is the very small provision in Clause 13 where the subsidy is put up to 10 guineas. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Fifteen guineas.\"] I am sorry, it goes up from 10 guineas to 15, but it is only given for 40 years instead of 60, and it is a smaller subsidy than that given to the local authorities so that in any case it is not very exciting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUSPROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For sale and not to let.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ilders aside. After all, hon. Gentlemen opposite have quoted some figures, but they may have got them wrong, because they took them out of a Labour Party pamphlet, instead of the Minister of Health's own document, with regard to the building figures in the 20 years between the two wars. The fact remains that three out of every four of the houses built at that time were built by private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUSPROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "mes then I shall suspend the power to issue these licences for this purpose. That is to say, if a local authority cannot build the houses for which licences have been issued because it is inefficient then nobody else is going to build either. I must say that this is a most extraordinary plan, and I cannot understand why, in all these circumstances, the right hon. Gentleman takes the contrary view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUSPROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "be that he only remembers the song known to many of us, \"The more we are together the merrier we shall be \"? That of course is the song of the Ancient Order of Froth-blowers, but not of statesmen. Let the right hon. Gentleman think again. Let him mobilise everyone, and we shall certainly see that everything possible is done in every direction in which we have any influence to help him in that job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUSPROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about licences?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "preceding_text": "g forward to the sites from the industries, there must be some planning. If we are to plan we have to plan with plannable instruments, and the speculative builder, by his very nature, is not a plannable instrument. In fact, I cannot tell the House at the present time how many houses private enterprise is building. I do not know what they are doing, where they are doing it or how they are doing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUSPROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They need it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "preceding_text": "\"Do hon. Members, therefore, suggest that I should make no provision either in manpower or building materials for private enterprise building? Do they suggest that? If the Government are to make provision for building materials and labour for private enterprise, are not the Government entitled to take credit for the houses built in that way? Hon. Members cannot have it both ways, but they want it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.456.4", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUSPROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Reference is made in the Bill to certain powers, which I ask the House to give, to finance the construction of untraditional housing schemes. That has a direct relationship with the acquisition of land for those houses, and unless we can have the powers, we cannot get on with the job of providing houses. Furthermore, it is\"necessary that we have this Bill very shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.456.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.467.3", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "nger of Members losing their privilege in this House …It is found, when a Bill comes forward in which they are interested, that the whole matter is dealt with in the Financial Resolution … and they cannot get their Amendments called.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 8th March, 1937; Vol. 321, c. 815 and 820.] Hon. Members will appreciate they cannot expect to be the Government of the day for ever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.467.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-06", "file": "debates1946-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d2065126b53b777e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.469.0", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS—\"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "preceding_text": " but money, to have the Financial Resolution narrowly drawn. In fact, if the Money Resolution had been more widely drawn, hon. Members opposite would have found it difficult, because they would not be able to move Amendments to increase the charge. This discussion is an ingenious way of trying to get a programme from me. I refuse, as I have already stated, to provide hon. Members with a programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-06a.469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-07", "file": "debates1946-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae21862647abcdb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-07a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why do the officers not have them? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "ep in hammocks. I would commend anybody who has to go to sea in a warship and any hon. Member who has not experienced it to try it for himself, and then to decide for himself whether he is going to sleep in a bunk or a hammock. The finest way of deciding anything like that is to experience it oneself. I can assure hon. Members that when you are rolling about in the Atlantic, or being tossed about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-07a.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-07", "file": "debates1946-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae21862647abcdb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-07a.619.1", "colnum": "619", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "slept in hammocks who have not worried about it. Then we get this complaint about the men wanting more space for sleeping. There may be good ground occasionally for that complaint, but I can assure hon. Members of this, that when a ship is in for repair and half the ship's company is away on leave, you feel far less comfortable with so much space than you are when there are more sleeping together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-07a.619.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-07", "file": "debates1946-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae21862647abcdb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-07a.620.4", "colnum": "620", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about bunks? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "am saying is that it is not always necessary to have this tremendous amount of room. Some other things are required aboard ship I do not defend sleeping on tables. It nay interest some hon. Members to know that although there was room in one ship of which I know for slinging hammocks, three or four men never would sling their hammocks. They preferred to sleep on lockers. It is a matter of opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-07a.620.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-07", "file": "debates1946-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae21862647abcdb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-07a.625.3", "colnum": "625", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"A jolly good show.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "t I cannot go into all the points that have been raised tonight, but I think that I have dealt with the most important. I do want to say this, that to those questions which I have not been able to answer hon. Members will receive a communication. Finally, I would say that I wish to thank the Committee for its indulgence towards me in my maiden speech from this Box. I really have enjoyed making it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-07a.625.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-08", "file": "debates1946-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "63ec30ced13da50f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-08a.655.3", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRAITS SETTLEMENTS (REPEAL) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Read it all \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "I think that all hon. Members who are interested in this subject have already obtained a copy of this White Paper. I do not want to take up the time of the House by reading it through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-08a.655.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-08", "file": "debates1946-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "63ec30ced13da50f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-08a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRAITS SETTLEMENTS (REPEAL) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Teeling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Teeling", "preceding_text": "his arrival did not necessarily mean great sympathy on behalf of the Malayans towards us. They did not altogether understand him. Now we have Sir Harold MacMichael going out on this fantastically organised tour. It reminds me of the election tour of the former Prime Minister, who was welcomed throughout the General Election tour, but evidently a lot of people thought twice and changed their minds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-08a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-08", "file": "debates1946-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "63ec30ced13da50f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-08a.730.3", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JAPANESE BONDS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Marples", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"How much? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Marples", "preceding_text": "t 1 was born in Lancashire, too. That quotation which I have read was from a book, not by a Tory, not by the hon. Gentleman the Member for Orpington (Sir W. Smithers), but by no less a person than the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself. We have this very devastating quotation. I will lend this book to the hon. Member for Doncaster, who interrupted me. It is called\" Towards the Peace of Nations \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-08a.730.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-03-12", "file": "debates1946-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "46a4125d5209bc5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-12a.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": "In regard to the part of the Question which deals with what recommendations he has received from chief constables in this matter, would not the right hon. Gentleman say that there is a wealth of evidence to show that the abuse of the bona fide travellers' privilege under modern conditions of travel gives rise to much drunkeness and disorder on Sundays, and does directly cause many road accidents?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-12a.939.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-12", "file": "debates1946-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "46a4125d5209bc5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-12a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "AIR ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Ward", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Ward", "preceding_text": "egiment. I have some suggestions to make regarding its future which may be somewhat controversial, but which I seriously commend to the Government for their very careful consideration. I think I am doing the Army no injustice—and certainly I mean none—if I say that the R.A.F. Regiment came into being owing to the inability of the Army adequately to defend our airfields at the beginning of the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-12a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-12", "file": "debates1946-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "46a4125d5209bc5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-12a.1022.1", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "AIR ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Do not tell me that. '", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": " of the world, who do not understand the reasoning of the hon. Member's speech. I have heard the word \"war\" today more than I heard it during the war. It grieved me to sit and listen. Why talk about war? Have we not had enough of war? Make no mistake about it, the people of this country will not go to war again particularly against their brothers and sisters, their Allies who fought this last war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-12a.1022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-12", "file": "debates1946-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "46a4125d5209bc5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-12a.1058.3", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "AIR ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Air (Mr. Strachey)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member:\" He sees no hope of it? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Air (Mr. Strachey)", "preceding_text": "hink that was his phrase—of the Labour Party of today. Then he went on to say that he wondered if that Labour air liner would ever take off. There, I think, I detect a point of intense personal interest on his part. He was wondering if the Labour air liner would ever take off from these benches. I am afraid that I must tell him that the take-off must be long delayed. I see no signs of it whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-12a.1058.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-03-13", "file": "debates1946-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3455878d925f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1095.4", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LAND NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that enough land has been purchased up to the present time to fulfil the building programme for the next two years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1095.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-13", "file": "debates1946-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3455878d925f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame \"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "When the hon. Member has read the answers to which I have referred him, he will find we are no longer allocating grain to distillers and, therefore, the production of whisky has ceased for the time being.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1097.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-03-13", "file": "debates1946-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3455878d925f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1113.2", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is in the Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": "I am not aware that I used the word \"depositing.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-13", "file": "debates1946-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3455878d925f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1136.2", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " Dorset, and urged people not to indulge in war savings for a purely political issue —merely because he disagreed with the character of this Government and the aim they had in view. I never did anything of the sort. I encouraged them to put money away, but I told them not to be humbugged by the City financiers, who had only one end in view, and that was to raid their savings as soon as they could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1136.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-13", "file": "debates1946-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3455878d925f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1152.4", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "s local authority, like mine and every other local authority represented here, is overburdened with heavy interest payments because of dear money, so much ' so that it is almost impossible for them to carry out their responsibilities. I was speaking at a meeting on this question of finance in my constituency one day—not that I am a financier, I do not want anyone to accuse me of being a financier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1152.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-13", "file": "debates1946-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3455878d925f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "gth of the Debate would have afforded some opportunity at the end to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to share in the interest. We quite realise that at the beginning he had to be absent meeting the deputation of bond holders, but it certainly has been a long meeting, and I do not know whether his loyal subordinate ought not to telephone to the Treasury to find out that he is none the worse for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-13", "file": "debates1946-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3455878d925f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "y of choice I have been quite unable to decide which of these interesting topics to which to devote myself, and so, I think, I will devote myself to the Amendment on the Order Paper, and the reason why it was put down. I am encouraged to do that out of mercy to the Home Secretary. It is always as well to do the Home Secretary a favour if you can, because you never know but that the time will come—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-13", "file": "debates1946-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3455878d925f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Is that in the Amendment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "n. I am encouraged to do that out of mercy to the Home Secretary. It is always as well to do the Home Secretary a favour if you can, because you never know but that the time will come—[ Interruption. ] He has been sitting there patiently on the Front Bench, and all the time, despite the courteous look on his face, I have felt he is more interested in the future than he is in the immediate present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-13", "file": "debates1946-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3455878d925f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1206.0", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "SUPPLY [11th March]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "preceding_text": "Unlike a number of my hon. Friends. I did not have the pleasure and enjoyment of taking part in the discussions on this matter in Committee. I am sorry that my right hon. Friend is leaving the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-13", "file": "debates1946-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3455878d925f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1206.2", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "SUPPLY [11th March]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " this House. My right hon. Friend took a great deal of time to tell us, \"I have done more in this Bill than has any other Home Secretary to protect the police authorities in this country.\" That, I would say, is a piece of effrontery. What he should have told us is this: \"I am doing more than any other Home Secretary in the history of the police forces of this country to wreck those police forces.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1206.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-13", "file": "debates1946-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3455878d925f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1210.2", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "SUPPLY [11th March]", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Vote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ger unit makes for efficiency. That is the point of the Amendment. I think the House does require to be convinced that a force of 100,000 makes for greater efficiency than one of 60,000, and that we are not crushing local associations of long standing and merging little police forces in wider bodies on the plea of higher efficiency. I do not know whether any Government spokesman is going to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1210.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-13", "file": "debates1946-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3455878d925f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1210.2", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "SUPPLY [11th March]", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " the Amendment. I think the House does require to be convinced that a force of 100,000 makes for greater efficiency than one of 60,000, and that we are not crushing local associations of long standing and merging little police forces in wider bodies on the plea of higher efficiency. I do not know whether any Government spokesman is going to speak. [Hon. Members: \"Vote.\"] Hon. Members want to vote?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1210.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-13", "file": "debates1946-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "f3455878d925f72a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1224.5", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "SUPPLY [11th March]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stubbs", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stubbs", "preceding_text": " year. It was very clever of the Home Secretary, but he did not give us any reason for what he did. After all, we have to have special arrangements in Cambridge, because the Senate had a provision in the Act of 1856. What for? To keep the undergraduates quiet? Is that to be said of people who come from good homes, and ought to know how to behave themselves? That is what those arrangements are for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-13a.1224.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-14", "file": "debates1946-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "622fe4408b888f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-14a.1265.2", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND GRANTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen", "preceding_text": "While thanking the right hon. Gentleman for his reply —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-14a.1265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-14", "file": "debates1946-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "622fe4408b888f07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-14a.1327.1", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "General Sir George Jeffreys", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "General Sir George Jeffreys", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member for North Kensington (Mr. Rogers) on his maiden speech. I feel sure that I can at least safely do so on the ground that he has surmounted a fence which always looms very large in the eyes of the new Member about to make his maiden speech. As regards his experiences in the Army, I will not attempt to follow him, except to say that I fear he has been very unlucky in his experiences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-14a.1327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-15", "file": "debates1946-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "b7a5510365c10f8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-15a.1491.1", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENTDEPARTMENTS(CORRESPONDENCE DELAYS)", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And your own.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": "ssing only the question of correspondence between Members and Ministers, that this matter has very wide repercussions. It is something which should be debated, and in so far as we can get Members' letters dealt with efficiently and quickly, we shall do so. With this Debate in prospect I have had discussions on this matter with many Departments. I am here, rather, to answer for other peoples' sins.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-15a.1491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-18", "file": "debates1946-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "6d5cefab739b3796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-18a.1644.1", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL COMMISSION, GERMANY (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "uggestion, as has been said by hon. Members opposite—not by right hon. Members on the Front Bench—that the rations of British people had been cut because of negligence on the part of His Majesty's Government. No such suggestion could have been made by anybody who knew the facts, and therefore it is not true to say that the \"Daily Herald\" behaved in the same manner as other Conservative newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-18a.1644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-19", "file": "debates1946-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "90ca743acb8e7703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-19a.1665.2", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "those who have come to the end of their career in the Services, and who have had no previous experience in industry. There are great difficulties about placing these men. We are getting good results from the employers, who are doing what they can to provide jobs for them. But many of these jobs are connected with wholesale distribution and management, and until firms can get more production going—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-19a.1665.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-19", "file": "debates1946-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "90ca743acb8e7703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-19a.1667.7", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEMOBILISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, except that for the moment there is a superfluity of carpenters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-19a.1667.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-03-19", "file": "debates1946-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "90ca743acb8e7703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-19a.1692.2", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT TYPING STAFFS (INCREASE OF PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "I have yet to discover a male typist in a Government Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-19a.1692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-19", "file": "debates1946-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "90ca743acb8e7703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-19a.1700.3", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND)BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "kers) Acts. I can assure the House that such is not the case. The Acts had been in operation for 13 years before the war. In the minds of some of us there was the thought that there had been ample opportunity to complete what could have been done, if any good could have been done, under those Acts. But it is part of the Government's policy to reduce to the minimum \"tied\" houses in our countryside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-19a.1700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-19", "file": "debates1946-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "90ca743acb8e7703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-19a.1723.1", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND)BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay (Dumbartonshire)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"He was Lord Advocate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay (Dumbartonshire)", "preceding_text": " explained how it was possible. I suggest to the right hon. and learned Gentleman that he should, at least, face the difficulties. He says we are to solve this problem apart from the payment of local rates. He has been riding this hobby horse for quite a long time. If local rates are such a terrible thing in Scotland, why have successive Secretaries of State for Scotland never tackled the problem?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-19a.1723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-19", "file": "debates1946-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "90ca743acb8e7703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-19a.1724.1", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND)BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": " get the figures of the number of building trade workers actually employed on house building. I have some knowledge of that because I worked in the industry and was an officer of a building trade union. The right hon. and learned Gentleman talked about the position in Glasgow. I am not satisfied with the position in Glasgow, but please do not blame Glasgow too much. Where is the Minister of Works?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-19a.1724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-19", "file": "debates1946-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "90ca743acb8e7703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-19a.1781.1", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND)BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"A Tory council.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "e place.Lanarkshire county council has paid an enormous sum in buying the mineral rights in order to find ground on which to build houses. They have paid £61,831 8s. 3d. in relation to only 1,190 houses. It is not surprising that, in the town in which I live, we cannot stress sufficiently the dreadful conditions of the people. We have not a single site chosen on which to build houses. Why is that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-19a.1781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-19", "file": "debates1946-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "90ca743acb8e7703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-19a.1793.1", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND)BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Per 100 of the population.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": " the handicaps of our absurd rating system. My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Hillhead quoted certain figures which proved to me the value which could be obtained from the private builders. I wish to repeat those figures. As I understood them, they were that private builders in Edinburgh, in the five years before the war, provided two and one third houses per 1,000 of the population—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-19a.1793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-19", "file": "debates1946-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "90ca743acb8e7703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-19a.1797.1", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND)BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "remind him that had the Moderate majority on the town council had their average of building continued since 1933, there would be no homeless people in the city today, whereas at thismoment there are 75,000. It may be said in the main that the private builder builds houses for sale. I do not think that it is very material whether a house is built for sale or rent, so long as houses are forthcoming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-19a.1797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-20", "file": "debates1946-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "5cc98392cbb721ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1886.6", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CAMBERWELL, BRISTOL AND NOTTINGHAMELECTIONS (VALIDATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Hartley Shawcross)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Hartley Shawcross)", "preceding_text": "n to the unsatisfactory and unclear state of the existing laws in regard to these matters, and recommended that legislation should be introduced, both to clarify the legal position and to make the legal position, thus clarified, more in accordance with our present constitutional arrangements. This, of course, is not the first time that such a recommendation has been made to His Majesty's advisers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1886.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-20", "file": "debates1946-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "5cc98392cbb721ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1937.1", "colnum": "1937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (RELEASE OF CONSCIENTIOUSOBJECTORS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "use, they were placed on an equal footing with the Serviceman. In another place they say that if, perchance, the conscientious objector has been directed as a result of his refusing. service, into some work subject to the Essential Work Order, he shall be kept there although the same class of Serviceman is released. Is not that a penalty put on the conscientious objector as against the Serviceman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-20", "file": "debates1946-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "5cc98392cbb721ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1945.2", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member allow me? We have all been circularised", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1945.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-20", "file": "debates1946-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "5cc98392cbb721ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1946.0", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ause 8 will be amended and altered and will not be in the form in which it is in the Bill before the House. The result of that, in my submission, is that if there is anything before the House at all, it is a menu card with no items on the menu. If it is in Order, Mr. Speaker, may I refresh your memory with authorities which have been laid down in the past, including the Home Reservoirs Bill, 1849?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1946.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-20", "file": "debates1946-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "5cc98392cbb721ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1947.0", "colnum": "1947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "preceding_text": " the views of Councillor Nally and believe that \"replanning can be carried out only by co-operation between all adjacent authorities.\" Both Lancashire and Cheshire county councils have offered such co-operation, but we cannot play our part in this great housing drive upon equal footing unless Parliament grants the financial powers which this Bill will provide. I would like to make one final point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1947.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-20", "file": "debates1946-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "5cc98392cbb721ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1952.5", "colnum": "1952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"They are now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "preceding_text": " stands in the Bill, if the county council were of the opinion that the sewerage system, or some other public service in a borough, was not adequate, and they suggested to the smaller local authority or borough council that they should improve the service, the other councils which have already provided adequate services of that kind in their boroughs, will be called upon to contribute to the cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1952.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-20", "file": "debates1946-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "5cc98392cbb721ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1980.3", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "I think the Noble Lord is under a misapprehension. I did not accuse him of being a defeatist. I accused him of belonging to a social and political group which has been politically defeated in this country, and decisively defeated. Coming back to my point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-20", "file": "debates1946-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "5cc98392cbb721ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1988.3", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "Not at all, though I would say it is a good thing to observe one's treaties. It was not the treaty which called for action, but the Covenant. If the hon. Member does not know that he did not know his job on the Secretariat very well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-20", "file": "debates1946-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "5cc98392cbb721ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1992.1", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "hen I was working in the Foreign Office, that I was associated with some crusted Tories, and I have not thought of this or that official as holding this or that opinion. I have not the remotest idea how most of those with whom I worked at the Foreign Office voted at the General Election, or in any other General Election. For anything I know, the majority may have voted for hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-20", "file": "debates1946-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "5cc98392cbb721ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1994.2", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. McNeil)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"A 'stooge.' \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. McNeil)", "preceding_text": "ke a man a Cabinet Minister by pushing him out to the end of the earth, and making sure that he never comes inside a Cabinet room. If we are to have a Cabinet Minis- ter who does not come inside the Cabinet, all we need do is to appoint another man who, by telegram, radio, aeroplane or courier, will be instructed by the Cabinet or by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1994.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-03-20", "file": "debates1946-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "5cc98392cbb721ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1996.1", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "If they were all like the hon. Gentleman I would not worry", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-20", "file": "debates1946-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "5cc98392cbb721ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1996.2", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It is a fact.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "other crack like that will cost me not only my job, but my constituency. To return to my argument, if it is agreed that a Resident Minister does no more than accept instructions, then I think we see our argument clearly, and it is this, that the servant is never responsible for policy making. That refers to the permanent members of the Council as it does to every one of our representatives abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1996.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-20", "file": "debates1946-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "5cc98392cbb721ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1996.2", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Was that good? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "looking up the recent entries, and I have a somewhat remarkable discovery to disclose. Of the last 58 young men who have come into the Foreign Service, 19 have never been at any well-known public school. In applying the term \"public school\" I took a very strict test. If the school appeared in the Headmasters' List, I said it was a well-known public school. Those 19 had never been to such a school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-20a.1996.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-21", "file": "debates1946-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "dbf3dd6a59ae2bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2013.0", "colnum": "2013", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BORSTAL SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Little", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Little", "preceding_text": "Is not the Minister aware that the cry of these pensioners and widows ascends to high heaven at the parsimony of this Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-21", "file": "debates1946-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "dbf3dd6a59ae2bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2016.7", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BORSTAL SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paling", "preceding_text": "I do not accept the suggestion that they are pestered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2016.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-03-21", "file": "debates1946-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "dbf3dd6a59ae2bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2031.2", "colnum": "2031", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BORSTAL SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Stanley Holmes", "preceding_text": "for that reply and assuming gratefully that the Government are saying to the seaside resorts, in the words of Shakespeare, Come hither, come hither, come hither, Under the greenwood tree, may I ask him to impress upon the Lord Privy Seal the need to give immediate attention to this matter, so that hotels, boarding houses., apartment houses and seaside resorts generally, may have the advantage of —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-21", "file": "debates1946-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "dbf3dd6a59ae2bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2042.1", "colnum": "2042", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn Levy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn Levy", "preceding_text": "Relating to the business arrangements for last Wednesday night, may I ask my right hon. Friend in view of the fact that there was a clear mutual understanding, arrived at through the usual channels, that the Debate on the Scottish Housing Bill should terminate at 10.15, and that the hon. and gallant. Member for East Renfrew (Major Guy Lloyd) saw fit to break that gentleman's agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-21", "file": "debates1946-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "dbf3dd6a59ae2bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2042.2", "colnum": "2042", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. In defence of the rights of back benchers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2042.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-21", "file": "debates1946-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "dbf3dd6a59ae2bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2043.5", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "o a certain extent a matter for me whether or not I accept the Motion for the Closure. I quite deliberately said that, after the Minister, we would have one more speaker from the other side, and then I accepted the Closure. Therefore, the agreement between the two Front Benches was altered by my accepting a Private Member to make one more speech. I think one trusts the Speaker— at least I hope so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2043.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-03-21", "file": "debates1946-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "dbf3dd6a59ae2bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2044.1", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "We are very much obliged to you, Sir. May I assure you we all trust Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-21", "file": "debates1946-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "dbf3dd6a59ae2bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2118.1", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member:\" Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": ", as I reminded the Under-Secretary of State, that the Herring Industry Act gave the Board power to do much more than that, and I invite the right hon. Gentleman to give his attention to that matter. With regard to the two schemes, the Herring Industry Act and the Inshore Fishing Act, which were designed to provide boats, I was disappointed by the figures which the Minister of Agriculture gave us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-21", "file": "debates1946-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "dbf3dd6a59ae2bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2124.3", "colnum": "2124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "m the boat to the wholesaler. Formerly, there were two or three people with their hands in the fish basket before the fish got to the consumer. That is the way to deal with the distribution of fish in this section of the industry. But whatever is done, one thing is clear—the fishermen of Britain are today looking to this Government in a way in which they have never looked to any Government before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2124.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-21", "file": "debates1946-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "dbf3dd6a59ae2bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2140.1", "colnum": "2140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member said two ports, but other Members on the other side of the House mentioned many other ports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-21", "file": "debates1946-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "dbf3dd6a59ae2bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2143.0", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the nets? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "The Fishery Department did make representations to the Board of Trade. They got a concession and, having got a concession, they got expressions of thanks from the fishermen of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-21a.2143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-22", "file": "debates1946-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "ca64a2cfaa171681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-22a.2164.1", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Mellor", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Mellor", "preceding_text": "se a question at other times if they do not get satisfaction at Question time. At the present time, virtually the only opportunity they have is upon the Adjournment, and all Ministers and their advisers know perfectly well that the chance of a back bench Member being able to get the Adjournment before the Question has become completely stale is probably something like 20, 30, or 40 to one against.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-22a.2164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-22", "file": "debates1946-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "ca64a2cfaa171681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-22a.2176.1", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "tion caused by a great number of letters, more than ever before, I should think, and the difficulty with regard to clerical labour. My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has put to me only this morning a suggestion that it would greatly relieve the Departments if the mere acknowledgement which many Ministers like to send could be done in a nicely and courteously printed note from the Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-22a.2176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-03-22", "file": "debates1946-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "ca64a2cfaa171681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-22a.2200.1", "colnum": "2200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TECHNICAL EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "tion is carried on to the more stratospheric levels of the university then my hon. Friend's claim might conceivably be admissible. As the hon. Member for Edmonton pointed out, however—and I am grateful to him for doing so—that is precisely the bottleneck and it is in the lower strata of technical education that the product is improved machine hands and not fuller and more perceptive human beings.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-03-22a.2200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-04-30", "file": "debates1946-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "87d67f26c454920b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By workers' contributions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "preceding_text": " hospital finance when the all-in insurance contributions tall to be paid by the people of Great Britain, when the Bill is passed and becomes an Act, and they are entitled to free hospital services. The estimates I have go to show that between 80 per cent. and 90 per cent. of the revenues of the voluntary hospitals in these circumstances will be provided by public funds, by national or rate funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.43.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-04-30", "file": "debates1946-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "87d67f26c454920b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And a prison.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "eceiver? So I turned to an examination of the local government hospital system. Many of the local authori in Great Britain have never been able to exercise their hospital powers. They are too poor. They are too small. Furthermore, the local authorities of Great Britain inherited their hospitals from the Poor Law, and some of them are monstrous buildings, a cross between a workhouse and a barracks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-04-30", "file": "debates1946-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "87d67f26c454920b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.56.5", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "he public hospitals for they will go to nursing homes. I believe that nursing homes ought to be discouraged. They cannot provide general hospital facilities, and we want to keep our specialists attached to our hospitals and not send them into nursing homes. Behind this there is a principle of some importance. If the State owned a theatre it would not charge the same prices for the different seats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.56.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-04-30", "file": "debates1946-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "87d67f26c454920b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Law", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Law", "preceding_text": "er practical or theoretical, of the very important subject matter with which this Bill is dealing, should have set his own intuition and judgment against all those best informed in the medical profession and in the hospital services outside the House. In fact, the right hon. Gentleman has done just that. The British Hospital Association and the British Medical Association are opposed to this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-04-30", "file": "debates1946-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "87d67f26c454920b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "The three Royal Colleges have criticised the Bill with varying emphasis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-04-30", "file": "debates1946-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "87d67f26c454920b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "g emphasis—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—and for various reasons. I think I am right in saying that the Royal College of Surgeons passed a resolution condemning aspects of the Minister's proposals in the most categorical terms. The Royal College of Obstetricians did the same. They said, if my memory serves me, that the Minister's proposals were likely to lead to a great increase in maternal mortality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-04-30", "file": "debates1946-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "87d67f26c454920b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.65.0", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "Unfortunately, I have not the document and therefore I am unable to quote from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.65.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-04-30", "file": "debates1946-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "87d67f26c454920b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.65.6", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "the Minister touched on— in its recent report on a national maternity service. In that report the Royal College gave evidence for its conviction that the care of the pregnant woman, whether at home, in the clinic, or in hospital, is a responsibility which cannot be discharged with the maximum safety to the two lives at stake if it is shared between different administrative bodies That is what the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.65.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-04-30", "file": "debates1946-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "87d67f26c454920b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.77.5", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "regard to the payment of doctors fall short of the policy we have advocated, and which the Labour Party has, in the past, accepted. We still insist that the best service, the perfect doctor-patient relationship, and the highest form of team work will be possible only when the service becomes one employing whole-time salaried officers, and we shall watch the basic salary system very closely indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.77.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-04-30", "file": "debates1946-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "87d67f26c454920b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.77.5", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you agree with it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "till insist that the best service, the perfect doctor-patient relationship, and the highest form of team work will be possible only when the service becomes one employing whole-time salaried officers, and we shall watch the basic salary system very closely indeed. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] That is the statement, and the House has heard the reception which it has got from hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.77.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-04-30", "file": "debates1946-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "87d67f26c454920b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.91.0", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Davidson", "preceding_text": "Government believe that they can do as they like, because of the large majority sitting behind them. But the majority of today may be the minority of tomorrow. Toleration is the basis of successful democratic government. The rights of the minority must be respected, and no majority should exercise its mandate beyond the endurance of the public, or bitterness will result, and may lead to civil war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-04-30", "file": "debates1946-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "87d67f26c454920b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Urbane or urban?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "preceding_text": " Bill than the Bill we discussed in the past in these stormy economic times. Today I am going to talk for a few minutes about how this Bill affects the countryside, because I am certain that the Minister will agree that the countryside, where there are scattered populations and districts, presents a very special problem. I must say that I think the right hon. Gentleman's speech was a little urban—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-04-30", "file": "debates1946-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "87d67f26c454920b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have fallen from grace.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "preceding_text": "grateful for the interruption. I regard the hospital management committees as key points in the Bill as it affects hospitals. But as the Bill is presented, the point is not clear. The people in my area are very much up in arms about it, and they are people whose ancestors were Cromwell's Ironsides. They are not moved very easily, but when they get up against things they are rather tough opponents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-04-30", "file": "debates1946-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "87d67f26c454920b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.122.1", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, you will not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "preceding_text": "d by the remarks of the Minister today because I believe he has honestly approached this question with a great sense of responsibility. I do not think that party or party views should be brought into a matter of this kind where we are standing at the crossroads of something which is far more serious than any party question. I shall be unpopular, I know, with others of my own party for saying that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-04-30", "file": "debates1946-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "87d67f26c454920b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why was it remarkable?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "preceding_text": " they are in school. I would like to make this suggestion: I believe a great deal more can be done than is being done, by having films and lectures in the winter evenings in village institutes and also in the schools, because half our trouble comes from ignorance—ignorance of the facts. We have listened to a remarkable speech from the hon. Member for the Scottish Universities (Sir J. Graham Kerr)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-04-30", "file": "debates1946-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "87d67f26c454920b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, they would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "preceding_text": " body? I do not know how the Minister is going to decide, from the names which are submitted to him, who are the best persons for the job. Under the Bill, he is going to consult organisations. What organisations? If he consults the organisations which represent the local authorities, will he consult the County Councils Association? That is an overwhelmingly Tory body, and they may not nominate me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-04-30", "file": "debates1946-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "87d67f26c454920b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "cue_text": "An HON.MEMBER: \"How is the public to know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "preceding_text": "use I have many friends among hon. Members on the other side, who have been able to overcome their political scruples when they have recognised real quality. How is the Minister going to determine, when the names are submitted to him, that they are not merely the names of popular members of an organisation, but the names of people who have some knowledge of the job? How is he going to decide that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-04-30a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-01", "file": "debates1946-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "69297d3c031e02af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": "I am trying to establish my case to the House. I know there is disparity between the industrial towns, but the point emphasised by the Government and the right hon. Gentleman is that all doctors are flocking to the seaside and residential resorts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-01", "file": "debates1946-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "69297d3c031e02af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "May I interrupt the right hon. and learned Gentleman? I have never, in my Parliamentary experience, listened to a statement of the character we are now having.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.227.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-01", "file": "debates1946-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "69297d3c031e02af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.231.2", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "But the right hon. and learned Gentleman uses them to support his case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-01", "file": "debates1946-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "69297d3c031e02af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.231.3", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "I thought I heard the hon. Gentleman who has just sat down using \"The Lancet\" in support of his case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.231.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-01", "file": "debates1946-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "69297d3c031e02af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "told the House, and if I did not make it clear, I intended to, that the examination which I certainly told the House I had given to the question, was subsequent to the publication of the White Paper. I took the responsibility in February, 1944, of suggesting something very similar to this—in fact, identical. It was in the examination of it I discovered how difficult and unsatisfactory it would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-01", "file": "debates1946-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "69297d3c031e02af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "id, it cannot be worked from the centre; we have to decentralise. Decentralise in what way? I cannot see any way other than the way in which he has done it, namely, by regional boards. If it is done by regional boards it is suggested that charity will dry up. I am surprised that so far nobody has referred to the fact that in Wales we are fortunate enough to have had experience of a regional board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-01", "file": "debates1946-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "69297d3c031e02af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "preceding_text": "hat does not follow. The distribution of hospitals over this area is very haphazard. I will give one or two facts with regard to this Speaking of the voluntary hospitals the writers of this Report say, under the heading \"Uncoordinated effort\": The majority of the voluntary hospitals are distinguished (in the London area) by their independent spirit, initiative and power of inspiring local loyalty,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-01", "file": "debates1946-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "69297d3c031e02af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Look it up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "preceding_text": "I was endeavouring to make myself clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-01", "file": "debates1946-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "69297d3c031e02af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Baird", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Baird", "preceding_text": " would be able to do a lot to raise the status of the profession. The medical profession and the public do not always realise the good job which this branch of the medical profession are performing. Dental surgeons play a very important part in modern medicine. Much of the surgical treatment which they carry out is very responsible. Taking four, five or six teeth out is a major surgical operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-01", "file": "debates1946-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "69297d3c031e02af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Baird", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Baird", "preceding_text": "ess in the Minister's argument when he attempted to justify the pay beds in our new hospitals, and also the right of consultants to have private patients. The argument he used was that if we did not allow consultants to have private patients, and if we did not allow pay beds in our hospitals, we would have a black market in nursing homes. Surely, with the great Government we have, we can register—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-01", "file": "debates1946-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "69297d3c031e02af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.318.3", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ASSISTANCE INSTITUTION, HOWDEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must not be too impatient. I said this was 1933.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-01a.318.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-02", "file": "debates1946-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "33127028029bcfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.368.0", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wave11 Wakefield (St. Marylebone)", "preceding_text": " as it now stands, the public in many respects will not be better served but rather they will be worse served. I think it is absolutely tragic that a Measure which is supposed to have as its basis and foundation the report of Lord Dawson, and in the preparation of which the doctors have given their help in the past two decades, should be opposed as it is now by an almost united medical profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-02", "file": "debates1946-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "33127028029bcfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.372.1", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ernest Graham-Little (London University)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ernest Graham-Little (London University)", "preceding_text": "arty have made most extravagant promises to the people to supply the fullest measure of specialist and institutional treatment, treatment which was not supplied by the National Health Insurance Acts now in operation. I have even heard of an optimistic charwoman, deluded by these promises, who expressed her confident expectation that she would now be able to call in Lord Horder whenever she wished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-02", "file": "debates1946-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "33127028029bcfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Williams", "preceding_text": "any cases the money was left by the dead. It is immoral to the highest degree to use that money for any other purpose than that for which it was left. Many people have been spurred on to greater efforts in order to be able to endow something which was after their own hearts. How many benefactors must be now turning in their graves at the thought of a Socialist Government administering those funds?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-02", "file": "debates1946-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "33127028029bcfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.397.3", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "t this is a great Measure. Had I, in 1929, as Minister of Health in a minority Government, had the majority which is behind me today, I would have introduced a Measure on these lines with the greatest pleasure and enthusiasm. Hon. Members seem to think—and a good many of my right hon. and learned Friend's points were directed to this—that this Bill is something final. Labour policy is never final.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.397.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-02", "file": "debates1946-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "33127028029bcfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "I know the right hon. Gentleman has said this before, and it is entirely inaccurate. I cannot give the details of it now, but it is entirely untrue that I ever said I would father any of these proposals whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-02", "file": "debates1946-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "33127028029bcfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.404.4", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "That is my information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.404.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-02", "file": "debates1946-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "33127028029bcfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.405.3", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then why do so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "I do not want to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.405.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-02", "file": "debates1946-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "33127028029bcfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.405.4", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I have now had a copy of the document handed to me. I am sorry to have had this little trouble. Hon. Members opposite are becoming a little touchy in their old age. The first paragraph of this document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.405.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-02", "file": "debates1946-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "33127028029bcfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.405.4", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": " Health. We had better have this read out: The Council has now received a report from the negotiating committee on the discussions which have been taking place with the Minister of Health and the Secretary of State for Scotland during the past few months. Included in its report is an administrative structure put forward by the Minister as a possible alternative to that outlined in the White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.405.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-02", "file": "debates1946-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "33127028029bcfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.405.4", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "g place with the Minister of Health and the Secretary of State for Scotland during the past few months. Included in its report is an administrative structure put forward by the Minister as a possible alternative to that outlined in the White Paper. [ Interruption .] I have not finished yet. These alternative proposals are not now proposals put forward by the Government in place of the White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.405.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-02", "file": "debates1946-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "33127028029bcfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.405.4", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "e to that outlined in the White Paper. [ Interruption .] I have not finished yet. These alternative proposals are not now proposals put forward by the Government in place of the White Paper. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Wait a minute. They are proposals which the Minister will be willing to put to his colleagues as soon as he knows whether they commend themselves to the medical profession or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.405.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-02", "file": "debates1946-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "33127028029bcfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.405.4", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A section.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "econd Reading—which I think illuminated the House of Commons—I believe he is determined to get this Bill through. We certainly shall get it through, and no amount of misrepresentation will deter us. A short time ago I had two leaflets given to me neither of which bears any printer's or publisher's imprint. It is vicious propaganda which has emanated, I am sorry to say, from the medical profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.405.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-02", "file": "debates1946-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "33127028029bcfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.405.4", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "N. MEMBERS: \"A section.\"] From a section of the medical profession, certainly. They say: You want the best medical advice and medical services, so do the doctors. They want to help you to make sure you really get them. You want to change your own doctor and to change to another if you feel like it. But \"— in large print— after the National Health Service becomes law your choice will be restricted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.405.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-02", "file": "debates1946-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "33127028029bcfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "The assumption of hon. Members opposite seems to be that because a Bill has passed its Second Reading none of its provisions can subsequently be discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.424.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-02", "file": "debates1946-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "33127028029bcfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is an insult.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "thought that it could be either in Order or out of Order, and that it was not a question of whether it was appropriate or inappropriate. I should not like that phrase to stand, if you really meant it was out of Order and your reference to what had taken place during the last two and a half days was irrelevant to your Ruling. If that is so I suggest that you should put your Ruling on another point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-02", "file": "debates1946-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "33127028029bcfb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Major Peter Roberts (Sheffield, Ecclesall)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Peter Roberts (Sheffield, Ecclesall)", "preceding_text": "he Ruling which we have just had, I shall be in Order because I wish to delete it from the Financial Resolution. I do so to draw attention to the tactics of the Socialist Government in trying to put over their Socialist nationalisation theories. In the past, the idea of State ownership has been advocated by the theorists on the other side. It has had very little appeal to the masses of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-02a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-03", "file": "debates1946-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c493d139733bff0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-03a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser (Lonsdale):", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser (Lonsdale):", "preceding_text": "I want to make a few brief observations. The hon. Member for Walsall (Mr. W. Wells) has said that the Army needs telling what the position is, but I do not think that is true. I think they understand it very well, and that they realise that a great many of them voted for the wrong chaps. As a matter of fact, I have hardly been able to find an ex-Serviceman who will admit which way he voted——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-03a.482.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-03", "file": "debates1946-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c493d139733bff0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-03a.510.2", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member:", "cue_text": "Tell us what it means.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Joynson-Hicks (Chichester):", "preceding_text": "opened this Debate has touched a responsive chord with regard to this employment policy. I wondered as I sat here looking across at the right hon. Gentleman opposite, rapt as he seemed to be in Socialistic contemplation, whether, with his inward eye, he was looking up at the wall behind in the front of the Press Gallery and seeing written thereon those historic words \"Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-03a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-03", "file": "debates1946-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "c493d139733bff0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-03a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Isaacs):", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not an export industry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Isaacs):", "preceding_text": " see more paper, because I want to see more men getting work. But these printing firms have taken every one of their men back. It has been said that they ought to count among the unemployed, but do not tell one of my fellows, earning a nice wage for doing half a day's work each week, that he ought to be counted as unemployed. In the Cockney's language, he thinks that he is on Tom Tiddler's ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-03a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.553.10", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "eve in free private enterprise competition in civil aviation, equally I invite them to admit that they do not do so, and to say that they reject that policy. It seems to me to be clear that if we were to allow public air transportation services to be run by just anybody, we would have an economically impossible situation in the air, plenty of accidents, and all sorts of complications and troubles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.553.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.553.10", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"America.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "taff and airports, it seems to me that nobody would get a living out of it. Are the free competitors to get their hands into the public Treasury by way of subsidy, or are they not? If there are to be a vast number of people flying about under free competitive enterprise, as used to be the case with the buses in London, it seems to me that that would be conducive to lack of safety and to accidents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.553.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "hosen instrument which would be given privileges, which would be given the chance to become a monopoly, but which would be free of State regulation and control? Let the Opposition answer whether they advocate that. If they do, they will have to meet the point that it would fasten upon the air travelling public a vast private capitalist monopoly without any State regulation, supervision or control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "d in view of the fact that there must be subsidies of some sub- stance, why ever should we go out of our way artificially to manufacture a hotch potch and muddle of mixed up private enterprise or monopoly business under State regulation, in which we get the maximum of trouble? Why should we artificially do that, unnaturally do it, merely for the satisfaction of doctrinaire and dogmatic principles?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "n to do the same thing for a private concern. Parliament itself will be more considerate in the extension of subsidies to concerns which are conducted in the public interest and not for private profit than they would be in putting the subsidies into a private concern. Moreover, it is exceedingly desirable that, as time goes on, these subsidies should taper off. We are not giving subsidies for fun—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why three corporations?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " there is an Amendment down, fathered by the Front Opposition Bench, which is well on the road in this direction. It is true, therefore, that the Minister is in a position to give directions, and surely that must be so, particularly when we remember that public subsidies out of the Exchequer are required. We believe that by this method of a public corporation we get the advantages of both systems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd (Mid-Bedford)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd (Mid-Bedford)", "preceding_text": " many weeks to decide what they intend to do, so that we who are interested in civil aviation have little with which to quarrel. The right hon. Gentleman threw out a number of gibes to which I will refer in their proper place in my speech. He appeared completely to have forgotten the many pioneers whom this country has produced, who, in fact, in face of Government indifference and also hostility——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd (Mid-Bedford)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tory Governments.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd (Mid-Bedford)", "preceding_text": "interested in civil aviation have little with which to quarrel. The right hon. Gentleman threw out a number of gibes to which I will refer in their proper place in my speech. He appeared completely to have forgotten the many pioneers whom this country has produced, who, in fact, in face of Government indifference and also hostility——[HON. MEMBERS: \"Which Government?\"] All Governments, all parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.656.1", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Niall Macpherson (Dumfries)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Niall Macpherson (Dumfries)", "preceding_text": "ortest and most direct route from America to North Europe. It seems extraordinary and paradoxical that this Government, which have been doing their best to cripple London as a financial, insurance, and commercial centre, should now want to make London an international focal air point. Are they not doing it from the point of view of people wanting to come to London? But who wants to come to London?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Wavell Wakefield (St. Marylebone)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Is that how we won the war? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Wavell Wakefield (St. Marylebone)", "preceding_text": "ury clerk who has never flown in his life except in the flights of his imagination on his way between London and Surbiton. We know the conferences held on the design of aircraft, the discussion on what colour the inside of the aircraft shall be, and whether the wash basin shall be on the left or the right. We have them making these balanced judgments without any responsibility for profit and loss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.679.2", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "points used by the hon. Member who moved the Amendment. Why does the hon. and gallant Gentleman object to that? I was taking up the point that the hon. Member who opened for the Opposition expressed very strong objections to according fifth freedom rights to third parties. Surely, it is legitimate to answer him in the very terms he used. The hon. Gentleman referred to a friendly enough Power—Eire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.679.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Hutchison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Hutchison", "preceding_text": ". They will find the words \"the Minister may,\" \"the Minister shall,\" \"as the Minister will determine.\" They will find them twice in Clause I, twice in Clause 2, once in Clause 4, twice in Clause 5, once in Clause 6, and in Clause 7 there is a slight change of the, dramatis personæ , because the Treasury twice steps in. So the Minister gives place to his colleague, Nervo gives place to Knox.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis (Edinburgh, North)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And unremunerative.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis (Edinburgh, North)", "preceding_text": " which we have heard from Members opposite—an adequate and efficient air-transport service in Scotland, we have to face the fact that a number of the services will be unremunerative. This has already happened in the case of the railways, and services are closed for that reason. I cannot see that private enterprise can give the people what they want, namely, a cheap, efficient and adequate service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.689.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is an English company.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Hutchison", "preceding_text": "May I ask the hon. Member if he ever heard of the firm of Blackburn's at Dumbarton?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.694.7", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Soup.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ther Scottish Member. I know what people in Scotland will be thinking. Hon Members opposite representing Scottish constituences have put their Socialist doctrinaire fanaticism and the Party Whip before Scotland. They have sold Scotland and Scotland's birthright for a mess of Socialist pottage, and if pottage means pottage—soup—they have put Scotland in the soup by doing so. What does Scotland get?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.694.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "preceding_text": "eir lives improving Scotland's civil aviation, but they have not the slightest hope under this Bill. Instead they will go abroad and find employment where initiative and enterprise are encouraged and not confined at every possible turn. In my opinion Scotland's hopes and aspirations are finally shattered by this Bill. It is a tragic day for Scotland that that should be so. What does Scotland want?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.696.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.697.6", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I do not think the point is in the least relevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.697.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.700.3", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Another brother? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "eople who invested the money in this concern did not help in some way as pioneer enterprises in aviation in Scotland, but the £100,000 capital is now in the control of four individuals. They are going to get the profits from the hotels. The leading shareholder is a noble Lord, a Duke, who has 43,545 shares in this company. There is the brother with 30,045 shares. There is another one with 25,910 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.701.2", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan (Perth and Kinross, Perth)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Look behind you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan (Perth and Kinross, Perth)", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to enter into the argument of the advantage or otherwise of private enterprise or State enterprise. It has been well thrashed out by more able persons than myself and by some who are not quite so able.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.701.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.701.2", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan (Perth and Kinross, Perth)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan (Perth and Kinross, Perth)", "preceding_text": "panies were amalgamated into four big companies. Great concern was expressed in both Houses of Parliament by Scottish Members as to what would happen to Scottish interests and industries in connection with the railways. We know the result has been that there is not one line of electric railway existing overland in Scotland today while every little station in Surrey and Sussex has been electrified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.701.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "ave seen what happens in regard to advisory committees in the hydro-electric scheme. They are brushed aside as if they did not exist. Is there any safeguard against that happening in connection with civil aviation? I have grave doubts about that and about this central London control. If a Conservative or Coalition Government had put forward these proposals I would have said exactly the same thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex. Anderson (Motherwell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex. Anderson (Motherwell)", "preceding_text": "mber for Central Glasgow (Colonel Hutchison) I feel that I ought to apologise to the House for dealing with purely the Scottish angle, when the universe in which we live has shrunk to a microcosm as a result of the coming of the aeroplane. Yet there are hon. Members opposite—Scottish Members—who can do nothing today but talk the rankest parochialism. I apologise for talking so much about Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith (Glasgow, Pollok)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where was Scotland then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith (Glasgow, Pollok)", "preceding_text": "e experienced in the operation of commercial aircraft and with all those other interests which have to be coordinated with civil aviation, the steamship companies, the railway companies and the travel agencies. Those plans could have been put into operation last autumn, to the great advantage of our country and to the convenience of many of our people. They gave freedom to managements, they gave —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith (Glasgow, Pollok)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith (Glasgow, Pollok)", "preceding_text": "y companies and the travel agencies. Those plans could have been put into operation last autumn, to the great advantage of our country and to the convenience of many of our people. They gave freedom to managements, they gave —[An HON. MEMBER: \"Where was Scotland then?\"]—Scotland was doing very well under the promise received from the last Government, which was overturned by the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "If I may respectfully say so, Mr. Speaker, I entirely agree with what you have said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.716.6", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation (Mr. Ivor Thomas)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"How about the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation (Mr. Ivor Thomas)", "preceding_text": "alise civil aviation, the end is not yet.\" I am glad to see that, for the first time this evening, I have succeeded in arousing the Opposition to an appreciation of our true position. I think it will be convenient if I deal first with as many as possible of the detailed points which have been raised in the Debate, then say a few words about the Scottish question, and finally turn to the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.716.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.723.0", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas", "preceding_text": "t and travel on. I find it just as easy to fly to Paris as I do to my constituency. I would like to say a few words here on the Scottish question. It would not have been necessary perhaps to do so if it had not been for the speech of the hon. and gallant Member for East Renfrew (Major Lloyd). I thought until he spoke that the House was well satisfied with the statement made by my right hon. Friend", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.723.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.723.0", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas", "preceding_text": "d be no omission, in the case of any particular service, of those safeguards which Ministerial responsibility alone provides. Things have come to a pretty pass when hon. Members opposite wish to do away with the rights of Parliament, and it is left for Ministers of the Crown to stand up at this Box for the right of private Members to question Ministers on any subject. My time is drawing to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.723.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.738.3", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for North Hammersmith (Mr. Pritt) can work it out. We are asked to give the Government this enormous sum spread over a considerable time. We have not the Chancellor of the Exchequer here. No one has given the slightest reason of any sort why we should be expected to vote in favour of giving this sum of money. The Government treat the Opposition with contempt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.738.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.747.2", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "han I had ever expected to get out of him. I would like also to point out to the Government that I shall have the greatest pleasure, in due course, in showing the people that all the Government think the taxpayers ought to know, when dealing with an important matter of this kind, is that \"certain consultations have taken place \"—no reasons are given why all this money is demanded or anything else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.747.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-06", "file": "debates1946-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "74827a66068123fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.748.0", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Major Cecil Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Cecil Poole", "preceding_text": "I shall not detain the Committee long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-06a.748.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-08", "file": "debates1946-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "d35bcfa82d159e00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-08a.1080.3", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It may be the county council.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "The local authority of the area in which the new town is situated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-08a.1080.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-08", "file": "debates1946-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "d35bcfa82d159e00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-08a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hitler was to blame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "preceding_text": " that time I have in newspapers and on the platform strongly urged that this thing should take shape. Sometimes it would appear there was hope of something emanating. The Barlow Commission was set up, and after it had presented its report we had the Uthwatt and the Scott Commissions, but nothing whatever was done and hon. Members opposite knew who was to blame for that ineptitude and that inertia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-08a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-08", "file": "debates1946-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "d35bcfa82d159e00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-08a.1128.6", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "hat nowhere will this first instalment—and I want hon. Members to know that it is only a first instalment—of the present Government's planning legislation be of more immediate practical application than in Scotland. We in Scotland know—and our knowledge is based on the bitter and disillusioning experiences of the inter-war years—that our two big priority problems are jobs and homes for our people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-08a.1128.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-08", "file": "debates1946-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "d35bcfa82d159e00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-08a.1131.1", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How will the right hon. Gentleman secure it under the Bill? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "sing and industrial congestion, and a similar need for housing and industrial overspill, arise in other towns in the region, such as Greenock and Clydebank. The immediate question with which the Clyde Valley committee were faced was: How can we best secure that the plans for meeting this tremendous need for redevelopment can be coordinated and integrated as a proper plan for the region as a whole?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-08a.1131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-08", "file": "debates1946-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "d35bcfa82d159e00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-08a.1131.1", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "a proper plan for the region as a whole? [An HON. MEMBER: \"How will the right hon. Gentleman secure it under the Bill? \"] I will get it by this dual Bill. I can assure hon. Members that there will be a most lively competition between the Minister of Town and Country Planning in England, and the Secretary of State for Scotland, as to who will get the best out of the Measure and make the best of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-08a.1131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-08", "file": "debates1946-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "d35bcfa82d159e00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-08a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "for the immediate task of housing the people. For instance, it will take three years to provide the sewerage at Stevenage, and so that project is in no way a solution of the immediate problem. Nor must resources be unfairly diverted from other needs for these new towns. In rural Hertfordshire, the people have waited a long time for better housing, for amenities for piped water, sewerage, and so on", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-08a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-09", "file": "debates1946-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "de0edfad18264ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-09a.1246.1", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": " only in the case of a larger authority? It seems to me, and there may be Scotsmen present who agree, that this adjustment might with great advantage be used for some of the smaller authorities. I do not know, but it is a point which I feel bound to make owing to the lax attendance of the Scottish Socialist Members and the Members of the Communist Party. Someone should get up and put these points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-09a.1246.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-09", "file": "debates1946-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "de0edfad18264ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-09a.1248.2", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : Order", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "I do not think my hon. Friend the Member for Torquay (Mr. C. Williams) need make any apology for his incursion into a Debate on Scottish matters. For many years, he has taken a deep interest in Scottish matters and, indeed, he passes many weeks or months of the year North of the Tweed, and if any English Member has a right to participate in Scottish national Debates, I think it is my hon. Friend£", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-09a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-09", "file": "debates1946-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "de0edfad18264ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-09a.1266.0", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " cottages. One of them got a local builder to come along. The builder had bricks and he had permission to go ahead with the work. He had taken down the front of the house and had taken off the roof; he was putting on a new roof, when suddenly the freezing order came into effect, and the farmer and his wife are living in one little kitchen because the Government cannot see further than their noses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-09a.1266.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-09", "file": "debates1946-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "de0edfad18264ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-09a.1277.4", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members :Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "preceding_text": "Those Bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-09a.1277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-09", "file": "debates1946-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "de0edfad18264ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-09a.1297.0", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "utput of the Glasgow bricklayers went up more than 90 per man, almost 100 bricks per man. The organisation is employing nearly 800 bricklayers. By stirring up I have been able to get more bricks laid. Wherever one goes, the position turns upon that question. My view is that bricks are bound to be in short supply. I am trying to make arrangements and I want to get my English friends to help me out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-09a.1297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-09", "file": "debates1946-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "de0edfad18264ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-09a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GLASGOW CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Henderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Henderson", "preceding_text": "le this thing, this desire to develop and encourage the business instinct? Surely that is not a sufficient excuse for the Corporation to try to bring under control and direction the newsvendors of the City of Glasgow? It is an interference with the rights of the public that they should be told by the Corporation to whom they shall go, when they shall go, and where they shall go to buy their paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-09a.1308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-10", "file": "debates1946-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "eac3b96d5e8719bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-10a.1400.1", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND AUSTRIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "ld do it if the Americans did. By bread rationing in this country we could save 500,000 tons of food a year. If half the population of this country ate one ounce of bread less per day we should save 280,000 tons of food per year. Let hon. Members multiply it out for themselves. I got the calculation from my hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich (Mr. Stokes) and, therefore, it is bound to be accurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-10a.1400.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-10", "file": "debates1946-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "eac3b96d5e8719bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-10a.1404.0", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND AUSTRIA", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And in the canteens.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": " to other nations. We are responsible for the British zone and we have it in our power to remedy the food situation there. We ought to ask ourselves very seriously whether we are doing everything that we can in order to achieve that purpose. I believe there ought to be bread rationing in this country; that coupons ought to be surrendered in the rich restaurants when people go to have meals there——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-10a.1400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1512.0", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison:", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to continue unduly this somewhat acrimonious discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1512.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1514.6", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "Stock?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall:", "preceding_text": "Largely, of course, the advances will be made towards final compensation, and the Minister is empowered under Clause 18 (3), if the circumstances are such as to warrant it, to make advances towards the payment of final compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1514.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1523.0", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall:", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If he died before it was settled?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall:", "preceding_text": "nd there is no intention of including them. I do not think the question arises of the handing in of this stock in payment of Death Duties. There will be no question of a large block of transferable stock—because that is what it would be—in the hands of an individual, and companies do not die and pay Death Duties. If an individual were to die, by that time he would have received transferable stock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1523.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1523.5", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "That is right.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Bower (Harrow, West):", "preceding_text": "I only want to ask the Financial Secretary about one very small point. He said just now that paragraph (b) brings in other beneficial owners. It does not seem to me to do that at all, as I understand it; all it does is to say that the people who are entitled to compensation are now entitled to the additional compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1523.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1525.2", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Glanville (Consett):", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Glanville (Consett):", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. May I ask the Front Bench to impress upon our hon. Friends opposite that we are nationalising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1540.1", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "preceding_text": "Contradictions are not peculiar to the legal fraternity. There are laymen in the Committee who frequently contradict one another. We have got to make the best of a bad job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1540.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1547.0", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John R. Thomas (Dover):", "preceding_text": "There is a difference between the payment to be made under Clause 21 and the income accruing after two years. The hon. and gallant Member opposite suggested that people who went into the second year might get no income, but income will accrue, and will be eventually paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1546.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1547.7", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member:", "cue_text": "A gramophone record.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams:", "preceding_text": "eech go without saying how deeply I appreciate the fact that he has intervened in the Debate. After the complete lack of any form of coherence, I do appreciate the fact that he has come and given us a little light on the matter, and I only hope that, as the Government are so feeble on this matter, in future we shall have more help, which we shall all appreciate, from the back benchers behind them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1547.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1547.9", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member:", "cue_text": "Five thousand copies.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie:", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is it in Order for an hon. Member opposite to, compare the speech of my hon. Friend with a gramophone record?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1547.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1593.0", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart (Fife, East):", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It could not be any worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart (Fife, East):", "preceding_text": "those mistakes. In Clause 4 (5), he contemplates, in writing, that defects may be disclosed by the Board. We on this side of the Committee are quite certain that defects will be disclosed. I do not think the hon. Members on the Government side realise the fear that is caused to us here and, I think, to the country, by the prospect of a great new, absolute, national monopoly for this vital product.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1593.0", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart (Fife, East):", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart (Fife, East):", "preceding_text": "ne went to another. Now we shall take the coal only at the dictate of the Minister of Fuel and Power and that is, as I have said, a new and absolute national monopoly. That being so, it is vital that we should establish, here and now, the principle that against such a complete monoply the safeguards for the consumers should be the fullest possible. That is the stand a Liberal takes on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1593.0", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart (Fife, East):", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart (Fife, East):", "preceding_text": "ainst such a complete monoply the safeguards for the consumers should be the fullest possible. That is the stand a Liberal takes on this matter. [ Laughter .] Let it be noted by the country tomorrow that when one claims that the rights of the consumers shall be protected against the national monopoly the hon. Members on the Government benches laugh at him. If hon. Members are laughing at Liberals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1593.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1594.2", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart:", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members are referring to the comparatively small numbers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1595.5", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman:", "preceding_text": "In reply to that point of Order, I think that the right hon. Gentleman will agree that the interjections and remarks were of a good humoured nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1595.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1595.6", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn:", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn:", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, and in perfect good humour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1595.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1606.2", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "preceding_text": "ed by the Bill as it stands. Certain provision was made in the original draft, but it did not go as far as was intended. The next Amendment provides for the automatic transfer, under Part 1, of such colliery assets as workshops, lamprooms, ventilating and heating plants, gangways, footbridges and colliery offices. These assets must be transferred if we are to comply with the intention of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1606.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1622.0", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "preceding_text": " compensation, which was to produce more coal. I understand that that is the primary purpose of hon. Members opposite, so that compensation is a secondary consideration—at least, that is what I understood, although now I am not quite so sure. The fact is that we are concerned about compensation. Hon. Members opposite may hope for the worst—that is quite natural—but we shall get the coal all right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1622.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1624.1", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "preceding_text": "We will come to that point. I understand that the hon. Member for Chippenham (Mr. Eccles) is concerned about the shareholders. Very well. It is clear that the shareholder can convert from stock into cash. That is settled. The shareholder may not wish to convert into cash. He will be the recipient of Government stock at a rate of interest to be determined—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1624.1", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "preceding_text": "he opinion of the Treasury, that is a reasonable thing to do. After all, the Treasury is concerned with the national economy, and has to consider, in conjunction with other Government Departments, the question of priority. They have to consider whether it is desirable to embark upon this or that business or whether it is desirable to exercise some kind of organisation, and, therefore, of priority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1624.1", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "preceding_text": "y have to consider whether it is desirable to embark upon this or that business or whether it is desirable to exercise some kind of organisation, and, therefore, of priority. [ Interruption .] If the colliery undertaking with the consent of the shareholders does decide to engage in some other form of industrial activity, it can do so. There is nothing to prevent it. The Clause enables it so to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1625.2", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "preceding_text": ". Members opposite have spoken about the non-transferable stock. There is no such thing. Stock, in certain circumstances, is all transferable. In those circumstances I am bound to say that I cannot appreciate the arguments of hon. Members opposite that there is no substance in the Clause. I know that hon. Members have not opposed the Clause. So far as I can understand, it is accepted in principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1625.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1625.2", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "preceding_text": "ircumstances I am bound to say that I cannot appreciate the arguments of hon. Members opposite that there is no substance in the Clause. I know that hon. Members have not opposed the Clause. So far as I can understand, it is accepted in principle. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I did not detect in the arguments adduced by hon. Members on the other side any hostility to the principle embodied in the Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1625.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1626.0", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan:", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan:", "preceding_text": "f stubborn obstinacy. It may be that the real purpose is to force these particular concerns into not voluntary but compulsory liquidation, because the Government do not wish large and powerful enterprises, which have many other undertakings besides colliery undertakings, to remain in being. They do not wish these \"rocks of hope\" to remain after the wreckage and misery the Control Board will bring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1640.2", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions (Mr. Wilfred Paling):", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes we did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions (Mr. Wilfred Paling):", "preceding_text": "s side of the House. I admit frankly that we cannot have that. This question of \"fit for service, fit for pension\" has been discussed and considered in the utmost detail and with the utmost care by the last two Governments. When this Government came in and I was made Minister of Pensions, I was given certain powers. Many Members asked for a Select Committee, but we did not want a Select Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1640.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1640.4", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Palinǵ:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We can produce proofs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Palinǵ:", "preceding_text": "That is an easy remark to make, but it is much more difficult to prove it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1640.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1640.4", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Palinǵ:", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Palinǵ:", "preceding_text": "pt in order to rebut an appellant's claim except medical evidence. We now get the finest medical evidence in the country. We are not interested in turning down men's claims. We discuss and decide each claim fairly on the evidence before us, and if the man is not satisfied he can go to a tribunal. If they turn him down he can go to a High Court judge on a point of law if he obtains leave to appeal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1640.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1640.4", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Palinǵ:", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Palinǵ:", "preceding_text": "nals were set up which had nothing whatever to do with the Ministry. Each tribunal had as chairman a barrister, it had a doctor, and it had a layman who knew the appellant's side. This applied to men and women, for both were affected. The committee was entirely independent. These again went into the question and came to a decision. Then the man could go to the High Court if he had leave to appeal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1640.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1642.1", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paling:", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much does he have to pay?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paling:", "preceding_text": "in which a man went to a tribunal we had to put down in précis form every scrap of evidence for and against the man that we knew. We have to send it to him for his consideration so that he can make any objection, and send in any amendment he thinks fit. After 28 days it can go to the tribunal. We are compelled by law to state everything, and we do so. After that he can go to the High Court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-13", "file": "debates1946-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "00fa2e940385c5ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1642.3", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paling:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paling:", "preceding_text": "case demanded that a man should have a pension, but because we did not present the detailed evidence in the way in which we ought. If those cases were to go before a judge it is by no means certain that they would get through. If a certain judge gives a decision or lays down a principle, as Mr. Justice Denning has done, does that mean that every case that has gone previously has to be re-examined?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-13a.1642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1707.1", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan:", "preceding_text": "This trade union of mine managers, this association, can be freely insulted by the head of the industry because they are not members of the T.U.C., because they are not Socialist candidates and because they are not part of this tremendous machine which has brought the Minister and his friends into power. The Colliery Managers Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1707.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1710.2", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman interjects to say that I was fortunate on the particular occasion I have in mind. That may well be. But I did emerge unscathed. I might not have emerged in that fashion. At any rate, I had the courage to take a chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1711.6", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "preceding_text": "It is perhaps a little awkward that this matter has arisen, but if the right hon. Member for Bromley (Mr. Macmillan) had not evinced in this matter a little malice, and then, reclining in his seat, expect that I should stand at this Box and be contrite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1711.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1712.1", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "preceding_text": ". Member for Bromley said in connection with my observations about colliery managers. I have the highest regard for them as technicians—I believe British mining engineers are the best in the world—but it is my opinion, in a constituency where the great majority of the people are mine workers and the wives of mine workers, that it was a little impudent on the part of the local colliery manager to——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1714.1", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "preceding_text": "ve expressed. The Prime Minister understood that as such, and it was, therefore, unnecessary to castigate me, or question me on the speech. As for the Trades Union Congress or Sir Walter Citrine \"putting me on the carpet\"—well, I have not got to that stage as yet. Of course, you never can tell. All I have to say about the proposed Clause is that it is unnecessary, irrelevant, and must be rejected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1714.1", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "preceding_text": "Citrine \"putting me on the carpet\"—well, I have not got to that stage as yet. Of course, you never can tell. All I have to say about the proposed Clause is that it is unnecessary, irrelevant, and must be rejected. [ Interruption. ] I mean that it is irrelevant to the Bill. If this Clause were accepted by the Government, it would not produce an ounce of coal, and I am concerned with producing coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1715.6", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings:", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings:", "preceding_text": "emember this: There are good technicians, and good colliery managers among Conservatives, and these people are asked to work together; but how can they, when their chief looks frowningly and with disdain on any of them who seek election to local government bodies? Does not that create in their mind a feeling that they may be penalised, in some way, by the Minister who is going to run the industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1715.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1715.6", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings:", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings:", "preceding_text": "ho is going to run the industry? [ Laughter. ] The Minister may laugh, but he has expressed that view, and an atmosphere of resentment will remain in the minds of these people until he withdraws it. The Minister may say that output has gone up in County Durham; but he may get it down again by some of his speeches. We in this House are here to protect the rights and liberties of the people outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1715.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1718.0", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss:", "preceding_text": "tly, in one of the few relevant and serious things in his speech, he so far disagrees with Tories that he thinks none of them ought to exist in the county of Durham. If that is his genuine view—I hope he would not deceive the House in the matter—what is there to stop him giving a direction, under Clause 3 of the Bill, that the Board should prohibit its employees from standing in the Tory interest?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1719.1", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss:", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was a good one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss:", "preceding_text": "That matter has not the slightest relevance to the new Clause. I am attacking the Minister for the speech which he made this afternoon, and not for his appointments to the Coal Board. If I wished to attack him on that, I would certainly give reasons. I am attacking him for his speech this afternoon, which is the most disgraceful speech that has been heard from a Minister of the Crown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1720.3", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-upon-Thames):", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-upon-Thames):", "preceding_text": "ts, and those of us who take a contrary view. I would point out that not only is there a double risk of managerial direction as the Bill now stands, but there is also the possibility that the Minister's place may one day be filled by a Member not so conciliatory, impartial or reasonable as the right hon. Gentleman. Indeed one day it might be filled by the hon. Member for West Fife (Mr. Gallacher)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1720.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1729.1", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes:", "preceding_text": " that it seems to me astounding that a Minister of the Crown should apparently take the opportunity of glorying in an incident which, if followed by other Members of this House, would destroy democracy within a fortnight. Once the fisticuffs come in and the words stop, democracy is dead. I should have preferred to forget that incident, but when the right hon. Gentleman trotted it out this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1733.2", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn:", "preceding_text": "was consulting the Attorney-General upon a matter on which the Attorney-General is presumably of the highest professional competence and a matter in which I have no professional competence, and I think, quite honestly, that I and the House were entitled to expect a direct answer. We did not get a direct answer. I leave that matter to the judgment of the House and the Attorney-General's profession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1733.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1734.0", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn:", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn:", "preceding_text": "of correcting the Bill but what I do say without any fear of contradiction is that, if that is the effect, and we have been told that is the effect as the Bill stands, then there is an immediate duty on His Majesty's Government to tell us how they propose to avoid that. If not, it is evident that they are endeavouring to take this immense measure with the comparatively short discussion it has had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1734.0", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn:", "preceding_text": "n told that is the effect as the Bill stands, then there is an immediate duty on His Majesty's Government to tell us how they propose to avoid that. If not, it is evident that they are endeavouring to take this immense measure with the comparatively short discussion it has had—[ Interruption ]—as the Attorney-General would know if he had sat in this House before or read the history of his country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1734.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1738.1", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "School teachers.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General:", "preceding_text": "In many contracts there is a provision, as hon. Members well know—and the right hon. and gallant Gentleman ought to know best of all because he had so much experience in the late but not lamented Government—that in the event of the employee getting married, he will vacate his office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1750.2", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher:", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher:", "preceding_text": "in this matter. I do not like the proposed new Clause. I know that the miners are paying a political levy in order to get rid of the landowners and capitalists in this country, but we often get churches presenting a form of teaching that used to be very common, though they are rather more discreet and not so open about it now. It was about \"the rich man in his castle and the poor man at the gate.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1750.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1782.0", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft (Monmouth):", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft (Monmouth):", "preceding_text": "unts of coal and the same quality, then they ought to be charged the same price for the product which they are sold. I want to emphasise that this provision is necessary in the Bill. If you have a system of private enterprise in which, if you are dissatisfied with one producer, you can go to another, then you have a very ready safeguard in your own hands. I mean private enterprise in the old sense", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1782.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1783.0", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "Since when?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft (Monmouth):", "preceding_text": "ision is necessary in the Bill. If you have a system of private enterprise in which, if you are dissatisfied with one producer, you can go to another, then you have a very ready safeguard in your own hands. I mean private enterprise in the old sense [An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"] I saw in a section of the Beaverbrook Press this evening, which is always a little favourable to hon. Members opposite——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1782.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1785.0", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings:", "preceding_text": "I wish to say a few words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1785.0", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings:", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings:", "preceding_text": ", we on these Benches are trying carefully to see that the best is being done with this Bill, and that the consumer is getting a fair deal. There is one aspect which will present some difficulty to the Minister if he does not accept this Amendment. A section of the coke oven plants is being taken over under this Bill, while others are not. Those plants which are to be taken over will produce coke.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1788.1", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell:", "preceding_text": "ere discrimination is clearly desirable—between ships on occasion and between steelworks on occasion. 9.15 p.m. Let us take the case of exports. The hon. Member for Chippenham took the view that any discrimination in the case of charging a higher price for exports than in the case of coal sold in the home market would conflict with the proposals put forward by the Americans, in Command Paper 6709.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1791.1", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss:", "preceding_text": "actories were Liberals, unless there is something against discrimination, it would apparently be perfectly legal to sell at a cheaper price to one of those who support the hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Montgomery (Mr. C. Davies) and invariably agree with the Government and to charge a more expensive price to those who hold different political views and take their duties more seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1791.1", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss:", "preceding_text": " to sell at a cheaper price to one of those who support the hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Montgomery (Mr. C. Davies) and invariably agree with the Government and to charge a more expensive price to those who hold different political views and take their duties more seriously. [ Interruption. ] I am sorry the hon. Member opposite did not hear me. I will endeavour to make myself audible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss:", "preceding_text": "Until the hon. Member for West Fife can introduce a totalitarian system in this country, he will, no doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss:", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss:", "preceding_text": "Until the hon. Member for West Fife can introduce a totalitarian system in this country, he will, no doubt—[ Interruption. ]. I do not think hon. Members opposite are going to find it so easy to put me off as they think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss:", "preceding_text": "rnment are in favour of such discrimination, and if they have, indeed, made up their minds, that they should reveal to us on what principles they propose to exercise that discrimination. For instance, if there were two rival manufacturers, one a cooperative society and one a private enterprise, would they, or would they not, think it justifiable to sell at a lower price to the cooperative society?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1794.1", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss:", "preceding_text": "etail consumer unless the retail industry were nationalised. What would be the good of that if, when the wholesale side of the business is nationalised, discrimination is allowed? That example was very much against the Parliamentary Secretary. Indeed, I thought his whole speech indicated that he had expected that one of his colleagues would make the speech. I do not desire to delay the House long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1795.0", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank:", "preceding_text": "k I overheard—though, perhaps, I was not meant to—a whisper from the Attorney-General, that this point was, in fact, covered by the provision in Clause I (I, c ), where it is laid down that a duty of the Board shall be to make supplies of coal available in such quantities—and, as we now put it, in such qualities—and at such prices as may seem to them best calculated to further the public interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1795.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1798.4", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He does not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank:", "preceding_text": "antastic that this sort of thing can happen, and it can happen under this Bill as at present drawn. Let the right hon. Gentleman swallow his pride and accept this. He has not been very agreeable in accepting our Amendments up to now, but if the words are really too much and stick in his throat in the swallowing process, let him say that he will accept the principle, and that he thinks it is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1798.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1808.0", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-upon-Thames):", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-upon-Thames):", "preceding_text": "rd with these powers, he will meet trouble in two ways. First, the functions of the Board will be extended so widely that inefficiency will become more inefficient by reason of the vast scope of its activities. Secondly, he is going to involve himself in a further difficulty. It is, I understand, the intention of this Government to nationalise large numbers of industries specified and unspecified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1808.0", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-upon-Thames):", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-upon-Thames):", "preceding_text": "Board, under the direction of the right hon. Gentleman being entitled to interfere in the same activities as other nationalised industries, the possibilities of confusion and chaos are much increased and the right hon. Gentleman may well find himself involved in a series of frontier disputes with his colleagues, some of whom may be very nearly as truculent as himself. No argument has been adduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1810.0", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Bower (Harrow, West):", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Bower (Harrow, West):", "preceding_text": " in addition to coal mines, but the Board is also to have power to produce or manufacture any goods or utilities which are required in connection not only with coal mining but also of the other ancillary activities which it has the power to carry on. That seems to open up unlimited possibilities in the field of production. There is no limit to the utilities which the Board will be able to produce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1817.1", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall:", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No, no\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall:", "preceding_text": "By the leave of the House, I will quite briefly answer what has been said. I did not go into great detail, as the hour is getting late—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1823.1", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "preceding_text": "I am replying to the hon. and gallant Member for Fylde, who raised the question of the maintenance of coal output. I think the hon. and gallant Member for Forfar (Major Ramsay), who is rather infantile, would no doubt agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1823.1", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "preceding_text": "I am replying to the hon. and gallant Member for Fylde, who raised the question of the maintenance of coal output. I think the hon. and gallant Member for Forfar (Major Ramsay), who is rather infantile, would no doubt agree. [ Interruption. ] The hon. and gallant Member should not interrupt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1823.1", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "preceding_text": "s for that fact. There is a still more encouraging sign. No doubt the hon. and gallant Member for Fylde is fully aware of the fact that immediately after a holiday period there is normally a decline in coal output. For the first time for a good many years, we discovered after the Easter holidays that instead of coal output declining, it has actually gone up although the manpower has not increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1823.1", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "preceding_text": "nce with British industry during the next winter. We shall do all we possibly can to prevent that, but we are operating at a time when coal consumption for industrial purposes is rising rapidly. In March this year, coal consumption for industrial purposes was higher on the average than at any time during the war period. In those circumstances, we must exercise great care. As regards the Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1823.1", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Amendment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "preceding_text": " prevent that, but we are operating at a time when coal consumption for industrial purposes is rising rapidly. In March this year, coal consumption for industrial purposes was higher on the average than at any time during the war period. In those circumstances, we must exercise great care. As regards the Amendment—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] But surely hon. Members are interested in coal output?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1825.0", "colnum": "1825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank:", "preceding_text": "\"infantile.\" After all, my hon. and gallant Friend served throughout the war, in which he was decorated. He went to the war in 1939, and the only conceivable sense in which that adjective could be used is that he is 3o years younger than the Minister, which is his very good fortune. If it had not been for many like him, we would not be here today sitting discussing the future of the coal industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1825.3", "colnum": "1825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank:", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank:", "preceding_text": " be satisfied, within limits at any rate, about what was going to be done and what the Minister was going to direct. However, as I have said, the value of the Amendment has practically gone and I do not think there is any great point in pressing the matter. We have had some consoling information. I hope that the good news, such as it is, is going to last, and that it is not something in early May—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1825.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-14", "file": "debates1946-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "d3250eddb326b8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1832.1", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan:", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is all there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan:", "preceding_text": "businesses, I think we shall have a very bad result. Therefore I hope the Minister will, in his own interest, think again whether he will not accept this Amendment, or promote it in another place in some other form, so as to make clear to the public that this enterprise upon which we are now to embark will be fairly judged, and that full information as to all its activities will be made available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-14a.1832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-15", "file": "debates1946-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f83a307114bd36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.1950.0", "colnum": "1950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blyton:", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blyton:", "preceding_text": "rgued that the profits of the ancillary industries should be brought into the mining industry at least to ensure the men employed in the industry a decent standard of existence. Many of the mines are in an inefficient state, as those who have worked in them know. The Minister will find that, until he gets his long-term policy and his haulage loads, he may show a loss if the accounts are separated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.1950.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-15", "file": "debates1946-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f83a307114bd36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.1955.1", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " as unsatisfactory. Clause 29 says: (I) The Board shall keep proper accounts and other records…and shall prepare in respect of each financial year of the Board a statement of accounts in such form as the Minister may direct. Hon. Members opposite may say—it seemed to me implied in what was argued by them—that the present Minister is not a competent person to direct the Board in this regard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.1955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-15", "file": "debates1946-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f83a307114bd36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.1969.2", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "irly summed up under three heads. He told the Committee that the object of Subsection (4) was simply to preserve, so far as the coal industry was concerned, the powers conferred by Defence Regulation 51 and 51A, in regard to opencast working. I am not concerned at this moment to dispute the desirability or otherwise of doing that thing. I am very glad to see the Solicitor-General now in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.1969.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-15", "file": "debates1946-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f83a307114bd36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.1970.2", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "d done me the courtesy of listening to my observations he would have appreciated that I was not making my speech at this point, but was reading an extract from the speech of the Solicitor-General during the Standing Committee proceedings. In addition to that, I am a little surprised that the hon. Member was not able at once to identify the rather peculiar literary style of the Solicitor-General. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.1970.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-15", "file": "debates1946-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f83a307114bd36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.1976.0", "colnum": "1976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank:", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank:", "preceding_text": "I shall have to think that one out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.1976.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-15", "file": "debates1946-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f83a307114bd36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.1981.1", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I must ask hon. Members to reject this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.1981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-15", "file": "debates1946-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f83a307114bd36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.1991.0", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank:", "preceding_text": "May I say what was said upstairs, as the Attorney-General was not in the Committee that day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.1991.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-15", "file": "debates1946-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f83a307114bd36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.1999.0", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Roberts", "preceding_text": "ch of the Attorney-General was entirely unconvincing. To talk of different periods of limitation in respect of different classes of action is irrelevant. This Clause is drawing a differential line, because of the nature of the Board. A fundamental principle is involved. The creation of such Boards will go on for a long time, if hon. Members opposite are correct in their forecasts about the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.1999.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-15", "file": "debates1946-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f83a307114bd36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2023.4", "colnum": "2023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings:", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are on the wrong line now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings:", "preceding_text": "There is a sample, and if the hon. Member for Consett (Mr. Glanville) believes that the figures are not correct, then I say he and his colleagues, who have paid the qualified accountants for certifying these figures, ought to have their brains examined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2023.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-15", "file": "debates1946-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f83a307114bd36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2024.3", "colnum": "2024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "preceding_text": " Government. It is our intention to operate the Bill in this fashion, and we believe it will be for the good not only of the coal mining industry but of the coke oven industry as well. Something has been said about the need for taking over the coke ovens because they were more flourishing and profitable than the colliery undertakings. The hon. Member for Hallam (Mr. Jennings) made that allegation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2024.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-15", "file": "debates1946-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f83a307114bd36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2028.2", "colnum": "2028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan:", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is a ninepins argument.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan:", "preceding_text": "I do my best, but sometimes I despair of getting Government business through this House. I have never seen a Bill so consistently obstructed both in Committee and on Report by its own supporters. I said that the second reason normally given, the human or psychological reason, breaks down. This has been a happy, contented, industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2028.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-15", "file": "debates1946-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f83a307114bd36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2028.2", "colnum": "2028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan:", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan:", "preceding_text": "ficiency has broken down, the point of psychology has broken down, and now the technical argument has broken down. Instead of drawing the industry under one control it is, in fact, divided between, at present, the Board and the private owners, and, I suppose, eventually, if the private owners are nationalised, between this Board and some other board which will operate another part of the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2028.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-15", "file": "debates1946-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f83a307114bd36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2036.0", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams:", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams:", "preceding_text": " to go in? I believe that there is, and I hope that whoever speaks for the Government will give us the Government's opinion on this. I turn to the question of Paragraph 12. The assets here to be transferred include houses and works. I should like to have an assurance that the Minister will not take over under this provision a house, say, owned by a retired collier whose only means of living it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2036.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-15", "file": "debates1946-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f83a307114bd36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2036.0", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams:", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams:", "preceding_text": "ons of that Ministry for any such undertaking. On all these points I ask whoever replies for the Government for elucidation. We should know the exact position. The Minister of Agriculture might be the person best able to deal with the last point which I have raised. This Schedule certainly gives the Government enormous power to take over a lot of things, and there should be some explanation of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2036.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-15", "file": "debates1946-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f83a307114bd36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2039.0", "colnum": "2039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell:", "preceding_text": "At this late hour, the right hon. Gentleman is becoming very high and mighty. He should realise, if it has not already dawned on him, that he is now on an Opposition Bench and not on the Government Bench which he adorned for so long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-15", "file": "debates1946-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f83a307114bd36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2048.2", "colnum": "2048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISH SALES (CHARGES) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson:", "cue_text": "AN. HON. MEMBER: \"It is a red herring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson:", "preceding_text": "ked to raise a much larger sum of money than we were raising up to now, the next question, logically, is what are the Government going to do with the money? With all respect, Mr. Speaker, if you rule that we cannot ask what is to happen to the money, I confess that I am sorry for the hon. Lady who is to reply, for I do not see how she can possibly justify the increase of the charge from 1d. to 1s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2048.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-15", "file": "debates1946-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f83a307114bd36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2053.1", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTED PEARS ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spence:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"But what about pears?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spence:", "preceding_text": "Well, I happened to be in the Baker Street district yesterday, and I walked passed a greengrocer's shop as I came here in the morning. In that shop I saw lettuces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-15", "file": "debates1946-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f83a307114bd36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2057.1", "colnum": "2057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTED PEARS ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "May I support my hon. Friend? I do not intend to mention the word \"pears,\" but it is fairly well understood that that is the subject under discussion. I do think that this Order is a very serious matter so far as Scotland is concerned. In fact, it is a typical example of the relegation to distant officialdom when that officialdom has very litttle interest with the far off areas we are discussing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-15", "file": "debates1946-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f83a307114bd36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2060.3", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTED PEARS ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill:", "preceding_text": " the Ministry of Food and these will be brought within the allocation system. The North of Scotland will receive more than many other parts of the country in order to compensate for the lack of home grown fruit. Therefore, when the Ministry imports its pears—and we shall import more than two or three hundred tons—Scotland will receive more favourable treatment than many other parts of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2060.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-15", "file": "debates1946-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f83a307114bd36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2062.7", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTED PEARS ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor:", "preceding_text": "roup classification of pears. I think we are entitled to an answer, because paragraph 7 (2) does place the onus on the buyer of this fruit to see that he or she does not buy pears contrary to the regulations laid down in the first Schedule. I would like to ask the hon. Lady whether she would withdraw that, and whether she would place the onus only on the seller of this fruit? Can I have an answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-15a.2062.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2139.2", "colnum": "2139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the public know that it is the continuing aim of the Chancellor to see that all wasteful expenditure is avoided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2139.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2154.0", "colnum": "2154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "a small corner of this thing, but it will show the kind of increase which is going on. The general figure given by these societies for horse racing before the war was £300 million. That again has probably gone up, and will go up. Taking what is called a conservative estimate—I do not know what that means precisely—I should put the total betting bill at between £400 million and £500 million a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2171.0", "colnum": "2171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "to Imperial Airways. Once we had control of an industry in that way we could begin to improve it by improving the board of directors. I hope I have not transgressed too much. In this House there is a very small minority who do not transgress. Today I have spoken primarily for the benefit of my colleagues. We on this side of the House have everything at stake. We have come into power with promises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2202.0", "colnum": "2202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "There is £500 million a year sitting on the doorstep and waiting to be picked up by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and he does not do anything about it. It surprises me. If I could get alongside him as Financial Secretary to the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2203.1", "colnum": "2203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBERS: \"What happened to the leaves?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Purchase Tax reminds me of a story of a famous Sultan who required funds wherewith to pay his armies who were engaged in fighting wars in far distant lands. He imposed a tax on fig trees. The result of imposing a tax on fig trees was that the farmers cut down all their fig trees except those which were sufficient to feed themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2205.0", "colnum": "2205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why lean benches?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The simple arithmetic of that is that £700 per acre, land which never had contributed a penny to the rates, was poured away into the pockets of the landowners. I do not illustrate this for the benefit of this side of the House, but for the benefit of the lean benches opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2209.1", "colnum": "2209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "sarily be a demand for increased wages. I just do not believe it. Let me give this example. Hon. Members opposite will know that the average family in this country smoke at least one packet of cigarettes per day, for which they pay 2s. 4d. If they were to smoke only 16, forgoing the extra four, I think the hon. Members opposite who belong to the medical profession would agree, if they were honest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2209.4", "colnum": "2209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "organisation. Wages are not the only factor in our cost of production. Therefore, it is wrong to say that if the people of this country were made to pay a proper price for their food the industrial position would thereby be injured. The farmers and the farmworkers remember 1921 and are frightened. I nearly said they were frightened stiff of the Chancellor, whom they regard as their greatest enemy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2209.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2210.3", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cut out the middlemen\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "at works out at £9 12S. for a skilled man or woman and 6s. for an unskilled one. I know it was a demand which was not granted, but how can we make appeals to people to come and work on the land for 52s. 0d. a week for women and 70s. 0d. for men when the industrial workers expect to get all that? How can we pay decent wages on the land unless we sell the fruits of the men's labour for a good price?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2210.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2210.3", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "2s. 0d. a week for women and 70s. 0d. for men when the industrial workers expect to get all that? How can we pay decent wages on the land unless we sell the fruits of the men's labour for a good price? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Cut out the middlemen\"] May I conclude with this appeal to the Chancellor, and in doing so give this example of unwise spending. The advertisements say, \"Guinness is good for you.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2210.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2216.2", "colnum": "2216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Fletcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only four marks for that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Fletcher", "preceding_text": "In the many Debates that we have had in this House recently on financial matters, the Chancellor has always referred to Karl Marx as his ultimate authority. That is only half the story, because this is a \"Marx & Spencer\" act, 75 per cent. of it being Marx, and 25 per cent. Herbert Spencer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2216.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2218.1", "colnum": "2218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Another very important point to which I want to refer is inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2221.3", "colnum": "2221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "Let me remind him that a Member of this House many years ago tried to tax land values. What was the result? After three or four years of expensive valuation of the country, the matter was turned down. It was realised, as a result of the famous Form 4, that the prairie land of this country is worth nothing at all and that the whole value of the land of the country has been created by the landlords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2221.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2223.3", "colnum": "2223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is no tax on potatoes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": " on food and £790 million on drink and tobacco. In my opinion, that is still pushing us further down the slope of inflation. There is another subsidy, that for potatoes, and in that case it would be no hardship to the consumers in this country to pay a little more for potatoes. At the present time, they can buy 14 lbs. of potatoes for the price of a pint of beer. That position seems rather absurd—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2234.5", "colnum": "2234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "It may have been the Labour Government which made the favourable proposals, but they did not do anything to fulfil those proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2234.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2235.1", "colnum": "2235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I want to say a word about the effects of this Finance Bill on the professional and managerial classes. My hon. Friend the Member for Bury (Mr. W. Fletcher) made some very good points about this. High rewards for skill are a great incentive in capitalist and in Communist countries. The Government show a dawning realisation of this fact. I do not know whether the Minister of Fuel is here or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2236.0", "colnum": "2236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ofessions, I could not do better than remind the Chancellor that there are disturbing signs that young men are seeking employment in other countries—young engineers, young scientists, young doctors, young managers, men absolutely essential to the life of this country. It may be said that in numbers they are not great, but they make a tremendous contribution to British life and to British industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2237.1", "colnum": "2237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "he punter's ideal of a useful statesman. They call him in the City of London \"the Casino Chancellor.\" Or perhaps I should say they did, until yesterday, but after the muddle the Chancellor created by the new issue of Savings Bonds, the gamblers are less happy about their hero. He has created more uncertainty in the gilt-edged market. Now even the Chancellor will understand this simple proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2237.1", "colnum": "2237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "st uncertainty in the gilt-edged market; to justify his policy he has told certain newspaper gentlemen that he wanted to give moral and financial castigation to the \"bulls\" in the City, who have been encouraged by his speeches in various parts of the country to believe that the stock market was going up and up. I only hope he will not encourage people on the Stock Exchange to speculate in futures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2246.0", "colnum": "2246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did that to stop inflation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " will, and will strive to and will be able to do all these things. We do not, however, admit that we have done nothing so far. In the two Budgets which I have introduced there have been very substantial reductions in taxes. What did Sir Austen Chamberlain do? In the two first Budgets which he introduced after the last war, there were embarrassing tax increases. That should be known and recognised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2248.1", "colnum": "2248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "Local rates vary a great deal, but, of course, I am only too happy to read out statistics to the House either now or at Question time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2249.5", "colnum": "2249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " difference between the level of the national credit now and what it was in Sir Austen Chamberlain's time at the end of the first world war. We were then on a 5⅜ per cent. basis. At that time 5 per cent. National War Bonds were being repaid at substantial premiums and were yielding £5 7s. per cent., 5⅜ per cent. That was under a Tory Government and Chancellor, at the end of that war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2249.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2251.6", "colnum": "2251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "I never presume to speak for anyone in this House except myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2251.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2253.2", "colnum": "2253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not invisible exports.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "rse. We are in favour of keeping these subsidies and in favour of protecting the poorest people of the land. The Tory Party are split down the middle, and right across, and I do not think they know where they are. They are a discordant horde. Reference has been made to exports, and to the handicap which high taxation was said to put on exports. I would like to say that exports are rising steadily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2253.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-16", "file": "debates1946-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "e4816608d25697bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2272.0", "colnum": "2272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATES OF HIRE OF PLANT (EXEMPTION) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "achinery for this very admirable purpose really the right machinery for it? The Parliamentary Secretary's final excuse for it, as it were, is to say that it would be rather a bore to have to go through and set up a new set of Orders or a new price list, and therefore it is really simpler to take this measure. It does not seem to me at first sight exactly calculated to achieve the results required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-16a.2271.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-20", "file": "debates1946-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a04459dbac94a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "In view of the general obscurity of this directive, will the Minister give an undertaking to the House that no war memorial in the British zone that was erected before the coming into power of the Nazis shall be destroyed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-20", "file": "debates1946-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a04459dbac94a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.37.3", "colnum": "37", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It makes sense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I do not understand my hon. Friend's point of view about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.37.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-20", "file": "debates1946-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a04459dbac94a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.38.2", "colnum": "38", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "It is not merely to satisfy the desires of the Opposition. Indeed, last week I showed no desire to satisfy the Opposition, if I recollect aright. It is really that the Foreign Secretary, who is now back, thinks it would be desirable to have a discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.38.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-20", "file": "debates1946-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a04459dbac94a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It was thrown out of balance long ago.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "uld be pleased about it. If we cannot finish the Report stage of the National Insurance Bill in two days, it is not a case of an Opposition Supply Day going; the chances are it is a Government day which will go, namely, one day next week, which means that the pressure of business up to Whitsuntide, which we are rapidly approaching, will be so great that our programme will be thrown out of balance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.38.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-20", "file": "debates1946-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a04459dbac94a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.39.7", "colnum": "39", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "This really must come to an end now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.39.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-20", "file": "debates1946-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a04459dbac94a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL (Mr. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I confess to a little surprise at there being any misunderstanding of my remarks. I considered that for the Report stage of the Coal Industry Nationalisation Bill I had been very generous in my selection of Amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-20", "file": "debates1946-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a04459dbac94a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"What do you expect them to be? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ubt, has great knowledge of the capacities of the persons concerned. But for my part, at any rate—and I know most of the people on the Board—I should say that they were a remarkably strong team. They include representatives of mining, engineering, coal marketing, administration, labour relations, science and accountancy. That is not a bad start, and I do not think that one can do better than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-20", "file": "debates1946-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a04459dbac94a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.55.3", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "erred to his policy for the industry and spoke of compulsory amalgamation. I will make only a passing reference to this. \"Compulsory amalgamation \"are words which have lulled the nation to sleep in the past—an excuse always put up for doing nothing about this industry. Take the matter back still further. In 1920 the Sankey Report unanimously—it was not the little bit signed by trade union leaders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.55.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-20", "file": "debates1946-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a04459dbac94a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Macpherson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense \"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Macpherson", "preceding_text": "ation. As the right hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Pembroke (Major Lloyd George) has said, great strides have already been made, and, even in the past, they were getting under way. So that claim cannot be made. Then, instead of a miner being an employee of some firm and being able to have direct contact, if necessary, with his employer, he now becomes an employee in a vast organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-20", "file": "debates1946-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a04459dbac94a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We hope so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "preceding_text": "I have dealt with the consumers; what of the miners employed in the mines? Is their position likely to be improved?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-20", "file": "debates1946-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a04459dbac94a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We know it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "preceding_text": "o speak eloquently for themselves. What will be the future of the National Union of Mineworkers, or other trade unions, under nationalisation? The miners will become servants of the Minister, through the Coal Board, and if and when wages disputes arise, negotiations will in fact, either directly or indirectly, be with the State. If they fail, what is the miners' remedy? Have they thought this out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-20", "file": "debates1946-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a04459dbac94a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": " the coal position today. I was glad to hear the hon. Member for Normanton (Mr. T. Smith) make one point which I thought was a very good one. He said there was a manpower problem in this industry. I should like to add, that there is an economic problem in the country. Hence I suggest that this is entirely the wrong time, when the country is fighting for its life, to bring in a Bill of this nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-20", "file": "debates1946-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a04459dbac94a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.108.0", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glanville", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glanville", "preceding_text": "If I use an antediluvian argument it is only because the coal-owners are antediluvian in their outlook and in this Bill we are modernising the industry. We come here with a new outlook on life. The men in the coalfields of this country will be highly pleased when they know that this Bill has gone on to the Statute Book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-20", "file": "debates1946-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a04459dbac94a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": " have not done so; but I have started at the bottom in my own profession. I know how important it is to be able to speak from personal experience. But I think that mining Members opposite at times overstate their case. Now that they have their Bill and their Labour Government they might try to broaden out and think a little less of the so-called bad years of the past. It may be that they were bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-20", "file": "debates1946-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a04459dbac94a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "d to secure those objectives, and, to make this examination, perhaps, like the Parliamentary Secretary, I might be allowed a short digression. In order to face the future, it is sometimes just worth while glancing at the past. Whatever may be said about the bad old days, the fact is that the coal industry, prior to the 1914–18 war, was by no means a black spot in the economy of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-20", "file": "debates1946-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a04459dbac94a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "cept that of belonging to the general body of citizens—a kind of \"pay as you earn\" share. To the men, the new owners will mean the Board. However gifted or eminent they may be, they will be more remote and more soulless than the old owners. Under the old system, especially in the smaller or medium sized undertaking, there was often a real personal relationship between owners, managers and workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.128.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-20", "file": "debates1946-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a04459dbac94a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.140.0", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell)", "preceding_text": "the Acting Leader of the Opposition, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Eden), as a \"frivolous piece of publicity.\"It was described by another hon. Member as \"very flimsy.\"It is regarded as \"objectionable,\" as \"authoritarian,\" as \"Inadequate,\" as \"vague and ill-defined,\" as a \"clumsy bludgeon;\" as a \"Socialist dream,\" said the hon. Member for Hallam (Mr. Jennings).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-20", "file": "debates1946-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "a04459dbac94a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY NATIONALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "of the Board. In any event, certain of these gentlemen have accepted our invitation to serve. They are now engaged on the task of ascertaining the facts in relation to regional organisation, about which I shall say something in a few moments. They have been formed into an organising committee, and they are as enthusiastic as one might expect them to be in the circumstances, in pursuit of that task", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-20a.143.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-21", "file": "debates1946-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4b01f43032835c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-21a.173.7", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I was, at any rate, a Deputy Regional Commissioner myself and I had to give many promises which I thought held at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-21a.173.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-21", "file": "debates1946-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4b01f43032835c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-21a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CABLE AND WIRELESS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No improvement? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " I am anxious to make a statement, because there has been a bit of propaganda done by those persons who are about to vacate their office on the appointed day. I say quite emphatically that the existing contracts of service of the employees will not be disturbed by the change of ownership. I am not speaking of the members of the board. The employees will not be disturbed; they will continue as now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-21a.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-21", "file": "debates1946-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4b01f43032835c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-21a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CABLE AND WIRELESS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "arly between different parts of the Empire, are most necessary, and that we should do what we can to bring them to the lowest level of prices that is feasible. I must say that the resistance of the company to price reductions seems to me to illustrate the restrictive outlook which we often find in private monopolies, in contrast to the policy of expansion which marks enlightened public enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-21a.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-21", "file": "debates1946-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4b01f43032835c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-21a.210.1", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CABLE AND WIRELESS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "steps in this matter. The Australian Government already contemplate legislation on this subject on similar lines to ourselves. The Government of India have given notice to the Indian Company that they are going to exercise their option to purchase in January, 1947. The New Zealand Government do not need further legislation, because telecommunications there have been a public service for some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-21a.210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-21", "file": "debates1946-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4b01f43032835c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-21a.222.1", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CABLE AND WIRELESS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have not been bombed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "American sates have been higher than those in this country, but they give a rather better service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-21a.222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-21", "file": "debates1946-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4b01f43032835c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-21a.225.2", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CABLE AND WIRELESS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Eccles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Back to the Post Office.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Eccles", "preceding_text": " ask why it did not happen, because if it is true, and I think it is, that inherent in monopoly is an inability to push forward technical development, it is something very serious. If that is inherent in monopoly, what guarantee have we that by exchanging a private monopoly or quasi-monopoly for a public monopoly we shall get rid of the faults which were manifest in the cables and wireless merger?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-21a.225.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-21", "file": "debates1946-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4b01f43032835c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-21a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CABLE AND WIRELESS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I should hardly have expected such a question, even from the hon. Gentleman. The reason, I should have thought, was clear. If notice had been given I would have been in a position to refresh my memory by looking up exactly what I did say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-21a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.305.6", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Would not very many of these difficulties be solved if the right hon. Gentleman were to use this force to take some of the weight off us in the duties we have to discharge on the Continent? Will he not consider that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.305.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Be serious \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "eat deal in that, but nowadays there are many more cards to be looked at than there used to be. I am sure that nine out of ten of us loathe looking at cards, and avoid doing so, unless we cannot possibly help it. I feel that when Government supporters move an Amendment in the way in which this has been moved, we should attach great weight to their proposal. Their action may have great significance", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (RECOMMITTED) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Henry Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Henry Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": "iderable to people who are earning only a very small amount of money, and I have also received complaints based on the fact that these contributors will not get any unemployment benefit. I am sorry the right hon. Gentleman has not been able to meet them on that matter. Although I know the difficulty, it seems to me that a contribution of 6s. 2d. a week, for which sickness benefit only is obtained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (RECOMMITTED) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "e, \"I do not remember saying that.\"They were in such a state of nervous excitement that they did not know what they were saying. I want this Bill to provide the utmost protection for the individual so that he obtains benefit if he is entitled to it. It must be proved that a person does not desire work. A man should be offered a job; if he is not given a job he has got to have unemployment benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (RECOMMITTED) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "utory right of insurance continues, and provided that his standard of living is maintained. To take away his statutory right and leave his payments to the discretion of the Minister on the recommendation of a tribunal whose workings we know nothing about, leaving it open to introduce all these anomalies, which may be changed some dav by some regulation, is unjustifiable. I cannot oppose Clause 62.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.424.3", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Provisions as to transfer and compensation of employees of approved societies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON. MEYBERS: Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "ed that they expected to take a number of them over. We know perfectly well that, during the transitional period, it is the right hon. Gentleman's intention to take over the present concern almost as it is and, then, at some later time, when it suits his convenience, to get rid of those who have borne the heat and burden of the day for 32 years. He will use them for an initial two or three years.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(National Employment Guidance Council and local employment guidance committees.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Fourteen million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "I agree, but the figures of unemployment in Germany rocketed to something like 6,000,000 and in this country to something like 3,000,000. I do not know what the American figures were but they were in the neighbourhood of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(National Employment Guidance Council and local employment guidance committees.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Without being elected.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " standard benefit, he can go to the Assistance Board and they can give benefit in cash. The alternative is that, when the standard benefit has been exhausted, the unemployed person will go to a new committee which it is proposed to set up and that committee will examine each case and will recommend what shall be paid and how it shall be paid. That is the public assistance committee all over again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.447.7", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(National Employment Guidance Council and local employment guidance committees.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That further Consideration of the Bill, as amended, be now adjourned.\" I move this Motion to enable the Government to give some indication of their intentions in regard to the progress of Business. It is now nearly ten oclock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.447.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.447.7", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(National Employment Guidance Council and local employment guidance committees.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "iness. It is now nearly ten oclock. [ Interruption .] I do not know why hon. Members opposite are groaning. The Government side have taken up nearly all the time of the Committee today. I have risen, as a matter of courtesy, for the information of the House, to ask the Government's intentions, and I propose to do so, even if hon. Members groan all night. We have a right to ask the Government that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.447.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.448.3", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(National Employment Guidance Council and local employment guidance committees.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "No hon. Member can say that there has been anything in the nature of an unnecessary waste of time tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.449.9", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE. —(Arrangements with friendly societies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodrich", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodrich", "preceding_text": " The reason for this Clause is fairly obvious. First, the House has riot yet heard why the friendly societies cannot be included within the framework of this National Insurance Bill. We have heard some excuses as to why they should be kept out. This is the first objection I see: It is regrettable, and I understand the reason, that an important matter such as this had to go to a Committee upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.449.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.449.9", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE. —(Arrangements with friendly societies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodrich", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodrich", "preceding_text": " will be recalled that the result of the vote was: Ayes, 24; Noes, 19. I am sure hon. Members would agree with me that the margin on this issue was extremely small. Before hon. Members vote on this issue, they should have the whole facts before them. The main factor—and this must not be forgotten—is that this proposal deals with over 8,000,000 friendly society members— 8,000,000 potential voters —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.449.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.449.9", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE. —(Arrangements with friendly societies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodrich", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Some of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodrich", "preceding_text": "endly Societies. I now come to the crucial point. Up to now, all that the friendly societies have been told is that the 'Minister does not like this, and does not approve of it, and so on and so forth. In no single instance has the Minister explained—although he may no doubt explain tonight—why men like the friendly society officials who have 35 years' experience could not administer public funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.449.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.449.9", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE. —(Arrangements with friendly societies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodrich", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodrich", "preceding_text": "arties. I can say this, that the Minister said he would give a reply this morning. I am satisfied that this scheme has been properly looked into, and my regret, my very great regret, is that the amicable settlement for which I have sought all this time did not accrue. I was unfortunately told by my right hon. Friend the Minister that the further suggestions could not be accepted by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.449.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.458.3", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE. —(Arrangements with friendly societies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Lang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lang", "preceding_text": "dge. Again and again after that, as the Election campaign developed, at large meetings, people jumped up and said: \"We are insurance agents and members of friendly societies. What will the candidate do, if elected?\". My answer invariably was: \"I have already met your representatives and given my pledge. The pledge which I have given is in accordance with the policy of my party—you need not worry.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.458.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE. —(Arrangements with friendly societies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": " serious difficulties; so I know what the Minister means when he speaks about some of the questionnaires. But is it not true to say of the questionnaires that we were capable of dealing with them all? When the Election had taken place the Parliamentary Secretary was not in a different position from that of the Minister, except that his memory was at fault. I am not trying to be sarcastic about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE. —(Arrangements with friendly societies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "ittee of the Labour Party, and I knew party policy. Two directives were sent round. The first was simply a factual explanation of the position. The second one, in answer to a number of questions, unfortunately, because we were very short staffed at Transport House. and the secretariat was hideously overworked, was written by a not very experienced young man, and it got through with a bit left out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE. —(Arrangements with friendly societies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You should know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "No doubt there are occasions on which without any penny revolver or anything like that an unwilling Member can be induced to keep out of the Lobby which he really wanted to enter. But surely, generally speaking, one's Party expects one to do very much what the Party feeling directs is necessary to govern the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.467.4", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE. —(Arrangements with friendly societies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Medland", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Medland", "preceding_text": "Might I inform the hon. and learned Member that I took the trouble to meet the whole council of representatives of the friendly societies, with my colleagues, and I put to them this question: Do you want me to keep my pledge, or do you want me to defeat the Labour Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.467.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.468.0", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE. —(Arrangements with friendly societies.)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is perfectly true.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": " of them. In my experience, this kind of thing has become worse It may have become worse. That is perfectly true. It may be a fearful nuisance, but hon. Members should not give their word unless they mean it. The right hon. Gentleman now goes on to a different defence: The question of who shall administer these benefits was not an issue at tie election. Not single seat was won on it or lost on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.467.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.472.3", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE. —(Arrangements with friendly societies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "I am fully aware of that. He has spoken \"Trippingly on the tongue \"—it has been well done—but what relevance had it to the subject under discussion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.472.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUCUMBERS ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Sir Benjamin Smith)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nightly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Sir Benjamin Smith)", "preceding_text": "These Prayers appear to be a weekly event now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-22", "file": "debates1946-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "824781ec0f432603", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.485.3", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUCUMBERS ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "y technical subject, such as the disposal of cucumbers grown in market gardens, you need a very deep knowledge. I know that the Minister and his advisers are doing their best in the matter. I have the greatest possible sympathy for the Minister and his advisers, but I ask the right hon. Gentleman to look at this Order again. I can assure him that this Prayer has not been arranged to make trouble —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-22a.485.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.537.0", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say how far the shortage of staff in tax offices is due to the conditions which exist?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.537.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\" \"Play the game \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I will not press the right hon. Gentleman further, at the moment, but I must register the unsatisfactory position whereby very heavy and precise sacrifices are made by us, and we are given nothing but the rigmarole which the right hon. Gentleman was able to read out just now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.547.3", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Unlike the Leader of the Opposition, I believe the majority of the House and of the people in the country would wish to congratulate the Lord President on the contribution which he has made towards the starving people of Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.547.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.547.4", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.547.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.547.4", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Where is he? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to my hon. Friend. [ Interruption. ] Why should I not be? With regard to the rationing of bread, I can only say that that would be a matter for answer by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.547.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blyton", "preceding_text": "I am not suggesting that. I am suggesting that once the friendly societies come in we could not keep the private insurance companies out, if we were to be fair", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.588.0", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": "ou cannot put a poor man or woman from a back street into a big public building, looking across a table at a public servant, without putting him or her immediately at a disadvantage He imagines the State to be a vast mechanism which is largely inimical to him, and, in any case, coldly impersonal towards him. He feels about the State as I feel whenever I see a policeman. Whenever I see a policeman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.588.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.588.0", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": " we actually only vote on one thing all the time, and that is whether the Government should stay or go. We are never free to vote on the merits of a case, because, if the Government are defeated on some minor aspect of some minor Bill, which may be only one of hundreds of Bills dealt with in the course of a Parliament, the Government have been defeated and, according to our tradition, must resign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.588.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.588.0", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": "erits of a case, because, if the Government are defeated on some minor aspect of some minor Bill, which may be only one of hundreds of Bills dealt with in the course of a Parliament, the Government have been defeated and, according to our tradition, must resign. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"'] Governments have been defeated in this House on comparatively minor things, and have had to go out in consequence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.588.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.588.0", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Education Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": "d on some minor aspect of some minor Bill, which may be only one of hundreds of Bills dealt with in the course of a Parliament, the Government have been defeated and, according to our tradition, must resign. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"'] Governments have been defeated in this House on comparatively minor things, and have had to go out in consequence. [ Interruption .] I agree that there have been others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.588.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.590.2", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "am right. If it be the case that the Government would not have to go out, then everybody will be free to vote according to his conscience. If it be the case that it would have to resign, we would have to ask ourselves how much longer we are to be subjected to political blackmail, from whatever quarter it comes. So whether I am right or wrong on that, I am right. The third issue is the moral issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.590.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was Conservative policy? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "f other people's pledges, I was just going to deal with my own sticky past. It is a good practice, on such occasions, to look behind one first. I am not pretending— and I hope nothing that I have said has pretended—that the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of National Insurance has not an immensely difficult administrative problem in this. Of course, he has. There is no dispute whatever about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A promise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "the party-have to take responsibility for the documents. I do not think it is fair to talk about the young man. At any rate, I am not interested in him, and I do not think that hoi. Members ought to be interested in him in deciding their vote tonight. I come to the second course. It will be perfectly fair, I think, for an hon. Member to say, \"I gave that view at the time of the General Election—.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "embers, and of those who take that course I should have no complaint. The third course is that, having said something, one should simply stick to it. That is not a bad plan. One final word to the Minister. Hon. Members talk about the effect on the life of the Government. Of course, I have no control over the life of the Government. It is something that goes on irrespective of anything I say or do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ny Parliaments, where a Minister should listen to the voice of hon. Members, to the feelings of this House, then this is one of them. All that he is asked to do is to take a Clause into his Bill which gives him a permissive power. He is asked to do it by the House. I think it can truly be said that, if they could freely express their opinion, that is the view of the majority of his own supporters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ne of them. All that he is asked to do is to take a Clause into his Bill which gives him a permissive power. He is asked to do it by the House. I think it can truly be said that, if they could freely express their opinion, that is the view of the majority of his own supporters. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I can only express an opinion. Very well, then, I will say, of a large proportion of his own party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of National Insurance (Mr. James Griffiths)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the pledge in 1945?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of National Insurance (Mr. James Griffiths)", "preceding_text": "the money of the workers and the employers as well as public money to a system which every right hon. Gentleman opposite has condemned as being unsound? I say quite frankly that in this matter that is political irresponsibility which I hope this House will reject. Time is going on and I should like to make one more observation. I think I am entitled to quote from the Debate which was held in 1944.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They should not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "One last word about the pledge. I have never asked any hon. Member in any part of the House, or any colleague, to treat a pledge lightly. I said that in the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.616.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.628.0", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " the Government are doing their best to prevent unemployment. They are not altogether succeeding. There is a lot of unemployment in South Wales, in Liverpool and up and down the country, and many people have been unemployed for a period which is already approaching six months, I think the Government will overcome that. If it depended on this country alone there would be a chance within five years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.626.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.639.0", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Smith", "preceding_text": "at. I well remember, 39 years ago, standing on a soap box outside the Swindon locomotive works making a speech, and I look back upon that occasion with mingled shame and pride— shame because of my disgusting sartorial taste in combining blue overalls with a red tie, and pride because I had the foresight, even in 1907, to advocate work or maintenance. I have long since got past work or maintenance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.639.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "That is the kind of extreme slogan which does not face the administrative actualities that we have to consider. It is all very well to throw that phrase across the Floor of the House, but if my hon. Friend were sitting in Cabinet, or in Cabinet Committee, he would have to face the actualities of the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.663.3", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "iples of Socialism. Therefore, it seems to me that we have to choose between some channel of argument, some channel of review, some channel of fair decision, or unconditional benefit unlimited in time. I say, frankly, that whether the Government are right or wrong, they will not seek to justify on the Floor of the House unconditional, unlimited benefit out of the public funds in any circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.663.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.664.2", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I only warn my hon. Friends that I apprehend that that may be the philosophy into which they are in danger of drifting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.664.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Why the Clause then? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "arsh, and unjust to my right hon. Friend the Minister of National Insurance. South Wales has a long history of bitter industrial depression and of unemployment. I understand his apprehensions, but a lot of the argument behind the speeches of some of my hon. Friends in this Debate, is the belief that we are going back to those conditions of depressed areas and of unlimited unemployment. We are not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.669.3", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "y information is, if I may say so to the House in a spirit of sweet reasonableness, that I understand there are, unhappily, no more great and exciting issues about which we can get into difficulties. There are relatively small points, and on the whole I should have thought the House might continue to finish the Report stage. With good, workmanlike progress, I think we might do it in about an hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.669.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.672.7", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have heard that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Mellor", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order Mr. Speaker. My hon. Friend the Member for Torquay (Mr. C. Williams) was on his feet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.672.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.672.7", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Mellor", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order Mr. Speaker. My hon. Friend the Member for Torquay (Mr. C. Williams) was on his feet—[HON. MEMBERS: \"We have heard that.\"]— before you started to collect the voices, and with great respect, you were not looking in this direction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.672.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-23", "file": "debates1946-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fcfa07982637533b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "ber of widows, as I am sure hon. Gentlemen opposite realise. Having had some concern over the matter, and having watched the Minister closely in other proceedings during the day, I take this opportunity of thanking him—if I may have the courtesy of his attention. A lot of things have been said of the Minister and I am trying to say—if the Minister will give me his attention—how much I appreciate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-23a.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-24", "file": "debates1946-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b1746fff2fc9de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "EGYPT (TREATY NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "It may well be that the Prime Minister is right and, as he said, there may have been precedents for this procedure, but surely the circumstances of this case are rather exceptional.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-24", "file": "debates1946-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b1746fff2fc9de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "EGYPT (TREATY NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "explain what I mean. When the Leader of the Opposition sought, with great difficulty, to get this Debate, was it not the answer of the Leader of the House that the Debate could not take place until the Foreign Secretary returned home? Therefore, it seems that the Government —the Prime Minister, I think it was— attached the greatest importance; to the fact that the Foreign Secretary should be here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-24", "file": "debates1946-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b1746fff2fc9de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "EGYPT (TREATY NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "reat difficulty, to get this Debate, was it not the answer of the Leader of the House that the Debate could not take place until the Foreign Secretary returned home? Therefore, it seems that the Government —the Prime Minister, I think it was— attached the greatest importance; to the fact that the Foreign Secretary should be here. [HON. MEMBERS: \" He is here.\"] Let me finish. The Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.714.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-24", "file": "debates1946-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b1746fff2fc9de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.714.2", "colnum": "714", "heading": "EGYPT (TREATY NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "arliest opportunity to answer the well-known doubts various people have expressed? I do suggest, therefore, that the deputy Leader of the Opposition having spoken, and having spoken not only as deputy Leader but as one with unique knowledge and experience of this matter, it would have been no more than courteous to the Committee if the right hon. Gentleman the Foreign Minister had replied at once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.714.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-24", "file": "debates1946-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b1746fff2fc9de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.714.5", "colnum": "714", "heading": "EGYPT (TREATY NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is not a winding-up speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "o discuss grievances before we vote Supply. That is the whole purpose of having Supply Days, and of having Supply in Committee, so that hon. Members may state their grievances. No doubt they will get a reply at the end of the day. It is a most extraordinary thing that someone should move the Adjournment before the winding-up speech of the Government, on the ground that it should have come earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.714.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-24", "file": "debates1946-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b1746fff2fc9de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.715.2", "colnum": "715", "heading": "EGYPT (TREATY NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman allow me to ask him a question? I Know this will appeal to his erudite mind; I just ask this question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.715.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-24", "file": "debates1946-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b1746fff2fc9de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "EGYPT (TREATY NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Having made my protest, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion to report Progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.716.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-24", "file": "debates1946-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b1746fff2fc9de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "EGYPT (TREATY NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Marsden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" We are the British Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Marsden", "preceding_text": " Yesterday, apparently, we added something more to our vast Empire—little Sarawak—against the wishes of the natives, but in every other respect we seem to be clearing out in every direction. There will be consternation and surprise, and they will want to know what is going on. Many of our people will be asking, not what the Socialist Government are doing, but what the British Government are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-24", "file": "debates1946-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b1746fff2fc9de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "EGYPT (TREATY NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "pose—the condition that we shall be allowed to enter upon Egyptian soil in the event of the danger of war is being denied by the Egyptians, that alters the whole meaning of the Prime Minister's original statement. That is why I feel that we ought to have had a statement today at a very early stage. For my part, and I speak for my hon. Friends who no doubt will join me when they have finished lunch", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-24", "file": "debates1946-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b1746fff2fc9de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.757.3", "colnum": "757", "heading": "EGYPT (TREATY NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "is a technique which is being increasingly used by the other side. They describe anything which is said by anyone on this side of the House, and which is likely to obtain popular support, as being untypical of our party. The policy of \" force \" which he attributes to us as being the policy of our party, is one of the fallacies which he has no doubt learned from the writings of Mr. Victor Gollancz—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.757.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-24", "file": "debates1946-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b1746fff2fc9de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "EGYPT (TREATY NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ut put on record that I am utterly unconvinced. But we do not know what questions were put to the Chiefs of Staff or on what political data they were called upon to report. In the case of the Irish ports, in the spring of 1938, absolutely wrong political data, in my opinion, were put before the Chiefs of Staff—another set of Chiefs of Staff—and they gave advice which nearly brought us to our ruin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-24", "file": "debates1946-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b1746fff2fc9de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.780.0", "colnum": "780", "heading": "EGYPT (TREATY NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Reluctantly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "es trouble and difficulty of decision.\"I have had to decide —and I am not going behind anybody's back, or saying that I came to this decision reluctantly. I came to this decision and advised the Cabinet with my eyes open and with deliberation, and I stand upon it. Neither was it affected by my being in Paris or anything of the kind. This was a deliberate policy come to after careful consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.780.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-24", "file": "debates1946-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b1746fff2fc9de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.780.0", "colnum": "780", "heading": "EGYPT (TREATY NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": " not going behind anybody's back, or saying that I came to this decision reluctantly. I came to this decision and advised the Cabinet with my eyes open and with deliberation, and I stand upon it. Neither was it affected by my being in Paris or anything of the kind. This was a deliberate policy come to after careful consideration. [HON. MEMBERS: \" Reluctantly.\"] Not reluctantly. I did not say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.780.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-24", "file": "debates1946-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b1746fff2fc9de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.780.0", "colnum": "780", "heading": "EGYPT (TREATY NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "e to this decision reluctantly. I came to this decision and advised the Cabinet with my eyes open and with deliberation, and I stand upon it. Neither was it affected by my being in Paris or anything of the kind. This was a deliberate policy come to after careful consideration. [HON. MEMBERS: \" Reluctantly.\"] Not reluctantly. I did not say that. [ Interruption. ] Maybe, but I am talking for myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.780.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-24", "file": "debates1946-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b1746fff2fc9de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "EGYPT (TREATY NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.781.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-24", "file": "debates1946-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b1746fff2fc9de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.781.4", "colnum": "781", "heading": "EGYPT (TREATY NEGOTIATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman flings out a challenge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-24a.781.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-27", "file": "debates1946-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbf00b8c837e4a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.816.3", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Hannon", "preceding_text": "Is the main recommendation of this Report in favour of the continuity of private enterprise in this industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.816.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-27", "file": "debates1946-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbf00b8c837e4a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.824.3", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I did not say anything of the kind. Indeed, I think they are on a par.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.824.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-27", "file": "debates1946-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbf00b8c837e4a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.836.1", "colnum": "836", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "That is a matter for Mr. Speaker. So far as the Government are concerned it would appear to us, subject to the views of Mr. Speaker, that it would be convenient if the Debate could be treated as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.836.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-27", "file": "debates1946-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbf00b8c837e4a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.837.6", "colnum": "837", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Is it proper for the Lord President of the Council to treat so serious a matter in such a flippant manner?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.837.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-27", "file": "debates1946-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbf00b8c837e4a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.838.2", "colnum": "838", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. John Wilmot)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Was it correctly reported? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. John Wilmot)", "preceding_text": "at the Government are justified in this decision solely on account of the fact that it is clearly within their mandate. We must establish a right decision upon the closest examination of the facts, in the public interest, and this attitude was most clearly put by my right hon. Friend the Lord President of the Council in a speech to a Canadian audience which has, rightly, attracted great attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.838.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-27", "file": "debates1946-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbf00b8c837e4a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.838.2", "colnum": "838", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. John Wilmot)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" On what? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. John Wilmot)", "preceding_text": " billets from £5 12s. 6d. to £7 17s. 6d. Thus there was a 30 to 40 per cent. rise in British steel prices after the formation of the Federation. If it be contended that these rises can be accounted for by a rise in costs, I invite hon. Members to look at the rise in profits over the same period. The actual rate of profit of 43 leading companies in the industry rose over the period by 76 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.838.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-27", "file": "debates1946-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbf00b8c837e4a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.838.2", "colnum": "838", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. John Wilmot)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. John Wilmot)", "preceding_text": "prices after the formation of the Federation. If it be contended that these rises can be accounted for by a rise in costs, I invite hon. Members to look at the rise in profits over the same period. The actual rate of profit of 43 leading companies in the industry rose over the period by 76 per cent.—[HON. MEMBERS: \" On what? \"]—I am quoting the percentage rise. I have not got the detailed figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.838.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-27", "file": "debates1946-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbf00b8c837e4a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.838.2", "colnum": "838", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. John Wilmot)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" On what? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. John Wilmot)", "preceding_text": "te of profit of 43 leading companies in the industry rose over the period by 76 per cent.—[HON. MEMBERS: \" On what? \"]—I am quoting the percentage rise. I have not got the detailed figures. [ Laughter .] Hon. Members opposite are laughing a little too soon. If it is contended that I have not taken into account increases in capital, then I say that the rate of profit on capital rose by 40 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.838.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-27", "file": "debates1946-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbf00b8c837e4a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.845.1", "colnum": "845", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "preceding_text": "ties for raising the second £80 million, if not the first, would have to be provided by the Government. Priorities and facilities would have to be given for the necessary labour and materials in advance of other schemes and other claimants. I am sure no one will doubt that the raising of this money, and the timing of it, could be better arranged if the industry were under unified public ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-27", "file": "debates1946-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbf00b8c837e4a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.845.1", "colnum": "845", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "preceding_text": "t important; it supposes and presupposes that there is some authority at the centre powerful enough to carry this great programme through over the next—it may be—10 to 15 years. By the industry's own admission, and in the nature of things, such a vast plan of reorganisation could not be carried out by competitive private industry. By the industry's own admission, by the Federation's own admission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-27", "file": "debates1946-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbf00b8c837e4a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.853.0", "colnum": "853", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "preceding_text": "About half the schemes were sanctioned before, as the right hon. Gentleman said. The other half have started since.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-27", "file": "debates1946-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbf00b8c837e4a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.861.3", "colnum": "861", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "I said that the period which I was speaking of was 1933–39.I took 1933 as the point of departure because it was at, that moment that the duties were imposed. There is nothing tricky about this argument; I can assure the hon. and learned Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.861.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-27", "file": "debates1946-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbf00b8c837e4a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.861.3", "colnum": "861", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will be owned by the public.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "that the workers have invested a large proportion of their savings not only directly, but by institutions as well, in this great industry. I wish they owned more of it. These are very striking figures. When the Government say they are going to move into the public ownership of an industry like this, all they are doing is to take the industry away from the public and transfer it to the bureaucracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.861.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-27", "file": "debates1946-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbf00b8c837e4a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.872.5", "colnum": "872", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "s the firm which is to get the order also provides blueprints. It makes the business a bit more regimental, a little less phoney. It is not unknown for an exasperated railway company—exasperated because they know precisely what has happened—to place the order with the steel firm farthest away from where they want the work done. They do that to get a bit back on the rail freights for the long haul—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.872.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-27", "file": "debates1946-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbf00b8c837e4a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mort", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mort", "preceding_text": "nt hon. Members to imagine the kind of men who worked in the steelworks while the bombs were dropping. Let hon. Members imagine half a dozen men round a 60 ton ladle of molten metal while the bombs were falling. They are great men true sons of Vulcan, and they deserve the best. They are anxious to have the Government's policy implemented. We have not heard the details, which we would like to have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-27", "file": "debates1946-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbf00b8c837e4a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Arnold Gridley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Arnold Gridley", "preceding_text": "nt Department tendering for a bridge like the Sydney Bridge that was put down in New South Wales by, I think, Dorman Long. There, the successful contractor, when he had finished the bridge, found he had in the end lost hundreds of thousands of pounds. No Government Department is likely to be successful in carrying on negotiations with other Governments overseas for important contracts for bridges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-27", "file": "debates1946-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbf00b8c837e4a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Lindsay", "preceding_text": "teel people, saying: \"You are asking for a tariff and I am going to advise the Government that you should not get it.\"That was an error of judgment made by one man. Possibly, if he had formed a different opinion and given different advice to the Government, the tariff might have come two years earlier and we might not have had all that terrible story of unemployment in the iron and steel industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.919.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-27", "file": "debates1946-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbf00b8c837e4a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.926.3", "colnum": "926", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "\" Let us face the future.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "o continue with my theme of partial nationalisation in this industry and to go into the question of where the Minister can hope to draw the line. I do not look into the past, as hon. Members opposite do when they complain about the mistakes of the past. Of course mistakes were made in the past, but what we on this side of the House are out to do, is to see that mistakes are not made in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.926.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-27", "file": "debates1946-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbf00b8c837e4a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.935.3", "colnum": "935", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "pleen being put into operation. This is entirely a question of whether the present owners and controllers, whether capitalism, can be trusted to carry on this great industry. The answer is \" No.\" We pledge ourselves in this House, and I pledge on behalf of my trade union, our men, and our management, 100 per cent. behind this scheme. There may be odd individuals who can be nobbled in various ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.935.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-27", "file": "debates1946-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbf00b8c837e4a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.948.5", "colnum": "948", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ld be purchased and brought over here, and sold at something like 7s. 6d. a pair. Why could not they be brought over here? Why could not the women of Britain be given a chance to buy those silk stockings? It is a privilege they have forgone for a long time. When I was in Milan recently one of the largest bankers said he hoped that before long we should be able to grant them a loan of £500 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.948.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-27", "file": "debates1946-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fbf00b8c837e4a47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.948.5", "colnum": "948", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a good one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "et on their feet. A little while ago the Italian Socialist Party held their conference in Florence. I believe the British Socialist Party sent their chairman, Professor Laski, to represent them. I was in Italy at the time, and Professor Laski did a very good job. I believe that over in America he did a very bad job, but in Italy he did a good one, and he said to his comrades—if I may use the term—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-27a.948.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-28", "file": "debates1946-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1f5f50dc24103683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.971.3", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holmes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holmes", "preceding_text": "Does the right lion. Gentleman know that people suffering from rheumatism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.971.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-28", "file": "debates1946-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1f5f50dc24103683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Captain Baird", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Baird", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman consider this example of class distinction, that wealthy people, who can afford it, can travel by aeroplane any distance, but ordinary people who want to travel on pleasure by taxi cab are restricted to a very narrow limit? Does this not also penalize—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-28", "file": "debates1946-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1f5f50dc24103683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Captain Baird", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Speech \"; \" Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Baird", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman consider this example of class distinction, that wealthy people, who can afford it, can travel by aeroplane any distance, but ordinary people who want to travel on pleasure by taxi cab are restricted to a very narrow limit? Does this not also penalize—[HON. MEMBERS: \" Speech.\"]—the taxi drivers, who, very often, are ex-Service men? Will the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-28", "file": "debates1946-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1f5f50dc24103683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.989.4", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "To give much consideration to special cases leads to cumbersome and untidy administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.989.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-28", "file": "debates1946-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1f5f50dc24103683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1003.0", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Of course they did.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ite think that all we have to do to improve the iron and steel industry is to give it more tariff protection. That is what we did before the war, but this is totally irrelevant to this important effort of war production which I am praising, and which I am surprised to find queried from the other side of the House. Either it is or is not true to say that South Africa did a great job during the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1002.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-28", "file": "debates1946-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1f5f50dc24103683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I find nothing there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ous, that the iron and steel industry of the future, which will be in two parts as my right hon. Friend explained—there will be a public sector and a private sector—shall have available cheap money, a low rate of interest on borrowed capital and high priority in the queue of borrowers. It is just as important to have a good place in the queue as to be able to get something when you reach the shop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-28", "file": "debates1946-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1f5f50dc24103683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "y many financial circles, and will be reported widely in the City Press tomorrow. It will be in the \" Financial Times \"Tomorrow and will be welcomed. We are going to give a gilt-edged rate of interest to all the public borrowings of the nationalised section of the industry, and something very close to the gilt-edged rate of interest on any scheme we approve in what will remain the private section—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-28", "file": "debates1946-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1f5f50dc24103683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "rchasing power of the pound would rapidly decline because he wants to abolish food subsidies. He said so in a Debate the other day. That is not the policy of His Majesty's Government. We are sustaining the purchasing power of the pound sterling through these difficult transitional times, until we get into smoother water, when all fears of inflation will be laid to rest. They are already subsiding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-28", "file": "debates1946-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1f5f50dc24103683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1045.0", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "of our country demand it. (An HON. MEMBER: \" What kind of science? \"] Industrial science. I repeat that science demands it. If hon. Gentlemen opposite were better acquainted with the scientists in the industry, they would know that scientists are demanding it. Twentieth century technology demands it. The technical advantages of public ownership are enormous. Here are some constructive suggestions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1045.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-28", "file": "debates1946-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1f5f50dc24103683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" What? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "ccount. There is no substitute for that. There must be proved efficiency. The Minister will be responsible as in the case of the coal industry. I do not see the sense of this—every time the cost of coal goes up three shillings is put on steel. I think this is bad practice. When the industry is privately owned one cannot afford not to do it. When it is Government owned we can do something about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-28", "file": "debates1946-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1f5f50dc24103683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1089.1", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Roberts", "preceding_text": "ns have not assumed that form, and we suspect that doctrinaire considerations have entered into the attitude of both the Government Front Bench and the addresses of the Conservative Party. There is no immediate issue before the House; there is no present proposal before the House; there is no legislation before the House. Therefore, we on these benches do not feel it proper to vote on this Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-28", "file": "debates1946-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1f5f50dc24103683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1104.1", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" What about the Prime Minister? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "tions on this statement, which, with interventions by others, seemed to cover about 20 columns of HANSARD. The right hon. Gentleman's language was eloquent and varied, and as fine as usual, and the result is this Debate. I am hound to say that I am a little surprised that the Leader of the Opposition has been absent during by far the greater part of the Debate—in fact he has been here very little—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-28", "file": "debates1946-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1f5f50dc24103683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1104.1", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \" You have not read what he said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": " was the outstanding Opposition speech in the Debate and one worthy of the attention and consideration of us all, I cannot see that these two days have done much good except to provide an admirable opportunity for Government propaganda in support of their policy for the iron and steel industry. The hon. and learned Gentleman the Leader of the Liberal Party, I thought, stated the issue pretty well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-28", "file": "debates1946-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1f5f50dc24103683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ront Opposition Bench. The right hon. Gentleman then tried to draw me on the question whether the new socialised undertaking, or public corporation or corporations will have cartel relationships with cartel organisations overseas. For very good reasons, I am not going to be drawn. I will just say that this will be a public concern and it will be its duty to do what is right in the public interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-28", "file": "debates1946-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1f5f50dc24103683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "No—he should not have given a definition. That was the view. Why did my right hon. Friend do it? It was because he was firmly and strenuously pressed, particularly by the Leader of the Opposition, the whole of the Conservative Party and the whole Tory Press in the country, that he should do this very thing, and, of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-28", "file": "debates1946-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1f5f50dc24103683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Why not leave it alone? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Federation in themselves. Of course, whether we proceed by socialisation or by private ownership, if we are going in for the technical reorganisation of this great industry, then obviously there must be some element of uncertainty. What is the alternative? The alternative to some degree of uncertainty is to do nothing. I forget the exact phrase which was used by someone. It was, \" Why interfere? \"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-28", "file": "debates1946-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1f5f50dc24103683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1111.3", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "y brains and technical skill and give them their head. I could find some private companies which have failed infinitely more in buying technical skill and brains than some of our public concerns and municipal trading undertakings. We will buy them up and they will work for us, they will be adaptable, and we shall encourage them to manifest enterprise and not to run the thing according to red tape.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-28", "file": "debates1946-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1f5f50dc24103683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1111.3", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Under a Labour Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "nual computations of representative steel and coal earnings—I believe it is mostly for steel —after debenture interest is paid, gives the following picture on the basis of 1914 at 100; 1914, 100; 1915, 89; 1916, 119. I will go on in years—143; 135; 138; 1920, 64; 1921, 66; 1922, 78. Then it goes; 92; 66; 27; 18. It was 27 in 1925, 18 in 1926, 32 in 1927 and then 35, 51, and 42, down to 22 in 1931.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-28", "file": "debates1946-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "1f5f50dc24103683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1116.1", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": " point. Then there is the Iron and Steel Federation, controlling them and working them on a cartel basis. Then there is the State Control Board controlling the Federation, and last of all the Minister behind the controlling body. That is the bureaucratic scheme advocated by the Opposition, beside which our socialisation scheme is simplicity and straightforwardness itself. I conclude in this spirit", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-28a.1116.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1154.7", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL EMPIRE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why not destroy the lot?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "I would gladly have left it to the people on the spot, but it appears to be the wish of the House that the people on the spot should not have it left to them. The matter of the interpretation of some of the clauses of the directive is still under discussion by our representatives in Berlin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1154.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1165.0", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SITUATION (MINISTER'S MISSION TO AMERICA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1165.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1167.6", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SITUATION (MINISTER'S MISSION TO AMERICA)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Insinuations and imputations are out of Order in questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1167.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1169.3", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "RAILWAYS FARES AND FREIGHTS (INCREASES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should bear in mind that the increases in transport costs have been relatively small compared with the general rise of prices in the community—the general increases of prices of goods and commodities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1208.2", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": " married man or woman shall not be compelled by law to give evidence against his or her spouse. Now, on this point the Government have given way to what, I believe, is the general opinion of the House and of the community as a whole. In thanking the Government for doing so, I wish to point out to the House two important points. First this had got into the Bill. It was in the Bill as it then stood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1208.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1209.0", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "There never was doubt.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "way to what, I believe, is the general opinion of the House and of the community as a whole. In thanking the Government for doing so, I wish to point out to the House two important points. First this had got into the Bill. It was in the Bill as it then stood. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] Well, at any rate, if it was not in the Bill, the Clause was drafted in such a way that there was doubt on the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1208.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1241.2", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman. I should like to ask why this Motion is retrospective. Why are the increased salaries to be made payable from 1st April last? That is surely an unusual course to take. I should have thought that 1st April was a particularly unfortunate day to choose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1241.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1243.1", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a means test.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "g their incomes in an undesirable fashion. There are two Amendments on the Order Paper to the Motion regarding Members' salaries. One suggests that the increase should be granted only in those cases where an hon. Member can satisfy a specially appointed Committee of Members, in confidential session, that such increase is essential to enable him to carry out his Parliamentary duties satisfactorily—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss (Combined English Universities)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Ridiculous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss (Combined English Universities)", "preceding_text": "nuine belief, inflation is not only with us, but, by the cowardice and inaction of the Government, is tending greatly to increase. [HON. MEMBERS: \" Order.\"I I know this is controversial, but I believe it to be true, and I say that, by the inaction and cowardice of the Government, it is tending to increase, and that the Government are enjoying the uncomplaining support of the majority of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss (Combined English Universities)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss (Combined English Universities)", "preceding_text": "get certain railway travel paid out of public funds. There will, similarly, be an increase of prices in many other things, and every one of our constituents with a fixed income is going to suffer. If I felt that this House was determined and was showing sufficient vigilance to compel the Government to take courageous and wise action to stop inflation, my attitude to this Motion might be different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "d the Member for North Leeds (Mr. Peeke), with whom on many subjects I agree, that I am afraid he was quite illogical when he said we shall have the remedy in our own hands. That I believe to be a wholly fallacious argument. I shall not vote against this Motion on the ground that I think there is something peculiarly improper— if it is accepted and becomes the law—in my taking the salary increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Give it back to the Treasury.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": " said we shall have the remedy in our own hands. That I believe to be a wholly fallacious argument. I shall not vote against this Motion on the ground that I think there is something peculiarly improper— if it is accepted and becomes the law—in my taking the salary increase. [HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"] — Hon. Members opposite can make use of any point which they think is there. I say there is no point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1260.1", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "in life in those days on £ 400 a year, I found it extraordinarily difficult. Entry to this House was almost barred to me, and to many scores of thousands who served, as I did, in the first of our world wars. One had to be either a wealthy man who could secure nomination to a Conservative constituency, or else a trade union official who, in middle life, was given a reward for having done good work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1260.1", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "hose who enter Parliament young. Hitherto we have been unable to get a real cross-section of our community entering Parliament at a young age; only a few have been able to enter, mainly on this side of the House. It has been mainly from this side of the House that the greatest contributions to our politics have been made. I affirm that this is true. This is no party point. It is a historical fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1266.3", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member is trying to make a stupid party point, if I may say so. I am trying to take an unprejudiced view of this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1267.3", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " thing is entirely beneath the dignity of this House. I think it is disgraceful that Members should be obliged to do that sort of thing. Reference is made in the Report to the herding of Members into something of the nature of a hostel. What an absurd suggestion. Nobody wants to do that, but I think it should be within the capacity of this House to have some sort of club, or rooms, or Institution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1267.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1270.1", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "There is.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. P. Smith", "preceding_text": "There is absolutely no suggestion of that in the Amendment to which I have attached my name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay (Combined English Universities)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay (Combined English Universities)", "preceding_text": "ten by Mr. Ross could ever have been written. It describes pretty faithfully how the great majority of Conservative Members come from a very small group of schools; how the very great majority of Liberal Members come from another class of school; and how the overwhelming majority in the last Parliament on the other side had come from a completely different origin, so far as education is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson Harris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Absolutely.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson Harris", "preceding_text": "t the cost would be. I venture to suggest that that would have been very difficult, if not impossible. It may be said that they could have consulted, as I tried to consult, some Member of a previous Parliament but, in fact circumstances in previous Parliaments— as I understand it, not having been a Member of one— were completely different in many respects from the circumstances that prevail today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1277.3", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "cracy, as it is, and if it is to be an effective democracy, not only must any man be enabled to come to the House of Commons, but if he gets here, and if he has no others means, he must be provided with something on which to live. I take that view definitely and sincerely. I do not think Members should be provided with a high standard of living, but that they should be given a reasonable standard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1277.3", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Make it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "ake that view definitely and sincerely. I do not think Members should be provided with a high standard of living, but that they should be given a reasonable standard— [ Interruption .] I am trying to make a non-party speech and to deal with the matter objectively If hon. Members wish to make unfriendly interventions I can quite quickly and quite spontaneously make a quite different kind of speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1277.3", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Means test.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Member says \" Make it. ' I prefer not to do so, but I will make one observation which I think I am entitled to make. There is an Amendment on the Order Paper—I do not agree with it— which suggests that any Member who cannot manage on the present salary shall be entitled to go before a committee, and if he has not sufficient money oil which to live, upon inquiry he can get a further grant of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1277.3", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "e that it is a means test, and I have always inveighed in and out of this House against a means test. But when hon. Gentlemen so glibly say \" means test \" and \" shame,\" let them realise that old age pensioners still undergo a means test, and will do so under the Bill we have been considering today. Let us also realise that parents whose sons were killed in the war and who want a pension also have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1296.0", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Not all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "self with the right hon. Gentleman the Member for North Leeds on this matter. My right hon. Friend—if I may still call him so despite this temporary difference of opinion—said he was making a difficult speech. So am I. It is always rather embarrassing for a Member to find applause for his remarks coming from the opposite benches, while there is silence or implied disapproval among his own friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "MINISTERIAL SALARIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr.Dalton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"During the war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr.Dalton)", "preceding_text": " of Pensions. But no junior Minister, and no Minister who is to get this additional £500 allowance under this scheme, with the exception of the two whom I have mentioned—one of whom, the Postmaster- General, is not a Member of this House— none of these have official cars. In the days of the Coalition, certain junior Ministers, in addition to Ministers of Cabinet rank, had the use of official cars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1309.4", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "MINISTERIAL SALARIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "preceding_text": "I only want to say that I do not think that the reply which the right hon. Gentleman has given is the same as the reply which was given in this House not so very long ago, when it was stated that an Air Ministry car called at the New Palace Yard for the purpose of picking up the Under-Secretary of State for Air after he had finished his Parliamentary duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1309.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1310.0", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "MINISTERIAL SALARIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "I should like to get back to the Bill. I was anxious to answer the noble Lard the Member for Horsham who was a Member of the Select Committee, and who has done such good work in connection with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1311.3", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "MINISTERIAL SALARIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ore. If some evidence could be produced, of course we would look into it to see if anything irregular has happened. I do not believe anything irregular has happened, and I think this question has arisen through some jealousy or some little tittle-tattle by some person. There is really nothing in it. Certainly it would be quite wrong for R.A.F. aircraft to be used for joy riding. On the other hand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-29", "file": "debates1946-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "d1b697a7fb05ed0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1312.3", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "MINISTERIAL SALARIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" What about the work? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "as asked, with regard to the Paymaster-General. There is no Paymaster General at present, but it is just possible that it may be convenient, at some later date, to fill that post with some person who may have; a particular job to do. It might be called a sinecure Ministry, but it does net mean that the holder of the office does just nothing. However, as I say, there is at present no such Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-29a.1312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-30", "file": "debates1946-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "737ca2a2603e4462", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-30a.1362.2", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Of course, the main fact before us is the resignation of the Minister of Food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-30a.1362.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-30", "file": "debates1946-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "737ca2a2603e4462", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-30a.1379.1", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler (Saffron Walden)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" And the friendly societies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler (Saffron Walden)", "preceding_text": "angements there will be for using the friendly and approved societies and for carrying on their administration into the future, and what arrangements there will be for using these agencies if they cannot be used as paying agencies under the scheme. Here I think it would be appropriate that this House should pay a tribute to the magnificent work done by the approved societies since the Act of 1911.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-30a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-30", "file": "debates1946-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "737ca2a2603e4462", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-30a.1401.0", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": "ritical, grim and grave moments in the history of this country. The increase in the freight charges and fares on the railways announced yesterday, the increase in M.Ps.' salaries, and the expenditure through this Bill are all typical instances of the mad rush to inflation which is going on in this country. This Bill is another mile down the inflation road. It is another step up the vicious spiral.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-30a.1401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-30", "file": "debates1946-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "737ca2a2603e4462", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-30a.1403.3", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "k hon. Members to read them. I do ask the Government to tell the people of this country the truth about the difficult situation in which we are placed and how, in many cases, it is not possible to increase expenditure at this critical time. What is the good of a benefit of £100 a week if the money is worthless and if there is nothing to buy? That is a situation to which we are rapidly approaching.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-30a.1403.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-30", "file": "debates1946-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "737ca2a2603e4462", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-30a.1403.3", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Let us have a clean up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": " and if there is nothing to buy? That is a situation to which we are rapidly approaching. [An HON. MEMBER: \" Nonsense.\"] This Bill is introduced by the Socialist Government as a result of the promises they made at the General Election. It was part of the policy of mass bribery. They made promises and raised hopes which I for one do not believe are capable of fulfilment. The soap box has triumphed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-30a.1403.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-31", "file": "debates1946-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "1007e5157b37d1fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-31a.1490.11", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Rigmarole.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "he country take a less favourable view of Ministers than they had hitherto done, that is certainly no reason for any reproach being levelled at the Opposition. I come to what is one of the really important points before us today—what we have to get for the 200,000 tons of wheat. I listened to the original statement of the Lord President of the Council and I have taken the trouble to read it again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-31a.1490.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-31", "file": "debates1946-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "1007e5157b37d1fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-31a.1490.11", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "nnot go.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 4th April, 1946; Vol. 421; c. 1413.] That was only on 4th April and now before the end of May 200,000 tons are given. Everyone knows that the consequences of giving those 200,000 tons are likely to be very serious. I will not enter upon the reactions, for they will be thoroughly dealt with later on, because my right hon. Friend the Member for Southport (Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-31a.1490.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-31", "file": "debates1946-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "1007e5157b37d1fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-31a.1564.1", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straehey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh, yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straehey", "preceding_text": "All we can say is that no provision had been made for the needs of Germany and the needs of India in this case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-31a.1564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-31", "file": "debates1946-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "1007e5157b37d1fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-31a.1573.0", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "The Minister is talking about our zone in Germany. There is one method by which we could supply food. We could give them cured herrings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-31a.1573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-05-31", "file": "debates1946-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "1007e5157b37d1fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-31a.1574.0", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "There may be something in it—that is quite possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-05-31a.1574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-03", "file": "debates1946-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "abb349ac7bfe63c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1591.1", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Why not do something?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, I am aware of the very high level of unemployment in the Western Isles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-03", "file": "debates1946-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "abb349ac7bfe63c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1614.4", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister say whether they are to be Government agents? I want to know whether there is to be any independent body left in the country. It is all-important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1614.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-03", "file": "debates1946-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "abb349ac7bfe63c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1708.1", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HILL FARMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dye (Norfolk, South-Western)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \" Not the first time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dye (Norfolk, South-Western)", "preceding_text": "r for Southport (Mr. R. S. Hudson) said in this House that he had consistently warned farmers against relying on subsidies, on the ground that sooner or later the Chancellor of the Exchequer would kick. I do not know whether in a few minutes the right hon. Gentleman will rise and give his blessing to this Bill; if so, it seems to me that he will be inconsistent in his attitude towards agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-03", "file": "debates1946-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "abb349ac7bfe63c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1723.1", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HILL FARMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member may take that view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-03", "file": "debates1946-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "abb349ac7bfe63c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1726.3", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "HILL FARMING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "preceding_text": "With regard to the Amendment in my name, I am advised that the question of substituting the word \" loans \" for \" grants \" with regard to certain items in the Schedule could be more effectively dealt with in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1726.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-03", "file": "debates1946-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "abb349ac7bfe63c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1731.3", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "HILL FARMING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Thomas Williams)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Thomas Williams)", "preceding_text": "If I may reply briefly to the three or four questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1731.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-03", "file": "debates1946-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "abb349ac7bfe63c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1733.3", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "HILL FARMING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "of land. He is asking for the impossible. We never claimed that the Bill would do it. We only said that it would make a start. I hope that the answer will satisfy the hon. Gentleman. I would also ask about the subdivision of the money. I said definitely that there would be no subdivision. The hon. Member knows that there is just about as much hill land in Scotland as there is in England and Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1733.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-03", "file": "debates1946-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "abb349ac7bfe63c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1734.7", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "HILL FARMING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "With great respect, surely so long as the Committee is considering a Financial Resolution, hon. Members are entitled to express their views and disagreement unless this is to be turned into a Fascist assembly", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1734.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-06-03", "file": "debates1946-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "abb349ac7bfe63c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1738.3", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "HILL FARMING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "May I ask how the right hon. Gentleman thinks Scottish interests will be looked after? There is £4,000,000 to £5,000,000 to be subdivided between the four countries. I do not see that Scotland will get much out of that. I cannot see it being done. May I have an answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1738.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-03", "file": "debates1946-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "abb349ac7bfe63c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1745.0", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "CLAUSE I.—(Increase in salaries of certain Ministers.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "iate that I am not entitled to say whether those feelings are justified or not. That is subject to your Ruling, Major Milner, to which, of course, I bow. But my only argument on this Amendment is that to increase the remuneration of the responsible political head of this Department at this particular moment would—I am convinced that I have hon. Members opposite with me—give rise to strong feeling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-03", "file": "debates1946-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "abb349ac7bfe63c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1746.4", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "CLAUSE I.—(Increase in salaries of certain Ministers.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "nd that the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions should be paid not less than Parliamentary Secretaries attached to other Departments. We place this before the House of Commons as a reasonable proposition. The Amendment of the hon. Gentleman is, as I have said, futile because, even it it were to be carried, the power would still remain with us to determine what the salary should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1746.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-03", "file": "debates1946-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "abb349ac7bfe63c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1748.3", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "CLAUSE I.—(Increase in salaries of certain Ministers.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "I said \"The Parliamentary Secretary.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1748.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-06-03", "file": "debates1946-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "abb349ac7bfe63c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1754.0", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Certain salaries and, pensions under 1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6. c. 38 not to disqualify for salary as Member of Parliament.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "lear first, what is the principle on which Ministers have hitherto been disqualified from Parliamentary salaries; secondly, on what principle that has now been reversed; and thirdly, that if it is to be reversed, why it has not been wholly reversed so as to put Junior Ministers and Cabinet Ministers on the same basis and to give them the same salary as attaches to Members of Parliament as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-03", "file": "debates1946-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "abb349ac7bfe63c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1754.1", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Certain salaries and, pensions under 1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6. c. 38 not to disqualify for salary as Member of Parliament.)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:'\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "hat happy position themselves. I join with the hon. Member for Hertford (Mr. Walker-Smith) in asking the Chancellor of the Exchequer for some explanation of this point. During the Second Reading Debate he sought to justify what is done in this Clause, if I remember his argument rightly, by saying that whereas Members of Parliament were to gain to the extent of £400 tax-free, by the latest changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-03", "file": "debates1946-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "abb349ac7bfe63c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1770.1", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "ROAD VEHICLES (STANDING PASSENGERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-upon-Thames)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-upon-Thames)", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Motion. This Order, the annulment of which has been so lucidly moved by my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-03", "file": "debates1946-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "abb349ac7bfe63c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1771.1", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "ROAD VEHICLES (STANDING PASSENGERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Barnes)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All No. 11's.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Barnes)", "preceding_text": " be revoked—we have completed the process which was then agreed upon that would eventually get us back to more or less prewar conditions. I would explain to hon. and right hon. Members that this was not authorised by myself until I was satisfied with regard to the convenience of the public. With regard to London Transport, there are 500 more buses operating at peak hours than at the VE-Day period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-03", "file": "debates1946-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "abb349ac7bfe63c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1776.3", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "ROAD VEHICLES (STANDING PASSENGERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Challen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Waiting to go home to bed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Challen", "preceding_text": "e termed \" conductresses \"—though personally I like the term \" conductors \"In their case also. I find that these women, throughout the war, have been gallant and helpful in the work they did in the buses. I do not believe they are prepared to prevent the earners of bread and butter from travelling, or that they wish to leave standing in queues people waiting to go home from work, or to go to work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1776.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-03", "file": "debates1946-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "abb349ac7bfe63c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1780.1", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "ROAD VEHICLES (STANDING PASSENGERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "preceding_text": "big queues, selling of tickets by inspectors, in order to relieve the conductors on the buses. None of these points has been answered by the Minister. I hope that before we have to divide on this Motion or before we consider whether we are going to divide or not, the Minister will answer some of the points that have been raised, not only on this side of the House but on his side of the House also.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-03a.1780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-04", "file": "debates1946-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "415204484c6220b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-04a.1814.3", "colnum": "1814", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "There is a sub-committee of the interdepartmental committee to which I have already referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-04a.1814.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-06-04", "file": "debates1946-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "415204484c6220b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-04a.1817.8", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is a bit Irish.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Macpherson", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister doing his utmost to separate these officers, so that the maximum number of Scottish officers serve with Scottish regiments, and any English officers with them serve with English regiments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-04a.1817.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-04", "file": "debates1946-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "415204484c6220b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-04a.1825.5", "colnum": "1825", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "shed my review of the foreign situation I may or may not have wearied the House, because at the present moment it is not merely one area of the world that is in difficulties and where problems have to be settled; it is the whole world. Therefore, I am driven to touch, in my review, on many problems affecting many areas. If I stick to my brief very closely this afternoon, I must ask to be forgiven.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-04a.1825.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-04", "file": "debates1946-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "415204484c6220b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-04a.1825.5", "colnum": "1825", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a good story\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": " told that the four delegations are agreed that they shall be given to Greece, the Soviet delegation will not give effect to this until every other territorial problem has been settled. I do not understand why the Dodecanese, about which there is apparently no dispute, should have to await settlement until we have solved every other problem. Now may I come to Germany? I must be wearying the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-04a.1825.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-04", "file": "debates1946-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "415204484c6220b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-04a.1894.2", "colnum": "1894", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member said it was information which the Government were receiving from the British Embassy in Greece.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-04a.1894.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-04", "file": "debates1946-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "415204484c6220b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-04a.1903.3", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Flight-Lieutenant Haire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Flight-Lieutenant Haire", "preceding_text": "eech of the evening when he quoted President Roosevelt and Generalissimo Stalin and said that the future of small countries like Hungary depended on the friendship which would exist among the great Powers. I wish the House to appreciate that incidents occurred soon after the occupation but such incidents are largely of the past and are not now occurring as a regular feature of the situation there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-04a.1903.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-04", "file": "debates1946-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "415204484c6220b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-04a.1944.1", "colnum": "1944", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "ivered what I think we should all agree was an extremely able and masterly survey of the foreign scene; and I do not think any of us on either side of the House would say that it was anything but a sombre and melancholy survey. I am not altogether surprised. At Teheran, Yalta, and Potsdam, we were negotiating under the impact of war; and we negotiated these three Agreements upon three assumptions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-04a.1944.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-06-05", "file": "debates1946-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b4bf51090755c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.1973.9", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that at not only this airfield, but two neighbouring ones, planes practise night flying, so that this area of the country is having very disturbed rest? Will he consider spreading the burden over other airfields in other constituencies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.1973.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-06-05", "file": "debates1946-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b4bf51090755c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.1982.5", "colnum": "1982", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheftington-Lodge", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the agreement is widely welcomed on these benches?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.1982.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-06-05", "file": "debates1946-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b4bf51090755c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2004.6", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "Arising out of that purported answer, might I ask the right hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2004.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-06-05", "file": "debates1946-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b4bf51090755c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2012.1", "colnum": "2012", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "That is a lie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2012.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-05", "file": "debates1946-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b4bf51090755c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2013.0", "colnum": "2013", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "That is not true. On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker. I challenge the Leader of the Opposition that if he goes to the Home Office he will find that the first report made on the' blitz and on the means that should be taken to care for the people, was written by the hon. Member for West Fife.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-05", "file": "debates1946-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b4bf51090755c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2014.1", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why object? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "t was mentioned, it is perfectly true. It is also true, if we are to go into these matters, that a few days later I met the Prime Minister in the Lobby and we had a few words in private in my room in which he mentioned—if I may say so—the word \" evacuation,\" and I said straight away we could not agree to that. These were not matters of important consultation. We have not been consulted in any way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2014.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-06-05", "file": "debates1946-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b4bf51090755c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2014.2", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about the Chamberlain Government?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ke in 1919, are careful to include in their delegation leading representatives of the Republican Party; but His Majesty's Government have followed the Russian principle in foreign affairs of one-party Government. I am not complaining. I do not suggest that the practice should be altered at this late stage, when domestic divergencies grow wider and deeper month by month. The facts should be known —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-05", "file": "debates1946-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b4bf51090755c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2014.5", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "hat we had enough troubles on our hands without getting into such futile and fatuous entanglements, and I do not at' all credit the Government with any such unwisdom. We all hope that the conference of the Foreign Secretaries, this Big Four or Big Three;—or Big Two-and-a-Half, as the anti-British American newspapers sometimes describe them—will soon make some progress in settling European affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2014.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-05", "file": "debates1946-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b4bf51090755c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2025.4", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "rought more near, by the adoption of clear and firm policies. Above all, we should not again let the years slip by while we are pushed and slide down the slippery slope. We still have a breathing space. Let us not waste it, as we did last time. The last great war could have been prevented with the utmost ease by prudent, firm and righteous action, five, four or even three years before it occurred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2025.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-05", "file": "debates1946-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b4bf51090755c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2025.4", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Or behind you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "le we are pushed and slide down the slippery slope. We still have a breathing space. Let us not waste it, as we did last time. The last great war could have been prevented with the utmost ease by prudent, firm and righteous action, five, four or even three years before it occurred. [ Interruption. ] No right to lay flattering unction to their souls resides upon the benches opposite in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2025.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-05", "file": "debates1946-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b4bf51090755c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2025.4", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " souls resides upon the benches opposite in this matter. [An HON. MEMBER: \" Or behind you.\"] I am dealing with this great matter which belongs to history; and from which no British party can draw particular credit. Other countries were concerned in that period, and I have no doubt whatever in saying that even up to 1936 it was possible, if we had utilised the full powers of the League of Nations —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2025.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-05", "file": "debates1946-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b4bf51090755c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2046.1", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "use a hopeless and hostile division between East and West, which will lead inevitably to a future war, a war which the Noble Lord the Member for South Dorset (Viscount Hinchingbrooke) said, optimistically, would not take place for a very long time. In 1932 I warned the House of the danger of war with Germany. Nobody listened to me then, except the right hon. Gentleman who now leads the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-05", "file": "debates1946-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b4bf51090755c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2060.1", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Will not the hon. Member admit that the United States has the highest standard of living in the whole world?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-05", "file": "debates1946-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b4bf51090755c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2064.1", "colnum": "2064", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" He will stand it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "radually the international atmosphere became more rarified. While this progressive rarefication of the atmosphere was taking place a speech was made by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford. I am sorry he is not here in his place because of what I propose to say about him, but I notified him in advance that I would be making some reference to what he has had to say on certain occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-05", "file": "debates1946-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b4bf51090755c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2064.1", "colnum": "2064", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": " I do not know whether hon. Members opposite are inclined to doubt that statement. I am quite ready, if anybody should make the suggestion that my summary of the speech is inaccurate, to substantiate it by quotation. If it is not controverted I will take it as accepted, that this speech did, in fact, propose an Anglo-American military alliance with the Soviet Union indicated as the potential enemy", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-05", "file": "debates1946-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b4bf51090755c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2066.5", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Bretton Woods.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "ook very closely two, three or four times at the kind of set-up into which the right hon. Gentleman is seeking to draw us. I hope we shall consider very deeply what is being done, when in effect it is suggested by the right hon. Gentleman and his friends that this country should be tied hand and foot to the United States and that the United Kingdom should become a 49th State of the American Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2066.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-05", "file": "debates1946-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b4bf51090755c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2077.1", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill), to whose speech I will refer later. The whole world can be falling around the ears of the right hon. Member for Woodford, but the responsibility rests with the Soviet Union, Communism and the Communist Party. The Foreign Secretary said that there was a difference between the Western democracies with their culture and the Slav States with their backward culture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-05", "file": "debates1946-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b4bf51090755c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2077.1", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Which is which? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "e Western democracies with their culture and the Slav States with their backward culture. [An HON. MEMBER: \" He did not say that.\"] He said something very similar. I claim that if there is any difference between us and the Soviet Union it is not between the Anglo-Saxon part of the world and the Slav part of the world, but rather between a Socialist foreign policy and an imperialist foreign policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-05", "file": "debates1946-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b4bf51090755c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2085.3", "colnum": "2085", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member will kindly listen to me, I said I think we ought to stand here as Englishmen looking at the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-05a.2085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-06", "file": "debates1946-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "6319d029f33a3727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-06a.2137.3", "colnum": "2137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALIENS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. The grant of British citizenship is a very considerable privilege․", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-06a.2137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-06", "file": "debates1946-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "6319d029f33a3727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-06a.2165.4", "colnum": "2165", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must 'be aware that there is strong feeling about this issue of conscription.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-06a.2165.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-06", "file": "debates1946-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "6319d029f33a3727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-06a.2166.0", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am afraid I have no idea. This, again, is a matter about which I do not think there is widespread alarm and despondency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-06a.2166.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-06-06", "file": "debates1946-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "6319d029f33a3727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-06a.2186.0", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND TRANSPORT (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He is still here.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snadden", "preceding_text": "t, that the right hon. Gentleman should get down with his expert advisers, should go very thoroughly into this question of the maintenance of soil fertility. We want to know, for example, is lime to be in proper supply. I can imagine the Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland who is in charge of housing․and who has just gone out․wanting a supply of lime for housing requirements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-06a.2184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-06", "file": "debates1946-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "6319d029f33a3727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-06a.2194.1", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND TRANSPORT (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacMillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or to the Ministers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacMillan", "preceding_text": "n this little brass plate are these words: The deck forward from this mark X on both sides to the forward screen bulkhead, contains 801 square feet and is certified to accommodate 89 passengers, when not occu- pied by cattle, animals, cargoes or other encumbrances. The \" other encumbrances \" are not specifically mentioned but I wondered whether it might apply to the late famous cockroaches․", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-06a.2194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-06", "file": "debates1946-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "6319d029f33a3727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-06a.2288.3", "colnum": "2288", "heading": "FOOD (POINTS RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summer skill", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summer skill", "preceding_text": "les and Orders, as if it were a new Order. When the Order was so sent to be laid, my Ministry should have formally requested the withdrawal of the original Order, but the point was not raised, and the reprint of the Order was, in fact, not laid. That is the explanation for which the hon. Gentleman asks. On 25th May, Mr. Speaker ruled that these misplaced brackets constituted an error of substance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-06a.2288.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-06", "file": "debates1946-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "6319d029f33a3727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-06a.2292.2", "colnum": "2292", "heading": "FOOD (POINTS RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Challen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Challen", "preceding_text": "s to employ a lawyer and spend a large amount of money in order to understand what he can sell and what the buyer can buy, no explanation is necessary. But I suggest that the Government Department in this case has slipped up between an explanatory note and a consolidating Order. The explanatory note is just ridiculous; it only tells us what we know. The hon. Lady has been reading for half-an-hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-06a.2292.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-06", "file": "debates1946-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "6319d029f33a3727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-06a.2305.1", "colnum": "2305", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (MISSING MEN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "t take into account all the evidence available—some of it meagre I admit—and then come to their decision. Unless hon. Members can shake that decision by any other evidence they can bring forward, or unless any other evidence is brought to bear, then I think the decision of the Court of Inquiry must stand. I admit that what follows from that decision may cause hardship to the dependants of the man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-06a.2305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-07", "file": "debates1946-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "81f322195fecf706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-07a.2368.4", "colnum": "2368", "heading": "U.N.R.R.A.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": " Government has not the administrative machinery at the moment to attend to that distribution in a really fair manner, and propaganda should be distributed or, if necessary, directions should be given to the receiving countries that they have to see that fair shares for all are granted in food received from U.N.R.R.A. or that otherwise U.N.R.R.A. must step in and carry out distribution themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-07a.2368.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-07", "file": "debates1946-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "81f322195fecf706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-07a.2403.2", "colnum": "2403", "heading": "GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "He had to fight his battle alone, with the help of his wife, producing evidence and showing the faked evidence which could not stand examination before a court of law. Many a doctor goes down on his knees at night, and I am sure Mrs. Hennessy does, thanking God for His Majesty's judges I myself might be tried next week, or the week after, for this speech, being regarded as an attempt to criticize—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-07a.2403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-06-07", "file": "debates1946-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "81f322195fecf706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-07a.2403.2", "colnum": "2403", "heading": "GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is privileged.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "e help of his wife, producing evidence and showing the faked evidence which could not stand examination before a court of law. Many a doctor goes down on his knees at night, and I am sure Mrs. Hennessy does, thanking God for His Majesty's judges I myself might be tried next week, or the week after, for this speech, being regarded as an attempt to criticize—[HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"]. Oh, yes, I might.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-06-07a.2403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-08", "file": "debates1946-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "22547732cd3a8440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Half.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "May I bring the discussion back to the remark of the Parliamentary Secretary to the effect that a number of these Amendments had been put down in order to meet the wishes of the Opposition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.46.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-08", "file": "debates1946-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "22547732cd3a8440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Discontinued services.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "y-General used the most extraordinary parallels to justify this act of confiscation and robbery. He talked about the little tradesman who had lost his business. We all have the utmost sympathy for the little tradesman who has lost his business, though a great many of them find, and found, that Hitler's bombs did not damage him very much more than the ruthless advances of the cooperative societies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-08", "file": "debates1946-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "22547732cd3a8440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.144.0", "colnum": "144", "heading": "CLAUSE 23.—(Reservation of certain air services to the three corporations and their associates.)", "cue_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "ase, and once we get over our immediate difficulties, we shall have many Americans coming to this country, particularly to the parts where American troops have been. They will bring their wives and families with them, and will set off from this country to Germany, Italy, Austria and the whole of the Continent. There is a great opportunity for us to \"cash in\" on these Americans when they come over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-08", "file": "debates1946-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "22547732cd3a8440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "CLAUSE 23.—(Reservation of certain air services to the three corporations and their associates.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in page 15, line 1, to leave out paragraph ( b ). I now come to one of the most monstrous proposals in this ill-conceived Bill —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-08", "file": "debates1946-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "22547732cd3a8440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "CLAUSE 23.—(Reservation of certain air services to the three corporations and their associates.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "he hon. Members who giggled just now will read the title of the Clause, they will see what a menacing character it has—\"Reservation of certain air services to the three corporations.\" My intention is to show the House exactly how the Government proceed to reserve these services and to protect their chil- dren, the corporations. When one looks at the paragraph which this Amendment seeks to exclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-08", "file": "debates1946-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "22547732cd3a8440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.156.0", "colnum": "156", "heading": "CLAUSE 23.—(Reservation of certain air services to the three corporations and their associates.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "as in the interest and intelligence of his own observations. I cannot help thinking—and in this I agree with the hon. and gallant Member for Macclesfield (Air-Commodore Harvey)—that on this occasion, he was perhaps addressing his mind to one of the previous Amendments on which he had intended to speak but had forgotten. The hon. and gallant Gentleman professes to think, if indeed he thinks at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-08", "file": "debates1946-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "22547732cd3a8440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "CLAUSE 23.—(Reservation of certain air services to the three corporations and their associates.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "ces. The measure of the maximum penalty put into the Clause by Parliament must surely impress upon the judges the importance of the crime; not the amount of profit that is made out of it. There is surely a distinction there. Is it really suggested that it is a crime to run a service knowingly, cunningly and cleverly or do we not want people to be enterprising and take a chance? Do we or do we not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-08", "file": "debates1946-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "22547732cd3a8440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "CLAUSE 23.—(Reservation of certain air services to the three corporations and their associates.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "nor of the learned Attorney-General's reply. Of course, it is somewhat gratifying to hear the learned Attorney-General taking a somewhat different attitude towards His Majesty's judges than he saw fit to take on the Trade Disputes Bill, and we can welcome perhaps that change of heart. It is no argument whatever for the inclusion of severe penalties in a Bill to say that they will never be imposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-08", "file": "debates1946-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "22547732cd3a8440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.174.2", "colnum": "174", "heading": "CLAUSE 29.—(Power of Minister to impose restrictions on land in the interests of civil aviation.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " people's homes.\" The Primrose League, disguised as a Housewives Association, will say, \"Look what this Socialist Government is doing: look at these restrictions. Let us have a public inquiry; let us put every possible obstacle in their way, even though we know the inevitable result of any such inquiry will be to confirm what is done under the Act.\" We really are living in a world of make-believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.174.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-08", "file": "debates1946-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "22547732cd3a8440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.176.0", "colnum": "176", "heading": "CLAUSE 29.—(Power of Minister to impose restrictions on land in the interests of civil aviation.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " so often—he spoiled it by a possibly quite unintended remark, but one on which we must ask for elucidation. The right hon. and learned Gentleman does this so often. Rumour has it that he is going shortly to Nuremberg to make the winding-up speech at the trial there. Let us hope that he will not spoil all the good work done by the right hon. and learned Member for West Derby (Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.176.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-08", "file": "debates1946-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "22547732cd3a8440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.177.1", "colnum": "177", "heading": "CLAUSE 29.—(Power of Minister to impose restrictions on land in the interests of civil aviation.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " knows quite well this is what I said, but he is seeking to introduce one of those debating points which he makes with sun charm but little effect—that the Primrose League, disguising themselves as an association of housewives, would no doubt seek to engineer any obstruction they could. Even though they knew the inquiry was going to result in the Order being confirmed, they would still oppose it——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-08", "file": "debates1946-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "22547732cd3a8440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.177.3", "colnum": "177", "heading": "CLAUSE 29.—(Power of Minister to impose restrictions on land in the interests of civil aviation.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members will see that in HANSARD tomorrow, and I am quite content to leave it there,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-08", "file": "debates1946-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "22547732cd3a8440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.192.4", "colnum": "192", "heading": "CLAUSE. 36.—(Air Transport Advisory Council).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "I want to raise a specific point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-08a.192.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-09", "file": "debates1946-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "346a3140725dc553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-09a.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "preceding_text": "er which has always struck me as being important. An ancient Greek philosopher said that the ultimate aim of civilisation was for two philosophers to be able to sit under a tree, and communicate with each other thoughts on a high level. Primitive people who sit under a tree today communicate low thoughts. Is it worth going through the full cycle of civilisation just to change the level of thought?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-09a.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-09", "file": "debates1946-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "346a3140725dc553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-09a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about this country?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "preceding_text": "more honours go to Asiatics and the natives of the Colonies. I remember, in the past, how much the letters \"J.P.\" after a name counted in the East. They have no functional value at all, because a justice of the peace does not carry out any duties whatsoever, but the mere fact of a man having the letters \"J.P.\" after his name gives him tremendous status, and is something which he values enormously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-09a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-09", "file": "debates1946-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "346a3140725dc553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-09a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "May I ask the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-09a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-09", "file": "debates1946-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "346a3140725dc553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-09a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "HOUSES (COURT POSSESSION ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "That is not a problem for me to settle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-09a.362.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.386.3", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN COMMERCIAL BROADCASTS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "No advertising.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Or the \"Tribune,\" on Egypt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.386.10", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN COMMERCIAL BROADCASTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "What is meant by \"at this moment\"? May I remind the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.386.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "SOAP (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Soap.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "to justify something for which he has given no explanation to this House. He has merely made a broadcast to the nation, and held a Press conference. He has given this House, which is still responsible for the government of this country, absolutely no explanation of this matter. We are told, again in a Press conference, that the Minister is making urgent representations to Ireland to get more meat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "SOAP (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wash it yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": " fats, but the small men—and out of the 1,000 in the country, few can be called large—are finding it practically impossible to carry on. What hope has the Minister to offer that they will be given some help in this difficult transitional period? A word or two about laundries. I do not know what your experience is, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, but at the moment I cannot get a shirt washed under eight weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "SOAP (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON, MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "oreign countries? It is true that, a few months ago, exports were our primary consideration. I think that, in all parts of the House, we watched with growing pride the increase in our exports. But the Chancellor of the Exchequer and other Members of the Government have told us that the export drive has far exceeded anticipations and far exceeded—if one may use the word—requirements for the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "SOAP (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "With due deference to you, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, I am contending that, although at one stage it may have been necessary to sacrifice every one of these commodities in order to earn foreign exchange, that no longer applies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.493.3", "colnum": "493", "heading": "SOAP (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Let him answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to give way to the hon. and gallant Member. I think he had a fair innings. I rose simply to challenge his statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.497.3", "colnum": "497", "heading": "SOAP (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "eet all the difficulties of transport, supplies and labour, but the truth is that the supply of oils and fats was in a very healthy condition indeed. I doubt whether one soap manufacturer in the country during the war had not, at any given moment, more oils and fats in his yam than he had in the days of peace. That situation has changed almost overnight, merely by the advent of another Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.497.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.497.3", "colnum": "497", "heading": "SOAP (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "se that the qualities he displays are necessary for the conduct of a nation and, without them, this country will get into a very bad state indeed. With regard to whale oil, this is a commodity very largely used in soap-making and it is extraordinarily useful to the British soap maker. I understand that the fleet went out and did very badly. Well, I cannot blame that on to the Socialist Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.497.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "SOAP (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Mr. Strachey)", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Mr. Strachey)", "preceding_text": "That links up with another point made by the hon. and gallant Member for New Forest and Christchurch (Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre) who seconded the Motion, that after all we need not force our exports now quite so hard as we were doing, that nor exports were going so well—I am grateful for the tribute he paid us in that respect, even if it was involuntary—that now we could well let up in that field.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.508.4", "colnum": "508", "heading": "SOAP (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Shepherd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Multiply the source of supply.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "What I said was that, so far as production of these soap-less detergents from mineral oil was concerned, they were largely in the hands of one large firm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.508.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "SOAP (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "Perhaps hon. Members opposite feel, as hon. Members on this side of the House certainly feel, that the right hon. Gentleman has made a singularly less convincing speech today than he made in a previous -Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "SOAP (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then what are you worrying about?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Gentleman so reluctant to give the figures today? There is nothing at all, and to show the completely farcical—I use the word advisedly—the completely farcical nature of the right hon. Gentleman's argument, I will turn to his own Trade and Navigation Returns for May, 1946, in which he gives the imports of whale oil, into this country both from the British fleet and from the foreign fleets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "SOAP (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "r. Hudson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "r. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ar successful soap substitute were in the Russian occupied zone of Germany. This impending cut or shortage of fats must have been known for months, because the Ministry of Food put out their famous statement on 22nd March, and I should like to ask have the right hon. Gentleman's colleagues done anything at all to try to get permission to import that machinery from the Russian zone to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.518.10", "colnum": "518", "heading": "SOAP (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "hemselves to their constituents as having come to a proper decision in this matter. There is one other matter on which the House does require information if it is to form a proper judgment. A further cut has been imposed upon the British people. Are we not entitled to set that cut in the general picture of the world situation? Are we not entitled to know the comparable position in other countries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.518.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "SOAP (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carson", "preceding_text": "tell him where he can get them washed in a fortnight. I come now to the main point I wish to make, and in doing so, I speak not from the world point of view, but from the point of view of the consumers in this country, and particularly the railway workers. There is in Ramsgate a railway shed, and in this shed there are workers in various categories. They clean the engines, they repair the engines—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "SOAP (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carson", "preceding_text": "y workers. There is in Ramsgate a railway shed, and in this shed there are workers in various categories. They clean the engines, they repair the engines—[ Interruption ]—I ask hon. Members opposite to listen; they are not famed for listening to things they do not want to hear. The Ramsgate depot of the Southern Railway is a large depot. It has a fitting staff, and it has a staff of dirty workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "SOAP (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carson", "preceding_text": "hings they do not want to hear. The Ramsgate depot of the Southern Railway is a large depot. It has a fitting staff, and it has a staff of dirty workers. [ Interruption .] That is the official term. They are workers who get very dirty. None of these workers in any category receives any extra soap. They have to rely upon the ordinary soap ration. I went down there the other day, quite unexpectedly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.461.4", "colnum": "461", "heading": "CLAUSE 43.—(Duty of the Board as to establishment of machinery for settle ment of terms and conditions of employment, etc.)", "cue_speaker": "Major Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Roberts", "preceding_text": "or it, as well as certain forward-looking managements. The Minister may not like it, but this is one concrete example of where consultations lead to very little. I am alarmed that these words will lead to a false state of complacency on the part of those people who are being attacked. One knows of the consultations which took place with Mr. Joseph Hall in South Yorkshire about Wentworth Woodhouse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.461.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.530.3", "colnum": "530", "heading": "FOOD (POINTS RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I was not referring to it, except for the purpose of quoting what the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food said on that occasion. It indicated the attitude of the Ministry towards the very question which I am now raising. If I may continue with what the hon. Lady said to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.530.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.531.3", "colnum": "531", "heading": "FOOD (POINTS RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "preceding_text": "is clarification. I desire that explanation, and I think the House ought to have it. These matters are of importance to every household and therefore it is the Minister's duty and that of every hon. Member of this House to make sure that this Order 866 is properly understood before it is laid before the House I make no apology for having moved this Motion. The Closure was most disgracefully moved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "FOOD (POINTS RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I made no reflection upon the Chair. I said it was a disgrace to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.532.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.532.4", "colnum": "532", "heading": "FOOD (POINTS RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, with the greatest respect, you could not have accepted the Closure unless it had been moved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.532.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.533.2", "colnum": "533", "heading": "FOOD (POINTS RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "preceding_text": "In accordance——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.533.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-10", "file": "debates1946-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5aa6813e2d2aca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.535.7", "colnum": "535", "heading": "FOOD (POINTS RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "scussion in the previous Debate, I will declare my interest in this matter. I am chairman of a small provincial household grocery company, and I speak with some experience on this question. What I would like to ask is this. Would the Minister please help the trade and the small shop keeper by making a declaration that it is his hope that as soon as possible all these regulations will be abolished?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-10a.535.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-11", "file": "debates1946-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce4b99b17292344e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-11a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "CLAUSE 36.—(Air Transport Advisory Council.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "nly say that I found many causes for complaint in the years before the war. However, under this Bill we are proceeding to set up a State-owned, State-controlled air service for the people and naturally we expect greater efficiency—I know that is a word which always appeals to hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite—from a publicly owned company than we should get from any privately controlled body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-11a.610.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-11", "file": "debates1946-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce4b99b17292344e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-11a.615.4", "colnum": "615", "heading": "CLAUSE 36.—(Air Transport Advisory Council.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "I was asking a question, not making a statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-11a.615.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-11", "file": "debates1946-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce4b99b17292344e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-11a.616.0", "colnum": "616", "heading": "CLAUSE 36.—(Air Transport Advisory Council.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "nt to put my remarks in perspective. The hon. Member for King's Norton (Mr. Blackburn), with a fury equal to his interest in atomic matters, and a lack of accuracy, charged me with saying something 1 did not say. I was at pains to say—and I said it deliberately, in the hope that we might learn the truth—that the Minister of Food was associated with Sir Oswald Mosley in his early pre-Fascist days——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-11a.615.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-11", "file": "debates1946-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce4b99b17292344e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-11a.625.2", "colnum": "625", "heading": "CLAUSE 49.—(Interpretation.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.''", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ance. There is a further point that the Air Transport Advisory Council are to be paid, under Clause 36, and the Schedule, by remuneration. As the Bill now stands, the members of the Council are to have an annual salary but, under an Amendment which we shall reach later, they are to have remuneration instead of annual salary. I think that means that there is to be no salary but merely an allowance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-11a.625.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-11", "file": "debates1946-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce4b99b17292344e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-11a.699.2", "colnum": "699", "heading": "FIFTH SCHEDULE.—(Adjustments of the functions of statutory undertakers.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. L. Gandar Dower", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Triplets.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. L. Gandar Dower", "preceding_text": "with every sincere wish, as I feel sure they do, for the benefit of civil aviation. Almost for the first time, and possibly for the last time, I have some sympathy with the Parliamentary Secretary. I regard him at the moment as like a person anxiously pacing the passage outside a maternity ward; he is expecting the birth of a child, and like many a father he thinks he can forecast what it will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-11a.699.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-11", "file": "debates1946-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce4b99b17292344e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-11a.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "CABLE AND WIRELESS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to ask my hon. Friends on this side to divide against this Bill. I want to make it perfectly clear that we are taking this action in the interests of Imperial unity in the matter of Imperial communications.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-11a.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-11", "file": "debates1946-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "ce4b99b17292344e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-11a.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "CABLE AND WIRELESS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": ". The Financial Secretary to the Treasury, with the extraordinary skill which he always displays, stated the Opposition case, of course, as it was not—an old dodge—and then proceeded to knock it down. Our position is perfectly clear. We are not dividing against this Bill, which we think is a had Bill, and is very distasteful to us, and we are taking that course in the interests of Imperial unity.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-11a.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-12", "file": "debates1946-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2a547ed2719dc55a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-12a.750.3", "colnum": "750", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(General Amendments.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": " hope very much that a body like the Danube Commission would come under the European regional Transport Organisation, and would be an integral part of the whole system. In that way, I think, quite plainly, it would in a real sense become a United Nations organisation, and on that ground ought to have the immunities. But it ought to anyway, and I think the same about the European Coal Organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-12a.750.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-12", "file": "debates1946-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2a547ed2719dc55a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-12a.788.3", "colnum": "788", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(General Amendments.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "Mr. Pickthorn rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-12a.788.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-12", "file": "debates1946-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2a547ed2719dc55a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-12a.830.0", "colnum": "830", "heading": "WELSH PORTS (TRAFFIC)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Dockworkers?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "vement at all. Nothing has been done to bring into the Welsh ports generally any imports to make up for what was known to be the difficulty in regard to exports. The employment position is shown by the fact that in the eight weeks up to 29th June, there were on the effective register 3,053 transport workers, as compared with 3,364 at the time when the last Debate took place. Thai is a drop of 311.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-12a.829.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-12", "file": "debates1946-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2a547ed2719dc55a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-12a.833.0", "colnum": "833", "heading": "WELSH PORTS (TRAFFIC)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "ithout power in that direction, but the application of that policy, particularly if it developed to any extent, would be a complete reversal of the policy which has been followed since the end of the war of trying to get shipping and our commerce back to normal conditions, and then reshaping policy to deal with this new set of conditions.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 22nd February, 1946; Vol. 419, C. 1510.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-12a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-15", "file": "debates1946-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "07450c8e39e142d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.877.9", "colnum": "877", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN LOAN AGREEMENT (GOVERNMENT PLANS)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "The House will, I am sure, share the satisfaction of His Majesty's Government that the United States Congress has approved the Loan Agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.877.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-15", "file": "debates1946-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "07450c8e39e142d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN LOAN AGREEMENT (GOVERNMENT PLANS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "glad that the long drawn out debate; have come to an end. On behalf of those who, like myself, believe that but for the loan this country might well have faced economic chaos, may I say how glad we are that it has come, and how glad we are to hear the right hon. Gentleman repeat the phrase of my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) about its being a sofa and not a springboard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-15", "file": "debates1946-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "07450c8e39e142d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.883.0", "colnum": "883", "heading": "BREAD RATIONING (CHILDREN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister of Food tell us what will be the effect of the very welcome relief he has just announced, coupled with the other reliefs that have been announced to the Press, on the total original saving which, we were told, is desirable, and is estimated to be between five per cent, and 10 per cent.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.883.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-15", "file": "debates1946-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "07450c8e39e142d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Allowance o f rehabilitation costs for profits tax.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not far away.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " time to tidy up these post-war complications. I hope the Solicitor-General will have been moved by what has been said, though I am afraid that he is bound by the little sentence written on the piece of paper. If that is so, it would be quite possible for him to adjourn further consideration of this Clause and consult the Chancellor, if he can find him. There are still no signs of the Chancellor—.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-15", "file": "debates1946-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "07450c8e39e142d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.942.0", "colnum": "942", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Coffee and chicory extracts, etc.)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What concession?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Chancellor of the Exchequer in his Budget. I want to hold on to the concession and use it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.942.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-15", "file": "debates1946-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "07450c8e39e142d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.952.0", "colnum": "952", "heading": "CLAUSE 8.—(Passenger aircraft licences for sale of intoxicating liquor and tobacco.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Hudson", "preceding_text": "les. Why should we now ask Northern Ireland to go as wrong in this matter as we have gone wrong? We do foolish things in this House, but at least we can try to see that Northern Ireland does not do the same. I have great faith in Northern Ireland. There is nobody from Northern Ireland here at the moment, but I would like to tell the House that Northern Ireland is exemplary in this matter of drink.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.952.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-15", "file": "debates1946-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "07450c8e39e142d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.977.4", "colnum": "977", "heading": "CLAUSE 33.—(Relief from excess profits tax for terminal expenses.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Amendment. I quite realise that it has been agreed that there shall be no discussion, but this is a most important Amendment. I regret the pathetic incompetence shown in the answers we have had on this series of Amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.977.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-15", "file": "debates1946-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "07450c8e39e142d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "CLAUSE 33.—(Relief from excess profits tax for terminal expenses.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I merely added that I regretted —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-15", "file": "debates1946-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "07450c8e39e142d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "CLAUSE 33.—(Relief from excess profits tax for terminal expenses.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "preceding_text": "right hon. Member for West Bristol (Mr. Stanley), I would suggest to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and his friends that it is not only the road haulage business that we have in mind but many other industries. Have right hon. Gentlemen opposite considered what is going to happen to municipal gasworks which may be taken over by His Majesty's Government? I know a good deal about municipal gasworks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-15", "file": "debates1946-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "07450c8e39e142d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.997.2", "colnum": "997", "heading": "CLAUSE 42.—(Gifts inter vivos, etc.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are other Amendments.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "As regards charities, and as regards the other cases in which the five or three years have run out. But what is interesting to those who have studied these things is the fact that in Committee the Amendment of the hon. Member for Twickenham (Mr. Keeling) was to leave out \"and two years,\" and here the Amendment of the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to leave out \"and two years.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.997.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-15", "file": "debates1946-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "07450c8e39e142d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "CLAUSE 42.—(Gifts inter vivos, etc.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. and learned Gentleman sits down, is it not the case that the one per cent. Legacy Duty or Succession Duty would be payable as well as the Estate Duty in the event of the testator dying? That seems to me to invalidate the argument which he has put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-15a.999.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1019.5", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "BREAD RATIONING (PETITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Bower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Bower", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to present to the House a Petition, signed by 300,000 people in all parts of the country, which states that the petitioners are already undernourished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1019.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1024.5", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Present a Petition \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that delay and frustration are caused because of the attempt to run over every detail with Whitehall, and because, as he has shown in a previous answer, so many Ministries have to be consulted and cannot agree? Does he realise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1024.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1026.4", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Is it not possible that the right hon. Gentleman is misinformed in this matter? Is he aware that I am informed, on the most credible authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1026.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1059.5", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL MIHAILOVITCH (DEATH SENTENCE)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "rmed on 3rd June, His Majesty's representative in Belgrade communicated to the Yugoslav Government on 18th May evidence drawn up by five British liaison officers who served with Mihailovitch up till May, 1944, showing that, in their experience, he actively fought against the enemy. This evidence was published in the British Press, but it seems that it was not communicated to the court in Belgrade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1059.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1060.0", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL MIHAILOVITCH (DEATH SENTENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Teeling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"24 hours\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Teeling", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that, according to Yugoslav law, General Mihailovitch will have to be executed in 48 hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1060.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1063.11", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "he monopoly system, and I should have thought that that was long enough even for this Government, certainly long enough for a committee of reasonable men, after inquiry, to reach conclusions. I must say I am not any more impressed by the other excuse for delay mentioned in the White Paper, namely, the shortage of wavelengths. Like the shortage of houses there is an easy solution—make more of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1063.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1063.11", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": " men, after inquiry, to reach conclusions. I must say I am not any more impressed by the other excuse for delay mentioned in the White Paper, namely, the shortage of wavelengths. Like the shortage of houses there is an easy solution—make more of them. [ Laughter. ] I invite hon. Members opposite who are laughing to read what Mr. Eckersley says. He should know and today he says that it can be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1063.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "t refer to the Lord President's very strange and sometimes conflicting statements about foreign stations. There are some things we could do now. I would not propose to rush into advertising at once, but one thing we could do at this moment would be to stop the right hon. Gentleman messing about with British reception of foreign stations. It is difficult to know what the right hon. Gentleman means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "estimate their authority over the Director-General and the staff of the Corporation, who are wholly responsible to them for their actions. I have heard the theory advanced that the set-up of the B.B.C. provides that the Director General runs the undertaking and that the Governors act as a kind of consultative body. I have never been a Governor of the B.B.C. so I cannot speak from inside knowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "It usually was.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "'' No, Sir.''— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 4th May. 1943, Vol. 389; col. 32.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1086.5", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Much better.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e system which in some British Dominions permits commercial broadcasting services alongside those run by the State, as the models that we should adopt. It is not for us to criticise the internal broadcasting systems of other countries, but I must confess that nothing I have heard or read has convinced me that the American listener gets such consistently good entertainment as we do in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1086.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1098.4", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman can read HANSARD tomorrow. I aver that the right hon. Gentleman quite unneccessarily brought up this topic of the Press. He said the Government accepted the desire of his hon. Friends that there should be an inquiry into the state of the Press. I believe that the state of the Press thoroughly well known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1098.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "he had no idea, either, that there was to be a Labour Government, and I dare say that he relishes the present Labour Government just about as much as we do. Twenty-five years ago, few people in this country anticipated that the B.B.C. would become a part of every home, and of almost every school, a great influence in Empire and foreign affairs and, perhaps, the most trusted newsgiver in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman does not. I do not think the Lord President sufficiently understands that organisers of entertainment are the best-paid people in the United States, and they are not badly rewarded in this comparatively poverty-stricken island. Certainly the Press, which was so roundly abused by the Lord President—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1109.4", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": ". is that he should be a resolute resister of governmental and other pressures. Prime Ministers do not always like that craggy quality; neither, indeed, does the Lord President of the Council, whose connection with the B.B.C. is doubtless of very great advantage to that institution, providing always he remembers he is presiding over the Council and not over the B.B.C. I have talked a bit too much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1109.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1109.4", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "pess may have fulfilled that proud claim, bit I aver that the B.B.C. has tried hard to do so: Its efforts at times may have been woefully inadequate; it may be that its standards have been pitched far too high. But who can say, in this age of the \"debunking\" of so many things that are true and of good report, that the B.B.C. is not right? Idealism is a much better guide than a cynical materialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1109.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1109.4", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Home Secretary?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "sting? This question can only be settled by setting up the strongest possible committee of inquiry the Government can appoint. Such a committee could hear the case of those who hold that the monopoly should end and the case, which may also be put forward very strongly, of the many who believe that it would be a great advantage to Britain if the Charter were renewed. I know that the Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1109.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"East Fife.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "nals. How are those Members of Parliament chosen? I have often been asked that question. They are chosen, not by reference to the Whips Office, but in just the same way as a newspaper chooses the person whom it thinks will write an article best. There is a rota which gives a place to the parties in accordance with their numbers in the House, including the minority parties—even the hon. Member for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is in the House.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will have to go outside the House if he wants to tell the Lord President.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1139.0", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You always write to order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "is House. I say that from my own experience of the B.B.C. and I will try to prove what I have said. Before I went to America in 1941 I was practically the blue-eyed boy of the B.B.C. I did a great deal of broadcasting for them. I never had the slightest difficulty with my scripts. Whatever I wrote they were anxious to have—and, if I may say so, they \"knew their onions.\" I had no difficulty at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1139.0", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "d boy of the B.B.C. I did a great deal of broadcasting for them. I never had the slightest difficulty with my scripts. Whatever I wrote they were anxious to have—and, if I may say so, they \"knew their onions.\" I had no difficulty at all. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You always write to order.\"] I should have thought that that was the last thing which any hon. Member on the Government side ought to say of me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " believe me. I beg them to read Shaw, the prophet of heresy, on the necessity of sustaining freedom for heresy. In \"Saint Joan\" he states the classic case for tolerating the heretic and not trying to suppress him and burn him at the stake. That is my second charge—that the set-up of the B.B.C. is such that there is no room for heresy. When I broadcast in America—I did a good deal when I was there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " fact, the broad programme of the Government. I hold that there are certain limits which ought not to be transcended in that regard. When more people are employed by the State than are not employed by the State, from that point freedom begins to disappear completely. I regard that as axiomatic. There can be no freedom in a totalitarian State, whether it is nominally Fascist or nominally Communist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1145.3", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piekthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piekthorn", "preceding_text": "ted against, and partly from the extreme snobbishness and old-fashionedness so characteristic of hon. Members opposite. They really cannot believe that anything to do with business and trade is really befitting a gentleman, or, if they prefer the term, a comrade. Those prejudices seem to be the main argument against some kind of sponsoring I have not the time to prove the proposition I am putting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1145.3", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piekthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piekthorn", "preceding_text": " real responsibility. The general policy of the B.B.C. is the day-to-day work of the people who choose the stuff, and the two are not distinguishable. Incidentally, the war has not been such an interruption to the B.B.C. as is generally pretended. It interrupted their news and talk sides, but that is not all of them by any means. All the educational side, which is not mentioned in the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1173.0", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "The Assistant Postmaster-General (Mr. Burke)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And women.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Assistant Postmaster-General (Mr. Burke)", "preceding_text": "have particular little things that we should like to hear put over. One of the things that I am particularly glad about is that when I have to answer questions with regard to the B.B.C. I do not have to try to justify Tommy Handley or Tessie O'Shea. At all events I think that is the kind of thing which, by general agreement, we think should be left to the Corporation. We have to get a body of men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1173.0", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "The Assistant Postmaster-General (Mr. Burke)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All for £600 a year? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Assistant Postmaster-General (Mr. Burke)", "preceding_text": "ement, we think should be left to the Corporation. We have to get a body of men—[An HON. MEMBER: \"And women.\"]—yes, and women, as Governors who are broadminded, of wide judgment, unprejudiced and impartial, I would say that they should also be men of action, people who are well-travelled, scientific but versed in the classics and so on. We should get all-round experts and leave the matter to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1173.0", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "The Assistant Postmaster-General (Mr. Burke)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Assistant Postmaster-General (Mr. Burke)", "preceding_text": "venues received by the B.B.C., wanted to know how much of it would be allocated to them and whether, if in the course of a year a certain amount was over, that amount would be allowed to stand and put aside by the B.B.C.? That cannot be done because it would be quite wrong, financially, that money given to the B.B.C. should be allowed to be kept and put on one side to be spent at some future time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burke", "preceding_text": "the country, and that in itself would destroy the balanced conception which the B.B.C. has of meeting the wishes of the community. Let me turn to the question of the inquiry which has been asked for. If we had an inquiry at the present time, the Charter could not be extended from the beginning of next year. If an inquiry had been desired, it ought to have been asked for some considerable time ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Yes, there was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burke", "preceding_text": ". If we had an inquiry at the present time, the Charter could not be extended from the beginning of next year. If an inquiry had been desired, it ought to have been asked for some considerable time ago. [HON. MEMBERS: Why? \"]When the Prime Minister made his statement and said that it was the considered opinion of the Government that an inquiry was not necessary, there was no demand for an inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burke", "preceding_text": "s, there was.\"] No, there was no demand for an inquiry, but in any case if any inquiry were to be instituted now, it would be 12 or 18 months before the result of that inquiry could be put before the Government. It is only a question of time. The Government have no objection in principle to an inquiry. The Lord President said that this afternoon. \"An investigation will take place\" is what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1176.1", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burke", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burke", "preceding_text": "40 other European countries. In Australia they have the whole of those wavelengths for their own use. In America there are only eight competing countries in the whole of North America for a whole range of wavelengths, and the difficulty we are in is the difficulty of allocating to ourselves the number of wavelengths in order to give us the best balance of programmes. If we were to have an inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1177.5", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burke", "preceding_text": "e hard to get at. It is easy to creep up from 80 per cent. 90 per cent., but B.B.C. and Post Office engineers are now facing the difficult problem of reaching the remaining 10 percent. Frequency modulation in a few years' time might get us out of a lot of difficulty. It is easy to talk glibly about it now, but this is not the time. Television is doing well in London. We want it in Birmingham next—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1177.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1183.9", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "PRISONERS OF WAR (DETENTION AND TREATMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not necessarily.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ernment. I know that there are different views about this, but, surely, everybody who has studied this problem knows the appalling effect which detention for an indefinite period of time has on the moral and spiritual attitude of any person. I have always said that I should go raving mad if I were locked up for a week. Hon. Members opposite would obviously say that that would be a very good thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1183.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "PRISONERS OF WAR (DETENTION AND TREATMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I am not suggesting anything confidential, because, obviously, no officer would tell me anything confidential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-16", "file": "debates1946-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "c09b620a26d99d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "PRISONERS OF WAR (DETENTION AND TREATMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the War Office (Mr. Ballenger)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is the money going? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the War Office (Mr. Ballenger)", "preceding_text": " capacity, namely, as the representative of the War Office, which does not make policy but is merely the guardian of these prisoners of war. What my hon. Friend said about the Government making a profit out of the prisoners of war is quite inaccurate. It is quite untrue. The Government are not making a profit out of the prisoners of war, otherwise I should say that it would be very immoral indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-16a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-17", "file": "debates1946-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1be5f55accdfac76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1220.8", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "Why is it not a disadvantage to the buyers in those countries who have not rationed tea?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1220.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-17", "file": "debates1946-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1be5f55accdfac76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax. Exemptions and reductions of rates.)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer", "preceding_text": "ndment was not in the list, and this suggestion was not made by any Member in any part of the House. I do not say that if it had been made I could have included it, but if it had been ma de at an earlier stage, it stood a better chance of being taken into the balance with various other suggestions that were made. If I made this concession it would cost the Treasury another £250,000 in a full year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-17", "file": "debates1946-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1be5f55accdfac76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax. Exemptions and reductions of rates.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "g position of the Government at this critical time. There can be no question that housewives are suffering very great hardships, and they will have to suffer far greater hardships in a few days' time. Why cannot the Chancellor even now say that, if he cannot accept the whole of the Amendment, at all events he is in agreement with the spirit of it, and that when the next Finance Bill is introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-17", "file": "debates1946-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1be5f55accdfac76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1241.0", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax. Exemptions and reductions of rates.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The senior Member.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "I should certainly not have intervened in this Debate had it not been for the hon. Gentleman—I do not know whether he is the senior or junior Member for Bolton, but let us at any rate call him \"the other Member for Bolton.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-17", "file": "debates1946-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1be5f55accdfac76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1248.2", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax. Exemptions and reductions of rates.)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wallpaper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "le to go the rest of the distance another time. It is proposed here to cut the tax down from 33⅓ per cent. to 16⅔ per cent. The cost will be half a million pounds a year, but it will be more as the years go on, as more paper is produced and as more houses are being papered. That is not the end of the concessions I am making, but includes those dealt with in this particular Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1248.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-17", "file": "debates1946-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1be5f55accdfac76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax. Exemptions and reductions of rates.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "I welcome the Amendment which the Chancellor has moved. If I might have his ear, I should like to thank him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-17", "file": "debates1946-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1be5f55accdfac76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1266.5", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax. Exemptions and reductions of rates.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "I would like to assure the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the major purpose of moving this Amendment is not to facilitate the consigning of the Socialist Government to these receptacles however desirable some of us may think that to be. It is to ask that favourable consideration should be given to the inclusion of dustbins in this Schedule. The reason is that dustbins are a necessity for health—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1266.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-17", "file": "debates1946-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1be5f55accdfac76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1269.2", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax. Exemptions and reductions of rates.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "Mr. C. Williams rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1269.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-17", "file": "debates1946-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1be5f55accdfac76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1269.6", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax. Exemptions and reductions of rates.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Gentleman withdraws——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1269.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-17", "file": "debates1946-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1be5f55accdfac76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1273.6", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax. Exemptions and reductions of rates.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what I was asking for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1273.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-17", "file": "debates1946-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1be5f55accdfac76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1277.2", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOURTH SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax. Chargeable processes: relevant classes of goods.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "e able to prove that both in regard to weight and value they would come under this Amendment, then so far as I am concerned I certainly would not object to that. When I make a speech on an Amendment of this kind, I naturally mention only those forms of skin to which I have given adequate and mature consideration, and I do not think I could fairly expect the Financial Secretary to accept sealskins.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-17", "file": "debates1946-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1be5f55accdfac76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1279.0", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOURTH SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax. Chargeable processes: relevant classes of goods.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman allow me a moment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-17", "file": "debates1946-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1be5f55accdfac76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOURTH SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax. Chargeable processes: relevant classes of goods.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "ow the Financial Secretary, on reflection, will see his way to move some form of manuscript Amendment which will give effect to our wishes. I wish to impress how important it is that mole skins should be excluded from the orbit of Purchase Tax, not only to protect the livelihood of those engaged in catching moles, but in order that there shall be efficient catching of moles to protect agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-17", "file": "debates1946-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1be5f55accdfac76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1284.3", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOURTH SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax. Chargeable processes: relevant classes of goods.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "I was not dealing with lambs, still-born or otherwise. I was dealing with the remarkable statement made by the Financial Secretary. If he will look in HANSARD tomorrow he will see that he said that \"All lamb skins would be above or below the weight of 3 lbs.\" He was very proud of that remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1284.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-17", "file": "debates1946-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1be5f55accdfac76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1342.4", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECOND SCHEDULE.—(Section 1 (2) of and the Schedule to the Principal Act as amended by this Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "I will seek not to abuse your indulgence, Major Milner, and will speak very briefly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-17a.1342.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1359.0", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "We are dealing with a pamphlet a very large proportion of which is a mere statement of fact, and one cannot withdraw statements of fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1359.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1379.3", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING POLICY (DEPARTMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "In order to win the last election, did not the Prime Minister specifically promise a Ministry of Housing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1379.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1387.0", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (POSTER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Freeman", "preceding_text": "ation known as \"Face The Facts Association,\" of which I understand the secretary is a certain Mrs. Tennant, already known to hon. Members of this House and to the Home Secretary. If you, Mr. Speaker, will be good enough to direct that the contents of this poster be made available to the House, I shall beg leave afterwards to move that such a poster is a high breach of the Privileges of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1386.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1387.5", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (POSTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": ", but I trust I may be permitted to submit to you one or two observations upon this peculiar case, the like of which I have not seen in my experience of 42 years' actual service in this House. Are we really to understand that the Members of this new House of Commons, just elected by the people, fresh from contact with the people, are going to be frightened out of their wits by something like this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1387.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1387.5", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (POSTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "mit to you one or two observations upon this peculiar case, the like of which I have not seen in my experience of 42 years' actual service in this House. Are we really to understand that the Members of this new House of Commons, just elected by the people, fresh from contact with the people, are going to be frightened out of their wits by something like this? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Are they really?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1387.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1389.1", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (POSTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "d House should show itself so extremely sensitive and touchy. Here is the hon. Member for Watford (Mr. J. Freeman), who was a gallant officer. Are we to believe that he feels himself deterred and intimidated from doing his duty, because he is going to be called a dictator? This is a very good example of the touchiness and timidity which have already overtaken this vast and newly returned majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1389.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1392.5", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (POSTER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I wish to put one point, which I consider very important. I put it as one who has on many occasions had prima facie cases presented against him. I want to ask you; Mr. Speaker, whether the Committee of Privileges, in considering this prima facie case, will also take into account those who have incited these people to commit this act—the Front Opposition Bench?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1392.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1393.6", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (POSTER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I withdraw the word \"instigated\" and I substitute the word \"incited\"; the hon. Member is welcome to the difference between them— that they have incited this printer to commit this offence. I ask that that absolutely false and, if I may avail myself of the latitude which has been given on previous occasions, I will say, lying assertion——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1393.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1448.3", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Here is your man.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "y's Government, and as the result we cannot feel convinced that the imposition of bread rationing is necessary on 21st July. Unless some new fact is disclosed which we do not now know, we shall be bound to vote against the imposition of this heavy, awkward, galling burden at this time. I will now proceed to examine seriatim the reasons which have so far been vouchsafed to us. The Minister of Food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "We have an uncertain shake of the head from the Minister. The assurances have been given all over the country, and repeated everywhere, that this is the maximum scale of cuts that is to be imposed—those contained in the Schedule to this Order. Where do we stand? I was very much struck with that uncertain lateral movement of the Minister's head. Does the right hon. Gentleman know where he is?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "rationing would not only be necessary but the allocation, which is bare enough, would have to be reduced. What is the position of the Government? I ask the Minister of Food, or the Prime Minister, specifically here and now across the Table, whether they adhere to their statement that the scale of bread rations in this Order now before us will not be further reduced? Is that true or is it not true?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "to know what are the facts and what is the true position. Right hon. Gentlemen have no right to reproach us with opposing them upon this matter, when they cannot answer and when they think it better to sit glum and mum, in the hope that the storm will blow over. I call the attention of the House to the fact that no answer has been given as to whether these ration scales are to be decreased or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1453.1", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "by the Government, and on the authority of Parliament, work as well as possible. If the scheme breaks down in operation, let it be clear to the country that it is because of its own inherent defects and not that the breakdown has been brought about by any lack of honest effort on the part of the trade concerned. This is the advice which I and my Friends on this bench feel it our duty to give them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1460.0", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "What about the 150,000 tons? Is it possible to get 150,000 tons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1463.1", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "No, I believe that to he so. I know what the right hon. Gentleman's point was, and he was loudly applauded for it—if that is so, why not wait until we come to the danger point, and then put on rationing? Is that a really wise or prudent action? To wait until the very day when one gets to one's very lowest point in supplies, before doing anything to safeguard the position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1472.0", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. May I ask if hon. Members on this side of the House will be permitted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1473.1", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "m for damning the Government by bell, book or candle, or by any other means that comes to hand, but let us, at least, remember in this great Mother of Parliaments that when we are dealing with a food issue, even if it were to involve failures on the part of the Government, we are dealing with the greatest human question of all—the situation which arises out of the starvation of millions of people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1476.0", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That question has been asked in this House over and over again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1476.2", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ful note of this. First—I am most sure about this point: I am not so sure about the others —I ask that something be done as early as possible about the manual worker who, by sheer accident, does not get a cheese ration. If one cannot get cheese, one can at a pinch put something else between bread, even if it is only a spread of margarine, but if one cannot get bread one can put nothing between it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Davidson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They can be deposited at the shop.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Davidson", "preceding_text": " a horse and van—the driver stops and drops the two or three loaves, frequently the money is left on the sill, when the woman is not there herself; he goes on and delivers at the next house, and the whole of the delivery is based on the period of time it takes him to do that round. Now he must stop at each place longer. He must find the woman, she must get her book and he must cut out the coupons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Davidson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Because it is unrationed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Davidson", "preceding_text": "ng districts which I have described. As there is already a great shortage of delivery vans, it will take far longer to deliver the bread. Therefore, it will mean that more of the public will have to go to the shops and queue. It has been said to me that there is very little queueing in the bread shops, but I can assure hon. Members that I myself have never been able to buy a cake without queueing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1493.1", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ayrton Gould", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ayrton Gould", "preceding_text": " on what I am quite certain will be a most effective scheme. I confess that when I heard talk about the possibility of bread rationing, I felt very nervous about it, because I was afraid that whatever ration was allocated, it would mean that there would be more waste, because people are apt to take up their complete allocation when they have a ration. However, when I heard of his brilliant scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1493.1", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ayrton Gould", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ayrton Gould", "preceding_text": "hat the vast mass of the people of Britain are getting so much more food than they had before the war. I am not at all surprised that the right hon. Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) wanted to wait, not at all surprised. He has followed on the line taken by Lord Woolton when he was Minister of Food at the beginning of the war. At that time I had the honour to be the Chairman of the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1496.1", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beeclunan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beeclunan", "preceding_text": "of 800,000 tons is one which need cause us great alarm or not. This, at any rate, I do know. There is in the country, or in those parts of the country that I know, very great apprehension on this subject. I differ greatly from the hon. Member for North Hendon. My views do not come from my post bag but from going about in my con- stituency. Everywhere one goes people approach one with apprehension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1496.1", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beeclunan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beeclunan", "preceding_text": "n for that is that when there is a shortage of other foods, people make up with bread. The Minister, quite rightly, is helping us with fruit and other varieties of food. There is thus every reason to suppose that an appeal to save bread would have succeeded, and I should like to have heard that it was possible to consider having one or two breadless days as an alternative Finally, I will say this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin", "preceding_text": "the dustbin. Although I agree that there are good qualities about everyone, about hon. Gentlemen in this House and about some of the Tory Party, there is an irresponsibility about most people which allows them to waste bread recklessly in that manner. It is because of that that such an Order as this has had to be introduced. If I may give another illustration, I was in my Division a few days ago——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1505.1", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What answer did the right hon. Gentleman get? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill), which fell very sadly short of his effort the other day. In the first speech that he made as Minister of Food, he secured from hon. Members on that side of the House what, I think, can rightly be described as nothing less than an ovation. Thinking it over afterwards, I asked myself if hon. Members realised what they had been cheering so loudly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1505.1", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "have taken the trouble to make himself acquainted with what the proposals were. They were seen by his Ministry on 25th June, but he confessed that he had not looked at them until 9th July. Is that consultation with the trade? It is much worse. Not only did he not look at them until 9th July, but when he went down to address a meeting at a by-election at Bexley Heath, on 11th July, what did he say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1508.3", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": " respect of all other countries, they are merely guesses. I would point out to hon. Members opposite that, when one reads these figures of the so called average number of calories that are available to people in countries in Europe, the only accurate or semi-accurate figures that can be obtained are for the people living in towns. The people who live in the country eat as well as they did pre-war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1508.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1511.6", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "preceding_text": "Miss Jennie Lee (Cannock) rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1511.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "en I heard the right hon. Gentleman make that statement, and I have been at pains to make inquiries since he made the statement. I am assured there is no foundation at all for the statement, and that actually the Canadian harvest began a week ago. There is, I am told, adequate time to gel: the harvest starting to flow across the Atlantic to arrive here by September if they put their backs into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ar claim in her speech, She said we attain fair shares for all because we exchange coupons for points, or points for coupons. Actually, so far from it being fair shares for all, the result—whatever the design and intention may have been—is that it is a scheme which results in the utmost unfairness. It benefits the sedentary worker and the higher income group at the cost of the heavy manual worker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1516.1", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food (Dr. Edith Summerskill)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food (Dr. Edith Summerskill)", "preceding_text": "s opposite that adjustments will be made if necessary. The right hon. Gentleman also asked whether the Soviet Union had been asked to make their contribution to the world food supply. I want to assure him that they have been asked time after time to join the Combined Food Board. He should have told the House how he would have brought pressure to bear on a sovereign State. Now I come to the speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1518.6", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "er manage this rationing.\" They have done, and have done it very well. I am quite convinced that the bakers also will in time manage to understand our fairly simple rationing scheme. The noble Lady said she has to queue for cakes. Of course she has to queue for cakes. These are things which are not rationed and queues very often form for them. I do not think she has ever had to queue for her meat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1518.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1521.0", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Surely, the hon. Gentleman listened very carefully to the Minister. The Minister told the House that it was no good waiting until the danger point had been reached. If we are to be prepared, we must do it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1521.0", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give us the figures.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Surely, the hon. Gentleman listened very carefully to the Minister. The Minister told the House that it was no good waiting until the danger point had been reached. If we are to be prepared, we must do it now. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] We are not prepared to wait until it is too late.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1521.2", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A bread knife.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member had looked at the hoardings he would have seen a figure holding up a sword.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1521.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-18", "file": "debates1946-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "e39dda34104c0370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1530.1", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "BREAD (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "preceding_text": "read rationing because they think that it is, in reality, the last straw. After all, the housewives of this country have had to put up with quite a lot during the past six years, and they are not convinced that this proverbial last straw which breaks the camel's back is a necessary burden which should be imposed on them. Neither is the opposition of the bakers to the scheme due to party agitation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-18a.1530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-19", "file": "debates1946-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "67fd0c7ca1a09533", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-19a.1545.1", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "CLOSURE MOTION (MEMBER'S PROTEST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "Further to that, both the hon. Members who have spoken this morning seemed to assume they had a right to speak because they had written indicating that they wanted to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-19a.1545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-19", "file": "debates1946-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "67fd0c7ca1a09533", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-19a.1556.1", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ocks of household goods as increasing supplies become available. Therefore I do not take it as tragically as some people that, for the moment, there is a definite sag in the total of savings by the broad body of our citizens as evidenced in the cashment of Savings Certificates and the withdrawals from post offices and trustee savings banks. A lot of money is going in, but a lot more is coming out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-19a.1556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-19", "file": "debates1946-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "67fd0c7ca1a09533", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-19a.1580.1", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "I am a very nervous person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-19a.1580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-19", "file": "debates1946-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "67fd0c7ca1a09533", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-19a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " exactly the other way and said that the fear of inflation had diminished and had largely passed. It just is not true, and it requires all the energy and all the best financial brains of this country to keep probing this problem and seeing what they can do about it. The House should make no mistake. If there is this progressive inflation, first of all, controlled, and then possibly, un-controlled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-19a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-22", "file": "debates1946-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e07c2cb5b9da2422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1697.6", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "CLAUSE 16.—(Research, 9 & 10 Geo. 5. C. 21.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "We are on the Amendment, are we not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1697.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-22", "file": "debates1946-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e07c2cb5b9da2422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1705.0", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Provision of residential accommodation for staff.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "n. Gentlemen press their questions too far, they will get themselves into trouble with their own colleagues. In the first place, the right hon. Gentleman said that I was creating a new form of tied cottage. As I have explained in other places, the real defect of a tied cottage, consists in the fact of the absence of other accommodation in the area, and that difficulty we are in process of solving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-22", "file": "debates1946-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e07c2cb5b9da2422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1706.2", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Provision of residential accommodation for staff.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "take a job with the National Health Service and may be given a house. He may then decide to contract out, and someone else will take his place. It will be the duty of the local authority to find a house for that new man. The difficulty under Tory rule was that people could not get houses, and were condemned to live under the most unspeakable conditions, but now the housing problem is to be solved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1706.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-22", "file": "debates1946-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e07c2cb5b9da2422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1716.3", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Maintenance of hospitals before transfer.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": " endowments. The governors of a hospital are thus placed in a very awkward dilemma. If they take the money out of the endowments and spend it on the hospital, they will reduce their endowments by that amount when the scheme comes into operation. They will be taking money which will be their own property, and spending it on property which, in a month or two will become the property of the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-22", "file": "debates1946-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e07c2cb5b9da2422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1719.2", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Maintenance of hospitals before transfer.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And despondency,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "would have been common ground in all parts of the Committee that what the House of Commons cannot do is to give a blank cheque, because that would be the effect of the proposed new Clause. I want to tell hon. Members that I will not do that. The hon. Member for South Hendon (Sir H. Lucas-Tooth) made a speech which, if I may say so with respect, disclosed a state of mind which filled me with alarm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1719.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-22", "file": "debates1946-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e07c2cb5b9da2422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1720.1", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Maintenance of hospitals before transfer.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: HOW can they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ir contributions will be the well-to-do who will say, \"No, we are not going to contribute because the voluntary hospitals are going to be taken over by the State.\" My last word on the subject is that, where a voluntary hospital gets into difficulty and the efficiency of its service is likely to be impaired by financial conditions over which it has no control, it can then come to me for assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-22", "file": "debates1946-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e07c2cb5b9da2422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1727.3", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Maintenance of hospitals before transfer.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows very well that there are a variety of powers under which it is possible to do this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1727.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-22", "file": "debates1946-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e07c2cb5b9da2422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1740.0", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Delegation of powers by county council to council of borough.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "a large number of urban districts that are far larger and more important than many non-county boroughs. In fact, some of the non-county boroughs are woefully unable to discharge their existing functions, so small are they; and although they are ancient, and have great pride, and maintain the full pageantry of their historic lineage, nevertheless the discharge of their functions is woefully behind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1740.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-22", "file": "debates1946-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e07c2cb5b9da2422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1781.1", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Treatment by general medical practitioners.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Of course not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "preceding_text": "May I pursue that point a little further? This is really an important point and it requires elucidation. Are we to understand from the Parliamentary Secretary that every general practitioner practising within the area served by a general practitioner hospital is, by virtue of practising there, automatically regarded as being on the staff?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-22", "file": "debates1946-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e07c2cb5b9da2422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1793.0", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "CLAUSE 7.—(Endowments of voluntary hospitals.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "casions that I can almost make the answer without thinking. The fact is that this money, to which so much reference is made, could quite properly and justly have been taken by the Government and passed into the Exchequer for general hospital purposes. All the money to which the right hon. and learned Member for Hillhead (Mr. J. S. C. Reid) has referred was subscribed for general hospital purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1793.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-22", "file": "debates1946-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e07c2cb5b9da2422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1799.7", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "CLAUSE 7.—(Endowments of voluntary hospitals.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I am quoting from the Weir Hospital case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1799.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-22", "file": "debates1946-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e07c2cb5b9da2422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1801.3", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "CLAUSE 7.—(Endowments of voluntary hospitals.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: What is the answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I think the right hon. Gentleman will see in tomorrow morning's HANSARD that that is a complete diversion and not at all an answer to the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1801.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-22", "file": "debates1946-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e07c2cb5b9da2422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1801.3", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "CLAUSE 7.—(Endowments of voluntary hospitals.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I think the right hon. Gentleman will see in tomorrow morning's HANSARD that that is a complete diversion and not at all an answer to the question. [HON. MEMBERS: What is the answer?\"] I will not now say what I think he will be entitled to do, or should do, under totally different Clauses in this Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1801.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-22", "file": "debates1946-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e07c2cb5b9da2422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1831.1", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "CLAUSE 19.—(Local health authorities.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "Mr. Henry Strauss rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-22", "file": "debates1946-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e07c2cb5b9da2422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1831.2", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "CLAUSE 19.—(Local health authorities.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I wish I could understand the groans from the opposite side of the House. I cannot understand Why some hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1831.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-22", "file": "debates1946-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "e07c2cb5b9da2422", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1836.0", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "CLAUSE 19.—(Local health authorities.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What borough?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "preceding_text": ". Members opposite have been trying to make a case on the assumption that the whole of the 28 London boroughs are behind the sort of suggestion which is contained in this Amendment. That is not true, because a number are opposed to it. The hon. Member for St. George's, Westminster (Mr. Howard), has referred to his borough, but for my part I can say that my borough does not agree with the proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-22a.1836.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1847.7", "colnum": "1847", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think so; I must confess that I thought it unfortunate to say that the lady was employed on snooping duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1847.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1873.8", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MAY DAY (NATIONAL HOLIDAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "y protection; he asked me to take the words down. I gave my answer to that. If the hon. Gentleman wants to know if the word \"malicious\" is out of Order, I do not think it is. I do not think there is anything in the word \"malicious\" which means an unworthy motive, but I must confess I was a little surprised when I heard the right hon. Gentleman use the phrase \"a friend of an enemy of this country.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1873.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1894.2", "colnum": "1894", "heading": "CLAUSE 33.—(Arrangements for general medical services.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. House", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. House", "preceding_text": "I am not an expert on that, but had my right hon. Friend understood nature cure, he would not have lost that time. I have seen him since with his little tins and pills and pellets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1894.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1907.4", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "CLAUSE 33.—(Arrangements for general medical services.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, he is an osteopath.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "The most famous one at the present time is a Mr. Barker——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1907.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1918.0", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "CLAUSE 34.—(Distribution of medical practitioners providing services.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "preceding_text": "d to deal with at the time of the Second Reading. I think this is so important that I might quote from the OFFICIAL REPORT of the proceedings in Committee. The right hon. Gentleman the Minister then said: Even if it were not necessary for the proper distribution of the general practitioner service to abolish the sale and purchase of practices, I should still do it, because it is an intrinsic evil-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1917.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1922.3", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "CLAUSE 34.—(Distribution of medical practitioners providing services.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "Yes. He wants to dictate, because he wants this Bill, and he wants to institute a system of dictation to partnerships, whereby certain persons— other doctors, no doubt—but certain persons shall say to existing partnerships, \"You cannot have the man you want. You must take the man we think you ought to have.\" That is a perfectly fair picture of what the Minister said upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1922.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1928.4", "colnum": "1928", "heading": "CLAUSE 34.—(Distribution of medical practitioners providing services.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "on. I gave an example upstairs, which I should like now to give to the House if the House will allow me. There may be in all parts of the House hon. Members who practise at the Bar. I ask them to remember the time shortly after their call, and their start in their profession, and to imagine that it had been open to some professional body of the Bar to say, \"London is now an over-barristered area.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1928.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1937.1", "colnum": "1937", "heading": "CLAUSE 34.—(Distribution of medical practitioners providing services.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does the hon. Member object to that? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I was about to deal with the point of negative, rather than positive, direction. Let me amend what I said. The Minister says that the doctor has no right to complain if the employing authority, which now becomes the State, says that he shall not work where he is not wanted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1938.2", "colnum": "1938", "heading": "CLAUSE 34.—(Distribution of medical practitioners providing services.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: You might not get the same results at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": "se compulsion, negative or positive, if he can get results in other ways. It is not so much a question of whether the individual who is going to attract money from the Government should be able to choose where he shall or shall not serve, but of whether from the point of view of obtaining the best results for the public health service, it is not better to rely on inducement rather than compulsion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1938.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1941.1", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "CLAUSE 34.—(Distribution of medical practitioners providing services.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"State service.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": " who apply. This proposal will, in our view, militate most seriously against the continuance of those partnerships or groups of practices which the Minister professes to be so keen to foster. The next observation I wish to make is on the complete fallacy of the Minister's observation as to the effect on the general medical practitioner in the public service who is drawing money from public funds —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1953.7", "colnum": "1953", "heading": "CLAUSE 35.—(Prohibition of sale of medical practices.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do it now\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "Exactly, and now we are driven to this, that doctors are not to be allowed to enter into quite simple transactions without all the bother of consulting someone in London, perhaps 200 miles away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1953.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1954.3", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "CLAUSE 35.—(Prohibition of sale of medical practices.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ning. The right hon. and learned Gentleman has had the benefit and the ordeal of going through ail this in Committee, and yet he makes a speech of the kind we have just heard. If hon. Members will relate it to the Debate we have just had it will appear even more extraordinary. What happens? The State sets aside a very large sum—£66 million—which the medical profession agrees is extremely generous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1954.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1956.0", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "CLAUSE 35.—(Prohibition of sale of medical practices.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"It is commonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "lly ignorant of some of the monstrous effects which this Clause will have. If ever there was a case when the right hon. Gentleman was entitled to the presence of the Law Officers on the Government Bench, it is on the discussion of this Clause that he deserves their help. I am not surprised that there is not to be found on the benches opposite during the discussion of this Clause one single lawyer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1956.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1958.1", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "CLAUSE 35.—(Prohibition of sale of medical practices.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "mmittee to get a certificate? 7.45 p.m. Suppose the sale is to be by auction. Is that an improper way of selling a house? May it not be the very best way of selling a house, the way which might be most approved? In that case no price is known until the auction has been completed, but by that time there is a com- pleted contract and, if the price is too high, the offence has already been committed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1963.6", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "CLAUSE 35.—(Prohibition of sale of medical practices.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nor are lawyers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "urt incapable of going behind the certificate unless the conditions in the proviso are complied with. There is a condition in the proviso that if a certificate has been obtained by fraud the court can go behind it, but the court cannot open up the whole transaction on any other ground. This is a point, as are most other lawyers' points in this House, which is not easily acceptable to hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1963.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1982.1", "colnum": "1982", "heading": "CLAUSE 42.—(Disqualification of practitioners.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "mber, in the Standing Committee I attached the greatest possible importance to this. The argument of hon. Members opposite has been that, as the State gets its hands more and more upon industry and more and more citizens become employees of the State, it is necessary that the citizens should be protected against the actions of the State. I entirely agree. But who is to protect them? The judiciary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1984.3", "colnum": "1984", "heading": "CLAUSE 42.—(Disqualification of practitioners.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We will see.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "rly demonstrated by the Minister himself—his influence, powerfully and firmly exercised. Fortunately, his name comes high in the alphabet so that he was one of the first to vote, and I think it was a good exercise in party discipline to hear him say \"No\" on that occasion in Committee, which at once brought to heel all the voters who supported the Amendment. I do not think they changed their minds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1984.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1985.1", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "CLAUSE 42.—(Disqualification of practitioners.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "ne. That has been a steadily growing practice, among all parties alike. As I listened to the right hon. Gentleman I thought he ought to be the last to defend the old Baconian position in this country. I should have thought that he would not defend that position. He represents a progressive side in the House, defending what? Something which is really a sixteenth century position in its modern form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1990.2", "colnum": "1990", "heading": "CLAUSE 42.—(Disqualification of practitioners.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "point. The evidence as to the conduct of any doctor which will justify his removal, will be evidence of fact, and evidence of fact only, coming before that tribunal. The idea of introducing the right of appeal in cases of that kind is absolutely nugatory, and can only be done for the purpose of making lawsuits. The one thing that the court of appeal cannot do is to interfere with findings on fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1990.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1993.2", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "CLAUSE 42.—(Disqualification of practitioners.)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "Party policy—I have been a Member of the Labour Party and the Fabian Society since I went to university in Glasgow in 1904—which tells me that an aggrieved person tried by a lower court should not have the right of every citizen to appeal to the High Court with trained judges accustomed to the sifting and proper adjudication of evidence. This Clause gives the Minister, through his tribunal, power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1993.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1993.2", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "CLAUSE 42.—(Disqualification of practitioners.)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": " to weighing evidence over a period of years. I think that where a man's professional livelihood is involved, no progressive Government should refuse that man the right of appeal against a decision which he feels is unjust. He appeals from the judgment of the tribunal, if the tribunal has decided that he has not the professional proficiency necessary in order to remain on any list in his district.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1993.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-23", "file": "debates1946-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0165ed5ecfcf625b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1996.1", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "CLAUSE 42.—(Disqualification of practitioners.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "er that a medical practitioner shall no longer appear on any list in the whole country. What are to be that practitioner's rights in those circumstances? We say that when procedure of that sort is adopted, with a court of first instance which is two-thirds non-legal and untrained in the law of evidence, there ought to be an appeal to a court of law. How is the Minister going to hear those appeals?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-23a.1996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-24", "file": "debates1946-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "f1aa0e5eb4426f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.1.5", "colnum": "1", "heading": "DEATH OF A MEMBER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am sure it would be the wish of Members, and especially of Members of former Parliaments, to pay a special and exceptional tribute in memory of a very remarkable and lovable colleague.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.1.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-24", "file": "debates1946-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "f1aa0e5eb4426f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.45.12", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If you have a garden.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "ed on the chemical industry in January of this year, he had lost £2,500,000 sterling of chemical exports. Let me now turn to the other problem of quality, which is almost as important as that of quantity. Here we have a very serious situation. As regards domestic consumption, we know the quality in our own grates. You can make a crazy paving in your garden from the stuff you take out of the grate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.45.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-24", "file": "debates1946-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "f1aa0e5eb4426f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell)", "preceding_text": "ing, I said so. On the other hand, when I discovered that a change for the worse had occurred, I informed the country upon the facts. What would the right hon. Gentleman have me do? He demands consistency, but consistency is no virtue when the facts are ever changing, and the position at any particular moment determines any utterance to which I may give expression. Therefore, I am left quite cold—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-24", "file": "debates1946-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "f1aa0e5eb4426f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.62.3", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "rtment, assisted by various other Government Departments and by the National Union of Mineworkers and others concerned with the industry, we have improved the position by about 4,000 intake, since the beginning of the year. I admit that that is not satisfactory. What is the reason for all this? The fact is that the industry has been written down far too long. There has been constant disparagement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.62.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-24", "file": "debates1946-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "f1aa0e5eb4426f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.106.3", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "Does he not know that far from too much politics having been introduced into this situation this year, there has been rather too little politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-24", "file": "debates1946-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "f1aa0e5eb4426f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.107.3", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "nities of the mining community. Our own Government begin to carry these responsibilities, and will carry them well. I beg them to convey to the Coal Board that mining is a highly technical operation, but at the same time it is a highly human operation, and that the problems of the mining community have to be looked at as a whole. For instance, Lord Hyndley has caused me considerable embarrassment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.107.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-24", "file": "debates1946-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "f1aa0e5eb4426f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": "H. Macmillan) and one by the hon. Member for the Hallam division (Mr. Jennings). They wanted three or four things to be done. The hon. Member for Hallam complained about housewives not having coal and about there being no coal for export. He wants it to be exported, he wants it in the housewives' cellars, and at the same time he wants it in the steel works in Sheffield. He cannot have it all ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-24", "file": "debates1946-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "f1aa0e5eb4426f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": "I think most hon. Members will agree with the sentiments expressed by the hon. Member for Bolton (Mr. J. Jones). I could not, however, myself resist the thought that, had he and his friends been actuated by those motives and those ideas in the earlier part of this century, we should not be discussing the mining industry in so parlous a state as it is at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-24", "file": "debates1946-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "f1aa0e5eb4426f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": "as a consequence of this failure or partial failure of gas supplies. The Minister is doing a disservice if he attempts to underrate the loss industry suffered last year as a result of the failure of supplies. Is not the housewife entitled to some consideration in this matter of coal? There is a tendency on the part of hon. Members opposite to underrate the consumer as being of no importance at all", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-24", "file": "debates1946-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "f1aa0e5eb4426f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.168.2", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ISLE OF MAN (CUSTOMS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Joynson-Hicks", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Joynson-Hicks", "preceding_text": "I am in a difficulty because of the Ruling which you, Mr. Beaumont, have quite properly given, that the Tynwald—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.168.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-24", "file": "debates1946-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "f1aa0e5eb4426f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.168.2", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ISLE OF MAN (CUSTOMS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Joynson-Hicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Joynson-Hicks", "preceding_text": "I am in a difficulty because of the Ruling which you, Mr. Beaumont, have quite properly given, that the Tynwald—[ Interruption ]. The Solicitor-General is asking the Committee to pass this Clause, on the ground that it is the consummation of an agreement between H.M. Government and the Tynwald.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.168.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-24", "file": "debates1946-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "f1aa0e5eb4426f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.172.6", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ISLE OF MAN (CUSTOMS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why worry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "e Government are receiving powers to vary the duties imposed. Will the Solicitor-General give some kind of explanation of this to those of us who are interested in this matter and indicate how the Government actually do cany out these powers? Are they laid before the legislative chamber? Are they adopted by the legislative chamber? Is notice given? Is the Governor free to do exactly what he likes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.172.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-24", "file": "debates1946-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "f1aa0e5eb4426f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.176.8", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ISLE OF MAN (CUSTOMS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "was in the Division Lobby just before the Bill was reached, and for that reason we consider that the Government—I do not say the Solicitor-General because he has been in charge of the Bill and has answered everything that was put to him—stand indicted of treating this House once again with contempt. When financial Measures come before the House, it is the business of finance Ministers to be here.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.176.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-24", "file": "debates1946-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "f1aa0e5eb4426f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.176.8", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ISLE OF MAN (CUSTOMS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Performance?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ere.—[ Interruption. ]—Has the Home Secretary anything to say? If the Home Secretary will keep on muttering, I think I am entitled to know what he was saying. As he is the senior Minister on the Government Front Bench, I hope that he will take the protest made by us to his colleagues and that in future, when discussing Bills dealing with Isle of Man customs, this performance will not be repeated.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.176.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-24", "file": "debates1946-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "f1aa0e5eb4426f5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND, SCOTLAND (BUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Thomas Fraser)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Thomas Fraser)", "preceding_text": "I have no complaint to make against the tone of the speeches of hon. Gentlemen opposite. Indeed, I should observe that the hon. Member for West Perth (Mr. Snadden) has just answered some of the questions put by the noble Lord.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-24a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-25", "file": "debates1946-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7d37b3d61b2f029f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-25a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "ued, if there is to be dialectic, that by doing this they are building up the life of the country. We placed some of these people in good positions, but I think that they are afraid of the new Socialist policy which the Labour Government are trying to hammer out in the Colonies. They are concerned to get their businesses going again as soon as possible, and they have no interest in rehabilitation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-25a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-25", "file": "debates1946-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7d37b3d61b2f029f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-25a.380.1", "colnum": "380", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1946", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "There is a good deal that implicates him in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-25a.380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-26", "file": "debates1946-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "f40fa578877c563d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-26a.401.3", "colnum": "401", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "preceding_text": "I think I am right in saying that in the great majority of cases the general practitioner who so desires can follow his case into the hospital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-26a.401.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-26", "file": "debates1946-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "f40fa578877c563d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-26a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Neither have you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "preceding_text": "of county court summonses to collect odd five shillings and guineas from these people. If that be so, the hollow-ness of introducing this provision into the Bill for the sake of tidiness is apparent at once. The Minister will learn the opinion of existing donors under these covenants. He has no opportunity of knowing the opinion of those who have passed on and whose benefactions he is taking away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-26a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-26", "file": "debates1946-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "f40fa578877c563d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-26a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very badly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "preceding_text": "ith the rights of medical practitioners to choose their partners. The selection of a partner rests ultimately with an executive committee. It deprives a medical practitioner who chooses to stay outside the scheme, of access to hospital beds. It supplants by means of new tribunals the professional disciplinary committees which have looked after the discipline of the great professions for a century—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-26a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-26", "file": "debates1946-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "f40fa578877c563d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-26a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "preceding_text": "Progress is movement in any direction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-26a.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-26", "file": "debates1946-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "f40fa578877c563d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-26a.406.3", "colnum": "406", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "preceding_text": "mble to call them discredits—attached to this Bill. In the past, the countryman, who has to live a much more individual life than the townsman, has had considerable control over the small and possibly not so efficient hospitals—they may not be so efficient but they do their best—in existence in the country. If he has not liked the people on the committees, he has been able to remove them directly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-26a.406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-26", "file": "debates1946-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "f40fa578877c563d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-26a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat Amory", "preceding_text": "y deplorable. The State should set an absolutely impeccable standard of ethical conduct, particularly today when a Government arc in power who claim to be out to guide the nation into better ways. The third point is about the doctors. Throughout, the Bill seems to regard doctors with an attitude of suspicion, as Though they were a body of men who, given the opportunity, would abuse their position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-26a.432.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-26", "file": "debates1946-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "f40fa578877c563d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-26a.468.1", "colnum": "468", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "Earl Winterton (Horsham) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-26a.468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND AUSTRIA", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State (Mr. Philip Noel-Baker)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State (Mr. Philip Noel-Baker)", "preceding_text": "o bring order back to the conquered people. It is a striking proof of what has been said by my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary, for whose absence from this Debate, and from the Conference in Paris, we all grieve. I am glad to tell the House that today he is getting on much better; I hope he may make a speedy and complete recovery and be able to take up his duties again in the early future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.546.4", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND AUSTRIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that, at least on this side of the House, and I think on both sides of the House, there is every support for the policy of putting into concentration camps members of the S.S. and other organisations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.546.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.582.5", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND AUSTRIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "feel strongly about this and I hope I will get support from hon. Members opposite. So much for what we are doing for the reconstruction of German life on a democratic basis. Although the policy of pastoralisation would in any case make the birth of German democracy impossible, what we are doing is to make it impossible for it even to be conceived. I will cut out a great deal of what I wish to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.582.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND AUSTRIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "at Paris was not an unreasonable refusal, seeing that our two zones, to put it bluntly, are economically and financially bankrupt, whereas the Russian zone is a going concern. The diet there is 50 per cent. better in calories and in the Russian zone industrial production has reached almost prewar level, and the Socialist and Communist Parties have something to say in the Government of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND AUSTRIA", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander Hulbert", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Many are common criminals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander Hulbert", "preceding_text": "ought against for five or six years. I differ from the opinion held by the Minister of State. Many of these people are not, as he said, former active members of the Nazi Party. They are scientists, surgeons, dentists and the rest. Do the Government really mean to tell the Committee that to release some of these people, under proper surveillance, would cause any danger to public safety or security?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.632.6", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND AUSTRIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not say ' plant '.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "atements, a number of allegations, and a number of assessments of the position, based on completely inadequate and, in many cases, completely false information, and a completely false reading of the Report of the Select Committee. He dealt, for instance, with the question of timber, and suggested that we were sending 700 British personnel for the purpose of teaching the Germans how to plant trees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.632.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " from the many defects which have been pointed out already in connection with an independent corporation. There will not be that proper pooling of aircraft which is essential for the full utilisation of resources; there will not be proper economical arrangements for centralised training; there will not be the same opportunities of employment for Scottish pilots as there would be on English routes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Money from the Treasury.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "om this strong Scottish national sentiment. I am certainly not going to belittle it. But what advantage would this proposal bring to Scotland, from that point of view? None at all; for this proposed associate company would be—I use a word I learned in Committee—a \"stooge\" of the English Corporation. Its directors would be appointed by an English Minister; its capital would come from English money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"HOW?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I am trying to do so, because, under the Minister's present proposals, Scotland would play a very big part in British European Airways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.648.0", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " England. But I should not wish to carry that argument to its logical conclusion. These, then, are some big objections that I see to the Amendment as it has been sent to us from another place. The great objection that I feel to it —and this is the ground on which I should like the House to reject this Amendment— is that the proposals under it can be better secured by the Bill as it is now drafted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.652.3", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "an the Lord President of the Council has been more careful and guarded in his speech but equally unsympathetic on many occasions to Scotland. I believe that the reason for this is that the Members of this Government are gluttonous for power. They intend that Socialism shall mean the concentration of power in London. The Secretary of State has proved incapable of standing up against his colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.652.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.653.2", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "I am trying to point out that if Socialist Members go into the Lobby against this Amendment, they will go against what they said they would do at the last election. I think it is always in Order to remind hon. Members of what they have said in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.657.1", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel J. R. H. Hutchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel J. R. H. Hutchison", "preceding_text": "s, the right to start a new line from Scotland if the division wanted it, and would not have to go to the Corporation or to the Minister and ask for those powers. I ask the Parliamentary Secretary to say, either now or later on, whether that is so. Is he proposing to give automonous powers to the new division to start a new line, coming into conflict with the Minister, because Scot-lands wants it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. L. Gandar Dower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. L. Gandar Dower", "preceding_text": "I rise with the hope of explaining to this House why this Clause is necessary. I am nothing if not an optimist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.666.3", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Last week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": " properly led and directed, must have faith in their cause; and that is what none of the big battalions opposite have got. The party opposite, and the Government which leads it, has just sufficient sense to know when it has done wrong, but not sufficient courage to put it right. It is so frightened of losing face; so frightened of losing the confidence of the electors who voted for them last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.666.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.666.3", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "of course, the fear of being thought weak, vacillating and conciliatory, and, of course, these are serious crimes in the new Socialist hierarchy. At the same time, I feel that this substitute Amendment points a way out of the impasse into which the Government have got with their stupid policy. I am not going to talk of the constitutional issues involved by the possible rejection of this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.666.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "s made Canada a second Scotland. It is established in China, in South America and in India— Mr. Deputy-Speaker, forgive me; I can see a menace in your eye. I would point out to you, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, that Scottish sentiment is partly behind this Amendment from another place, and unless we realise the strength and importance of Scottish sentiment we will not give due importance to this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.670.2", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "Would he please tell us if one of his colleagues has been hiding his pigtail beneath his hat?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.670.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacMillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacMillan", "preceding_text": "r Lloyd), part relevant and part otherwise. I would like, in the name of my colleagues on this side of the House, to reject and repudiate the suggestion of the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Mr. Gandar Dower) that hon. Members on this side have broken their promise and pledged word. The reason for his not being the most suitable person to make that remark is obvious to all hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.678.1", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "Well, it is \"The Bulletin,\" and that is what it said. What I would like to point out is that, first the Tories asked for a Scottish corporation. The hon. and gallant Member for Ayr Burghs (Sir T. Moore) went farther than that, He demanded two corporations. His words are recorded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.678.1", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "Well, it is \"The Bulletin,\" and that is what it said. What I would like to point out is that, first the Tories asked for a Scottish corporation. The hon. and gallant Member for Ayr Burghs (Sir T. Moore) went farther than that, He demanded two corporations. His words are recorded. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"] I will read it if I can lay my hands on the report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.678.3", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "give the Minister full scope. We want to give the Corporations full scope. We would rather they had this and be able to use the powers imaginatively than have it done by narrowing statutory definition, which, if the Minister exceeded it on one point, could be challenged in the courts. We believe that the Minister's assurances in this House will be kept. They are spoken on behalf of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.678.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.684.4", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why is it not in the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "They will be much like the airways mentioned by Mr. Perkins in his statement, and that ought to be all right. Moreover what I think was not promised before, the management of the airfields in Scotland will also be under a Scottish organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.684.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.684.4", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"Tell that in the constituencies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "greater advantage than would this Amendment be which has been sent to us from another place—are in response to the arguments and persuasions not of Scottish Tory Members, who have had little effect on this Bill whatsoever, but in response to the persuasion, argument and if you like the pressure of hon. Members who are representative of Scottish constituencies and who sit on the Government benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.684.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.685.1", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "embers. It is said that the Tory Members would be happy— unless, of course, I am wrong—if the undertakings given by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation were embodied in the Bill. I do not know whether that is true or not, but this point has been implied in a number of Tory speeches this evening— if only we put our undertakings in the Bill all would be well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.687.2", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "What does that mean? It means that the Scottish Associate would be 100 per cent. the financial creature of the Corporations or one of the Corporations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.687.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": " they would provide a bread ration for 21 days on the present scale. I should be very reluctant at this hour of the night to agree to additional powers to sterilise land and to empower the Minister, when he has it in his clutches, to trade in it and use it for other undesirable purposes. If the Government want to nationalise land let them bring in a Bill to do so and we will deal with it properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Let him have the courage to blame his whole Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "d the same latitude as has been allowed to other hon. Members, is that every undertaking has been fulfilled. But I am not going to be content with a single sentence to say so; I want to develop an argument. It is not disputed that the undertaking was fulfilled on the Report Stage, and we may be regarded as having agreement on that point. What happened next was that this Bill went to another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "nt to another place, and in that other place a large number of Amendments of some importance and complexity were put. Among them were three Amendments put down by Lord Swinton to Clause 36. They at once presented my noble Friend with a great problem. It is not an easy matter to steer a Measure—a nationalisation Measure— through another house with over 700 peers of a different political persuasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "e interests of persons who use air transport services, and so on through the same catalogue of specified persons. The spirit of the subsection is exactly the same as that of the Amendment of my hon. Friend the Member for West Middlesbrough. The words have been changed to some extent, but even in the wording there is not a great deal of change. The spirit of the undertaking has been completely met.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "There is no limit put on the number.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-29", "file": "debates1946-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "57d808fda2ef9a20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " Bill has had to go through in the two Houses. What has been said is in effect that this House should never agree to any changes made in another place. If so, what are we doing tonight? I would point out that there have been more important changes this evening before the House than this one, especially in Clause 23. I can only say that this is a very unrealistic attitude for hon. Members to adopt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-29a.727.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-30", "file": "debates1946-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ceebde091f3d26cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.761.9", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Fletcher", "preceding_text": "Has the Minister by any lucky coincidence the figures for the same date in 1919?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.761.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-30", "file": "debates1946-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ceebde091f3d26cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Civil aviation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "I was not over-pleased with the progress this company was making. I came to the conclusion that they could not manage this while their manager in Scotland was spending half his time in railway trains between the two countries. This is a job which had to be done and it required someone resident in Scotland for them to be able to do the work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-30", "file": "debates1946-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ceebde091f3d26cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.771.5", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Scottish aviation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "I am not responsible for anything but Scottish housing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.771.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-30", "file": "debates1946-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ceebde091f3d26cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.777.5", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, we do as much as we can in that respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.777.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-07-30", "file": "debates1946-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ceebde091f3d26cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.783.2", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLISH AHMED FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "If you wish to allow Question 51 to be asked, I do not think any objection would be raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-30", "file": "debates1946-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ceebde091f3d26cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "on these benches believe should be encouraged because they help people to that independence which comes from owning their own home at little greater expense than the economic rent. Home ownership is one of the fundamental desires of the people of this country, and we wish to see it extended far beyond the 35 per cent. who owned their own homes in 1938. Let the Minister defend his policy if he can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-30", "file": "debates1946-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ceebde091f3d26cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.836.3", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": ", \"We dare not let the wizard from South Wales get away with this; we must raise the subject of housing at all costs, otherwise the people of this country will think we are letting them down\" So they raised housing on this, the last possible day open to them. As I came down here today I wondered who would be chosen to open the Debate for the Opposition, because I knew they were on a sticky wicket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.836.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-30", "file": "debates1946-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ceebde091f3d26cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.836.3", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "n the wicket keeper from Scotland, who made careful reference to the fact that he did not propose to probe into the Scottish problem. No doubt they have left the right hon. and gallant Member for Gainsborough to wind up, because they realise that the wicket will get stickier and stickier as this Debate proceeds. Now I will refer to some of the points made by the hon. and gallant Member for Pollok.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.836.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-30", "file": "debates1946-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ceebde091f3d26cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.839.6", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has made a very witty and appropriate reply, but I take great exception to something he said. I hope, being a fair-minded man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.839.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-30", "file": "debates1946-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ceebde091f3d26cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "We are in that position as a result of the legacy left by Tory hon. Members opposite. I think the speech of the hon. and gallant Member for Pollok was absolutely full of irrelevances and misstatements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-30", "file": "debates1946-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ceebde091f3d26cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "as a result of the legacy left by Tory hon. Members opposite. I think the speech of the hon. and gallant Member for Pollok was absolutely full of irrelevances and misstatements. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] I do not doubt that when the time comes for the Minister to reply he will deal adequately with all that has been said, but we on this side are by no means satisfied by the progress that has been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-30", "file": "debates1946-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ceebde091f3d26cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.861.3", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ntee. Everybody wants a guarantee, and what I want to know is: Who is going to guarantee the guarantor? If we all have a guaranteed week and a guaranteed wage what will happen? I suggest the same as has happened in the coal industry. We guaranteed the miner a wage, and output dropped at once. I fear that if the operative has a guaranteed wage we will have not a greater output but a smaller output.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.861.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-30", "file": "debates1946-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ceebde091f3d26cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.881.1", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speaking from experience?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": " at the same time there should be a sanction behind him, the bankruptcy court in the case of a firm and the \"sack\" in that of an individual if he is inefficient. Whether it is the fault of this Government, previous Governments, the employers, or the trade unions I do not know, but I think it is true to say that there is no incentive for people to work very hard, and no great fear for not doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.881.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-30", "file": "debates1946-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ceebde091f3d26cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.894.1", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " get all sorts of little hints and asides from the Minister of Works, about what they might do and how much they might make, they still get no firm guarantees, because they do not know publicly what the target is. After all, there is a target. The Minister himself, at Eccles, on 14th July said what it was. He said it was 100,000 permanent houses and 100,000 temporary houses by the end of the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.894.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-30", "file": "debates1946-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ceebde091f3d26cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On your side, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "preceding_text": "he hyperbole of hon. Members opposite. They are, in themselves, a complete vindication. We have heard this evening a lot of talk by hon. Members opposite about the efficiency of private builders. It has been pointed out over and over again— and I must, at the expense of trespassing on the patience of the House, say it once more, because there are more hon. Members here now than there were earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-30", "file": "debates1946-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "ceebde091f3d26cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " builders, but under this system the speculative builders have to provide satisfactory houses, and not the kind of rubbish we had before. Far from failing to enlist every agency for building, we are indeed reaching out for every single instrument on which we can lay our hands. It is hon. Members opposite who are doctrinaire; they want to rely upon private enterprise entirely. I am not doctrinaire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-30a.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ould consult with America and would do nothing until they had carried out those consultations—again deferring hope about what might happen. There was, then, a speech which, to my mind, would have been better undelivered. The words that were used by the Foreign Secretary at the Bournemouth Conference were unworthy of the occasion and of the Foreign Secretary, and would have been better not uttered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "I am quite prepared to accept the hon. Gentleman's argument, except that I would add that it was highly unfortunate that he should use that particular example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "hes up by quoting the statement: We cannot promise Mr. Crossman (Labour M P. for Coventry and a member of the Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry on Palestine), that we will use only passive resistance. We shall use all the means at our disposal at the time we choose. When I raised that matter about the hon. Member for East Coventry, it seemed that he should be given an opportunity to explain it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1042.1", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Have a look at the Tory benches, when they are loaded; they are a real cross section of the robber gang of this country. Almost all of them, with very few exceptions, are hard-faced Gentiles. It is entirely wrong to make suggestions of that kind about the Jews. The Jewish people are a hard working, abstemious race.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wigg", "preceding_text": ". The Colonial Office was responsible for the administration of Iraq from the time when General Maude captured Baghdad onwards, and the history of what has happened in Iraq does not support the view that if there had not been a Jewish problem, the Arabs would welcome our administration. Indeed, during the war the Iraqi Arabs seized the opportunity to try to take their affairs into their own hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why exclusively this side?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": " is somewhat disjointed, but I do not wish to go on as long as I originally intended, in view of the number of hon. Members who wish to speak. First of all, I want to appeal to hon. Members on both sides of the House, and particularly on the opposite side, to cast aside what I might call woolly thinking and sentimentality. There has been too much of that altogether in connection with this problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "l leaders of all the main political parties in this country, including the Leader of the Opposition, and Prime Ministers who, over the years, have encouraged all these Jews in Palestine and in Europe to hold these views and, finally, when their hopes are frustrated, fail to meet the dreadful disasters that have taken place. I claim the right to concern myself about the safety of the British Tommy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1082.2", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGHWAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington-Lodge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington-Lodge", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order, Mr. Speaker, surely it would be quite in Order to make grammatical alterations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1082.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1082.7", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGHWAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": " since he will always be master of his machine.\" Either of these would make some sort of sense, whereas the paragraph as it stands is complete, and, I may say, admitted, balderdash. Another not very important point is in \"Hints on Cycling\" on the same page—page 30. \"Hints on Cycling\" include this remarkable statement \"at slow speeds, or when turning a corner, the toe may catch the front mudguard.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1082.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1088.5", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGHWAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order, Mr. Speaker, may I say that I have myself obtained a copy of the Code at the Vote Office which I have passed on to a friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1088.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1093.3", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGHWAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": "his House we all know what it means, but let me point out how the smallest change to accurate drafting would make it clear. \"Stopping distances\" should not be put in the plural. What is meant is that the stopping distance increases with the speed; in other words, with a little more expansion, the stopping distance, that is to say, the distance within which he can pull up, increases with his speed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1093.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1093.3", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGHWAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": "t going to apologise for having taken the trouble to study this Code and to bring these errors to their attention. Let us see what the position is. If the Minister persists in this Motion, we know from Mr. Speaker that not one word of the nonsense which I have quoted can be altered. It will be sent to every home in the land in this nonsensical form. Admittedly \"do\" appears where \"don't\" is meant.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1093.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGHWAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "We have heard a typical lawyer's argument. What has been done is to take words which have a simple and obvious meaning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGHWAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Flight-Lieutenant Crawley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It cannot be revised.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Flight-Lieutenant Crawley", "preceding_text": "I do not agree. The precepts require to be published. I am suggesting that this is the place to criticise the form of this Code so that when it is republished it can be revised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGHWAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kendall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Millions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kendall", "preceding_text": "I also want to ask the Parliamentary Secretary one question, a very simple one. If it be a fact that he has agreed to make the changes suggested by the hon. and learned Member for the English Universities (Mr. H. Strauss), and, from the Speaker's Ruling, the Parliamentary Secretary is unable to make these changes, is it not rather foolish to print a lot of these books, many many thousands of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1100.3", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGHWAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King (Penrhyn and Falmouth)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King (Penrhyn and Falmouth)", "preceding_text": "hen the car comes to a standstill, which may be in Edinburgh. I know there are persons who think this use of words is not important. I cannot share that view. There are two things that must strike one. First, the point of view of the motorcar driver. This book is going out with the authority of Parliament, and I think there is something to be said for the view that it should not be a party matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGHWAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Not now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "I have ridden a push bike for over forty years. I have always understood that I have certain rights on the road.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGHWAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "preceding_text": " of the public will say that this is a clear guide to good behaviour on the highway. What therefore the Government has to consider in advising the House whether to postpone the Motion before it till the Highway Code is polished up, or whether to go on with it now, is that what is at stake is not only the phrasing of a few sub-clauses, but the life and death of many hundreds of our fellow citizens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1129.2", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POINTS RATIONING ORDER (OATMEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snadden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" You mean thoroughly disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snadden", "preceding_text": "ng Germany. It may be necessary as long-term policy. But we have had no information, no figures whatever, not the slightest indication from any spokesman on the other side why rationing by points is necessary. All we have had is the bald announcement that oatmeal is to go on points. In the words of the hon. Member for Evesham (Mr. de la Bère), \"the whole thing is thoroughly unsatisfactory.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1129.2", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POINTS RATIONING ORDER (OATMEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snadden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snadden", "preceding_text": "on. Lady who is to reply saying. \" Bring the farm workers ail under the oatmeal perquisite system, so that they may get their oatmeal off points.\" The answer to that is very simple: Their contracts were entered into in many cases in May, 1946, and if you interfere with that, you interfere with the whole wages structure. The other case I want to put is this: What is to happen to the farmer himself?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1135.0", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POINTS RATIONING ORDER (OATMEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snadden", "cue_text": "Laughter.,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snadden", "preceding_text": "should give a promise now that as soon as the 1946 crop of oats is available, oatmeal will be released entirely from the points system. The hon. Member for the Scottish Universities (Sir J. Boyd Orr), despite the attack made upon him by the Minister of State, who said he was going to be permanently stationed in Washington—we are all very glad to see him here today, although he is not in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POINTS RATIONING ORDER (OATMEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spence", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It goes in the middle of the male\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spence", "preceding_text": "e last week, said that it had to go on points. I ask her very sincerely if she would not reconsider this decision. She had insulted a lordly dish by classifying it as flour confectionery. I can only assume that the name \"pudding\" has misled her. What the sausage roll is to the Sassenach, the mealy pudding is to the Scotsman. In many households it is a meat dish. It comes in the middle of the meal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POINTS RATIONING ORDER (OATMEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Major McCallum", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major McCallum", "preceding_text": "I have received several protests", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POINTS RATIONING ORDER (OATMEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Major McCallum", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Three or four? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Major McCallum", "preceding_text": "I have received several protests [HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"]—I could not say how many because I have not counted them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1149.4", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POINTS RATIONING ORDER (OATMEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": "If Members are honest with themselves, it is obvious that the world food situation is more difficult now than at any period during the war. I object to hon. Members opposite assuming that they are the only people who have any regard for either rural or industrial areas. I remember fighting a by-election in a rural area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1149.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1151.7", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POINTS RATIONING ORDER (OATMEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": "en foreseen when the Order was drafted. May I say to my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary in a friendly way that on this side of the House, at least, we are asking that some indication should be given, arising out of the experience of putting this commodity on points, of that resilience for which the Ministry has been famed during the war? I say that and give credit to Woolton and Llewellin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1151.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1151.7", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POINTS RATIONING ORDER (OATMEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": "ntary Secretary in a friendly way that on this side of the House, at least, we are asking that some indication should be given, arising out of the experience of putting this commodity on points, of that resilience for which the Ministry has been famed during the war? I say that and give credit to Woolton and Llewellin. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] Excuse me, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, could we call a doctor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1151.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POINTS RATIONING ORDER (OATMEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "preceding_text": "I am very much affected, Mr. Deputy-Speaker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POINTS RATIONING ORDER (OATMEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oatmeal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "preceding_text": "do so, but I have no liking for the instruments and ordinances which he lays before me. It has been said that there is a great deal of flexibility and democracy in the Socialist plan, that it is a device and a scheme for giving effect to the will of the people. If that is so, and I have been told in conversation that these methods of government of the remote plutocracy and the effete aristocracy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1159.3", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POINTS RATIONING ORDER (OATMEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": " that in an Order dealing with something which, in spite of all that has been said to the contrary, is the traditional and staple food of the greater part of one-third of the people of these Islands, this subject is not specially mentioned or dealt with. I submit that this instrument of government is a disappointing one and fails to meet the needs of the situation. Oatmeal, the product of the oat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1165.0", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POINTS RATIONING ORDER (OATMEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why ration it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": " shall expect the same courtesy from him. The argument which has, after all, been put forward tonight is to ask the Ministry of Food to give to Scotland what is in effect a double ration—the bread ration plus an oatmeal ration. By putting this Prayer on the Order Paper, hon. Members have, in effect, tried to come in by the back door to take an extra helping of porridge out of the national larder.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1167.3", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POINTS RATIONING ORDER (OATMEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Lord William Scott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord William Scott", "preceding_text": "Docs the hon. Lady seriously think that we have sat in the House tonight for what we can get into the local papers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1167.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-07-31", "file": "debates1946-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "70e89e4e6c561463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POINTS RATIONING ORDER (OATMEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "This Order, against which we are praying tonight, is not limited to oatmeal. A great deal of the discussion has taken place on oatmeal, but oatmeal is only one of a very large list covering altogether some 15 or 16 pages. There are 18 parts in one Schedule alone. I am very sorry the Minister of Food himself is not here today; I think we on this side are entitled to protest at his absence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-07-31a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-08-01", "file": "debates1946-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c10f3700f9c6f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1216.0", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Segal", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Segal", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that all these displaced persons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-08-01", "file": "debates1946-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c10f3700f9c6f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1216.0", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Segal", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Segal", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that all these displaced persons—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"]—left their quarters at Klagenfurt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-08-01", "file": "debates1946-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c10f3700f9c6f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1216.0", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Segal", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Segal", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that all these displaced persons—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"]—left their quarters at Klagenfurt—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"]—for an address which was perfectly well known, and were always available in case the trial took place at short notice, that five British officers who were asked their advice on this case said that the sentences were somewhat harsh —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1216.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-08-01", "file": "debates1946-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c10f3700f9c6f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1242.0", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When will that be?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "on to be absolutely essential. As my right hon. Friend the Lord President has stated, it is our intention to discuss this matter with both the Arabs and the Jews, both inside and outside Palestine. We hope to get representative Jews from various countries, as well as in Palestine, and Arabs in Palestine, as well as the Arab States, to come together and discuss this plan and give their views on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1240.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-08-01", "file": "debates1946-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c10f3700f9c6f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "the central Government is a mere formality, if they will be issued whenever the province says it can do with them—if that is the position, what is the point of reserving it to the central Government at all? Why not say, plainly, and put the matter beyond doubt, that the provinces will be able to control their own immigration, without anybody's fear or check? I hope I am not speaking for too long —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-08-01", "file": "debates1946-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c10f3700f9c6f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1268.0", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Not on the Arabs.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "May I ask my hon. Friend a question? He is very fervent, and impresses the House a great deal. But he is talking of the ultimate success of the scheme. Suppose the 100,000 are taken to the desert and they fail. On whom then would the responsibility fall for the care and comfort of these people dying in the desert?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1267.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-08-01", "file": "debates1946-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c10f3700f9c6f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1275.0", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "1923.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " thing not at all by way of criticism of my right hon. Friend on the Front Bench but just to show how difficult it is. I think I am right in saying he made a great error of fact and I think I am right in saying nobody noticed. I refer to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill). He talked of the interpretation which he put upon a National Home in Palestine, I think in 1922.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-08-01", "file": "debates1946-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c10f3700f9c6f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1277.0", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Except that they were not glosses.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ventry (Mr. Grossman). I am sorry he is not here, and I am sorry I have not warned him, but, in this kind of Debate, one simply cannot warn everybody to whom one may be going to refer. That speech, and the glosses he put on the telegrams and on the relationship between the Hagana and British Military Intelligence, did seem to me to make it necessary that certain specific questions should be asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-08-01", "file": "debates1946-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c10f3700f9c6f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1277.1", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Nelson and Colne said of his three \"if onlys\" really goes very far to destroy that plan. I am quite certain that neither that plan nor any other will do, unless you persuade the Arabs very early on that you are consulting them about it. You must not treat the Arabs as you treat the well-to-do or possessing or official classes of this country. We are used to the insolence of office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-08-01", "file": "debates1946-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c10f3700f9c6f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a matter of opinion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "ging peace and harmony within the boundaries of that country. Now, the terms of the Balfour Declaration were clear. I am not prepared to accept the suggestions, which legalistic quibbles introduce into this matter, at all. I am sure, as the Peel Committee said, that it was understood at the time under the Mandate accepted by 52 nations, that, ultimately, there would be a Jewish State in Palestine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-08-01", "file": "debates1946-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c10f3700f9c6f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1311.5", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "He cannot help it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I am not trying to be funny and did not know the right hon. Gentleman was trying to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1311.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-08-01", "file": "debates1946-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c10f3700f9c6f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1317.5", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Any of them?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend make it perfectly clear that the Jewish Agency have declared publicly that none of these telegrams ever reached them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1317.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-08-01", "file": "debates1946-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c10f3700f9c6f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1322.3", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" By cheque.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "It will be a payment of money, in sterling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-08-01", "file": "debates1946-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c10f3700f9c6f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1322.6", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"London.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "cannot now alter that. It is no good my hon. Friend shaking her head sadly. I have been very kind, and I want to be kind; we all want to be kind to these blitzed areas. Do not let us take it too much in compartments. There were certain parts of the country which were far more under enemy bombardment than others; they include the great naval dockyards, Plymouth and Portsmouth, and many other towns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1322.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-08-01", "file": "debates1946-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "1c10f3700f9c6f3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1329.1", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter(Kingston-upon-Thames)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter(Kingston-upon-Thames)", "preceding_text": "ouses is not occupied by the owner. It represents the savings, perhaps the life savings, of the individual who has let it. The second house, occupied by the owner, is taken over on 21st July, 1946, and the third is taken over on 23rd July, 1946. Assuming that the 1939 value of each house was £1,000, the compensation payable for those three houses would be, respectively, £1,000, £1,300, and £1,600.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-01a.1329.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-08-02", "file": "debates1946-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "07fb8ac362ff8ecb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-02a.1380.0", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Spiritual?", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State (Mr. Philip Noel-Baker)", "preceding_text": "ink that we can stop scientific progress on atomic energy; and for my part I do not think it is even desirable, because if mankind let atomic energy be used to destroy them, I do not think they are worth saving. But if they stop that, then I venture to say that atomic energy may open up before us a future of greater well being, and material and spiritual progress, than mankind has ever had before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-02a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-08-02", "file": "debates1946-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "07fb8ac362ff8ecb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-02a.1386.1", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Are there any Russians?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": " them are pretty industrious. There is the Scientific and Technical Committee, and there is a Legal Committee. On the Scientific Committee we have some of the most eminent figures in the world. We have first Sir James Chadwick, now Sir George Thomson and Mr. Oppen-heimer, M. Curie and others. I think that is a very high-powered body, and I think it can do the task which my hon. Friend has in view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-02a.1386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-08-02", "file": "debates1946-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "07fb8ac362ff8ecb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-02a.1414.3", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "PAPER SUPPLIES (OFFICIAL FORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "kers say: \"We do not want to break the law, but it is a physical impossibility for us to fill up the forms. We are going on providing our customers with the bread they want.\" What will happen when the end of the rationing period comes and they have to turn in their ration cards to get a further allocation, I do not know. If this Socialist Government passes laws which are against the natural law— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-02a.1414.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-08-02", "file": "debates1946-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "07fb8ac362ff8ecb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-02a.1414.3", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "PAPER SUPPLIES (OFFICIAL FORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "which are against the natural law— —[ Interruption. ]—Well, it is. The filling up of forms is against the freedom of the people. All this filling up of forms only accentuates the shortages and increases the work of the distributors. The system will inevitably break down. I can give another instance, of an old farmer. I will not say where he lives, because inspectors may be sent down to pursue him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-08-02a.1414.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-08", "file": "debates1946-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "4ff775f4ad8cf45d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-08a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ATOMIC ENERGY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On 1st May.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Law", "preceding_text": "agree, of course, that this Bill is not a final solution. It is only a start; but it is, I think, some months since the MacMahon Act passed through the Congress of the United States. It is months since a Bill of this kind came before Parliament in Canada. I find it very difficult to understand why it has taken so long to produce this Bill and to bring it to the House of Commons for Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-08a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-08", "file": "debates1946-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "4ff775f4ad8cf45d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-08a.147.3", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-NAZI PRISONERS OF WAR (REPATRIATION)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "preceding_text": "that there should be a general speeding up of repatriation and particularly satisfied that in that general speeding up priority will be given to those prisoners of war who have an anti-Fascist proved reputation. I am happy to be the first to have the privilege of questioning my hon. Friend who is on the Bench for the first time this evening in his capacity of Financial Secretary to the War Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-08a.147.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-10-09", "file": "debates1946-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "228622180e562fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-09a.169.2", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Runways?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "In view of the previous discussions that arose on this matter I have gone into it very carefully in the short time at my disposal, and I am satisfied that the authorities concerned would be wise not to bring houses within reach of the flightway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-09a.169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-09", "file": "debates1946-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "228622180e562fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-09a.214.2", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HILL FARMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "Nothing would give me greater joy than to be able to say that I agree with every word uttered by every hon. Member opposite who has spoken, and also the words spoken by my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget). There are occasions, however, when an Amendment may be misconceived. It is true that this Amendment is almost a replica of one that was dealt with in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-09a.214.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-09", "file": "debates1946-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "228622180e562fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-09a.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HILL FARMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "says, \"Upland land which by improvement could be made suitable for grazing purposes.\" That makes it quite clear, but it is not clear as drafted by the Minister. Finally, may I revert again to the great controversy in Scotland: What is meant by \"sheep of a hardy kind?\" It really comes down to the Scots and therefore Scotland will always win although in Yorkshire we have better sheep than the Scots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-09a.217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-09", "file": "debates1946-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "228622180e562fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-09a.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HILL FARMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How about Blackpool?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": "his Clause. However, much as I regret that the right hon. Gentleman has so fallen from grace, I regret even more that the Secretary of State for Scotland should have so betrayed the interests of rural Scotland—where the problems are quite different in so many respects from those in England—as to have concurred in this surrender. But they are all in the same bed and \"When father turns we all turn.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-09a.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-09", "file": "debates1946-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "228622180e562fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-09a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HILL FARMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "preceding_text": "n granted. My reply to the right hon. Member for South-port is that we shall find it increasingly difficult to get men to go and live in these isolated spots. Their wives and families rightly demand that there shall be some kind of social amenities provided for them. We suggest that, rather than ask men to go to these out of the way places, the houses should be built in villages or little groups.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-09a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-09", "file": "debates1946-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "228622180e562fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-09a.298.3", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTY COUNCILS ASSOCIATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay (Dumbartonshire)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay (Dumbartonshire)", "preceding_text": "llocated to that county under the said paragraphs ( a ) and ( b ) respectively\". I do not know whether one gets the answer to this in the fruit market or the fish market but I think it is treating the House lightly for the Secretary of State to omit such an explanation from a very carefully prepared statement such as he always gives us. Why should he boggle at that? Can we not have an explanation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-09a.298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-09", "file": "debates1946-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "228622180e562fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-09a.311.3", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "It is all part of the pledge and the intention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-09a.311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-10", "file": "debates1946-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "332b0a2fb82b59b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-10a.359.7", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "If I understood the hon. Member to say that the Cabinet had reached a decision to evade the issue, I would point out that the matter has not been discussed by the Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-10a.359.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-10", "file": "debates1946-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "332b0a2fb82b59b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-10a.359.8", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that 20 or 30 men have been dismissed by an employer on the orders of a great trade union because they did not belong to the great trade union?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-10a.359.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-10", "file": "debates1946-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "332b0a2fb82b59b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-10a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "HOUSING, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "plaster and plasterboard, light castings, steel windows and electrical components. It is these shortages which are retarding the completion of many permanent houses at the present time. In fact if it were not for the progress we are making in housing, there would be no bottlenecks. It is the fact that we are making progress which in itself creates some of the bottlenecks in some of the components.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-10a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-10", "file": "debates1946-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "332b0a2fb82b59b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-10a.383.3", "colnum": "383", "heading": "HOUSING, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": " the Press. I have a cutting here which says, \"No houses.\" If it had said that there were few houses, there might have been some argument, but, whether it is stated by Members of this House or in any other way, if any people say that there are no houses as a result of our efforts in Scotland, they lie. I am not making an accusation against Members of this House. I have given figures of the houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-10a.383.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-10", "file": "debates1946-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "332b0a2fb82b59b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-10a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "HOUSING, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Let us get this clear. Whereas England can be sure that in 3½ years' time its housing problem will be solved, no such possibility exists for Scotland. I ask hon. Members opposite to say if I am wrong in that. Will somebody please deny it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-10a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-10", "file": "debates1946-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "332b0a2fb82b59b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-10a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "HOUSING, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "They are supposed to be the best building months. While some parts suffered from rain, Scotland as a whole came off very well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-10a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-10", "file": "debates1946-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "332b0a2fb82b59b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-10a.410.3", "colnum": "410", "heading": "HOUSING, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "nd October. His correction is quite right, which I admit, and am glad to admit. I was about to say that during the war, in Scotland 6,000 new houses were built. We are now building at the rate of less than 12,000 in a year, only twice as many as were built in the war. That strikes me as an incredible example of incapacity. That is the charge I level against this Government: sheer gross incapacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-10a.410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-10", "file": "debates1946-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "332b0a2fb82b59b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-10a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "HOUSING, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There has been a war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "problems—upwards of 4,000,000 houses required in this country and 500,000 in Scotland—were a direct result of mismanagement on the part of this Government. So far as I can recall, the party opposite have had at least 25 years to tackle those problems, and we still require 4,000,000 houses in this country. An hon. Member said that they had started a three-prong attack for the abolition of the slums", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-10a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-10", "file": "debates1946-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "332b0a2fb82b59b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-10a.478.4", "colnum": "478", "heading": "CHEESE RATION (HEAVY WORKERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Don't you believe it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "preceding_text": "osite—if there were many hon. Members opposite—and hon. Members on this side who are interested in coal, have been down coal mines and have been to the canteens afterwards. The canteens at coal mines are magnificent—absolutely first class. You will get a better meal at a canteen in a coal mine than, in spite of the hon. Member for Upton, you will get at the Ritz or the Dorchester or anywhere else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-10a.478.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-11", "file": "debates1946-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "7235f66d0f386727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-11a.540.2", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ATOMIC ENERGY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And proposed plant?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "preceding_text": "in the present state of affairs, and from what is within our knowledge, the Government regard it as a danger, which they could not embrace, to leave this big gap. This Clause seeks to fill that gap. Let us not exaggerate the breadth of this matter. The Clause allows complete freedom over the whole field, unless it is associated with atomic energy plant. The plant is the thing which is safeguarded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-11a.540.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-11", "file": "debates1946-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "7235f66d0f386727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-11a.550.5", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ATOMIC ENERGY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "some powers to deal with them. It always happens of course, that if you take a power to deal with a criminal, it also applies to ordinary citizens if they become criminals, and the whole argument seems to be based on the assumption that all scientists are criminals because some scientists may become criminals. The point is that all scientists who are honest men are not affected by the Bill at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-11a.550.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-10-11", "file": "debates1946-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "7235f66d0f386727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-11a.551.2", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ATOMIC ENERGY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "No, the point is that the safeguards are such that the onus is on the Crown to prosecute and prove that that person, to his knowledge, communicated things which were a danger to the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-11a.551.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.618.3", "colnum": "618", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The \"Financial Times.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tolley", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Minister to give the House the name of the paper concerned?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.618.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.619.3", "colnum": "619", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Isaacs)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Isaacs)", "preceding_text": "le thing for any firm. It does give them quick returns. There are no bad debts if anybody is owed money by the Government, and the Government contract does form a good advertisement Any hon. Member who has watched these things will have noticed that any firm which has Government work advertises on its notehead or its workshops, \"Contractors to His Majesty's Government.\" It is a good advertisement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.619.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "nnot help sometimes being rather amused at the extraordinary anxiety of the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues to get out of it on every possible occasion. Whether on private business or amusement, whether at private or public expense, whether on the business of their own Departments or of some other Department they seem to flit away from these Islands with the most extraordinary pertinacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "iod during which the printing trade was working at halfcock did not have any serious effect, except upon the Government themselves, because now that about 95 per cent. of the printing trade, other than newspapers, is engaged on printing forms, when it refuses to work overtime it does not cause any grave anxiety to hon. Gentlemen on this side of the House or indeed anywhere. We welcome this Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "nd I promise the right hon. Gentleman I shall not be lacking in definition of what I mean—is a bad practice, it is important that this House should discourage it by the terms of the Fair Wages Clauses. I say first, therefore, that my Amendment is a clarifying Amendment. I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman's advisers will tell him that it does or does not alter the meaning of the Motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "r the next sentence, will have the opportunity to speak later, but at the moment I have the attention of the Members of the House, other than himself, and I am making my speech in my own way. If the words of my Amendment are adopted in the Clauses, at least this is clear, that any contractor who does what the London Passenger Transport Board has recently done cannot hope for a Government contract—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "hat an opportunity will be given to all non-members of the Transport and General Workers' Union to join that Union, but, at the delegate meeting about two days afterwards, this resolution was passed by the delegates of that great trade union: Membership of the Transport and General Workers' Union shall remain open to non-members at the discretion of the area passenger group Committee of the Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "the hon. and learned Gentleman one question? Can he cast his mind back to 1944 when the Coalition Government introduced Regulation IAA? And does he remember what that entailed and did he not support it? Was it not five years' penal servitude for three or more workers to suggest not working except at a properly convened trade union meeting, and did he not support it? Was not that the \"closed shop\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.643.4", "colnum": "643", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "not wish to belong to a trade union which insists on such a limitation. There may be many reasons, reasons which may be good or bad, but they are his reasons. If we deprive him of the ability to follow his reasons we are exercising tyranny, and doing something outrageous to a free man. A matter which strikes me as a little extraordinary is the pure humbug of the argument that is being put forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.643.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I quite agree, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, but my Amendment substitutes the words \"any trade union.\" My Amendment makes it absolutely clear that compulsion cannot be exercised by the employer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.649.0", "colnum": "649", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "the basis that they will take the view that they propose to permit the closed shop in the works of contractors working on Government contracts. It is very important that the House, if that is right, should appreciate the consequences. I appreciate that I should not be in Order were I to discuss, or attempt to discuss, the general merits of the closed shop. On the other hand, it is perfectly clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.653.2", "colnum": "653", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "If I were allowed to do so, I could certainly do so. If our Amendment is carried, it becomes quite obvious, in my submission, that any employer who did what the London Passenger Transport Board has recently done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.653.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "e hon. and learned Gentleman is not-nearly as innocent as he pretends. He knew perfectly well, and they knew perfectly well in 1942, that the Trades Unions Act of 1927 was in issue. We have made that perfectly clear ever since 1927. It must not be thought that, when we did what we have always undertaken to do, it really took anybody by surprise. This Party has a reputation for keeping its pledges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.655.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.657.2", "colnum": "657", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Byers", "preceding_text": "ediately to set up a Royal Commission to inquire into the operation of the closed shop and closed union system, especially in industry and services under public control. ] I do not think that anybody will deny that the Parliamentary Liberal Party were right when we debated the repeal of the Trade Disputes Act, 1927, in demanding the production of an up to date charter for the trade union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.657.4", "colnum": "657", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "e that we have got past that stage and that they will make up their mind and incorporate their decision in the Motion. As it stands, a Government contractor is told to do something in the vaguest possible terms. If it is left as it stands, and judging by the attitude of many hon. Members opposite, the impression will be given that the Government are tacitly agreeing to the closed shop arrangement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.657.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.657.4", "colnum": "657", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "ll make up their mind and incorporate their decision in the Motion. As it stands, a Government contractor is told to do something in the vaguest possible terms. If it is left as it stands, and judging by the attitude of many hon. Members opposite, the impression will be given that the Government are tacitly agreeing to the closed shop arrangement. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I suggest that that is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.657.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.660.0", "colnum": "660", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the hon. Gentleman. In other words, the Government contractor must recognise the freedom of all his workpeople to join any union they like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.660.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "That was the implication.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Edwards", "preceding_text": "I did not say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haworth", "preceding_text": "is one instance only of the difficulty that could be created by the acceptance of the Amendment. I do not know what answer hon. Members have to the taunts that were made by the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne and his analogy about lawyers. I think there is a great deal in it. If you are a doctor, or a lawyer, or a member of the professional classes, you are compelled to be a member of your union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.673.0", "colnum": "673", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member may find it healthy within his own party to have a little competition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.673.2", "colnum": "673", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": " within the big unions working up organs within the unions to disrupt them, because there will be a negation of freedom. The hon. Member for Blackburn was anxious to establish discipline within industry. He said there must be this element of compulsion, but the small union men will say that the Tories were right, and that it was the thin edge of the wedge which was agreed to on this October night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.673.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.683.0", "colnum": "683", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "cess of the agreement. I have had some experience of the mining industry, in which one could never get anything out of the employers unless it was provided for by a literal interpretation of the agreement. At one time we had many fights over that situation. Now I come to the hon. and learned Gentleman who moved the Amendment; I thought he was in danger of becoming the Mari Llwyd of the Tory Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is very clever.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "cations of this broad question. The Minister is a very elusive man; he himself does not speak on this great issue. He puts up the Parliamentary Secretary to tell us about the printing trade. I was surprised. I thought that if anybody was going to lecture me on the printing trade, it would at least be the head of Natsopa. The right hon. Gentleman was very shy. He was also very shy at Question time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": " say is that we will draw him sooner or later. He will have to come out into the open and tell us what he thinks and means. The Parliamentary Secretary has not yet told us whether he thinks this Amendment alters the meaning of the Motion and, therefore, should be resisted, or whether it amplifies, elaborates and clarifies the meaning of the Motion and, therefore, should be supported. He leaves us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.691.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.693.0", "colnum": "693", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "They may become fully alive.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "ided by the public servants of the State, and in it he solemnly tells us the Government will watch the development of this situation which is alleged to be a new tendency. They will take it into consideration. They might even take it into their serious consideration. Under Providence they might even take it into their active consideration. \" Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "he comparison between the professional qualifications of certain professions and the trade union qualifications of certain trade unions. He raised the point that this issue was somewhat paradoxically raised by hon. and right hon. Gentlemen behind me who belonged to what he called the most closed union in the world. I think myself the hon. Member for Oxford (Mr. Hogg) answered that point very well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": " That is quite different from moving battalions or regiments of men, semiskilled or even unskilled, from one union to another, who have no training of any sort or kind similar to that of the apprentice or journeyman. They are really the unhappy bodies around which rotate and vibrate the jealousies of the great trade union bosses who are trying to get bodies of men in or out of their organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "nto the causes of unrest in Smithfield Market. I could have told him the causes of unrest. Everybody knows them. The causes of unrest were that the Foreign Secretary's union—for he has been really the Pierpont Morgan of trade unionism; it is he who has made the great combinations, sweeping all the smaller unions aside—the causes of unrest, I say, were that his boys were after the Smithfield boys.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "hould have the right to join those particular unions within the great gamut and field of unions, many in a single workshop, which they prefer. I think it raises in that way the subsidiary point whether the power of forcing men to belong to trade unions which happen to be affiliated to the Trades Union Congress and through that the Labour Party become the great supporting basis of the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "he people against tyrannical power. In turn different forms of authority have seized and held power in this country, the King, the Church, the barons, the great industrial owners and magnates, the middle classes and now, maybe, the trade unions. In each period there has been a movement of revulsion against those who have taken power and used it too harshly, whether it was Cromwell on the one hand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.702.2", "colnum": "702", "heading": "FAIR WAGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "First of all, that is not the issue, and, secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.702.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.718.4", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES AMENDMENT REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Edwards", "preceding_text": " nurses was placed in jeopardy, in spite of the fact that many other people are exempted from the operation of this Act by the Regulations. To anybody who takes a fair view of this matter, there does seem to be unfair discrimination. I believe that there is in the minds of many people, although they say they do not want to interfere with this practice, a profound distrust of this kind of practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.718.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.739.5", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES AMENDMENT REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not denied.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ession that the name should be preserved with a definite meaning, and that other people should not, possibly, use it frivolously or irrelevantly. Here we are with a body of women—devoted, dedicated, hard working, absolutely indispensable for the care of the sick. I venture to say that in the care of the sick the trained nurse is as important as anyone in any other branch of the medical profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.739.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.740.0", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES AMENDMENT REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "They were not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "he care of the sick. I venture to say that in the care of the sick the trained nurse is as important as anyone in any other branch of the medical profession. [HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not denied.\"] Hon. Members must let me finish. These women, these girls, resented the fact that after extremely arduous training, after their difficult examinations, they were known by a name which anybody could adopt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.739.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.744.0", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES AMENDMENT REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": " agreement with what the Minister of Health has said. I am very sorry, but I do not think anything the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Health has said tonight really alters the subject. The whole point is that this is a question of title. I hold no brief for Christian Science nurses. I have never had any experience of them. I am thankful to say I have had very little experience of any nurses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (FRANCO REGIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Leah Manning", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about seven years of a Socialist Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Leah Manning", "preceding_text": "dinary people of Spain. There you find the greatest change of all. \"Café politics,\" it may be said. I know, but the cafe politicians are very divided. The people of Spain have had seven years of one Government, and that is something of which the Spanish people, with their Latin political ideas, are getting tired. Seven years of one Government is enough for them; they are ready for a change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-14", "file": "debates1946-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "cd9562260fee4b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (FRANCO REGIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why send them to Greece?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "That is not my argument, and it is not the argument of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-14a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-15", "file": "debates1946-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "96393b75872ca823", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-15a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COINAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "s something very different from the confidence we want people to have in the coinage. Prestige is merely a matter of superstition, unlike confidence which depends on reason. When I first came to work in London before World War I, my weekly wage was five golden sovereigns and a five shilling piece. Money was regarded by most people in those days with something which amounted almost to superstition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-15a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-15", "file": "debates1946-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "96393b75872ca823", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-15a.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COINAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "t reserve will be sent back, and in the course of time the Americans will learn that they have a great reserve of silver as they had of gold. Then they will have to call the nations together, as they did in the case of gold, to see whether they can find some means of realising the real value of what they buried in the vaults. The Chancellor is not the first who has debased the coinage in our time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-15a.823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-15", "file": "debates1946-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "96393b75872ca823", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-15a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COINAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Golden?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman seriously think that a competition for new designs of coins would really affect the labour market? I would point out that the coins cannot be quite the same size; they will be slightly different if they are the same weight, because the specific gravity of the metal will be slightly different. It is a golden opportunity to have a really beautiful coinage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-15a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-15", "file": "debates1946-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "96393b75872ca823", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-15a.844.4", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COINAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "The general feeling is that the twelve-sided threepenny piece is a boon and a blessing to men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-15a.844.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-16", "file": "debates1946-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "230beb82808aa556", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-16a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell)", "preceding_text": "For several weeks and months, in contrast to the right hon. Gentleman's speech. which I must say was temperate and reasonable in tone, and about which I make no complaint, the Tory Press in the most scurrilous and, indeed, disgusting fashion, which is on the whole customary and which should not have surprised us, has attacked the Ministry of Fuel and Power and the whole range of Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-16a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-16", "file": "debates1946-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "230beb82808aa556", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-16a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For coal\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell)", "preceding_text": "e most scurrilous and, indeed, disgusting fashion, which is on the whole customary and which should not have surprised us, has attacked the Ministry of Fuel and Power and the whole range of Government policy. [ Interruption. ] If any evidence is required, consult those organs of unimpeachable veracity. Naturally we assumed that some day there would emerge a demand from the Opposition for a Debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-16a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-16", "file": "debates1946-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "230beb82808aa556", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-16a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the chicken.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell)", "preceding_text": "s coal of the best quality. We want more of it. It may be that we shall require to continue with open cast operations in order to supplement the production of deep mine coal so that we might assist in the slow revival of our export trade. That is the idea. The right hon. and gallant Gentleman asked several questions and shortly I will endeavour to give him replies. He asked me about evening dress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-16a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-16", "file": "debates1946-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "230beb82808aa556", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-16a.959.3", "colnum": "959", "heading": "COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "een able to produce today, compare very unfavourably with those for 1941. I thought the hon. Member for Spennymoor did far less than justice to the older men in the industry. The truth is that the improved figures have been largely brought about by the efforts of the older men, and it is equally true that the immediate problem would be met if the younger men in the industry were doing their share.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-16a.959.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-16", "file": "debates1946-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "230beb82808aa556", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-16a.962.4", "colnum": "962", "heading": "COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "I made my statement in qualified form. I certainly was told. If my information was incorrect, I apologise; but is it true?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-16a.962.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-16", "file": "debates1946-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "230beb82808aa556", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-16a.980.3", "colnum": "980", "heading": "COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker White", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker White", "preceding_text": "tage of consumer goods constitutes in restricting output in the mining industry. The miners and their families want new household goods, new furniture, and, above all, new clothes for themselves. But if it can be made possible for the miners' wives to buy new curtains, new linoleum, new kitchen things, new dresses for themselves and new suits for the miners, absenteeism would go down with a bang.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-16a.980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-16", "file": "debates1946-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "230beb82808aa556", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-16a.985.2", "colnum": "985", "heading": "COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "ething said by the hon. Gentleman the Member for Dewsbury (Mr. William Paling), when he said that certain colliery undertakings were refusing to put new machinery into the pits so that the production would not be achieved I beg of the parliamentary Secretary, when he replies, to answer that charge specifically because if it is taking place it is a tremendous slur on the Minister of Furl and Power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-16a.985.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-16", "file": "debates1946-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "230beb82808aa556", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-16a.985.2", "colnum": "985", "heading": "COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "re now enjoying better holidays than they have ever enjoyed. Talk about it in the country. Tell the people that if they go into this industry they will get guaranteed holidays. Tell them the miners are getting more money than they have ever had in their lives. Let us put it across in the proper way, that the mining industry is the best paid industry, on an hourly productive basis, in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-16a.985.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-16", "file": "debates1946-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "230beb82808aa556", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-16a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "It is not really relevant to the argument. Last week it was 1.04 which, incidentally, is only 10 per cent. below what it was before the war, compared with 15 per cent. a year ago. Hon. Members may say that we are optimistic with that figure of 1.035.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-16a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-16", "file": "debates1946-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "230beb82808aa556", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-16a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "ARMY EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the War Office (Mr. John Freeman)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Seldom wasted.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the War Office (Mr. John Freeman)", "preceding_text": "cheme of adult education. In working out the scheme there are three stages. First, the scheme has to be planned in the War Office That is the period which we are accustomed to hear described in this House as the period of doing nothing. That is a bad description. I was taught in the Army that time spent in reconnaissance and in making plans was not time wasted. I do indeed believe that to be true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-16a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-10-17", "file": "debates1946-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "ebe367254ee6c8ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-17a.1039.8", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "One of these days the hon. Member will realise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-17a.1039.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-17", "file": "debates1946-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "ebe367254ee6c8ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-17a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I think that probably my hon. Friend means, when he talks about suspending the Rule, not an unqualified suspension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-17a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-17", "file": "debates1946-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "ebe367254ee6c8ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-17a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The first day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "when he talks about suspending the Rule, not an unqualified suspension—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] There are two reasons. When all-night Sittings take place, the newspapers are full of complaints about it, and so are hon. Members. It is no good being brave at Question time and not so brave the next morning. Secondly, I do not think it would be a good thing, on the second day of an important Debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-17a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-17", "file": "debates1946-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "ebe367254ee6c8ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-17a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTY COUNCILS ASSOCIATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "but at long last, and after more than 50 years of the existence of this County Councils Association, we have a Bill presented to provide for the expansion, and more efficient working in the future, of this noble Association. When I say that, I am not casting any aspersions upon the great work of that great body. I am glad to see that it is the Socialist Government, which causes such a lot of evil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-17a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-17", "file": "debates1946-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "ebe367254ee6c8ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-17a.1081.4", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I was saying that Clause 1 provides for voluntary schemes of amalgamation of police forces. If we were to accept this Amendment, we should be accepting the position that the police forces which have voluntarily agreed to an amalgamation scheme must refer the matter in dispute to the Secretary of State for decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-17a.1081.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-17", "file": "debates1946-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "ebe367254ee6c8ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-17a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY (SUPPLIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "preceding_text": "their lot recently, would be well advised to look, now that the war period is over, to producing their fruit in grades that will sell in competition. A reference was made to containers and to the fact that foreign producers can find timber, paper and other material for packing such as are not available for our home producers, but, in large measure, those home producers do not need those materials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-17a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-17", "file": "debates1946-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "ebe367254ee6c8ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-17a.1170.1", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH ADMINISTRATION, GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Major Bramall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the black market.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Bramall", "preceding_text": "f scrap. That is the human position in Germany today. We have there a country on poor relief. I am not sufficiently familiar with the mind of the German people, but I believe that if given the chance, they are willing to work their passage home. The only prosperous industry in Germany today is that of working for the Military Government. That is one of the most important industries in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-17a.1170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-18", "file": "debates1946-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "32e68846c4e11e93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-18a.1207.2", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COINAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Abyssinia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": ". 12 noon. The first thing that strikes anyone when he goes outside these shores is the currency of the country he visits. Consider the effect in the trading communities of the Far East and of Africa, and take into consideration the prestige which was talked about of the half-crown, the shilling and the sixpence of our silver coinage. Only the American Continent will be left with a silver coinage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-18a.1207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-18", "file": "debates1946-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "32e68846c4e11e93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-18a.1209.4", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COINAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, frivolous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Williams", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Renfrew, Western (Mr. Scollan) has deplored the fact that so many back benchers have intervened in the Debate today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-18a.1209.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-18", "file": "debates1946-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "32e68846c4e11e93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-18a.1211.0", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COINAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": "s fully as some hon. Members might wish, we put to the House on Second Reading. It is not because we have any serious, or any objection at all to the use of pure nickel. The Government have quite an open mind on the material that is finally to be used. What we want, and what I am positive hon. Members in all quarters of the Committee want, is that we should have a coinage of which we can be proud—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-18a.1211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-18", "file": "debates1946-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "32e68846c4e11e93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-18a.1246.9", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A wren.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "the crown to be made again. I look forward to the time when they will be made again. I remember as a small boy how fascinated I used to be by a crown piece, and particularly with the wording round the edge, and St. George and the Dragon on the reverse. I think we should show more imagination in what we put on the reverse of our coins. I was delighted when the little robin was put on the farthing.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-18a.1246.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-18", "file": "debates1946-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "32e68846c4e11e93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-18a.1256.1", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLAND (ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": "t the end of September? It provides for the election of 444 deputies; all Polish nationals over the age of 21 are entitled to vote, with the exception of various elements which are described as disloyal, and among these are included people connected with the underground movement—that is to say, practically every Pole who took part in the resistance, the secret and underground resistance to Germany", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-18a.1256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1327.3", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "his House on housing in England and Wales. The fact that we are having another Debate so soon requires no apology. It is evidence of the interest which this House feels with regard to the housing situation, and of the concern, the grave concern, that we on this side of the House feel with regard to the present position; a concern which I feel sure is felt also by some of the hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1327.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1327.3", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "des of the House will agree upon, is that there are thousands of people now in this country enduring appalling conditions of overcrowding both in the towns and in the country. In the country, I venture to think the conditions are just as bad as they are in the towns. There are thousands living now in houses which were condemned before the war, and which would have been pulled down but for the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1327.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1336.5", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is houses we want.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " mainly upon the public authorities. The facts now show that our decision was entirely justified. At 31st March, in England and Wales, sites for permanent houses in possession of local authorities amounted to 498,859. Site development had begun for 188,821; site development was completed for 103,248, and tenders approved for 71,078. By 31st August last, this figure had increased to 155,523 houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1336.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1339.4", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "The right hon Gentleman has asked a question, and I will give him his answer. Is he so ignorant of the building societies, and of the very large number of workers in this country who have bought their houses through building societies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1339.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1340.3", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "The Minister has just said that every Tory Member who has spoken in the last 14 months has accused him of using the local authorities. If the right hon. Gentleman will look up the last Debate, he will find that I spoke then and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1340.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1341.3", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The farmers will build them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " have been making speeches about rural housing, and if there is any party that ought to be silent about rural houses it is the Tory Party, whose record on the subject is completely disgraceful. But if the local authorities are not to build houses in the rural areas, and if the main emphasis is not to be placed on the building of houses to let, how are the agricultural workers to get houses at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1341.3", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " to build houses in the rural areas, and if the main emphasis is not to be placed on the building of houses to let, how are the agricultural workers to get houses at all? [An HON. MEMBER: \"The farmers will build them.\"] Farmers have stopped building them now although there is nothing to prevent them building houses. In some instances, what they want is to have public money put into their property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " when we started. We had to make them. Take, for example, bricks. We understood from the Ministry of Works, who received the information from their predecessors, that whatever else we would be short of in the immediate period after the war, we would not be short of bricks. We were told that it was the one material of which we had plenty. But I was very sceptical about information from that source.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1347.1", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "f those houses; and the newspapers which support the party opposite have been silent in the campaign from the very beginning. In other words, the party opposite does not want houses. It wants to exploit the anxieties of the people. If it wanted houses it would have taken part in the campaign. It would not have argued about the faults of this party or that party. It would have said to the builders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1347.1", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ing. In other words, the party opposite does not want houses. It wants to exploit the anxieties of the people. If it wanted houses it would have taken part in the campaign. It would not have argued about the faults of this party or that party. It would have said to the builders—[ Laughter ]. The right hon. and gallant Gentleman does not usually look very nice, but when he grins he looks appalling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": " all Ministers. He will at least have the satisfaction of remembering he has enjoyed very much doing unto others what they are now seeking to do unto him. The hon. and learned Member for Daventry said that if only we would leave things to private enterprise we would see houses springing up everywhere: give private enterprise free rein, away with the five to one restriction on private enterprise. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The Minister of Town and Country Planning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "ution of certain components falling within the scope of the general engineering industry—and this is becoming increasingly important from the point of view of housing, now that we are getting more prefabricated parts both for temporary and permanent houses. Then there are the President of the Board of Trade and the Minister of Transport. The Prime Minister told us that all these are co-ordinated.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1349.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1356.0", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "When was this?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ry word rings home about the spectacle we have witnessed today. The right hon. Gentleman said: The position of the Conservative Party, on the other hand was weak and miserable in the extreme. The Front Opposition Bench, cumbered with the ancient and dreary wreckage of the late administration, was utterly unequal to the Government in eloquence or authority. The attendance of Conservative Members \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1355.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1364.1", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Joynson-Hicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Joynson-Hicks", "preceding_text": " over the weekend according to which a man had built houses in accordance with plans which had been passed on the lines of the permits which had been granted to him for previous buildings, and in accordance with every rule and regulation, except that he did not wait until his application for a permit to build these houses was granted. In fact, he completed the houses before the permit was granted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1364.1", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Joynson-Hicks", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What job?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Joynson-Hicks", "preceding_text": " who were living in rented houses 50 per cent. as many houses as they were buying before the war. Therefore, it is absolute nonsense for the right hon. Gentleman to base the whole of his argument upon the necessity of a ratio of four to one of houses to let as opposed to houses to buy. If only the right hon. Gentleman would give private builders their head to go ahead, they would get the job done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1371.1", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Hare", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Hare", "preceding_text": "e, who are responsible for erecting houses. In the words he has addressed to the House this afternoon, and in his public utterances, the Minister of Health has never shown any sign of admitting that there can be anything wrong with the plan that he has produced for the housing of the people of this nation. He has spoken, as we all know, of breaking the back of the housing problem in a year or two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1377.1", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corlett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corlett", "preceding_text": "ere, they have already highly specialised staffs. In the big towns there are competent town clerks, competent surveyors, competent engineers, competent architects, and these people, in addition to their competence and technical ability have, of course, considerable local knowledge. I suggest that they resent very strongly the idea that they must submit their plans and schemes to regional officers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1402.1", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": " to provide everything for them. No wonder he is indignant with the building societies. No wonder he could not bear to think that private enterprise and the building societies were ready to resume building when this war ended. In the course of my election campaign I was asked a good many questions about housing, and I could only reply that the only remedy for a housing shortage is to build houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1408.1", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is the owner?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "a wall, which has half tumbled down. Three months ago, the borough surveyor himself condemned it, and a man was sent who knocked out. a few bricks. The tenants said to me, \"I suppose that something will be done when a child has been killed.\" I think this is vitally important: I found three small flats, each containing two wretched little rooms and a scullery, which were let at us. 6d. each a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1408.1", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "n in them conditions as hard and harsh as in those flats. At the foot of the stairs stood garbage that must have been there for 12 months. I looked at one flat the condition of which was so bad that the roof had fallen in on the people living there, and they had been compelled to go and live in another flat. I stood by doors which, if you had rattled them, would have caused the walls to fall down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1408.1", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rather late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ums in his own constituency. What has happened? Have the Government done anything? Furthermore, the local manager for the borough admitted that he knew of these conditions, but could do nothing; he advised the deputation, so the \"Daily Worker\" said, to go and see the Communists, who were the people who handled this sort of thing. It is a Tory Member who has brought this up, and not the Communists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "For my part I should like to put the slum owners in prison—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "For my part I should like to put the slum owners in prison—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I should like to put the owner of this slum, the borough Member, and the Minister together in those slums for a month. There is no escaping the responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1411.3", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There would have been more houses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "preceding_text": "n a member of the Birmingham City Council for 25 years, and I am there still. The hon. and learned Member for Daven-try (Mr. Manningham-Buller), who opened the. Debate, knew what was behind his speech. That was what hurt me most. If I felt that hon. Members on the other side were really concerned with housing the people, I would not mind, but I know what would have happened had they been in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1411.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1416.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "preceding_text": "te from examples in my constituency. In Wolverhampton, where we have a Labour council and Labour Members of Parliament, we are getting on with the job. There the builders are getting on with the job, and on one estate of 400 houses 28 builders are taking part. The reason for the success is the team work of the local Labour council, the local Labour Members of Parliament, and the various Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1416.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "preceding_text": "ting that we should do away with controls, local builders have got the idea that it is morally right to carry on black market building. It is obvious, from my own experience, which I have recounted, that where we have a Labour majority working with Labour Members of Parliament and the Labour Government, we are getting results, but where party prejudices are allowed to enter the building programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1419.1", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At what rents?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "preceding_text": " of hon. Gentlemen opposite. Therefore, I have no hesitation in entering this discussion. My feeling is that it is not recognised sufficiently that homes and houses have been built in the past. There were 4 million of them, as we have been reminded, built between the wars, and they were built by a variety of methods. In many cities there were actually houses to let at the outbreak of the last war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1420.2", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": ", was sold last week for £4,200. In a Northern capital, a house built in 1920 for £500 has sold now for £2,200. How has he done it? It is the reverse of his good intentions, because it was his wish to prevent it, but he has created that enormous inflation in the prices of houses. How has he brought it about, except by the chosen instrument? His Ministry has no experience in the building of houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1420.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1428.3", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Or a dead march.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "t the end of the month were 267 million bricks, which is about three weeks' supply. That seems to be a pretty narrow margin on which to be working with this vast pro gramme. I hope that we shall at some time or other have some solution to that. All the Minister can tell us is that the supply of materials marches with the number of houses. In the Army there is either a quick march or a slow march —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1438.2", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "ary houses have been built. Never before in the history of this country has there been such a nation-wide effort on the part of the local authorities for carrying out this business, and I want to give some information as to the success of the local authorities in the work which they have undertaken. I should like first to compare what is being done now with what was done after the first Great War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-21", "file": "debates1946-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "5555dbc62d9234c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1438.2", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Addison.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": " pipeline, as it is called — overfull and a surplus of labour, that can be directed to different places, that private industry does the job in the way in which it was done in those last few years between the wars. The cenditions that are comparable are the conditions immediately following both wars. In the 21 months after the war of 1914–18, under the control largely of the party opposite —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-21a.1438.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-10-22", "file": "debates1946-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "9a888f652741db47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1481.6", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I am glad to be able to announce that a new system, known as the Single Tax system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1481.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-22", "file": "debates1946-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "9a888f652741db47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1487.8", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "their gratitude and friendship for the British Empire for what we had done in the Netherlands East Indies, and, on the other hand, the Indonesian Prime Minister, Mr. Sjahrir, said on 7th October that the British Forces had shown a just appreciation of the Indonesian national movement, and the national revolution that had grown out of it. Our troops will be out of Indonesia finally on 30th November", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1487.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-22", "file": "debates1946-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "9a888f652741db47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1487.8", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "at we have not departed, and indeed this principle was in the minds of the British Government and the Greek representatives before the Allied Armies returned to Greece at all. I am perfectly certain that it is in keeping with the desires of the Greek people. It is a matter of great regret to us that all the parties did not join in the Election. This habit of boycotting elections is not a good one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1487.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-22", "file": "debates1946-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "9a888f652741db47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1487.8", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Leave her alone. Take the troops out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "ajesty's Government towards Greece, which has been made quite clear, we were taken again before the Security Council, while the actual Peace Conference was going on in Paris, this time by the Ukrainian Government, and again completely vindicated. As Sir Alexander Cadogan said then, what Greece chiefly needs is to be left alone so that she can grapple with her economic needs. I think at this stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1487.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-22", "file": "debates1946-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "9a888f652741db47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1487.8", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "number of letters in the last few weeks protesting at what is described as the suppression of the Greek trade unions. Greek trade unions have not been suppressed. What has happened is that, by decision of the Council of State, the highest judicial authority in Greece, the ministerial decree under which the elections to the executive of the Greek trade unions have taken place, was declared invalid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1487.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-10-22", "file": "debates1946-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "9a888f652741db47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1544.0", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Just like it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "Liberal Party—both made it clear that they have no electoral programme. They said that quite frankly. They are there to oppose. All three of the groups, the dissident Socialists included, say that they are really in Rumania what the British Labour Party is here. Bearing in mind their absence of programme, and bearing in mind that each is opposed to the other, the claims seem a little inconsistent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1542.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-22", "file": "debates1946-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "9a888f652741db47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1544.2", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "in a café in public. They have their papers, national and provincial. They hold their meetings publicly and openly; indeed, they had a meeting in Bucharest when I was there. The National Peasant Party, meeting to discuss, I think, whether to put forward an election programme or not, went on for four hours 100 yards from where I was staying with not a Russian soldier or machine gun in sight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1544.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-22", "file": "debates1946-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "9a888f652741db47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1589.1", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beechman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beechman", "preceding_text": " definite conclusions—indeed, about some I had no doubt before. There is undoubtedly political persecution in Spain; there is poverty in Spain. I have made it clear before, both in this House and outside this House, that the methods of Franco repel me. I have also come to the clearest conclusion that nothing has so helped to establish Franco, as he is established now, as intervention from outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-22", "file": "debates1946-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "9a888f652741db47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1589.1", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beechman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beechman", "preceding_text": "out some I had no doubt before. There is undoubtedly political persecution in Spain; there is poverty in Spain. I have made it clear before, both in this House and outside this House, that the methods of Franco repel me. I have also come to the clearest conclusion that nothing has so helped to establish Franco, as he is established now, as intervention from outside. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-22", "file": "debates1946-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "9a888f652741db47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1594.1", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkes", "preceding_text": "popular support in this country—as at the time of Munich. I am suggesting that so far as Greece, Palestine, Spain and other countries are concerned, British foreign policy at the moment is suffering from paralysis, and is failing to perform the functions which we hoped it would perform. I am acutely conscious of the tact that today we are living in a world whose moral standards are disintegrating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-22", "file": "debates1946-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "9a888f652741db47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1594.1", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkes", "preceding_text": "to perform the functions which we hoped it would perform. I am acutely conscious of the tact that today we are living in a world whose moral standards are disintegrating. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I might say that I cannot quite understand the cheering of hon. Gentlemen opposite, whose foreign policy for the past 20 years has done more to destroy the world's moral standards than anything else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-22", "file": "debates1946-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "9a888f652741db47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1594.1", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkes", "preceding_text": " Federation of Trades Unions, as representing valid free trade unionism. The Government went further than merely declaring them invalid; they reappointed their stooges, and gaoled those of the free trades unions union movement because they objected to the position. This is only one pointer to what is going on in Greece. The Greek Government, and there are other Governments almost as bad in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1594.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-10-22", "file": "debates1946-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "9a888f652741db47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1597.4", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkes", "preceding_text": "On the authority of two Members of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1597.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-10-22", "file": "debates1946-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "9a888f652741db47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1609.5", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. and gallant Member must apologise. If he had read \"The Times\" not very long ago, he would have seen that I wrote a letter explaining the circumstances, and he would see that I did not travel to Spain under a false name, nor with false papers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1609.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-22", "file": "debates1946-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "9a888f652741db47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1615.1", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "I believe I bring this very long Debate to a close for tonight, and I am sure we agree we have all had a very exhausting day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-22a.1615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-23", "file": "debates1946-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c8f9218b57fa2804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1679.1", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When will that be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": ". This they have done under conditions which impartial foreign observers have pronounced not unfair, and which are incomparably more free and valid than anything that has been seen in that part of the world for a very long time. That pronouncement ought to be the end of our special wartime responsibilities towards Greece. I was glad to hear that our troops will be brought home as soon as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-23", "file": "debates1946-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c8f9218b57fa2804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1679.1", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " itself in a singularly repulsive light. Conditions in Yugoslavia are sinister and melancholy. The whole country is being converted, as far as possible, into a Communist area. Communism is being taught in the schools, and every effort is being made to create a Soviet Socialist Republic in the closest association with Moscow. It is not for us to interfere in the internal affairs of another country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-23", "file": "debates1946-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c8f9218b57fa2804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1695.1", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": " are still ruled by industrialists and by big money, and these run the newspapers, just as in France they used to be run by the Comité des Forges. In the Soviet Union the country is ruled by the masses of the people, and consequently so is the Press. One big newspaper belongs to the Communist Party which represents the people, and one belongs to the Government, which belongs to the people —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1695.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-10-23", "file": "debates1946-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c8f9218b57fa2804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1706.0", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Right over might.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "t is that if there is a United Nations organisation throughout the world, we must be unreservedly in it and be prepared to support it with all the forces at our command. We do that not only because we are pledged to the ethical principle of international cooperation, not only because, as a Christian country, we believe in the ultimate triumph of might over right, but for the more practical reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-23", "file": "debates1946-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c8f9218b57fa2804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1707.1", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": " capacity or manpower. Nothing is more despicable, and nothing to any foreigner is more incom- prehensible than that, with our record, we should go creeping round the world with an inferiority complex. The second thing of which I am absolutely convinced is that if this country is to exercise any influence in the world at all, it must stand for principle and not expediency in international affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-23", "file": "debates1946-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c8f9218b57fa2804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1711.5", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "rs, who returned me to this House. I fought my campaign as much on foreign affairs as on home affairs. I did not say that, if a Labour Government was returned, they would have their own home policy, but that in foreign affairs they would have a black market under-the-counter coalition with the Tories. I fought my campaign, not only in my own constituency, but in all the surrounding constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1711.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-23", "file": "debates1946-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c8f9218b57fa2804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1727.1", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I cannot give way to the hon. Lady, but I have only a short time at my disposal. The whole policy of those responsible for the government of Yugoslavia is to drive Christianity out of the land altogether. That applies not merely to the Catholic Church but also to the Orthodox Church.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-23", "file": "debates1946-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c8f9218b57fa2804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1762.1", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wheatley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wheatley", "preceding_text": " House today, and I am hoping that we, in this country, have got as good friends in the Soviet Union as Soviet Russia has in this House. I would like to say to the hon. Member for Peterborough (Mr. Tiffany), who referred to the present suspicion between nations, that he himself, throughout the whole of his speech, threw suspicion on the Foreign Secretary and the way he was carrying out his policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-23", "file": "debates1946-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c8f9218b57fa2804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "preceding_text": "s not much time, otherwise I should like to touch on all three of those matters. No one in his right mind can doubt the desirability of amity and collaboration between the British people and the Soviet Union, but amity and cooperation are a two-way, not a one-way street: and ever since this Government came to power there has been nothing but undisguised hostility shown. The Soviet Press and radio—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-23", "file": "debates1946-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c8f9218b57fa2804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1767.3", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Political morality\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "hat is still all right with me. In this period of storm, rain and thunder, when thunderbolts are hurtling down, if someone comes along with an umbrella and says \"Get underneath,\" I am not bothered if the umbrella is made in Wall Street. When this icy blast abates I shall come out of the shelter, and I shall not feel obligated for the rest of my life to the proprietors of the church or the umbrella", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1767.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-23", "file": "debates1946-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c8f9218b57fa2804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1783.2", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "th which I am not in agreement, nor is the Government. One other thing I would like to say on this subject. A request has been addressed to us, and reference was made to this, by the Greek Government for light arms to arm what they called their Home Guard. My right hon. Friend, after consideration, has decided that this should not be done, and he is conveying that decision to the Greek Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1783.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-23", "file": "debates1946-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c8f9218b57fa2804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1784.2", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All Left wing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "9th November in Rumania. In Bulgaria, which is subject—I am using careful words —to what must be described as a reign of terror exercised by the Government-controlled militia, the Opposition enjoy few of those liberties which are characteristic of a democratic State. Not long ago a member of the Bulgarian Government admitted that as many as 40,000 people were in political imprisonment at one time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1784.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-10-23", "file": "debates1946-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c8f9218b57fa2804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1789.0", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\": \"It has been answered.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "d to ask a very plain and simple question—a heavy question. Is there going to be any answer to it? I would like to make it quite plain: Is the right hon. Gentleman in a position to relieve us of any anxiety which may have been caused by my statement that there are more than 200 mobilised Soviet divisions on the line from the Baltic to the Black Sea? I should like to know if any answer can be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-10-23a.1789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-12", "file": "debates1946-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8aeb5b3ca960e7d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-12a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " is not their fault if they are not equal to the job, though it may be our misfortune. It cannot be claimed, however, that even a National Coalition Government would have successfully surmounted all the adverse tides which have been flowing. The Conservative Party cannot of course accept any responsibility for Potsdam, as matters were taken out of our hands in the vital phase of those discussions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-12a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-12", "file": "debates1946-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8aeb5b3ca960e7d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-12a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I am not going to pretend I see anything immoral in the nationalisation of the railways provided fair compensation is paid to the present owners. I profess myself, as the hon. Gentleman has reminded the House, in favour of this policy in 1919, but what happened?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-12a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-12", "file": "debates1946-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8aeb5b3ca960e7d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-12a.30.3", "colnum": "30", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "trial and error provided we profit by our experience—damped—I cannot say my youthful—my early enthusiasm for this project. But the railways are only part of the problem. They were a very clearly marked out public service, and one finds it difficult to see why the arguments which have been applied to the Post Office could not equally be applied to the railways, but now the whole problem is changed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-12a.30.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-12", "file": "debates1946-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8aeb5b3ca960e7d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-12a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was a Liberal then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "preceding_text": " the integration for the provision of fuel, heat and light. We took our first step in the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act. We are following on, on a good precedent. On transport, again I do not expect any objection on principle. The right hon. Gentleman has recalled his own past in this matter. He had one of those flashes of insight which, unfortunately, are so often disregarded by his own party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-12a.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-12", "file": "debates1946-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8aeb5b3ca960e7d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-12a.73.4", "colnum": "73", "heading": "BULGARIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has allowed his good nature to obscure for him the difference between a firm Social Democratic attitude to these things and an opportunist Communist attitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-12a.73.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.77.7", "colnum": "77", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARIES (FRESH REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "preceding_text": "able the Boundary Commissions, while aiming at approximate numerical equality, to preserve the integrity of local government areas, unless the resulting disparity between an electorate and the electoral quota is so excessive as to make departure from the principle of local government unity unavoidable A Bill will be introduced to amend the rules so as to provide greater elasticity in this respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.77.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.79.5", "colnum": "79", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARIES (FRESH REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "In the statement which the Home Secretary read there is no question of gerrymandering. I do not say I advised, but, having been consulted, I approved, the steps which had been taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.79.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.85.8", "colnum": "85", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARIES (FRESH REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.85.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.86.4", "colnum": "86", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARIES (FRESH REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. As you did call me, Mr. Speaker, may I put a different point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.86.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.98.3", "colnum": "98", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is making the assumption which is much easier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.98.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.99.5", "colnum": "99", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "aditions of this House. I make this affirmation, and I shall be glad to hear if any hon. Member controverts it when we come to the general Debate. I think that the Press and the public should realise that this House cannot be the democratic assembly which it should be, if, year after year, for seven whole years now, the Government control all the time of the House, with one or two small exceptions", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.99.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.107.5", "colnum": "107", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": " in support of the Government merely for the sake of pleasing one's constituents. This new Parliament is composed of so many young men without previous experience—I do not say that in any disparaging sense at all—and they somehow feel they must match their speeches against those of the Opposition. In previous Parliaments, there were two or three Opposition speeches to one from the Government side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.107.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.114.2", "colnum": "114", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "It was the Member who was selected; the Member had the Bill, and therefore, in effect it was the Bill that was selected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.114.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.124.3", "colnum": "124", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The closed shop.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "esting that a speech like that, made in the presence of the Prime Minister and other colleagues in the Government on a public occasion, is an indication that this Government is going to interfere with the freedom of anyone? It is a plain declaration of independence by a Member of the Government on behalf of the judiciary of which he is the head. What in the world is the hon. Member complaining of?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.124.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.137.3", "colnum": "137", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "thright of Private Members for the second time. The first time was immediately after a General Election when there was something to be said for it, but today it comes very near to going the whole way and giving the Government a freehold in the matter. Indeed, a superannuated Chief Whip on the other side said he thought it would be a very good thing if we never had Private Members' time back again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "cialist Government to tell us that things of doctrinaire or long-range sort are more important than the restoration after seven war years of something like the normalities of discussion in this House, why then where they take that line they run a very serious risk indeed of finding themselves rejected as being hopelessly inconsistent and insincere in the line which they are taking. I come, lastly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.146.7", "colnum": "146", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Looking for a job?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": " countries, which took place with disastrous consequences, where parties overruled the Legislature. Therefore, we had to keep our eyes open to see the kind of developments that were likely to take place. I wish to say this to the Leader of the House—and there is nobody in this House or in the Labour Party who has a greater respect for the Leader of the House, for his good judgment and his ability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.146.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "our hon. Friends on the other side spoke more truly in the Election than they knew, when they said that the amount of legislation passed through this House could not be assimilated by the State machine. That is true. It was passing through too quickly. We passed 84 Bills in the last Session. What we must admit is that the various Departments that had to administer those Bills were unable to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Poor rabbits.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "ickly. We passed 84 Bills in the last Session. What we must admit is that the various Departments that had to administer those Bills were unable to do it. [ Laughter. ]Hon. Members laugh but they must not crow too soon. Why were they unable to do it? Because certain Ministers and certain Departments were afraid of the wrecking criticism of the Opposition, instead of standing up to them and saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is too subtle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": " question about it, and for that particular reason I ask whether, in the next Session, we are going to get a smaller slice of the programme? I hope we are not, and that we are not going to go back on \"Let us Face the Future,\" even if that means loss of Private Members' time. We came here, according to the British Constitution, as Members representing constituencies, not a party. That is the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.149.7", "colnum": "149", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "Am I not in Order in asking the Leader of the House in which capacity I should vote? I will leave that point. I do want to say this seriously. I was very forcibly struck by the contribution of the noble Lord the Member for Horsham (Earl Winterton) on behalf of the Select Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.149.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.149.7", "colnum": "149", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "Am I not in Order in asking the Leader of the House in which capacity I should vote? I will leave that point. I do want to say this seriously. I was very forcibly struck by the contribution of the noble Lord the Member for Horsham (Earl Winterton) on behalf of the Select Committee. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] He was speaking on behalf of the Select Committee; that is what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.149.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.149.7", "colnum": "149", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "on. ]Then he was speaking as a Member of the Select Committee. He put the point of view of the Select Committee on the whole question of Private Members' rights. I expected it to be called Members' private rights. He put the whole case. I then discovered that there were three other Members of the Select Committee, and that no two of them could agree as to what exactly they had put in their report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.149.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He always does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "If the noble Lord reads the speeches tomorrow he will be struck by the divergence of opinion in all four of them. I listened to every one of them. In the first place, the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman) entirely disagreed with the hon. Member for Rugby (Mr. W. J. Brown).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "vate Members' time instead of the ordinary time. I want to make this point in all seriousness: I am of the opinion that if the Government would confine themselves to the time originally allowed to them, it would give the Departments a better opportunity of keeping up with legislation. There is such a thing as gorging the House, and not being able to masticate what the House has already been doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "is point in all seriousness: I am of the opinion that if the Government would confine themselves to the time originally allowed to them, it would give the Departments a better opportunity of keeping up with legislation. There is such a thing as gorging the House, and not being able to masticate what the House has already been doing. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak for yourself.\"] I am speaking for myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "rouble of printing these Bills when, in the practical legislative sense, it is almost certain that nothing effective will happen. Another possibility of trouble is that Members sometimes went to the Departments to ask for some help in drafting their Bills. At the moment I can assure hon. Members they would get no such help. The Departments are having enough trouble drafting the Government's Bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e in drafting Private Bills was a side wind of trouble then, and I only put that prima facie issue of doubt that there is an element of humbug about the Ten Minutes Rule. It is rather unreal and rather deceiving Members. It is not even a good carrot to put before the donkey's head. I doubt whether it is worth while but, as I have said, we will certainly give it fair consideration as far as we can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": " Procedure, and come to a conclusion which will be announced to the House in due course. But I do not think it will be wise to take this action during the present Session. After all, it is possible to spend 35 minutes on these Bills at the end of Question time and allowing for possibly three-quarters of an hour for the Leader of the Opposition to conduct some row he is running on a particular day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": " day—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It has happened, I say with great respect. It happened in connection with the question of the iron and steel industry when he put supplementary questions for almost a solid hour, ft is no good hon. Members being sensitive. The right hon. Gentleman does his knocking about and he must take a bit back. If we are to allow for him, and his bits of fun at the end of Questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.189.1", "colnum": "189", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not here very often.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "that, at any rate, the Debate was important. One of the reasons why I was determined to speak in this Debate if I could was the absence of a great friend and colleague who, if he had been here, would certainly have intervened. I refer to the hon. Gentleman the junior Burgess for Oxford University (Sir A. Herbert). He happens to be on public business on the other side of the Atlantic at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.189.1", "colnum": "189", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "the moment. [An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not here very often.\"] An hon. Member makes an interjection. I do not quite know what the relevance is except that perhaps he wants me to be rather longer on my feet than otherwise I should be. I very much doubt whether the hon. Member if he is here for 100 years will accomplish one-tenth of what has been accomplished by the junior Burgess for Oxford University.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.194.3", "colnum": "194", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry, Mr. Speaker, and I will certainly try to avoid that, as I am very anxious not even to appear to transgress your Ruling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.194.3", "colnum": "194", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry, Mr. Speaker, and I will certainly try to avoid that, as I am very anxious not even to appear to transgress your Ruling. [ Interruption. ]I promise to close as soon as I can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Keep to the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman spoke of the House being given all sorts of opportunities. I doubt if there will be many people outside who read this Debate who will not bear in mind the outside bodies to which the Government go secretly before they come here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "if there will be many people outside who read this Debate who will not bear in mind the outside bodies to which the Government go secretly before they come here. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Keep to the point.\"] I think I am keeping very much to the point. I thank that portion of the House which has listened to me, and I am glad that a portion of the House which did not wish to listen to me has had to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.205.6", "colnum": "205", "heading": "KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "consideration than it has yet received. The suggestions which have been made, and adopted, to protect the situation have not been adequate enough to deal with such an important matter. This House was really overworked last Session, and it may be overworked this Session. Let everyone understand that the position of a Member of Parliament today is an all time job. That is a very dangerous situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.205.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "hallenged me may I just remind him of what was said by the Prime Minister when he was Leader of the Opposition on 27th April, 1939? The right hon. Gentleman said that his Party were opposed to conscription because instead of strengthening the country it would divide and it would weaken. I did not mean to quote these words but now that the hon. Member has challenged me I am glad I had them with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-13", "file": "debates1946-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f9b7d35f3cd508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.222.0", "colnum": "222", "heading": "KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "at are the hope of the world. Millions of people in our country and throughout the Commonwealth want to hold out the hand of friendship to the forces which Henry Wallace represents. We want the friendship of the American people. The people of our country have elected this Parliament, hoping that it will rebuild our country and enable it to make its contribution to rebuilding the world. To do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-13a.222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.235.7", "colnum": "235", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose fault was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will, perhaps, have observed that we did not have the whole of yesterday for the Debate on the Gracious Speech. I think we only had from 8.55 p.m. until 10 o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.235.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.250.3", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " over 700,000 op 1st July. That was 13,000 more than last April, despite a decrease, in the Service and Supply Departments, of 13,000. We simply cannot afford a continuation of that. It means that the Service and Supply Departments' reductions are being more than made up by increases in other Departments. Then there is the question of controls. Nobody complains about controls where shortages exist", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.250.3", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about bread?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " Departments' reductions are being more than made up by increases in other Departments. Then there is the question of controls. Nobody complains about controls where shortages exist [HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"] No, if Members opposite will read what my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) said at the Election they will see that that is so. The trouble was that they did not read it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.250.3", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ndustry and British agriculture. Here I would appeal to the Prime Minister through the barrage of contending voices. The most difficult problem which he has to solve is the psychological one. For all too many years, Socialist propagandists of various degrees of eminence have been repeating to the workers engaged in industry the idea that extra effort brings no extra reward. That has been the plea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.250.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Under a Tory Government.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " I will give the right hon. Gentleman some reasons, if he likes. I have a book here entitled\"Why you should be a Socialist. \"It was written by the right hon. Gentleman the present Minister of Food, and revised two years ago. This is what he says: Our conclusion is that however hard the workers work, they will remain workers, and poor workers at that. Hard work will not make the workers any richer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "That is too simple. Do hon. Members opposite really maintain that a capitalist system under a Socialist Government will enable the workers to enrich themselves, but a capitalist system under a Tory Government will not do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.254.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.254.2", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "rs opposite really maintain that a capitalist system under a Socialist Government will enable the workers to enrich themselves, but a capitalist system under a Tory Government will not do so. [ Interruption .]I will give way when I have made my quotation. The right hon. Gentleman in this book says: They will remain workers, and poor workers at that. Hard work will not make the workers any richer\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman think, in all seriousness, that there is all the difference in the world between asking the workers to produce under a planned economy, with an expansionist policy of full employment, and the abolition of the means test—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "ike to say that, particularly, in these days when our Embassies come in for so much criticism. Many Members on this side of the House have asked me, since I returned, why it is that, with a Labour Government in this country, the Government of a party which has always been friendly to the Soviet Union, if I may say so, much more friendly than the party which sits on the opposite side of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "tions in Spain, and I say that my hon. Friend was much nearer the truth than the people who were denying What he was saying. Intervention in Spain has never produced dividends. In the last 200 years, there have been at least a dozen interventions, or attempted interventions, in Spain, and not one of them has been successful. Napoleon said that his campaign in Spain had cost him a defeat in Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Salter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Salter", "preceding_text": "2,000. I do not think any responsible person has ever disputed that 1,000—or even 1,200, which is approximately 80 per cent. of 1,550—represents slow starvation—or would regard even the 1,550 which he holds out no hope at present of being fully maintained, as really satisfactory. One could not help feeling that he presented the general picture he had of the situation as comparatively satisfactory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.337.3", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many are there in Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "griculture. These must come into it. If we are going to get more agricultural production, more houses, more coal, steel and all the rest, one of the first steps we should be taking is to take over the land of this country, so as to allocate the best of it for agriculture and the rest for houses and amenities and all that goes with it. To talk of a production drive while we have 1,500,000 soldiers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.337.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.341.6", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "It was a very good bargain for our security while many hon. Members opposite were conscientious objectors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.341.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.341.7", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I will not withdraw it. I feel that it must be said from this side that some people in this House realise that our future depends, not so much upon being pro-Russian or pro-American, as being overwhelmingly pro-British.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.341.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.341.7", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ur future depends, not so much upon being pro-Russian or pro-American, as being overwhelmingly pro-British. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak for yourself.\"] I was speaking for myself. The hon. Member for West Fife would do this country and Scotland a greater service if he spoke as a Briton and a Scotsman rather than as a half-baked Russian. Whilst the hon. Member for West Fife was criticising what my leader—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.341.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "sia. I will now turn the attention of hon. Members opposite to something much closer at home, to something which ought to touch their hearts, and their constituents' pockets too. They claim to represent the working men of this country. I appeal to them to think of the working men whose votes they have obtained. I believe that the savings of the working men of this country are in very grave danger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.342.3", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "They saved shilling by shilling, week by week, over a period of years. I am concerned that the thrifty, hardworking man of this country shall not see his savings go down under a Socialist administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.342.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.342.3", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "They saved shilling by shilling, week by week, over a period of years. I am concerned that the thrifty, hardworking man of this country shall not see his savings go down under a Socialist administration. [ Laughter ] All that the Government back benchers are doing is to laugh at the fact that the working man is losing his savings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.342.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.342.3", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ement. We all have a responsibility here. Many hon. Members opposite will not know—I wish the Chancellor of the Exchequer were here—that after the 1914–18 war, which France won, the French franc dropped from 25.25 to about 175 to the £; that is, it dropped from a value of 10½d. to about1¼d. We won this war, but already the currency in this country has gone down by 50 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.342.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.342.3", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": " the £; that is, it dropped from a value of 10½d. to about1¼d. We won this war, but already the currency in this country has gone down by 50 per cent. [ Laughter .] I do not think that that is anything to laugh at. It is the hard-working man, the thrifty man, who is being robbed at the present time and whose loss is being increased by the bad administration of a Socialist Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.342.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.342.3", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "is country today and, therefore, I want to appeal to the Government and to warn the country of what is happening and of the danger of the internal flight from the £ which will rob the working man of his hard earned savings. We already have partial inflation, and it is quite clear that the high wartime prices which we have endured are not coming down. After the last war, prices tended to come down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.342.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.343.3", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One can spend it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "he \"Ministry of Labour Gazette,\" they will find that between 1938 and today the average wage level has increased by no less than 89 per cent. In October, 1938, the average industrial wage in this country was 55s. 3d. Today it is just over £5 os. 5d., which is an increase of 89 per cent. But it is not a real increase in wages at all. It is merely paper money. One cannot eat paper money, or wear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.343.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "It is very good of the hon. Gentleman to try to make my speech for me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": " per week. The Chancellor hopes to balance his Budget by getting a certain amount of Net savings under the National Savings Campaign, which he will not get. I think that when hon. Members opposite have considered the position again, they will not think, it is a matter for laughter. There is a great falling off in savings, and I do not wonder at it, in view of the fall in values. May I say finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "considered the position again, they will not think, it is a matter for laughter. There is a great falling off in savings, and I do not wonder at it, in view of the fall in values. May I say finally—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] If hon. Members opposite say that to me, I will speak longer. With your indulgence, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, I will tell hon. Members opposite what their Government ought to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not 60?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "alf the number of 1,800,000 civil servants, Government and local, who are being employed today in a non-productive capacity, and put the other half back into productive industry, and so do away with the labour shortage. Secondly, if we are to stop the rot in our currency value, and get back to the plenty that we all want, we should stop talking about a 40 hours week and go back to a 48 hours week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "t some of that brought to this country where we are so short of yarn and where we cannot employ our weaving capacity to the full? We could pay for that yarn by returning a proportion of the finished woven goods. I think we have got somehow to work out a system of economic and trade collaboration with the United States of America, because she is going ahead increasingly and, if you like, selfishly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.361.0", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "he Americans. They were our Allies in the war. But I see no reason, in history or ideology, or in the existing circumstances, why we should be irrevocably and automatically tied to American policy. The major respects in, which the two countries, Britain and America, differ at the present time seem to me to be four. The first is the economic chaos in the United States to which I have just referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-14", "file": "debates1946-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "7e5174aed5f9a8e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "oused by the incident to which reference has already been made, the shooting down of an American plane in Yugoslavia. Naturally, they never indicated that there might be another side to the story, and that, in fact, the shooting-down of that plane was merely the culmination of a long series of reconnaissance flights in which American aircraft had been trying to photograph Yugoslav secret defences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-14a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-15", "file": "debates1946-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "4df866655f38d1a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.387.7", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fill it by taxation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "preceding_text": "between our expenditure and revenue. We knew the gap would still be there, and as in war we intended to fill it by borrowing. What happens when the savers of the country are no longer prepared to fill that gap? That is when the danger arises. Who does fill that gap? There is only one person, and that is the Chancellor. He can either fill it by resorting to the printing press or by creating credit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.387.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-15", "file": "debates1946-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "4df866655f38d1a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": " We had a great Bill, as hon. Members know, making its way through the rather slow procedure of Committee and Report before the war. Unfortunately, it had to be dropped. I was happy three or four months ago to read an article in the \"Daily Herald,\" which I study closely, by the hon. Member for King's Norton (Mr. Blackburn) who, I think, is the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-15", "file": "debates1946-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "4df866655f38d1a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.424.5", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "statement on his behalf before this Debate is over. The plain fact—and this is the main point I want to make before I sit down—is that if you take into account all the chief food commodities, both those whose consumption has gone up since the war and those whose consumption has gone down, and take the whole population, there is no doubt that this country is better fed than it has ever been before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.424.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-15", "file": "debates1946-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "4df866655f38d1a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And in America.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": "tural law? The Debate, of which I have heard a good deal, has been conducted as if things were more or less normal all over the world. The fact is that the world is faced with the biggest crisis of all time. There is a wave of anti-Christ and anarchy all over the world; riots, terrorism in Palestine, murders in India, unofficial strikes causing inconvenience to thousands of people in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-15", "file": "debates1946-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "4df866655f38d1a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A tidal wave.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": "ational ruin and consequent distress and suffering, such as this country has never yet seen, and the severity of which is immeasurable. I say that those words are true of His Majesty's Government today. War, pestilence and distress among nations are not God's fault; they are the fault of man for refusing to obey God's law. The trouble today with the world is that there is a wave going to the Left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-15", "file": "debates1946-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "4df866655f38d1a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To carry out the Election programme.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": "nations—this is an important point—of their own free will to do first their duty towards God, and then their duty towards their neighbours. It must be of their own free will. We cannot compel men to do that by Acts of Parliament or by international conference. I want to ask this question: What are the real intention and the policy of His Majesty's Government as foreshadowed in the Gracious Speech?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-15", "file": "debates1946-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "4df866655f38d1a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Captain Margesson?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": "n HON. MEMBER: \"To carry out the Election programme.\"] The real intention is power; to get power over the people. There is the revolt of the back benchers on foreign policy. I have had no private information, but I understand that those who revolted are going to have disciplinary action taken against them, which is the kind of method employed in Russia, and which was employed in Germany by Hitler.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-15", "file": "debates1946-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "4df866655f38d1a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": " is to stop inflation running riot, and the paper becoming worthless, as it did in Germany after the first World War? I do not know whether hon. Members have read one of the most remarkable books of our generation, a book which it is a duty we owe to this generation and future generations to read—\"The Road to Serfdom, \"by Dr. Hayek. One of the chapters is entitled, \"Why the worst gets to the top.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-15", "file": "debates1946-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "4df866655f38d1a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": "here is no world shortage of wheat. There are three processes involved—production, manufacture, and distribution—and the one process that has broken down under State control is distribution. No civil servant or body of civil servants in Whitehall, or in the Ministry of Food, can possibly give orders to control the detailed distribution of our food. That brings me to the question of bulk purchases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-15", "file": "debates1946-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "4df866655f38d1a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.441.3", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "—and went out into the blue and built an altar unto the Lord and called upon the Lord. He saw that man-made conferences were no good without God's aid. That man's name was Abraham. Then we came to the League of Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-15", "file": "debates1946-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "4df866655f38d1a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "preceding_text": " guarantees, and more clear guarantees, on particular inquiries in particular instances, and for full publicity before particular places are taken over. The legal position is that the basis of all these rights to take over land derives from an Act which was passed in 1842 when the Duke of Wellington was Commander-in-Chief. That was some time ago, and I remember the Duke of Wellington at that time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-15", "file": "debates1946-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "4df866655f38d1a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.467.3", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member for Barking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "It eases my position if that is not the case. We have heard this afternoon a number of extremely well-informed speeches on detailed matters—the hon. Member for Barking Creek—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.467.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-15", "file": "debates1946-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "4df866655f38d1a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.473.3", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "ad in support of the hon. Gentleman. I am afraid that will do the hon. Member for Rochdale a great deal of harm at the next Election. We have now reached an extremely interesting phase of the first majority Socialist Government in this country. A year ago they were talking about 20 years of power. Is there any hon. Gentleman who would put a modest shilling on them being in power 10 years from now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-15", "file": "debates1946-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "4df866655f38d1a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.479.3", "colnum": "479", "heading": "DIVISIONAL COAL BOARDS (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "e National Coal Board. Obviously, if there existed widespread apprehensions on this subject, I would have heard something about the matter at my Department, but so far as I am aware no single communication has come to us, and not a single representation has been made at any time indicating that there has been any apprehension. I suggest that the apprehension is confined to the hon. Member himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-15a.479.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.504.8", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "The Committee on Milk Distribution has been at work for eight weeks and is making progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.504.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "hat only a Labour Government could stop that drift into two world blocs, and only a Labour Government could mediate fairly between Russia and America—that only a Labour Government would want genuine friendship with America, and genuine friendship with Russia. That was the center-piece of foreign policy, on which the Labour Government fought the Election. Hon. Members opposite may disagree with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ought the election on this, or, on this side of the House, that that is the aim of our foreign policy. I believe also that what divides this side of the House from the other is that the aim of our foreign policy is to carry out in foreign affairs, what we are doing in domestic affairs, and to offer to the rest of the world that astonishing constructive experiment which we are carrying out at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He abstained.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " made by the Leader of the Opposition at Fulton. That was a clear and downright assertion of a certain policy. I can understand it; it is a constructive alternative policy, stating that there should be an Anglo-American alliance. The Leader of the Opposition is consistent. He also voted for Bretton Woods and the American Loan because he realised that there could not be an Anglo-American alliance —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.531.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.538.0", "colnum": "538", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "s of this Amendment to be the impression in the world that there is an Anglo-American bloc. I beg the Prime Minister to disown the Fulton speech once and for all. We shall then have the support of all the countries in Europe which are waiting for that declaration. France cannot move towards this country, while this country is associated directly with America in an exclusive military understanding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "It has been said that in putting this Amendment forward we are forcing a Division which would weaken the Government. The Government know that that is untrue. We shall not force a Division today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.538.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "There is one.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "Do I understand my hon. Friend to be advocating a British and Russian alliance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.547.9", "colnum": "547", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "nst his Government that the Amendment is directed. It is a most serious step for any section of a party to put down against the Government an Amendment to the Address, and it is the Government's foreign policy which this doctrinaire Amendment assails. I only wish to say this on behalf of my hon. Friends here. We, ourselves, utterly oppose this Amendment, and the idea which appears to be behind it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.547.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": "ench. My hon. Friend who moved the Amendment knows a good many things about foreign affairs. I have listened to him with respect, knowing that he has a wider knowledge than I have. But, when it comes to the working people, I venture to suggest to him that, so far as the working men in the average pub and the average club, of our land are concerned, I am in a position to tell him the facts of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": "iet Russia has this difference in relation to America. The Soviet Union is the only country in the world which has people of other nationalities in other countries, who are prepared, without any hope of reward, to die for it. And not only to die for it, but to lie and to cheat and to twist until they do die, if it suits the official line. In this country, I have many friends in the Communist Party", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Greece?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "ne of a Socialist foreign policy at the moment must be an intention to make the United Nations organisation work, as I think it obviously must be, I think that everything the Foreign Secretary has done would pass that test. If we say, secondly, that the test of a Socialist foreign policy is support for democracy, then I would have said that everything that we have done passes that particular test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.570.1", "colnum": "570", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not;\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "at points in Government foreign policy remain to be criticised which none of us who signed the Amendment have yet thought of. I would like to say, first, something with regard to a point made by both him and by hon. Members on the opposite side, and by other Members below the Gangway on this side. I want to make it perfectly clear now that we do not propose to divide the House upon this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.576.3", "colnum": "576", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There would still be free elections.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "vine right of kings. Supposing you had free elections in Poland, and supposing that the result of those free elections in Poland was to bring into power a Government which had been at variance with Russia, not merely on ideological and economic grounds but also on other grounds, does anyone really think that the cause of peace would be served thereby or the state of the world would be more stable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.576.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.590.4", "colnum": "590", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I feel that all those Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.590.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.590.4", "colnum": "590", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I feel that all those Members—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] —will feel that the speech which we have just heard was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.590.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.590.7", "colnum": "590", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Is it the pleasure of the House that the Amendment be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.590.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "sfaction to hon. and right hon. Gentlemen with regard to what was happening on demobilisation and in the various theatres abroad. It was perfectly obvious to anyone who had eyes to see that he was simply a puppet in the hands of somebody else. We are watching exactly the same progress with regard to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and also in regard to the new Secretary of State for War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wigg", "preceding_text": "I respect the views that have just been put forward by my hon. Friend. As I said the first time I addressed this House, I think no honest man could look at the commitments of this country and refuse to agree that conscription must be introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Professor Gruffydd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, you wait.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Gruffydd", "preceding_text": "nced, the greatest moral power in the world, and we shall only keep that moral leadership as long as we preserve the old ideas of freedom and humanity, Liberalism, alive, and they cannot be kept alive in a conscript country. When conscription comes in, and that conscription is coming in I make no doubt, for I know that I am speaking against the tide in this House anyway, conscription is coming in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "ich has been moved by my hon. Friend the Member for Lady wood (Mr. Yates). My hon. Friend the Member for Penistone (Mr. McGhee), speaking later, asked me to give an assurance that the whole matter would be reconsidered. I give him an assurance that when the Bill is brought in, all the details will be open to consideration, debate and discussion. I give that assurance, and I hope that will suffice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.632.3", "colnum": "632", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " on the other. I am arguing for the vote in favour. I am making this abundantly clear I think my hon. Friends will agree that I always endeavour to state the case clearly, whether or not they agree with me. I am asking my hon. Friends on this side of the House, and the House at large, to vote tonight in favour of the principle of the continuance of compulsory military service for a certain period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.632.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "We do not believe that circumstances will compel us to do anything of the kind. All sections of the community —all men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-18", "file": "debates1946-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "86adc51071750f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.637.3", "colnum": "637", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Civil servants?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "Because they are not going to be in the Bill; that is why not. The hon. Lady will have an opportunity to move an Amendment to that effect, but the conscription of women will not be prescribed in the Bill. I have already said that all these details will be open to reconsideration and debate. Conscription, however, will apply to all men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-18a.637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.667.6", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "The first part of the question asks for an opinion, and I shall not venture to express one", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.667.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.681.7", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend and I have looked at this matter very carefully, and we agreed that there are cases of great hardship. The trouble is that we cannot legislate for hardship cases; I wish we could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.681.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.693.0", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREATER LONDON PLAN (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "May I ask that when these statements are being made Ministers should change their method of standing at the Box in order that hon. Members behind can hear what is being said?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.693.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which unions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": " It may not be possible for you to fulfil the conditions of employment because the union would not have you, and that wants looking into. I am worried about another aspect of the question. What happens when the unions get scared of unemployment and close their books? That will be a headache for the Government. I am also worried about this point. The unions now are exacting very high entrance fees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.704.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.706.3", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "I suggest that it is a fine, or an, entrance fee, exacted by a body which has no constitutional responsibility whatsoever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.706.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.706.5", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many are there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "I suggest also that men might be thrown out of their unions for various reasons. The introduction of contracting out, has made a very great difference,to what is happening in the trade union movement. It takes a great deal of moral courage now to contract out, if you know that in doing so you are marking yourself out as a man who does not agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.706.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.706.6", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "ing out, has made a very great difference,to what is happening in the trade union movement. It takes a great deal of moral courage now to contract out, if you know that in doing so you are marking yourself out as a man who does not agree—[HON. MEMBERS: \"How many are there?\"] If hon. Members do not believe me, perhaps I may quote another letter. No, I think I will send it to the Minister of Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.706.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.706.9", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "I suggest that if even only one individual is suffering it is worth looking into. Contracting out, when it means that you mark yourself out as being different in your political views, from other members of the union may, I do not say will, cause a man to be discharged from the union—of course it will not—but will be a black mark against him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.706.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.706.9", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why rake it up?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": ": how many Germans in Germany had to join the Nazi Party be- cause it was a condition of employment? That is what is being shown in the deNazincation courts now. That is the story which is being told daily: \"I did not want to join, but I had to, to get a job.\" It has a very similar ring to what we hear in these cases, though I am not suggesting that the trade unions are Fascist—of course I am not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.706.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.706.9", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Scabs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "new and up to date charter, which will guarantee the personal liberty of the individual, and the rights of minorities.\" They can do that, and this House can satisfy itself whether this is right or wrong. I believe that is the spirit in which we ought to approach, this matter. When we come to divide this House tonight, this will not be a vote against the trade unions, but a vote in the interest of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.706.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about 1937?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": "of some 30 years' standing, and as a trade union leader for most of that time, that I have no use whatever for the non-unionist. I think he is a fool to himself. I think he is a liability to his workmates. And I think he can be made a tool of bad employers. Therefore, I have no use for him. Nor is it true, although it has been suggested as true, that I am in favour of breakaway or splinter unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In glory\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": "er cent. or 90 per cent. volunteers to 100 per cent. compelled, we may add 10 per cent., or 15 per cent., to our membership, but we would subtract 50 per cent. from the moral authority we represent. The closed shop makes for slack trade unionism. I do not need to argue at great length with my trade union friends, that one union can differ from another as one star differs from another in magnitude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the same.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": "use when one comes to face industrial octopuses such as the Transport and General Workers' Union, and the Municipal and General Workers, Union, with memberships of a million or so, the only appeal for members is to the biennial conference. That is a conference held every two years, in the case of the Transport and General Workers' Union—I am not sure about the Municipal and General Workers' Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A breakaway.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "No. They were in another organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "retary and a delegate called at the man's private house and asked the man if he would let them look at his card. He handed them the card, they looked at it, and then said, 'You are not a member of the Transport and General Workers' Union and you will be sacked.' On the following day, he was sent for by the employer and discharged with a week's money in lieu of notice after 33 years in the service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.718.4", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "hough you observe all the laws, you shall not be free to work save by our permission, and that permission will be conditional upon your being either a member of a union, or a particular union, or a, union of a given character.\" It is true that there are other examples of the closed shop. There are the cases of the medical profession and the Jaw, but, at least, there is some sort of argument there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.718.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": "of the closed shop arose recently out of the action of the London Passenger Transport Board, which agreed to recognise one union for certain classes of its employees. I think it is necessary that the House should see the whole picture and know the reason for this action of the London Passenger Transport Board before arriving at a definite decision. Partial knowledge on these subjects is dangerous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "and reaction of the worst kind. The question of nationalised industry has not become the question of tomorrow; it is the question of today. Members opposite cannot get away from that. We have had Mr. Will Lawther of the Mine-workers' Association already asking that' in the nationalised coal trade there should be a closed shop for his union, that everyone in that industry ought to be in that union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I did not say he was refused employment. The attempt was made at Smithfield. In the case of the Smithfield Guild of Clerks and Salesmen, the strike against them was because, specifically, they were not a union affiliated to the T.U.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was a splinter union.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I did not say he was refused employment. The attempt was made at Smithfield. In the case of the Smithfield Guild of Clerks and Salesmen, the strike against them was because, specifically, they were not a union affiliated to the T.U.C. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] If that was not the reason, there was no reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "o the T.U.C. was turned down—after the election. I would ask the Minister of Labour to recognise that this matter affects my constituents vitally, and to tell me how one gets into the T.U.C. How can an organisation get into the T.U.C? What determines affiliation? What are the rules? Is the decision purely arbitrary? Are there any rules an organisation can follow to ensure that it will be accepted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "y have made the mistake of putting it to hon. Members unseriously. It concerns the livelihood of these people. The industry to which I am referring is a new one—servicing aircraft—and it is a highly skilled branch of engineering. The position of the trade union is that it still recruits members, who are loyal to it. It represents in civil aviation approximately 80 per cent. of the trade unionists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.748.1", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is he a Liberal?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "t. My information is that only the advice of the-Minister of Labour prevents them from doing it. This, I should say, is not a political union. I come back to the case of my two constituents. One man was a branch secretary of this union. He joined, I am informed, the Communist Party and the A.E.U. at the same time. The other remained faithful to this organisation and is under a threat of dismissal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.749.3", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Isaacs)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Isaacs)", "preceding_text": "out the shop which was closed by the employer against the worker. There are other systems of the closed shop. There is the kind of closed shop brought about by the creation of the so-called Foremen's and Staff Mutual Benefit Society. There you get, not the shop but the avenues of promotion closed. A worker can be promoted to be a foreman, provided he joins the Foremen's Mutual Benefit Association.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.749.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.749.3", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Isaacs)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Isaacs)", "preceding_text": "t by the creation of the so-called Foremen's and Staff Mutual Benefit Society. There you get, not the shop but the avenues of promotion closed. A worker can be promoted to be a foreman, provided he joins the Foremen's Mutual Benefit Association. [ Interruption. ]Perhaps if they pay attention some of the hon. Gentlemen opposite who have never worked in a workshop in their lives may learn something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.749.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.754.1", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "bout the \"tyranny against which we protest.\" Some of us feel that the hon. and learned Gentleman \"doth protest too much.\" We are a little doubtful sometimes, when he speaks in these forceful terms about the rights and freedom of the workers, whether there is not behind it all, a bitter opposition to the trade unionist, which may not come out in his words, but comes out in his gestures and manners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.754.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.756.3", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "\"You.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.756.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "We must oppose the Amendment be cause it contains a suggestion that the Trades Union government—the Trades Union Congress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "ver there were child slaves, and their grandchildren, who bear the marks of that slavery today—half grown, not as tall and as vigorous as they should be? For generations the children in the factories were stunted and starved. Not many people cared about it, and it was a long time before anyone took any real interest in it. It took over half a century before a great humanitarian, Lord Shaftesbury —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "ession. I ask the House, in all seriousness, to remember that any Government must think ahead about its legislation for a coming Session. This Report was published on 16th October, and the new Session began on 12th November. We were aware of the problem. In fact, I have been aware of it longer than many people who have been talking in the Debate tonight. The child problem is not a new one with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation (Mr. Lindgren)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation (Mr. Lindgren)", "preceding_text": "dgment, from the employees' secretary of the joint industrial council, that the application has been received and will be dealt with. That is how I see it, and if I have done an injustice to the hon. Member, I will immediately withdraw, but I did gather from his remarks that he thought that the Municipal and General Workers' Union were controlling the conditions of employment within that industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-19", "file": "debates1946-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87362027523e8ab1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation (Mr. Lindgren)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation (Mr. Lindgren)", "preceding_text": " That is how I see it, and if I have done an injustice to the hon. Member, I will immediately withdraw, but I did gather from his remarks that he thought that the Municipal and General Workers' Union were controlling the conditions of employment within that industry. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] It is clear that hon. Members opposite, whose knowledge of industrial subjects is not extremely large—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-19a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.828.2", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Passing the buck again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burke", "preceding_text": "It is rather a complicated matter concerning other Government Departments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.828.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.828.8", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Hutchison", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that this ingenious little instrument allows messages to be taken in the absence of the recipient and allows questions to be answered at leisure, does not the hon. Gentleman think there would be considerable demand for it in Government Departments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.828.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.829.3", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "What we really want to know is how to attract the attention of the young lady at the Exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.829.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.843.12", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Is it not a disgrace that, after 18 months of this Government, Scotland has to rely wholly on foreign air liners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.843.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.843.13", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.843.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.871.1", "colnum": "871", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was answered yesterday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "llar position, upon which I think the House and the country are entitled to more information than we have yet been given. Ever since the confirmation of the American Loan by Congress we have been left in much mystery. I wish to put some questions to Ministers, and I hope that in the course of the Debate we may receive answers. How much of the American Loan or line of credit has been spent to date?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that. I only mention this point because it is constantly being affirmed that we misled the country and it is the reverse of the truth. On Page 2 of \"Let us Face the Future\" this was said: The Labour Party makes no baseless promises. The future will not be easy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.885.2", "colnum": "885", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "mit to you that, if these personal matters and attacks on hon. Members and their personal conduct are to be introduced in a Debate on these large topics, the matter must be carried further. I do not consider—and I put it to you, Sir—that this sort of charge and insinuation should be flung out across the Table. even by one who, while leading the House, has never ceased to stoop to the lowest level—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.885.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.886.0", "colnum": "886", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman comes in all of a sudden and before he has been here two minutes he must start this kind of thing, when he does not know what happened. I am concerned with public policy in industrial problems. I make no charge, and made no charge, of impropriety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.886.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.886.3", "colnum": "886", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I want to raise this matter. I cannot say that it is a matter of Order, but it is a matter of procedure. It I am right—and I am in the recollection of the House—I distinctly heard the Leader of the House suggest that the right hon. Gentleman, in his private capacity, was engaged in an improper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.886.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.886.5", "colnum": "886", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "May we come back to the facts for a moment? The insinuation which the right hon. Gentleman made, and which I refuted, was that the electrical industry is engaged in a restriction of production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.886.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.886.5", "colnum": "886", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " production. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] If it is a matter of price, then the subject would be entirely irrelevant to this Debate. We are now talking about production. I think that the OFFICIAL REPORT will clear up the point. My recollection is clear; the insinuation which the right hon. Gentleman made was that I was engaged, in my private capacity,, in restricting production in order to keep up prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.886.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.887.6", "colnum": "887", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Restriction of what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " am sure that he will find he is mistaken in thinking that, in this connection, I was making the allegation that the electrical plant and lamp manufacturers were restricting production. What I was saying was that the electrical plant and lamp manufactur2rs had price agreements, and agreements about handling of tenders for public contracts, which I regard in the nature of a restrictionist practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.887.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.887.6", "colnum": "887", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "any instances of civilian industries which are now producing at or above prewar levels. But, as one would expect, the performance is very uneven. Some industries, such as those producing hardware, hollow-ware and all kinds of electrical equipment. were well placed for reconversion. They had not much retooling to do and they had their labour and materials all ready. They went to it most creditably—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.887.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "It is true. That does not divert me from the point I made about price control. If the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford will do me the honour of reading my speech tomorrow, he will in due course get the point I was making. As I was saying, they went to it most creditably, with the result that the ironmongers' and electricians' shops are well filled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "t the country. The Government regard what has so fax been done as merely the laying of the foundations for the more intensive production drive that is still to come. This further drive must be specific and concrete. It must deal with the problems of industry, industry by industry, and region by region. My right hon. Friend the Minister of Fuel and Power has already launched his publicity campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "stry by industry, and region by region. My right hon. Friend the Minister of Fuel and Power has already launched his publicity campaign. [ Laughter ] That laughter shows a spirit of scorn which is really not in the national interest. It is that spirit of scorn which almost expresses a hope that this production drive will fail. It is a manifestation of irresponsibility and is really to be deplored.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have got the wind up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " steel industry will be dealt with in accordance with the principles and the policy we set out in \"Let us Face the Future\" at the General Election. I say that, because it seems to me a great pity that some newspapers and politicians of the Right should be under the delusion that the Government have retreated from their position on iron and steel. We have not done so and we do not propose to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "efully chosen. I do not happen to have my copy of \"Let Us Face The Future\" with me, although I do not usually go far without it. It so happens that I have in my hand a document, written by some relative of the Minister of Food as recently as 1944. I am glad to say that what he wrote there confirms to a great degree what the right hon. Gentleman has just said. I find that on page 77 of the booklet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is national unity?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": " monopoly was ever enjoyed by a single faction. But I claim with complete confidence that the principle of national unity is, and always has been, a distinctively Conservative political doctrine, and that the right hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends, having broken that national unity, prior to the Election, now call pitifully, but in vain, for the spirit of Dunkirk which they themselves destroyed", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "elf and the whole world from tyranny and disaster. Instead of \"A fair share for all in a constantly diminishing economy,\" it is \"An adequate share for all, enough for all, abundance for all, in a constantly expanding economy.\" I had hoped to conclude what I had to say with a fairly careful summary of what I conceive would have been the policy of a Conservative Government during the last 18 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the other?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "uction of houses. It is not our case that one is much better than the other. They are both very good. Our case is that one is much bigger than the other. I do not think a Conservative Government would have followed the policy of the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Health of trying to force the entire housing programme through the bottleneck of one of those organisations rather than the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.910.1", "colnum": "910", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoǵǵ", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoǵǵ", "preceding_text": " must necessarily differ. It is to proclaim a return to common sense, a return to moderation as a political principle, and the abandonment of a policy based simply on ideological considerations. It is because of this that we believe that the ultimate message of Conservatism at the present time is one of hope. For seven long years now our great people have undergone suffering, privation and danger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.910.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Major Poole", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Poole", "preceding_text": "Tory Party conferred upon countless thousands in this country in the thirties was the freedom to starve. That was their contribution to the unity and good will of the people of this country. I will say this. I agree with him when he says that it is not good enough and it never will be good enough for this party to blame any of its failures on the fact that the Tory Party failed after the last war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.924.2", "colnum": "924", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "preceding_text": "ot less important, this part of the industry accounted for 50 per cent. of our direct steel exports. Except to say that the acceptance of my suggestion would mean the speedier redemption of a political pledge, I do not want to touch upon the political aspects of steel tonight. But it must be understood that to all Socialists the political aspects of steel are at least as important as the economic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.924.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.958.1", "colnum": "958", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "at industrial dictatorship in the interests of private profit has one result, to which, of course, they have shrewdly made no reference, and that is the economic enslavement of the masses. That is what always occurred under free enterprise, and that is undoubtedly what will occur again. It is not surprising that with that policy in view, in Dundee in 1908—it is true that the vintage is rather old—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.958.1", "colnum": "958", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "t, shipbuilding, agriculture, housing, that is exactly what was being done the whole of the time. The money of the country was being used to bolster up capitalism in that way. Although, of course, capitalists and the Opposition denounce nationalisation, they are not too proud to take public money in order to bolster up their capitalism. On this question of initiative I do not want to take up time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.958.1", "colnum": "958", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": " the time. The money of the country was being used to bolster up capitalism in that way. Although, of course, capitalists and the Opposition denounce nationalisation, they are not too proud to take public money in order to bolster up their capitalism. On this question of initiative I do not want to take up time—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"]—I am sure the Opposition are very pleased to get rid of me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.965.2", "colnum": "965", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "I bow entirely to your judgment, but I would call your attention, Sir, to the statement in the Amendment: …there are no practical proposals in the Gracious Speech calculated to unite your Majesty's subjects… I would say that it the Government had said in the Gracious Speech that to nominate Prestwick and to treat it as an international airport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.965.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.965.4", "colnum": "965", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "s body remained statutory, it would mean, of course, that the Government of the day, whatever it was, would have to accept the Bills or suggestions made by that council, but subject to debate in this House and subject to any Amendment while it was going through the Scottish Grand Committee. That, briefly, is my suggestion, and I believe it would be acceptable to every shade of opinion in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.965.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-20", "file": "debates1946-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a96b5738bbd46ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Lindsay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Lindsay", "preceding_text": "ng to bear some new reserve of power which had not hitherto been tapped. As a result, the Royal Air Force, from that moment, were thrown into the Battle of the Atlantic, and the situation was got under control. I believe that we are faced with a parallel situation today, and that we must use some new reserve of untapped power in order to deal with it. I believe that that reserve is foreign labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-20a.971.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-21", "file": "debates1946-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6e187c1f3337bb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.993.9", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PETROL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Misused.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister say how much petrol was used at Paddington yesterday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.993.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-21", "file": "debates1946-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6e187c1f3337bb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1031.6", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The Army Estimates will come up in due course. I think it is really a bit premature, when we have had nearly a week's Debate in which many matters were referred to for us to be pressed to find time for special Debates. There is a big legislative programme to go through, and it must go through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1031.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-21", "file": "debates1946-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6e187c1f3337bb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1034.8", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does that depend on?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": ", or whether the right hon. Gentleman's (statement was a cry of despair, I never fully made out. One thing was made quite certain by this Debate—that hon. Members opposite have undergone something like a political conversion. It is now common ground that the standard of life of the people of this country depends not on Socialism or any other \"ism,\" but on our production per head of the population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1034.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-21", "file": "debates1946-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6e187c1f3337bb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1034.8", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Builders.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "is a tangle of regulations which make it incredibly difficult to transfer from one job to another, or from one trade to another, or even, may I add, to do the job which you are trained to do. The public has not forgotten about those railway trucks at Swindon which, for nine months sat without roofs on, waiting while the National Union of Railwaymen and the National Union of Vehicle Manufacturers —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1034.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-21", "file": "debates1946-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6e187c1f3337bb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1034.8", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Lord President of the Council.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "sastrous for the consumers. Instead of that, or at least in addition to that, why could we not see some reference in the Gracious Speech to a Bill which would not put industries into tighter rings, but would break up one or two of the rings? What is the use of the President of the Board of Trade getting up and sneering, in an aside, at my right hon. Friend the Member for Aldershot (Mr. Lyttelton)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1034.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-21", "file": "debates1946-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6e187c1f3337bb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1052.2", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Canada?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "oceed with my own speech, instead of taking up time in answering hon. Members' queries. The British Merchant Marine survived and its efficiency was a vital factor in winning the war. But let me turn to the railways for a minute. I am going to quote only a few cases of countries taking over the railways-Canada, Australia, Belgium, New Zealand, France and Switzerland all sustained very heavy losses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1052.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-21", "file": "debates1946-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6e187c1f3337bb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1067.5", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "rch in the \"Sunday Express\" as saying: We have now become the ruling class, and I hope we shall rule in a way which will raise this nation to the heights, as it has never been ruled before. I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman meant \"depths,\" but, at any rate, are the party opposite the masters? I remember that when I was in the Army I used to have a batman to look after me occasionally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1067.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-21", "file": "debates1946-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6e187c1f3337bb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1067.5", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": " regular batmen got hold of the most dull and backward boy in the camp, and made him what was known as the batmen's batman. He cleaned the shoes of the batmen. He used to strut about the camp, saying that he was a batman, but only when the actual batmen were not present. Is it not the same now? The Treasury Bench say, \"We are the masters,\" but the masters are around the corner, at Transport House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1067.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-21", "file": "debates1946-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6e187c1f3337bb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It sounds like it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "ust human. They are the finest raw material' in the world, if properly handled, and the worst if they are not well handled. They are not being well handled at the moment. An hon. Member opposite said that Socialist doctrine would not succeed unless there was a change in the hearts of human beings. They have not changed in 2,000 years but if they can change I agree. At heart, I am a Socialist, too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-21", "file": "debates1946-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6e187c1f3337bb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And nationalisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "preceding_text": " Tory mind. Since he has come into contact with reality, it is interesting to observe that his mind shows a similar deflection to the twist which he has described. When we talk of production, let us remember that production must be the work of the people of the country. The Government by itself can produce nothing; that is to say, nothing but speeches and restrictions upon the activities of others", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-21", "file": "debates1946-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6e187c1f3337bb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "preceding_text": "rmanent the closing of the Liverpool Cotton Exchange, and to substitute for the operations of that market bulk buying by some Government commission. How will that increase production? It may be right or wrong on other grounds. People will argue, about that. I remember that when we first argued it here, there was a case made against the Cotton Exchange that there was some element of gambling in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-21", "file": "debates1946-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6e187c1f3337bb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1085.3", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "already drawn. It goes into the general pool. One cannot say that it is spent on any particular commodity. AD I can give to the right hon. Gentleman is the proportion in which we have actually spent our dollar resources. That proportion is: On food and drink, 47 per cent.; on raw materials, 15 per cent.; on manufactured goods, 9 per cent.; and on other items, primarily oil and films, 29 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-21", "file": "debates1946-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6e187c1f3337bb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1088.4", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Neither do we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "We do not propose to seek a coalition whether it is what the hon. Gentleman for Oxford wants, or not, and we certainly do not intend to seek it on the basis of the policy of the Opposition when they find one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1088.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-21", "file": "debates1946-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6e187c1f3337bb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1088.4", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubber and petrol.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "with a bias in favour, first, of the most essential productions and, secondly, of the development areas where there are already bodies of unemployed. A good deal has been said about controls, but there is never any particularity in these observations about controls. It is always an argument against controls as a whole. Nobody ever points out what particular control they think should be got rid of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1088.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-21", "file": "debates1946-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6e187c1f3337bb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1090.3", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "The answer to that is, as the right hon. Gentleman knows very well, that there are other purposes for controls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1090.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-21", "file": "debates1946-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6e187c1f3337bb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1091.4", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": " use of our resources in the national interest. I come next to capacity which has been very carefully planned in accordance with the total capacity or factory space that is required in each locality in order to give full employment, and that variety of industry which is a necessity for stable employment. The principle is to take the work to the worker, and not try to export the worker to the work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1091.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-21", "file": "debates1946-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6e187c1f3337bb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir S, Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S, Cripps", "preceding_text": "owledge of British industry. The reports now coming forward fully justify the work that has been put in, and will form an invaluable basis for concerted action in each of the industries which they cover. There is, however, a corollary to this method of procedure. That is that all of us, all three partners in industry, must be flexibly minded in our approach, and must not be hidebound by old fears—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-21", "file": "debates1946-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6e187c1f3337bb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "MUNICIPAL HOUSES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member means a car park.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "e cars, and I wonder whether the flat is subsidised by the taxpayer and ratepayer or whether the car is subsidised by them. If the hon. Gentleman who is to reply cares to come round with me one Sunday morning to the L.C.C. flats at the White City, I can show him a very large and expensive Buick, a 38 h.p. car, which is outside these flats every Sunday morning. About 15 or 20 cars are always there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-21", "file": "debates1946-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6e187c1f3337bb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1154.2", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "MUNICIPAL HOUSES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wheatley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wheatley", "preceding_text": "I quite agree. My hon. Friend spoke of the millionaire's son as compared with the serving man. That can only be a passing phase, because a millionaire's son is not going to remain in a council house very long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1154.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-21", "file": "debates1946-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "6e187c1f3337bb37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "MUNICIPAL HOUSES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "preceding_text": "ccommodation. If the precise points basis for allocation is to be publicised it will leave the system open to fraud and misrepresentation. It is very difficult indeed for local authorities to test the bona fides of the cases which come before them. If it is published that so many points are to be allowed for so many children, all sorts of children will be claimed for, which will not be legitimate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-21a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-25", "file": "debates1946-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8138cf0310c54d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1250.8", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "They are supposed to give nutritional leadership in their areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1250.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-25", "file": "debates1946-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8138cf0310c54d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1250.10", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "These people explain, for instance, the relief food and the welfare food schemes. I have just addressed a conference of them. I believe they are rendering a most valuable service. They are a group of very earnest people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1250.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-25", "file": "debates1946-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8138cf0310c54d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1265.9", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "AFRICAN GROUNDNUTS (PRODUCTION SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman give an assurance that there will be a public local inquiry before any tribe is dispossessed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1265.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-25", "file": "debates1946-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8138cf0310c54d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1267.3", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES (REGULATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Thomas Williams)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stations.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Thomas Williams)", "preceding_text": "he opinion of the Committee are adequate to promote efficiency and to enable a man in an ordinary case to maintain himself and his family in accordance with such standard of comfort as may be reasonable in relation to the nature of his occupation. In these days that sounds a little out of date. It is far too reminiscent of \"God bless the squire and his relations, and keep us in our proper places.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-25", "file": "debates1946-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8138cf0310c54d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1318.1", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES (REGULATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "preceding_text": " as I began, and ask that any doubts or ambiguities that can be cleared away with regard to prices and wages, and with regard to the other points which I and others have mentioned, should now be cleared away by the Minister who will wind up the Debate this evening. There is a saying which I read somewhere recently—it was by a man called Bacon—that Money, like muck, is not good unless it be spread.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-25", "file": "debates1946-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8138cf0310c54d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES (REGULATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There will be fewer teachers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "rs have said that it is unnecessary to regulate or control the conditions under which the students would work or would get their instruction in agriculture. It has been said that not many students are coming forward; but, surely, we can expect more learners when they and, in the case of the younger people, their parents know the conditions under which they will get their education in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-25", "file": "debates1946-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8138cf0310c54d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1367.7", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES (REGULATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "ver he thinks fit, having given the normal time of notice. I was also asked some questions about the removal of the limit on holidays, and certain hon. Members on the other side expressed considerable apprehension lest the removal of the limit on holidays might result in the Wages Boards running riot and giving far too long holidays to agricultural workers, thereby upsetting the work on the farms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1367.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-25", "file": "debates1946-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8138cf0310c54d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1369.3", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES (REGULATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "ot true to say that in this Bill we are perpetuating the giving of perquisites as part payment. The fact is that the perquisites are being given. Workers are being given cottages at less than the normal rent, they are being given milk, potatoes, meal and all sorts of produce of the farm. What we are doing in the Bill is to make sure that they will not be exploited in being given these perquisites.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1369.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-25", "file": "debates1946-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8138cf0310c54d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1373.3", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "YOUNG SOLDIERS (MARRIAGE ALLOWANCE),", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Even the Labour Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " again: If a man is old enough and fit enough to be called up for service, he is old enough to marry, with all the responsibilities which that entails. In granting these war service grants, a grudging admission of this fact is given, otherwise the grants would not be in force. I say that the act of falling in love cannot be regulated by any regulations or orders. It is something we cannot control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-25", "file": "debates1946-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8138cf0310c54d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "YOUNG SOLDIERS (MARRIAGE ALLOWANCE),", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. It is based in the main upon the fact that we do not desire marriage for young men under 21, who volunteer for the Regular Forces", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-25", "file": "debates1946-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8138cf0310c54d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "YOUNG SOLDIERS (MARRIAGE ALLOWANCE),", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the conscripts?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. It is based in the main upon the fact that we do not desire marriage for young men under 21, who volunteer for the Regular Forces [ Interruption. ] I have not much time left in which to explain my case. The fact remains that we do not want married soldiers to volunteer for the Regular Army under 21. We do not think it is fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-25", "file": "debates1946-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8138cf0310c54d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "YOUNG SOLDIERS (MARRIAGE ALLOWANCE),", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "to proceed. We do not think it is fair that young men should volunteer to serve in the Regular Army, and then have a marriage engagement, when they are under 21. It follows that where we have the two systems, Regular Army and conscripts, we are in a very difficult position if conscripts get marriage allowances as of right when they are under 21 and married, and if the Regular Army cannot get them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-25", "file": "debates1946-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8138cf0310c54d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "YOUNG SOLDIERS (MARRIAGE ALLOWANCE),", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS-\"May?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "at we are having this argument tonight. Let me tell hon. Gentlemen what the arrangements are at the present time. The marriage allowance of a private soldier over 21 is 35s. per week, whether he has no children or any number of children, and provided he makes an allotment of 10s. 6d. per week. The married soldier under 21, if he is a Regular soldier and if he has children, may get a Service grant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-25", "file": "debates1946-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8138cf0310c54d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "YOUNG SOLDIERS (MARRIAGE ALLOWANCE),", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"May get it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "wance of a private soldier over 21 is 35s. per week, whether he has no children or any number of children, and provided he makes an allotment of 10s. 6d. per week. The married soldier under 21, if he is a Regular soldier and if he has children, may get a Service grant—[HON. MEMBERS-\"May?\"] The non-Regular Service man may get a grant up to a maximum of £3 a week under the war service grants scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-25", "file": "debates1946-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8138cf0310c54d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "YOUNG SOLDIERS (MARRIAGE ALLOWANCE),", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But why the limit of 21?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "e makes an allotment of 10s. 6d. per week. The married soldier under 21, if he is a Regular soldier and if he has children, may get a Service grant—[HON. MEMBERS-\"May?\"] The non-Regular Service man may get a grant up to a maximum of £3 a week under the war service grants scheme. [HON. MEMBERS: \"May get it?\"] Many of them, if they have civilian commitments, can get it and did get it during the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-25", "file": "debates1946-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "8138cf0310c54d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "YOUNG SOLDIERS (MARRIAGE ALLOWANCE),", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "d that this arose out of the situation of the Regular soldier whom we do not want to be married under 21. If hon. Gentlemen will follow me, they will see that that situation has created an anomaly in the case of those who are called up when they are under 21 and are already married. I am quite prepared to admit that that situation, which has created an anomaly, is not an entirely satisfactory one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-25a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1386.7", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "Not by you, at any rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1386.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1390.4", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that there is five times the amount of unemployment in Scotland that there is in London and the South of England?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1390.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1405.5", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRISONERS OF WAR", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington-Lodge", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind that it is important to return our prisoners of war to Germany as an example of our British way and purpose, and that the suggestion in my Question will do very much to achieve that end?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1405.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1409.9", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order, order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington-Lodge", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1409.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1411.3", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "Is the Chancellor aware that there are frequent instances of persons who are not making a profit in their businesses having to add to the loss they are already making by employing clerical staff to collect Pay as you earn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1411.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1411.6", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that if proper systems of office machinery are used, the amount of clerical labour involved is by no means heavy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1411.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1424.6", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did the 'Daily Worker' say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "onents of it.\"— and I am sure Mr. Oscar Hobson worked hard to find them. The \"Observer\" said: It is a complicated measure but has been fairly described as a conservative and consolidating measure. The \"Stock Exchange Gazette,\" to which we ought to pay great regard in this context, said: The necessity for the maintenance of exchange control in present circumstances will not be seriously challenged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1424.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1425.1", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "out of foreign exchange in a very short time. We might be run right out of our foreign exchange resources within a week if we permitted a restoration of the prewar freedom of capital movement. This is one of the many cases in which the individual interest may, very often, come into clear conflict with the most vital of national interests. If we look back to prewar days, days of freedom and misery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "f the Macmillan Committee, there were, at that time, large short-term foreign funds of a precarious character, lodged in London, some of them borrowed from France. There was a tendency at that time to borrow short from France and other foreign countries in order to lend to Germany. The practice was to borrow short from France at a low rate of interest and lend to Germany at a slightly higher rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"There was a war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "to control all payments. This Bill, as has been said by one of the \"newspapers which I have quoted, is a conservative and consolidating Measure. It makes no major change in present arrangements. Substantially, it puts into permanent statutory form the Defence (Finance) Regulations. which have operated with practically no friction or criticism, as I think hon. Mem- bers will agree, for seven years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "or change in present arrangements. Substantially, it puts into permanent statutory form the Defence (Finance) Regulations. which have operated with practically no friction or criticism, as I think hon. Mem- bers will agree, for seven years. [AN HON. MEMBER: \"There was a war.\"] Quite true, there was a war, but I was not talking about war, but about friction and criticism, and I said there was none.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "f its provisions. It is impossible to discuss them in detail without becoming technical, and that we shall be able to do in Committee, but, looking at the matter broadly, it would be wrong to regard this Bill as a negative and restrictive instrument. It must impose restrictions, but it is intended to be an active and positive contribution to this new era of exchange, stability and expanding trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " difficult to understand, but it is so designed because unless we can safeguard our balance of payments we cannot expand our trade. The hon. and gallant Gentleman moves about the City and must know that that is true. The maintenance of our balance of payments is an essential condition, both for exchange stability and trade expansion, as all the newspapers to which I referred earlier all recognise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1438.0", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All sorts?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " Chippenham (Mr. Eccles) down to the Amendment. He does not sit on the Front Bench, and I think that is a pity. When the Labour Party were in Opposition, we used to bring forward our young men; we did not just trust to the tired \"Old Guard\" of ex-Ministers. We used to have democratic elections in the Labour Party, and all sorts of people were chosen from the back benches to sit on the Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1440.1", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "w very well that, as likely as not, this matter was not entirely within the Chancellor's personal control. There really can be no suggestion that the matter was urgent, because the Chancellor has already the power for carrying out some of the very necessary business which this Bill governs. I am sure no hon. Member on this side of the House can be expected to offer this Bill a very hearty welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1446.1", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "I am not going to be drawn into giving an answer to that. All I am saying is that in my opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1449.3", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": ", who has the advantage of being in contact with these people, will give the House the benefit of what he has learned. Meanwhile, our demand is that this Bill should be limited in time, and if it. were possible for the Government to give some assurance on that point, it would alter very much our attitude towards the Bill. Permanent exchange control is a horrible prospect to those who love freedom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It depends on the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "mportant factor, but the problem of exchange control is very much wider than our unfortunate adverse balance at the present time. He suggested that this Bill ought to have a limitation of three or five years, but does he really think that we shall be able in any degree to relax out control of exchange in three or four years' time, or for that matter, in any measurable period which we can foresee?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1468.5", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "preceding_text": "ither the Bill is unnecessary or there is some hidden motive behind it. Either His Majesty's Government are despairingly incompetent to introduce an unnecessary law—or incompetently despairing. The only other possibility is that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is playing politics. I believe that the right hon. Gentleman is playing up to the ignorant and the extremists of the party who support him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1468.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1471.1", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "preceding_text": "We are talking of questions of finance. The reason why French money left the country was—this is perfectly clear—that the whole country lost confidence in the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1472.1", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Adams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The wrong place.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Adams", "preceding_text": "n, and in particular the right hon. Member for the City of London a simple question. They have all said that we should do away with the present controls as quickly as possible. Some say very soon, some say in a few years' time, and some are not prepared to set a time limit except that they would not go as far as eternity with the Chancellor, although he would be excellent company to venture with.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1476.1", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor has already explained that legitimate trading will be properly considered. In that connection, I am glad the hon. and gallant Gentleman interrupted because I have the same quotation as the Chancellor quoted from \"The Banker.\" I will not weary the House with a repetition of this excellent quotation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1523.1", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "t, if he cannot answer my questions tonight, he will think them over in order that they may be answered at a later stage. One of the very strong reasons for making this a temporary Measure is the fact that as a permanent Measure it definitely marks an epoch in our legislation. It marks an epoch on two grounds: first of all because it is, as I hope to show, in some real senses the death of freedom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1523.1", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "itled so to do? If he does not think he would be entitled so to do, on what principles does he base his rationing of every traveller who wishes to travel at this arbitrary figure of £75. I came across these words of a French writer whose name at the moment escapes me: After fifty there is little left for a man— except a fire in his bedroom on a cold night and a little foreign travel in the spring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1528.1", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "he Front Opposition Bench, although we would very much like, I am sure, to see him on this side of the House. His speech was a most convincing exposition of the case which I am asking the House to accept. The right hon. Gentleman ended on a very gloomy note indeed. There were almost tears in his eyes and a tremor in his voice when he said that, for lovers of freedom, exchange control was a horror.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1534.5", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": ". It is in connection with that angle of the argument, that I remind the House that we have, in fact, seen this control working, and working efficiently and without complaint, for a period of seven years, six of which were war years. If it worked efficiently during war, there is no reason why it should not also work efficiently during peace. The question is: Is this an efficient system of control?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1534.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1544.0", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "SEIZURE OF FOOD ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "I would be obliged if the hon. Gentleman would tell the House whether, when the Order was passed in 1942 in identical terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1544.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1546.0", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "SEIZURE OF FOOD ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spence", "preceding_text": "y and fairness on which we are all agreed. If this Order comes into operation as it stands it will not be a good thing for the House of Commons. We stand for fairness to all, and hon. Members opposite, in particular, insist on that. When I say that a man who is subsequently proved not guilty has to suffer under this Order, surely hon. Members opposite will not go into the Lobby against us tonight?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1545.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "SEIZURE OF FOOD ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "No, I said\"wrathful.\"I would certainly not have used the other word in this particular connection. I have only one other point to make. I think hon. Members have agreed that this Order is essential except in so far as the words complained of are concerned, but I would ask them to recollect that it is practically impossible to leave out words of this description.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "SEIZURE OF FOOD ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "him. In the case of a person found not guilty, it is no good saying that any officer could just come up and take anything he wants. If there was any ulterior motive in an officer taking such an action, there is a method in the law of the land by which that can be put right. The officer knows full well he must do what the law allows, and that be must have reasonable grounds for the action he takes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1554.2", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "SEIZURE OF FOOD ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spence", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has admitted that the Order is bad", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1554.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1555.7", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "SEIZURE OF FOOD ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "—is to ask for its annulment. An Order cannot be amended. I think it is within the recollection of the House that the hon. Member opposite thought there was a slip in this Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1555.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1555.9", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "SEIZURE OF FOOD ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "I was in no way misrepresenting the hon. Member. I was under the impression that he said that there was a slip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1555.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1555.9", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "SEIZURE OF FOOD ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "I was in no way misrepresenting the hon. Member. I was under the impression that he said that there was a slip. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I said I was under that impression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1555.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1556.0", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "SEIZURE OF FOOD ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "I was in no way misrepresenting the hon. Member. I was under the impression that he said that there was a slip. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I said I was under that impression. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] The hon. Member says he did not say that, but that it is possible there may be a slip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1555.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1556.6", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "SEIZURE OF FOOD ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "I ask the Minister to look at this Order fairly and justly, and to agree to its annulment and to the substitution for it of an Order which will prevent all black market racketeering. We on this side are just as anxious as hon. Members opposite to stop racketeering. We know perfectly well that this Order could be put right, and a fresh one substituted, without in any way assisting the black market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1556.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1561.1", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "SEIZURE OF FOOD ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": " that prosecutions brought by the Ministry have in every case been successful. What we are concerned with here is where a prosecution has been launched by an officer of the Ministry, and it is shown, on facts produced which were not known by the Ministry, that the action should not have been taken. The hon. Member says that the Prayers brought up by the Conservative Party are in the main flippant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1561.1", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "SEIZURE OF FOOD ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"A Lord Woolton Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "e of playing into the hands of the blackmarketeer. If a man has been guilty of a black market offence, he can be prosecuted and convicted. The question raised by this Prayer is whether an innocent rather than the guilty man should be punished. The rule in this country, until we had a Socialist Government, was that a man should be deemed innocent, until proved guilty. Under this Order as it stands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1561.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1564.7", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "SEIZURE OF FOOD ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "In wartime.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "ers of the original Order have been diminished. It is necessary to introduce this in order to restore the powers which we have exercised since 1942. I shall also try to prove that the hon. and learned Gentleman has been wrong in some other respects. I can assure the House that this Order contains nothing that was not in the Seizure of Food Order, 1942, made at the time of the Coalition Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1564.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1565.3", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "SEIZURE OF FOOD ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "ravening our price regulations. If Members will read Regulation 55AB they will see that this has been made quite clear. If I may say so, the mover of the Motion has not read the Order carefully, because there is no need to delete the words, \"seizure and,\" so as to make the Order meet his wishes. This Order gives us power to deduct expenses, but there is no reason why we should exercise that power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1565.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1567.3", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "SEIZURE OF FOOD ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Remedy it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "try sells on the owner's behalf, surely there is no injustice in charging him the expenses incurred; certainly there is no question of the Minister making any profit. I think I have already explained to the House that this Order has been operating without complaint. I would not, for one moment, say that an acquitted man might not experience some injustice. But there is no need to annul this Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1567.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-26", "file": "debates1946-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7d0fed455c94ad98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1568.1", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "SEIZURE OF FOOD ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I have already explained that there is no necessity for fresh Orders. Surely hon. Members can trust the Ministry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-26a.1568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-27", "file": "debates1946-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "14c08d30803a85c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-27a.1592.8", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Gurney Braith-waite", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fine them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Gurney Braith-waite", "preceding_text": "In that event, will the Minister use his good offices to impress upon Government Departments the importance of notifying these cancellations at the earliest possible moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-27a.1592.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-27", "file": "debates1946-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "14c08d30803a85c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-27a.1592.9", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "Government Departments are urged to make cancellations at the earliest possible date, if the aircraft is not going to be used. The seats are then available to the corporation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-27a.1592.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-27", "file": "debates1946-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "14c08d30803a85c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-27a.1596.7", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, I never spell it that way; it is the officers of the House who do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-27a.1596.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-27", "file": "debates1946-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "14c08d30803a85c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-27a.1606.10", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "I think that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister gave a very full answer to that supplementary question yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-27a.1606.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-27", "file": "debates1946-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "14c08d30803a85c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-27a.1608.10", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "I do not know about that. All I know is that there has to be a line drawn somewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-27a.1608.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-27", "file": "debates1946-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "14c08d30803a85c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-27a.1663.2", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "CHILDREN'S CINEMA CLUBS", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "ment and inquiry should be. I cannot so fully congratulate the hon. Member for Bedford (Mr. Skeffington-Lodge), who was full of his usual rhetorical observations. I noted with interest that one of the reasons why he objected to the cinema is that it is run by private enterprise. I hope that does not connote that hon. Gentlemen opposite have in mind the cinema as their next form of nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-27a.1663.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-27", "file": "debates1946-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "14c08d30803a85c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-27a.1698.1", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "BRITISH ADMINISTRATION, GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "rthrown and the German war machine dismantled, we promise to the German people, as individuals, food, employment and security, and to them, as Germans, a self-respecting life within the European camp. Have they got it? There is no sign of it. They said when they saw the results of the Election in 1945, \"Thank God that the Tories have gone out in England, and that there now is a Labour Government.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-27a.1698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-27", "file": "debates1946-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "14c08d30803a85c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-27a.1719.1", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "BRITISH ADMINISTRATION, GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": " had to come back because the market was glutted for the rest of the week. For the rest of that week, for three nights, that whole fleet was tied up in harbour in Yarmouth and Lowestoft, when all this nutritious food might have been poured across to Germany. All this food was lying just off our coast, but, when the boats were allowed to go to sea again, the shoals were gone. That is what happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-27a.1719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1790.0", "colnum": "1790", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "On the last point made by the right hon. Gentleman, I am much obliged to him for telling us. We shall try to be ready for that eventuality. With great respect, I do not think that the time given is short. There are, as I say, two weekends and there is the whole week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1794.3", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "Without wishing, in advance, to deploy an argument on the Bill which it is proposed to read a Second time next Tuesday, I would draw attention to the fact that there is no proposal in the Bill to damage the beneficiaries under the trust. Indeed, it is designed—though this argument must wait until next week to be deployed in full—to benefit the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1794.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1799.8", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the others?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman has misunderstood me. I was taking the 361 as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1799.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1800.0", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"' Provided that.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "hey must run their restaurants over a reasonable period so as to make both ends meet and not be a charge on the rates. They will see that by Clause 3 (2) any local authority which fails to make its restaurant pay over a period of three years, after an initial two years starting, simply loses the powers under this Bill to carry on any restaurant any further. That is a very drastic provision indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1800.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1803.8", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "d you alone, will not be allowed to apply for a licence if you wish to do so.\" In general, therefore, what we have attempted to do in this Bill is to put the local authorities in exactly the same position as other caterers; to give them no advantages and to place them at no disadvantage in relation to private enterprise caterers. We shall have a fair field, and no favour, and let the best man win.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1803.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1814.2", "colnum": "1814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "On principle, we shall, as I said in my speech, require that the accounts kept by the civic restaurant authority in question, are in such a form as to satisfy the Ministry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1814.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1815.0", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "Gentleman's case away entirely. It is clear from what he has just said, that his earlier description of this Bill, as merely to require a fair field and no favour, does not correspond with what he intends to do. We believe that if any local authority sets up a restaurant, they should receive no concessions at all in the way of rents or rates, as compared to what a private caterer will have to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1816.3", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": " and other people can oppose his application. Taking it by and large, the benches are, on the question of the publican getting his licence or being refused, fair and unbiased. If this Bill passes in its present form, and a local authority wants a licence for a civic restaurant to sell drink, they will be applying, in the vast majority of cases, to members of their own council sitting on the bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1816.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1817.1", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ry of Food. Sometimes an application has been turned down on the ground that there was already a British Restaurant. Under this Bill the town council will be applying to a body which, in many cases, is not entirely impartial. I think that the right hon. Gentleman will confirm that. A town clerk is often the chairman of the committee which decides whether or not a catering licence is to be granted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1820.0", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, one cannot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "k it would be a bad thing if the British Restaurants were without alcoholic liquor. That is a matter for the local authorities, as, in my opinion, it should be. What I do object to is the calm assumption that is made in every part of the House that the only classes in this country who are drunken wretches are the working clases. One can have all the liquor one wants in an ordinary hotel in London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1820.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1827.5", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1827.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1841.1", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander Robinson", "preceding_text": "te caterer. It is a Bill which, for the first time, gives powers to the municipalities to go right ahead in the field of private trade. That comes under the heading of \"ancillary activity.\" It is quite clear that if a local authority have a catering establishment they will also enter into outside catering work. They will cater for wedding parties and receptions and there will be music and dancing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1849.3", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "hment, he would not open it unless he was sure of the profits coming in. I say that that is wrong, and that the place should be opened. If there is a consumers' need or if there is a factory where facilities for eating are not provided for the workpeople, there should be a proper establishment, a restaurant or a café, set up so that those workers can have a decent meal on the spot. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1849.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1863.1", "colnum": "1863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wadsworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wadsworth", "preceding_text": ". In that respect I would draw attention to Clause 3, which appears to lay down that British Restaurants should be carried out on certain lines of efficiency. Many hon. Members opposite who have served upon local authorities where there has been a trading department, know full well—and I have served for many years on a public authority myself—that it is very difficult to ascertain the exact costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1872.1", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "vided; indeed, we admit entirely the need for these facilities to be provided, but we say they could be provided by a different method. I notice only too frequently that when hon. Members on this side oppose a Measure of this sort, it is immediately assumed by hon. Members opposite that we are trying to do the workers out of something to which they are entitled, or to deprive them of some benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1886.3", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "It is none the less true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1886.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1886.3", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": " or to encourage them to set up, which is the same thing, on an uneconomical basis a service for which only a very small percentage of the public have any great use. Have the Minister and his Parliamentary Secretary looked at the repercussions of the proposal? The Minister of Health and the Secretary of State for Scotland are engaged in building many hundreds of thousands of houses for the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1886.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1888.4", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order. Do I understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1888.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1889.1", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That evidence has just been given.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "ples in which we believe. Like many other hon. Members who have spoken from these benches today, I am of the opinion that before a public service is instituted, the need for that service should be proved beyond any reasonable doubt. It should also be proved that private individuals are either unwilling or incapable of providing that service. We have had no evidence whatever on these matters today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1892.3", "colnum": "1892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "ivic restaurants. The owner-occupier of a house of the same value as one occupied by another person will pay two shares as against the other man's one. I do not think that is equitable at all. It goes much further than that. Take a man who happens to own 10 houses and resides in one of them. He will be called upon to pay 11 shares against the one share paid by an occupier of one of his own houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1892.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1893.1", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "They are to be in competition with caterers, confectioners, tobacconists, publicans, proprietors of dance halls, and with a multitude of other people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1896.3", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There was a war on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Again I must contradict the hon. Member. It is next March, and not last March. One hon. Member said that this is a sop to the Socialist councils. I must remind the House that Birmingham has 59 British Restaurants, and it is only just recently that we have had a Labour majority in Birmingham. There was a Conservative majority in Birmingham when these restaurants were introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1896.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1896.3", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are at home scrubbing the kitchen floors.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "had a kitchen where she ought to be cooking for her husband. I hope that the housewives of South Edinburgh will read the hon. Member's contribution. It is time that social reform penetrated the kitchens and relieved the lot of the housewives. I wonder whether hon. Members opposite who like to jeer at the housewives, who have not seen fit to have one working-class housewife on the benches opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1896.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1896.3", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why is the hon. Lady not there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "that social reform penetrated the kitchens and relieved the lot of the housewives. I wonder whether hon. Members opposite who like to jeer at the housewives, who have not seen fit to have one working-class housewife on the benches opposite— [An HON. MEMBER: \"They are at home scrubbing the kitchen floors.\"] That is exactly what I expected from those benches—the woman is there to clean up the house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1896.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1898.6", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend, in his speech, referred to statements by the Catering Association which appeared in the newspapers last night, in which they said that rate-aided meals tend towards unjustified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1898.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1900.1", "colnum": "1900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is she?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "curious coincidence, one of the most active members of the catering committee of Leeds was sitting in the gallery while the right hon. Gentleman was speaking. I think it is an understatement to say that she was a little disturbed by the aspersions which the right hon. Gentleman cast on the Leeds City Council. She produced the document which I have in my hand, and this document is very instructive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-28", "file": "debates1946-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "5aaf568c8fc20e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1903.0", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rates?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "ered, for they have only left me a few more moments. I think the fact that £200 has been paid for the crypt is the evidence for hon. Members opposite that local authorities have no intention of getting in concealed subsidies. The hon. Member for Buckrose (Mr. Wadsworth) suggested the same thing, but in fact the returns show that is not so. Leeds, in their return, have mentioned transport and fuel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-28a.1903.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-29", "file": "debates1946-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "670f32b33e722a64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-29a.1970.1", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "HERRING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Usborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Usborne", "preceding_text": "appen, but a question of some simple inability to cope with the situation which was foreseen. The tragedy is the greater because not only are there people in this country who would need herring, kippers and bloaters but there are also people all over the world, particularly in Germany, who urgently need them as food. I have never been able to find out the difference between a bloater and a kipper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-29a.1970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-29", "file": "debates1946-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "670f32b33e722a64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-29a.2008.0", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "U.N.R.R.A. (WINDING-UP)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "ntirely agree with what the hon. Gentleman says. Naturally, to what better person than Mr. LaGuardia could he make the suggestion? I am also grateful to the Minister of State for his intervention. My point is really this. I know Soviet Russia has gone through an appalling invasion. On the other hand, I think I am right in saying that bread rationing has been taken off recently in the Soviet Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-29a.2008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1946-11-29", "file": "debates1946-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "670f32b33e722a64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-29a.2010.7", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "U.N.R.R.A. (WINDING-UP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "I am relieved to hear that my hon. Friend is married", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1946-11-29a.2010.7"}