{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-21", "file": "debates1947-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed373879dcb1a64f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.18.3", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "I am somewhat taken aback at that description. I am always disappointed with anything in housing unless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.18.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-21", "file": "debates1947-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed373879dcb1a64f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATISTICS OF TRADE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "Yes, I appreciate the force of the hon. Member's demand that we should not spend so much on food, and that, probably, is the reason why he was talking about the future period of austerity. When he got to the more important aspect of his speech, he said: We must endure terrible austerity or stop talking nonsense\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.82.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-21", "file": "debates1947-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed373879dcb1a64f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.92.0", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATISTICS OF TRADE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "ng put in the dock. I do not know whether the President of the Board of Trade realises that. I noticed that he skated over it in his speech. It is possible for any industrialist who has quarrelled with the Treasury, for example, to find that the Treasury can compel him under the terms of this Bill to provide information which will put him in the dock and which will be used as evidence against him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.92.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-01-21", "file": "debates1947-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed373879dcb1a64f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.97.0", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATISTICS OF TRADE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I might answer that question, as I have the information. The bodies consulted were the British Federation of Master Printers, the Publishers' Association, the Federation of Master Process Engravers, tie National Association of Engravers and Diestampers and the Photo-litho Reproducers' Association.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-21", "file": "debates1947-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed373879dcb1a64f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATISTICS OF TRADE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only for a while.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "s uninformed supporters will not—when the Government have got their statistics it would be a great tragedy if the workers, on whom we are depending, were to think that a lot more statistics were going automatically to give them higher wages and shorter hours. It will be a tragedy for them as well as for the whole country, if this Bill gives the false impression, as did nationalisation for a while—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-21", "file": "debates1947-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed373879dcb1a64f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.129.6", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATISTICS OF TRADE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "o honestly believe that this kind of inquiry has a kind of hook behind it, and may I remind hon. Members opposite that they gathered a great deal of benefit from that first broadcast in the General Election by my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill). He said that he feared a political Gestapo, and there are men in industry who fear it and who feel that this is the first stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.129.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-21", "file": "debates1947-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed373879dcb1a64f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.129.6", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATISTICS OF TRADE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give the names.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "eat pressure. The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows that, and they know it too. It is giving extraordinary power into the hands of the Board of Trade, and although I am content that with the right hon. and learned Gentleman there that power will be used wisely and moderately, there are other right hon. Gentlemen sitting on the Government Front Bench whom I would not trust across this Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.129.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-21", "file": "debates1947-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed373879dcb1a64f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.144.4", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATISTICS OF TRADE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": "ent time, with a shortage of people in industry, and particularly a shortage of clerical workers, we were imposing upon industry a burden which it would be difficult to carry. That was echoed several times by other speakers. But really, apart from the very smallest businesses, I cannot believe that the kind of information for which we are asking is not readily available. I am not an industrialist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.144.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-21", "file": "debates1947-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed373879dcb1a64f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.144.6", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATISTICS OF TRADE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": " census of production which is to take place this year, we discussed it with other Government Departments, all the industries concerned and the trade associations of every industry which is to be questioned. We questioned the shipbuilding industry, the National Union of Manufacturers, a prominent firm of builders, the Nuffield College, Imperial Chemical Industries, the Railway Clerks' Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.144.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-21", "file": "debates1947-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed373879dcb1a64f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATISTICS OF TRADE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman recall 1929? He will remember that we had all the facts, but nobody thought there was going to be a slump. Every index looked as though it were going up and up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-21", "file": "debates1947-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed373879dcb1a64f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.149.3", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATISTICS OF TRADE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": "f full employment? Surely, it is an elementary fact that you cannot plan or produce anything unless you are informed about the factors which will finally affect the problem you are trying to solve. Unless you know the facts about production and distribution how can you possibly plan a policy of full employment? The Coalition Government produced a White Paper as a result of which we have this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.149.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-21", "file": "debates1947-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed373879dcb1a64f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.159.6", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATISTICS OF TRADE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "Are we going to pass this Money Resolution without any statement from the Government?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.159.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-21", "file": "debates1947-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed373879dcb1a64f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "preceding_text": ". First on the question of the definition of the stock, my hon. Friend pointed out that the Chancellor of the Exchequer did say that this stock would be redeemable, but was not clear whether it would be redeemable in this century or in the next. We were, therefore, left with the idea that it was only redeemable in the long run. In the long run, as Lord Keynes once pointed out, we shall all be dead", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-21", "file": "debates1947-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "ed373879dcb1a64f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COURT MARTIAL, INDIA (SOLDIER'S DETENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did they not try him\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": " that he is likely to escape, or to remain and face his trial. I am not in a position to say, from my own certain knowledge, whether the authorities decided rightly or wrongly in this case, but they were faced with a man charged with fraud, who has subsequently been convicted of fraud, and who has twice been convicted of absence without leave. They decided that he should remain under close arrest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-21a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-22", "file": "debates1947-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "7ac02e4e7949eef7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-22a.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Paton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:.\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Paton", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend if these deplorable floggings by the terrorists were not the direct outcome of a Hogging imposed by the authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-22a.201.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-01-22", "file": "debates1947-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "7ac02e4e7949eef7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-22a.228.0", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman also considered that it may well be the opinion of the individual doctor that more milk is required today in view of the shortage of other foods? It is all very well to talk about scales laid down by his predecessors, but it should be remembered that other foods were then available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-22a.227.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-22", "file": "debates1947-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "7ac02e4e7949eef7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-22a.249.5", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES (REGULATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "n the new Agriculture Bill, that the Measure will stand or fall by the prices that are paid to the fanner. This Bill will do likewise. May I remind the right hon. Gentleman that when the Agricultural Wages Act was first placed on the Statute Book, in 1924, no direction such as we suggest was given, with the result that wages were fixed without any relation to the economic position of the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-22a.249.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-23", "file": "debates1947-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "e143865d384c87c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-23a.365.1", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE (STATISTICS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that that is precisely the answer that I did not want him to give?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-23a.365.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-23", "file": "debates1947-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "e143865d384c87c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-23a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a new Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "If the hon. and gallant Gentleman had listened to my last reply, he would appreciate that I referred to Members and others who were interested in the Bill. I still assert that this is not a new problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-23a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-23", "file": "debates1947-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "e143865d384c87c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-23a.378.4", "colnum": "378", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Would it be in Order for hon. Members on these benches to ask the Leader of the Opposition a question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-23a.378.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-23", "file": "debates1947-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "e143865d384c87c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-23a.379.3", "colnum": "379", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "We never made any promise about it. I think' three days were asked for, but one does not always necessarily get what is asked for. I am always willing to save two or three days; that is to the good. I think that within the next month or so—certainly before the end of next month—we are prepared to deal with the economic situation of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-23a.379.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-23", "file": "debates1947-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "e143865d384c87c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-23a.380.3", "colnum": "380", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ing this question. The other day there was a Question on the Order Paper, on the issue of the recommendations of the Select Committee, but the hon. Member who put it down was not present. I think I am right in saying the last Report of this Committee was issued about two and a half months ago. We have not had time to consider it yet. It is our intention to do so at an early date, and once we have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-23a.380.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-23", "file": "debates1947-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "e143865d384c87c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-23a.389.5", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I again protest against this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-23a.389.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-23", "file": "debates1947-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "e143865d384c87c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-23a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "I do not want to \"barrack\" anyone, but I must say that the speech of the Parliamentary and Financial Secretary was unsatisfactory. We have been told that these people, who have served the country so well, must wait for 15 months. Surely, that was the point that he made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-23a.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-23", "file": "debates1947-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "e143865d384c87c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-23a.449.2", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "It is as equitable as you can get it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-23a.449.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-23", "file": "debates1947-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "e143865d384c87c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-23a.450.3", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "wo interpretations. As the Old Testament word, \"jealous\" means that we are jealous of what is going on in our country, as a result of the action of this Ministry and others, and the appalling results following upon them; or it may mean merely \"jealous\" because the Minister has done this job and we have not. The trouble is that he has not done the job in a proper way, and this Order is proof of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-23a.450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-24", "file": "debates1947-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a516a71ef52da568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-24a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA (RECONSTRUCTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "nly in the Colonial Empire today people do not feel that they are getting any co-operation or collaboration from the right hon. Gentleman. In fact, go where you will and receive what letters you like from all parts of the Empire, you will hear that the policy of His Majesty's Government today represents dictatorial domination from Downing Street of a type they have not known for the last 50 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-24a.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-24", "file": "debates1947-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a516a71ef52da568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-24a.506.3", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA (RECONSTRUCTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "preceding_text": " Colony. It is incumbent upon the Government, in assessing the amount to be contributed to the finances of Malta, to see to it, above all, that their pledge is carried out to the full—the pledge to reconstruct those buildings which were damaged because of the part Malta played in the war. When the Financial Secretary replies, I hope he will make it clear that our pledge in this matter is absolute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-24a.506.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-24", "file": "debates1947-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a516a71ef52da568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-24a.536.3", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA (RECONSTRUCTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "as also quoted by an hon. Gentleman opposite—for war damage is about £29 million; for social welfare and development schemes it was £3 million, and for reconstruction £10 million—a total of £42 million. There is a difference of £9 million between what we are going to give them and the requirement estimated by Sir Wilfrid Woods. I repeat therefore that we have covered war damage in the £31 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-24a.536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-24", "file": "debates1947-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a516a71ef52da568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-24a.537.0", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA (RECONSTRUCTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "It also may be very much less. In fact, all the indications are that prices will never, as far as we can see, be so high as they have been recently, but, as the years go on, will probably come down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-24a.537.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-24", "file": "debates1947-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "a516a71ef52da568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-24a.570.3", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL HOUSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The Ministry of Supply\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "n complete sets of steel and then, when that was overcome, as my hon. Friend has said, it was found that they failed to produce the necessary foundation bolts at the right time when the bolts were wanted. The programme has not been so arranged as to fit in and phase. When that was done, there were other shortages of other fixing bolts in other parts of the structure. So we can go on, step by step.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-24a.570.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-27", "file": "debates1947-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1a13c4029aaaec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-27a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Not as a supplement to the first. We have proposed to issue later on a fuller White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-27a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-27", "file": "debates1947-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1a13c4029aaaec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-27a.641.3", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "mpt to settle agricultural workers, or sons of farmers, and we shall insist on having them settled on good land, which is well laid out, fully equipped and of approprate economic size. We want to settle the right type of man on the right type of holding, and to give them a chance from the word \"Go.\" I hope that policy will commend itself to the House. I fear I have detained the House far too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-27a.641.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-27", "file": "debates1947-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1a13c4029aaaec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-27a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ll, because the success of agriculture for this or any other country, must surely depend upon the country concerned having a healthy rural economy. The Bill does not, indeed cannot, from its very nature, touch many of the problems involved. For example, there is nothing in it about the increase of agricultural labour, about houses or rural amenities—water, roads, transport, schools and electricity", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-27a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-27", "file": "debates1947-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1a13c4029aaaec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-27a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the public purse?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "heir present duties. Frankly, I think that this piling up of the work on these committees may prove to be the weakest link in the whole chain. A plan, a good plan perhaps, may well break down under the intolerable burden put upon people who, after all, are already doing their own job in the world. The risk is that in order to get this job done at all, we may be able to get only second-rate people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-27a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-27", "file": "debates1947-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1a13c4029aaaec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-27a.651.2", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "Well, it is all there. The Minister is taking all the powers, and a great deal more. That is why I say that the benevolent autocrat we have now may not want to do those things, but we are legislating for good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-27a.651.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-27", "file": "debates1947-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1a13c4029aaaec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-27a.651.2", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " an Act of Parliament. What is the Minister doing here? In this Bill, he takes that right away—a most flagrant breach of faith—and one is tempted to ask whether all the promises, assurances and guarantees which the Minister makes under this Bill may not also be swept away. This is a horrid little bit of doubt which the right hon. Gentleman has put in our minds by inserting this Clause in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-27a.651.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-27", "file": "debates1947-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1a13c4029aaaec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-27a.657.1", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilfrid Roberts", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has the right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilfrid Roberts", "preceding_text": "ers, whose farming is their livelihood, if they are to be expropriated, ought to be allowed to make the most out of their land that they can. If the State is to say, \"You have lived and farmed there all your life, but you are now getting old, you are not as capable as you were, and it is time you retired,\" I think the farmer should have the right of getting any advantage he can out of a free sale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-27a.657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-27", "file": "debates1947-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1a13c4029aaaec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-27a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "y for bread. All that is a matter of distributive policy. Let there be no question again about the town complaining that it is required to subsidise the country. It is required to do no such thing, but is paying for a public service in exactly the same way as it pays for the Army and the Navy. Let us have no question about the Chancellor of the Exchequer cutting up rough, or anything of that sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-27a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-27", "file": "debates1947-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1a13c4029aaaec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-27a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "the prewar diet but on one just as nourishing as the prewar diet was. But he adds that the farmers would have to get so many hundreds of thousands more men on the land; that they would need £600 million more of fixed capital, and £400 more millions of floating capital to put the industry on a proper basis. And he says, further, that if we did this, we could employ an extra 800,000 men on the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-27a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-27", "file": "debates1947-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1a13c4029aaaec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-27a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "he men we need is the short-sighted stupidity of the trade unions, and a lack of moral courage on the part of some of the Members of the Government. I do not want to go into this. There may be a shortage of manpower in Britain now, but there is none in the world and none in the Empire We could find a couple of million surplus people at the present time in the West Indies alone. That is quite true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-27a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-28", "file": "debates1947-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "f895b135ab4daaf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the fee?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "There has been a policy of presenting in the national Press very extensive reports of these proceedings. I have already indicated that those interested in securing copies of the report will be able to get them on payment of the appropriate fee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-28", "file": "debates1947-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "f895b135ab4daaf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butter", "preceding_text": "ect. Our landlord-tenant system is less marked than anywhere else in the country, particularly in Essex, where we are trying to develop large-scale experiments in practical farming. I believe there is just as good a chance for young working men on the farm to rise to the position of foremen or managers of large mechanical estates as there is to take up a position on the old-fashioned smallholding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-28", "file": "debates1947-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "f895b135ab4daaf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butter", "preceding_text": "en it comes to his own house, that is taken away if his land is taken from him. It seems to me that we must face in Committee some points of this sort, and try to make them more fair, so as to give some confidence to the owner-occupier. It must be remembered that the position of the owner-occupier in finance has greatly deteriorated. There is a sort idea that fariners made a packet out of the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-28", "file": "debates1947-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "f895b135ab4daaf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.813.0", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "preceding_text": "ood to purchase dried or frozen eggs abroad instead of the necessary feedings stuffs with which to feed the poultry of this country, they are being a little unfair. Does anybody believe that, at the present time, or during the past year, there have been large quantities of feeding stuffs available in this country—maize, wheat and other cereals—which have not been purchasd by the Government abroad?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.813.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-28", "file": "debates1947-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "f895b135ab4daaf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.813.0", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And transport.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "preceding_text": "n large quantities of feeding stuffs available in this country—maize, wheat and other cereals—which have not been purchasd by the Government abroad? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Hon. Members opposite have had the chance, time and time again, to give information and facts in regard to that matter. We know quite well that there has been a shortage of feeding stuffs and of human foods throughout the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.813.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-28", "file": "debates1947-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "f895b135ab4daaf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.828.1", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Wells", "preceding_text": " the Bill. The fact remains, however, that they did not do so when they had an opportunity. As my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture said yesterday, this Measure is proof that the Government intend to keep their promise made to the electors at the General Election. This is no panic Measure brought in prior to a General Election. The General Election is some three and a half years ahead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-28", "file": "debates1947-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "f895b135ab4daaf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "within the last week of how rapidly the Conservative Party is losing its grip on the countryside. I was at a village meeting in connection with this Bill, and replying to the questioner, I said, \"No Labour Government will ever depart from the principal provisions of this Bill. They will never dare to do so.\" \"No,\" said the questioner, \"but my party may be in power after the next General Election.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.829.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-01-28", "file": "debates1947-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "f895b135ab4daaf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.832.8", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "In the Argentine.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "Where were they?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.832.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-28", "file": "debates1947-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "f895b135ab4daaf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Jeger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Jeger", "preceding_text": "er, transport, education and other amenities will be dealt with by this Labour GÓvernment. In the meantime however something must be done to provide more labour almost immediately, and I should like to see more energetic action taken to deprive the Poles at present in this country of their present position as a privileged and leisured class in our society by using them far more on our land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-28", "file": "debates1947-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "f895b135ab4daaf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "AGRICULTURE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "we were given a reasonable field within which the method of accounting of most Government Departments could apply, that would be a different matter, but how is this matter, covering the enormous field of guaranteed prices, restricted markets, and the prevention of damage to agriculture by animals and birds, to be accounted for? For instance, how is the damage done by a sparrow to be accounted for?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-28", "file": "debates1947-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "f895b135ab4daaf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.888.3", "colnum": "888", "heading": "AGRICULTURE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. York", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. York", "preceding_text": "The Debate which has taken place on this Financial Resolution has certainly had the effect of opening my eyes to the evil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.888.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-28", "file": "debates1947-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "f895b135ab4daaf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.898.5", "colnum": "898", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. York", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It might be twins.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. York", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I am not trying to discuss a wide issue here. At the same time, I do want an explanation on one point. If the occupier—I refer to occupation rather than ownership of a farm—is an individual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.898.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-28", "file": "debates1947-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "f895b135ab4daaf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "IRONSTONE QUARRYING, KETTERING (ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Town and Country Planning (Mr. Fred Marshall)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Town and Country Planning (Mr. Fred Marshall)", "preceding_text": "ford (Mr. Walker-Smith) moved the annulment of the Order under three heads. He first wanted to know why the Minister issued the Order himself, instead of allowing the interim development authority to come to a decision. The hon. Member, of course, knows as well as I do that the Minister has very extensive powers of calling in applications for development, and he used those powers on this occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-28a.906.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-01-29", "file": "debates1947-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "e3596f9605cc2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.931.2", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Before my hon. Friend answers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-29", "file": "debates1947-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "e3596f9605cc2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.942.10", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This was a private house.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "As to the first part of the hon. Gentleman's question, the material point is that there were powers of entry because this was a food undertaking within the meaning of the regulations, which give powers to enter whether permission is given or not. On the other issue, these powers are powers to enter such as are enjoyed, for instance, by a factory inspector who enters industrial premises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.942.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-29", "file": "debates1947-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "e3596f9605cc2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.953.1", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "simply framework. It will show the principal communications and the broad allocation of land among the main uses, such as agriculture, new towns to be established, existing communities to be enlarged, special areas to be preserved because of their scenic beauty, and so on. Over part of the area, the plan is likely to go into much more detail. Where large numbers of new houses are to be built soon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-29", "file": "debates1947-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "e3596f9605cc2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.953.1", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "ine of the course proposed under Clauses 28 and 29 of the Bill, which contain the main provisions in this matter. We must accept the display of advertisements as an established fact in modern commercial enterprise, and I would emphasise that the Bill is designed to control, not to repress. I know there may be hon. Members on both sides of the House who would like to abolish advertising altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.953.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-01-29", "file": "debates1947-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "e3596f9605cc2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.969.2", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "I take note of what the hon. Member says, but this is a matter with which the Chancellor is to deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-29", "file": "debates1947-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "e3596f9605cc2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.969.4", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "There will be ample opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.969.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-29", "file": "debates1947-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "e3596f9605cc2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.969.6", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "That is a matter for the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.969.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-29", "file": "debates1947-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "e3596f9605cc2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.970.2", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on and tell us about it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "I regret to say I may have to speak for a very long time and there are some matters which can be left to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I am prepared to go on all day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.970.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-29", "file": "debates1947-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "e3596f9605cc2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGhee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGhee", "preceding_text": "I wish to add my congratulations to the right hon. Gentleman for his speech in moving the Second Reading of the Bill. It was a formidable task, and he carried it out very efficiently. I wish I could say a word of congratulation to the Leader of the Liberal Party—or, I should now say the Liberal group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.1018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-29", "file": "debates1947-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "e3596f9605cc2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGhee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGhee", "preceding_text": "he local authority wanted it. In other words, they were asked £400 per acre for it. The local authority did not go on with that scheme, and those unfortunate creatures were left in that hell, and are still there today For having left the people there, and compelled the local authority to keep them there, it is proposed by the Government that that owner be paid that £360 per acre development value—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.1018.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-01-29", "file": "debates1947-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "e3596f9605cc2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.1027.8", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "preceding_text": "What is the relevance of that interjection?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.1027.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-29", "file": "debates1947-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "e3596f9605cc2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "iefly to three matters which, so far as I am aware, have not been dealt with in this Debate. I do not think anyone has called attention to the inflationary character of the proposals to distribute the sum of £300 million. It is impossible to distribute £300 million, or even the interest upon it, in relation to undeveloped values without having some inflationary effect upon our financial structure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-29", "file": "debates1947-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "e3596f9605cc2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Digby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So it did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Digby", "preceding_text": " have said more than once to the present Minister of Town and Country Planning that we could not help thinking that he attached more importance to the town side of the planning than to the country side, and indeed if we read the White Paper we find some words which would seem to support that theory. We read the rather astonishing statement on page 4 that \"planning began as an offshoot of housing.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-29", "file": "debates1947-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "e3596f9605cc2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Digby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor are houses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Digby", "preceding_text": "side of the planning than to the country side, and indeed if we read the White Paper we find some words which would seem to support that theory. We read the rather astonishing statement on page 4 that \"planning began as an offshoot of housing.\"[HON. MEMBERS: \"So it did.\"] That is not my conception of planning at all. Planning went back a great deal further than that. Planning is not something new.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-29", "file": "debates1947-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "e3596f9605cc2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "hem by day, and frightens them by night. I suggest very seriously to hon. Members opposite that they might do what I did some months ago. I conducted a kind of Gallup poll in my borough to discover to whom it in fact belonged. If hon. Members would do the same it might surprise them. They would find what an enormous percentage of the land in their own boroughs is owned by a small number of people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-29", "file": "debates1947-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "e3596f9605cc2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "thing to do; they may regard that as a very profitable thing to do, as it is always profitable, superficially, to put your hand in the till, but in the long run it will affect death duties, and in the long run it will affect enterprise and initiative in the building of houses. Those evils will far outweigh the temporary advantages they will get in this matter. It pays to be honest in the long run—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-29a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-30", "file": "debates1947-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "94fc4f4edde43d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " disclose his purpose beforehand—the Debate may not be rather far reaching? Further, in view of the continuing gravity of the housing problem, which far exceeds that of the genera! question of the international food supply, would it not be better to arrange a Debate on the housing problem having regard to the increasing and lamentable failure of the Minister of Health to provide the houses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-30", "file": "debates1947-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "94fc4f4edde43d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1149.3", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Hare", "preceding_text": "nment are proposing to levy their development charge under the Bill according to the 1947 price level of land values. If it is the Government's intention to be just, such a disparity between these two methods of compensation needs explanation. The Government are being completely hypocritical. A large number of hon. Members on the benches opposite believe that no compensation should be paid at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1149.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-30", "file": "debates1947-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "94fc4f4edde43d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1213.1", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "rs given by the Bill are unjust it is certain that they will not be fully used. Let me mention what seem to be some of these injustices. Let me turn to the £300 million, which it is proposed to pay for depreciation. I want to deal with questions which I think hon. Gentlemen opposite, whether they agree with my answers or not, will agree are the right questions. First, is any payment right at ill?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-30", "file": "debates1947-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "94fc4f4edde43d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1213.1", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"TOO much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "e is an element of floating value in your land, so we will not charge you Death Duties on that.\" On the contrary, he charges Death Duties on the actual value of the land, including the floating value. Assuming that it is quite clearly right that there should be a recognised right by Statute to compensation for the universal restriction, is the figure of £300 million right, too much, or too little?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-30", "file": "debates1947-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "94fc4f4edde43d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1213.1", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "and given a jurisdiction which, if it is meant to be far greater than the influence of the other departments, is not right. There is no more reason why the Board of Trade should have a statutory right to interfere in this matter all over the country than there is for the Minister of Town and Country Planning to have a statutory right to interfere in the choices of the Service Departments. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-30", "file": "debates1947-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "94fc4f4edde43d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1224.1", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ough to keep the wolf from the door in a number of cases of hardship, which in due course will be revealed. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for the City of London used an argument in favour of paying little and not paying it yet—I mean the junior Member for the City of London, as I see the other representative of that great financial constituency has taken his seat on the Front Bench opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-30", "file": "debates1947-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "94fc4f4edde43d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1229.5", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "r what we are seeking to do is in accordance with our mandate. The hon. Member for West Ealing, who, I hope, is now quite satisfied on the subject of the £300 million, raised a question as to the relation of this Bill to the pledges made to the country and the votes the electors cast. It is curious how closely the actions of this Government coincide with the promises made before they were elected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1229.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-30", "file": "debates1947-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "94fc4f4edde43d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1253.2", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (CONSUMERS' COUNCILS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ntary Secretary, who is here to-night, and who is quite capable of understanding and reading the Regulations, would suggest for one moment that this Order which sets up these Councils is anything better than a sham and a farce. This is an issue on which I do not anticipate the sympathy of the Ministry of Fuel and Power nor, with due respect, that of any of the right hon. and hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1253.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-30", "file": "debates1947-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "94fc4f4edde43d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1259.2", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (CONSUMERS' COUNCILS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is cold nough here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "It is important that these Regulations should be considered quite coolly and dispassionately here to night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-30", "file": "debates1947-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "94fc4f4edde43d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (CONSUMERS' COUNCILS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "t to go to them—also be subject to an affirmative Resolution of this House? If that was so, matters of this kind would be discussed at a proper hour when we could examine them in a slightly more judicial spirit, but as we are forced by the attitude of the Government towards the legislative programme to deal with these problems in this way and at this hour, it is incumbent upon an alert Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-30", "file": "debates1947-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "94fc4f4edde43d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1265.1", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (CONSUMERS' COUNCILS)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Gaitskell)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Or his politics\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Gaitskell)", "preceding_text": "ial body than these consumers' councils. I think there is nothing whatever in these criticisms. Hon. Members must try to get away from these illusions, these extraordinary hallucinations which they have. Let them come down to the realities of the matter. Suppose my right hon. Friend were the sort of person they make him out to be, and arbitrarily removed someone, because he did not like his face.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-30a.1265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-31", "file": "debates1947-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "6b52cb54cb8d7f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-31a.1337.1", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "PALESTINE (JEWISH TERRORISM)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Low", "preceding_text": "It seems to me extraordinary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-31a.1337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-01-31", "file": "debates1947-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "6b52cb54cb8d7f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-31a.1343.1", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "PALESTINE (JEWISH TERRORISM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is a Conference going on now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "dened and heavily injured country. I think it is too much to allow this heavy burden to be put on our shoulders, costing £30 million a year and keeping 100,000 men from their homes. I see absolutely no reason why we should undergo all this pain, toil, injury and suffering because of this suggested advantage. I urge the House as I did six months ago before we went for our summer holidays in August—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-01-31a.1343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-03", "file": "debates1947-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1af240c8e171e23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1404.5", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear,hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell)", "preceding_text": " Central Authority capable of expressing their view and also informing those chairmen on the general policy of the Central Authority. This will, in itself, lead to unity of interest between the Central Authority and the area boards, which will make for close and harmonious working. Naturally, the Bill provides that the Minister shall be empowered to give directions on matters of national interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1404.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-03", "file": "debates1947-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1af240c8e171e23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1404.5", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have never used them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell)", "preceding_text": "It is, therefore, necessary to explain why we are giving the electricity boards such power. At present, many private companies in the industry, such as the County of London Electric Supply Company and the North Eastern Electric Supply Company, have power in their articles of association to manufacture plant or fittings and I regard it as the right policy to give to their successors similar powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1404.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-03", "file": "debates1947-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1af240c8e171e23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1404.5", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell)", "preceding_text": "rom 1931 to 1971, the companies were allowed, by Act of Parliament, to capitalise some of their reserves. For instance, one company, the City of London Company, doubled its ordinary capital by capitalising its reserves in two bonus issues in 1927 and 1932, at the same time reducing its rate of dividend from 15 per cent. to 7½per cent. Clearly those ordinary shareholders have done very well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1404.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-03", "file": "debates1947-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1af240c8e171e23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1404.5", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"And above.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell)", "preceding_text": "ion that any further inquiries into this industry are necessary. I have already referred to the practice of capitalising reserves by the issue of bonus shares, which has been practised by the companies sometimes even under the authority of Acts of Parliament. Many companies have adopted the practice of issuing their existing shareholders with new shares at prices below the prevailing market value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1404.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-03", "file": "debates1947-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1af240c8e171e23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": " labour disputes and a legacy of bitterness; that it would not amalgamate or reorganise itself, and that its output had been seriously reduced. If the right hon. Gentleman was sincere in these arguments against the coal industry, as I imagine he was, I think he will agree with me that none of them applies to electricity, and that, if they were valid for coal, they destroy the case for electricity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-03", "file": "debates1947-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1af240c8e171e23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1432.1", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We shall remember that argument.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "o spend the same amount of capital. Probably its capital is already bearing fruit, and it can legitimately pay a higher dividend to compensate its shareholders for the earlier years of abstinence. As a result of that higher dividend, their shares stand higher and, therefore, the compensation they will get will be much greater than in the case of the first company. That is obviously grossly unfair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-03", "file": "debates1947-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1af240c8e171e23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1449.5", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "preceding_text": "Under the Electricity Supply Acts, there is one authorised undertaking for a given area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1449.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-03", "file": "debates1947-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1af240c8e171e23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1463.1", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "—and no outside pressure from anywhere was necessary to get what is now provided for in this Bill. Here at least the Scots—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-03", "file": "debates1947-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1af240c8e171e23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1486.3", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hobson", "preceding_text": "s the \"distressed areas,\" where local authorities look to the electricity account to help them maintain their social services, but I think that the point which i-being overlooked is that if there had been no grant to the rates, the result would have been a lower charge for electricity. I am rather interested in the compensation provisions, and I hope that hon Members opposite will raise the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1486.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-03", "file": "debates1947-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1af240c8e171e23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1497.1", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:' \"What do you think?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "amongst the public that the coal industry had for a long time been a sick body, due to the inverted Coue system adopted by the leaders of the Miners' Federation, who constantly pumped into their members by insistent and penetrating propaganda that they were badly treated, overworked, badly paid and that their conditions of life were intolerable until eventually they began to believe it themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-03", "file": "debates1947-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1af240c8e171e23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1503.4", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "That was the only point in the long tirade made by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Southport (Mr. R. S. Hudson) which had any bearing at all on the Bill. I am positively certain that the Minister intends that unified charges shall be brought into being as soon as possible, but what the right hon. Gentleman wanted him to say was that he would immediately unify charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1503.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-03", "file": "debates1947-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1af240c8e171e23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "On the average, the private power companies are one halfpenny dearer on 1937–38 figures than the local authorities and if, under national planning, we retain this halfpenny, it can support the capital expenditure year by year of close on £100 million in order to provide all the facilities for every crofter throughout the length and breadth of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-03", "file": "debates1947-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1af240c8e171e23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1521.1", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeger", "preceding_text": "ricity undertakings. There will be a disproportionate drawing from the superannuation fund if previous electricity employees are still drawing their superannuation from a fund which is depleted by the withdrawal of the electricity employees. I hope that the Minister will discuss this question amicably with the local authorities who are, in the main, in favour of the transfer of their undertakings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-03a.1521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1546.1", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"County.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "I would like the hon. Member to give us evidence of the Socialist control of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1549.6", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "It all depends. If there is employment available which he is capable of performing he goes to that work. If not, he is entitled to benefit. This acute position has arisen only during the last week or two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1549.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1574.6", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But it was not\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "There was published last Saturday morning what had already appeared in the newspapers—a summary of the Report—and if hon. Members were not aware of that, it is unfortunate, but I did take steps to see that the summary was in the Vote Office at the end of last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1574.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1574.6", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": " see that the Report of the Preparatory Commission was published as early as possible. There were two copies in this country. I had hoped that it would have been published early yesterday, but printing difficulties made that rather awkward, and it was published shortly after the House met. But the principles involved are surely in the minds of hon. and right hon. Members and I should have thought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1574.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1575.0", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only the summary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "It is quite true that this Report was made available on Saturday for those hon. Members who were here to receive it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1575.1", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it on?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I would remind the hon. Members, if they will carry their minds back to last Thursday, that the Debate is not on this Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1576.1", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "In these interchanges with right hon. Gentlemen on the other side, they always have arguments to show why things should never be taken now. They would always postpone things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1577.1", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": " because he considers it relevant to the Debate on Thursday? When he said that if hon. Members take their duties seriously they can read it, surely he means precisely the opposite? The only hon. Members who will be able to read this document by Thursday are those hon. Members who neglect today's and tomorrow's Business. In those undoubted circumstances, is he not bringing this House into contempt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1577.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1577.2", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "s precisely the opposite? The only hon. Members who will be able to read this document by Thursday are those hon. Members who neglect today's and tomorrow's Business. In those undoubted circumstances, is he not bringing this House into contempt—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—with the country when he takes a step which, to the knowledge of the country, renders a serious Debate on the subject impossible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1578.5", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1578.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1579.0", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Fletcher", "preceding_text": "Having spent most of the last six weeks analysing some of the more egregious errors in the food policy of the Government in the Far East, may I point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1585.5", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "It is not from any over-estimation of my personal importance in this matter that I rather regret the absence throughout the whole or most of yesterday, and the absence now, of the Prime Minister, of the Deputy-Leader of the House, of both Law Officers and of the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1585.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1585.7", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ttle surprised yesterday to hear more than one spokesman of the unions concerned, one of whom is now present, say that all the workers were in favour. They did not all take that line not long ago, because one of them wrote a book three or four years ago, in which he said: It is doubtful if even a small minority of engineers and administrators could be mustered to support immediate nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1585.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1604.1", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I now wish to deal with some of the differences which exist be tween the areas concerned, both in respect of the McGowan Committee Report and my right hon. Friend's Bill. In view of the fact that hon. Gentlemen opposite are looking at the clock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1615.2", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "preceding_text": "that those networks are extended as and when necessary. But the Lord President went on to say: On either side of the middleman's field there is chaos and muddle the continuance of which the most diehard Conservative do not defend. There is no chaos and muddle, other than that for which past Parliaments have been responsible. The engineers and administrators of this industry have done a great work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1615.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1621.1", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ple, coal costs rise:, electricity costs may rise also, but it is inescapable that if we are to get the rationalisation which will enable economies to be introduced, we must have larger areas of supply. What is the second complaint of the hon. and gallant Gentleman? This is not the hour, this is not the moment—\"The whole energies of the electricity industry should be devoted to increasing output.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1641.1", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "he very provision which he was discussing and condemning provides machinery in these cases for arbitration. It says, most explicitly that, in the case where an agreement is disclaimed, the party against whom the disclaimer is made may take the matter to arbitration. There is one exception and that is where it is an agreement in regard to personal services. I ask the Minister to look at that again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1645.1", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Peter Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Peter Roberts", "preceding_text": "cessive charges.\" If in point of fact he is attacking the making of profits, whatever the industry may be, then he should come out in the open and say so. In connection with this Bill as it is framed, I feel it is unnecessary to have a change of ownership. Many hon. Gentlemen opposite have suggested that there should have been some alternative put forward by hon. Members on this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1660.1", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are meant to be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " he is such a distinguished, though somewhat recent, recruit, bear in mind that what they are doing today in this industry has its repercussions throughout the whole of the industrial field. Right hon. Gentlemen opposite, in their more sanguine moments, tramp the country announcing that they propose to nationalise right, left and centre. They may not appreciate that those speeches are listened to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1667.1", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "ent and the Treasury, and, probably, it would hardly be hoped that the Government broker would be strong enough again to interpose to stop the local loans fiasco. There is a further reason why this stock is, or might be, unprofitable, and why the Government desire to get out of it. Hon. Members may not all know it, but it is the declared policy of this Government to unbalance the Budget; to raise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1669.4", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Roberts", "preceding_text": "authorities and private investors, is merely to bolster up unsound finance and enable undertakings to show a profit on a fictitious written-down capital. In a recent debate of the Birmingham City Council, the Chairman of the Transport Committee said that if the policy of payment for assets was adopted it would strangle the scheme from the outset. I now wish to say a word on the merits of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1669.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1671.3", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "It is no exaggeration to say that the Post Office is a great credit to our public service. We get full value for our money. But let me get back to electricity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1671.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1674.2", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "of what was the position today. Would anyone have realised that the electricity industry in the course of the last 23 years has provided a tenfold increase for the people of this country? Would anybody who listened to him have realised that this industry, which he is determined to destroy from end to end, even during the darkest days of the war increased its output for all purposes by 45 per cent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1674.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1678.1", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "I shall bear up long after the hon. Gentleman has paid his next visit to Moscow. Before passing to my next point, I should make reference to power companies. The book at my disposal is Studholme on \"Electricity Law and Practice,\" which has been placed in my hand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1678.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1678.3", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has made no point at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1678.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1678.4", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "When the ribaldry has stopped, perhaps I may make my point. It is within the recollection of the House that what the hon. Member tried to convey was that every one of the electricity undertakings was governed by statutory Orders.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1678.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1680.1", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Gaitskell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"HOW do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Gaitskell)", "preceding_text": " be said that he generates heat, in which respect perhaps he resembles my right hon. Friend the Minister. As for any particular knowledge of the electricity industry, I think that the only point that he could claim was that he had been, 20 years ago, a Member of the Standing Committee on the 1926 Bill. I am told that at that time Conservative Members of that Committee were divided into two groups.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1682.1", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "If the light hon. Gentleman had waited a moment, he would have found that I was going to explain to the House that the term \"mute\" meant that he was supporting the Government, unlike the undertakers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1685.1", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "quently the result, not of efficiency, not of low costs, but of high prices, and the absence of competition makes it all the more desirable and all the more essential that there should be supervision. At one time I had hoped that we would have the support of hon. Members opposite in this matter. No less a man than the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill), when he broadcast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1688.1", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "aised one or two objections. First, the familiar objection, repeated again and again by hon. Members opposite, that it would cause dislocation. My right hon. Friend dealt with that very effectively. Here we have the great coal industry, extremely complicated in character, with many day-to-day production problems, which has passed into public ownership without any sign whatever of any dislocation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-04", "file": "debates1947-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7caa417a6ac2323", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1717.2", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, try another point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to you, Major Milner, for correcting me, and now may I take up the other point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-04a.1717.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-05", "file": "debates1947-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "58197f86393b639a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1757.0", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "That is done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-05", "file": "debates1947-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "58197f86393b639a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1775.7", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "GERMANY (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Law", "preceding_text": "the question of food. When I first got to the zone and went about there, I thought all this talk about starvation and lack of food was greatly exaggerated. It is perfectly true that one sees people going about looking rather pinched and blue in the cold weather, as we have seen them go about rather pinched and blue in this country ever since the Government took over the ownership of the coalmines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1775.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-05", "file": "debates1947-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "58197f86393b639a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1782.1", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "GERMANY (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "No, I hope that is not the implication of what I am saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-05", "file": "debates1947-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "58197f86393b639a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1791.1", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "GERMANY (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does the size matter?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Hynd", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman very much, and I think that what he has said will be appreciated. These statements have been very much exaggerated. In regard to de-Nazification, I am surprised to find, 18 months after the end of the war, that we are told that we have now got to stop de-Nazifying, and have to leave the big landowners and the big agriculturists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-05", "file": "debates1947-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "58197f86393b639a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1831.1", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "GERMANY (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " let us make sure that it will work fairly. It is being said that the ration in the American zone contains four times the meat content that ours contains, and that we have made ours up by bunging in more potatoes. It is not by calories alone that one lives. Diet wants a bit of variety in the menu. I turn now to another point—manpower and population—mentioned by the Chief Whip of the Liberal Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-05", "file": "debates1947-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "58197f86393b639a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1831.1", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "GERMANY (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " Chief Whip of the Liberal Party—[ Laughter. ]The Liberal Party was once a great party and still has great people in it. There is a desperate shortage of manpower. I do not know how far people realise the problem. It is not only an economic but a moral problem as well. I add my views to the urgency of sending the prisoners of war back at once. I do not believe we are legally entitled to keep them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-05", "file": "debates1947-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "58197f86393b639a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1831.1", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "GERMANY (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Neither do we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "he fact of the matter is that quite a lot of people in this country and in the Government did not know what we were fighting about either. When the war stopped, they had not the slightest idea of what to do with Germany, so that added to the problem. Now we have peace, and we still do not tell the Germans what we mean. For example, they do not understand our policy with regard to prisoners of war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-05", "file": "debates1947-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "58197f86393b639a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1847.2", "colnum": "1847", "heading": "GERMANY (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "replaceable equipment—absolutely destroyed because of the necessity for falling into line with the policy laid down in the Potsdam Agreement. It is high time that we stopped this demolition. I understand that it has now ceased, and I am glad to hear that that is so. Whatever else we do in Germany, I think we have to take a very strong line, and, if I may say so, take a stand with regard to Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1847.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-05", "file": "debates1947-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "58197f86393b639a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1871.0", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "GERMANY (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "Laughter,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend knows very well, as the recent report of the Russian military officer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-05", "file": "debates1947-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "58197f86393b639a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1871.2", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "GERMANY (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Names.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "as been gathering force during the last three or four months. I continue with the reports of the German trade union meetings, which are there for anyone to read, including my hon. Friend. On 6th December, at Hagen, near Dortmund, a meeting of 50 shop stewards, representing heavy industry workers, passed a resolution, pointing out that Nazi war criminals were still controlling the heavy industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1871.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-05", "file": "debates1947-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "58197f86393b639a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1872.3", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "GERMANY (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "As it is obvious that the right hon. Gentleman does not accept the evidence of trade union interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1872.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-05", "file": "debates1947-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "58197f86393b639a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1892.3", "colnum": "1892", "heading": "GERMANY (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "I only regret his absence and apologise in advance for saying certain things about him when he is not here. He came very near to suggesting that anybody who criticised the Control Commission was being a traitor to his country because the criticism would be reported in Germany", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1892.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-05", "file": "debates1947-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "58197f86393b639a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1901.0", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "GERMANY (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "I apologise, Sir. I ask the leave of the House to speak again. I understood the hon. Member for Flint to say \"false statistics.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-05", "file": "debates1947-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "58197f86393b639a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1910.5", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "GERMANY (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is an \"infiltree\"?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "epresentations have been made to me with regard to it. I inquired whether it was being applied, and I was informed that it is not being provided at the present time, but that it is being considered sympathetically, and I anticipate that if it is not already in being it soon will be. With regard to the \"infiltrees,\" it is true that there are a number of illegal \"infiltrees\" in this particular camp.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1910.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-05", "file": "debates1947-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "58197f86393b639a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1922.1", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "at the amount is now very much larger. If it be the case that the people who are extracting minerals are going to receive something from this £300 million, it might follow that very little of that £300 million would be left for division among the building developments to which the right hon. Gentleman referred in making his estimate. I do not want to take up any further time developing this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-05a.1922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-06", "file": "debates1947-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1a688b114122f3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-06a.1967.5", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL FUEL AND POWER NEEDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": "I am very well aware that if more urgent steps had been taken quite a long time ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-06a.1967.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-06", "file": "debates1947-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1a688b114122f3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-06a.1970.5", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL FUEL AND POWER NEEDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I thought I had offered that if the House wished to dispose of Business quickly tomorrow morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-06a.1970.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-06", "file": "debates1947-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1a688b114122f3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-06a.1970.5", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL FUEL AND POWER NEEDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I thought I had offered that if the House wished to dispose of Business quickly tomorrow morning—[ Interruption ]—I am making a perfectly reasonable answer. Tomorrow's Business, by agreement of the House a week ago, must be transacted tomorrow. If the House is so anxious about the coal situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-06a.1970.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-06", "file": "debates1947-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1a688b114122f3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-06a.1973.1", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL FUEL AND POWER NEEDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I dislike the time of the House being wasted by the raising of frivolous questions. I knew that the hon. Member for Darwen (Mr. Prescott) had an Adjournment Motion down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-06a.1973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-06", "file": "debates1947-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1a688b114122f3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-06a.1981.13", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Nichol", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Nichol", "preceding_text": "I beg to give notice that, on going into Committee of Supply on the Civil Estimates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-06a.1981.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-06", "file": "debates1947-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1a688b114122f3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-06a.1981.14", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which Estimates?", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Nichol", "preceding_text": "I beg to give notice that, on going into Committee of Supply on the Civil Estimates—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"]—I will raise the question of the introduction of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-06a.1981.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-06", "file": "debates1947-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1a688b114122f3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-06a.2022.6", "colnum": "2022", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I accept that. I should be willing to see that happen, but I do not like the method by which we are to get our food at the average price. If it is true, as it says in this Report, that there will be a glut of eggs and pig meat, it means that somewhere in the world there will be a glut of feeding stuffs. What we want are the feeding stuffs here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-06a.2022.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-06", "file": "debates1947-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1a688b114122f3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-06a.2033.3", "colnum": "2033", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In Siam.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "asant producer stored his rice, because the Japanese could or would not move it. He had no other alternative. The peculiarity of Siamese rice is that if it is not grown too near the rivers it can be stored without damage for three or four years. At the end of the war, therefore, there was a world shortage but a local surplus of one of the staple foods most needed throughout the whole of East Asia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-06a.2033.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-06", "file": "debates1947-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1a688b114122f3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-06a.2073.1", "colnum": "2073", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "Let us know what are the prospects. We do get quite a lot of other things from the United States—things which we would be much better without.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-06a.2073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-06", "file": "debates1947-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "1a688b114122f3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-06a.2075.1", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "WORLD FOOD SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Mr. Strachey)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Mr. Strachey)", "preceding_text": " of foodstuffs than those included in the index figure are included, they are certainly 33⅓ per cent. above the prewar level. But how does that compare with the situation at the end of the last war, when the method favoured by hon. Members opposite was given its head? At the peak point after the last war, food prices went almost to treble the point at which they stood when that war started.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-06a.2075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-07", "file": "debates1947-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "db4978373fdaf555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2125.1", "colnum": "2125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL FUEL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nor do they.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "de would make a statement about this matter. But nothing was said. Therefore, I thought it was right to raise this matter on the Adjournment, and to request the Government to tell us what the position really is, and to hide nothing. I do not know, as yet, how the different functions are divided between the Minister of Fuel and Power, the President of the Board of Trade, and the Minister of Supply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-07", "file": "debates1947-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "db4978373fdaf555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2133.3", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL FUEL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "man can serve two masters\" let alone three or four. How can anyone be responsible to all these sponsoring Departments? Surely hon. Members, I, and the country, are entitled to know who is responsible for administering the scheme. Surely, there must be one Minister who is responsible. I do not wish to make any personal remarks, because I have the greatest admiration for all the Ministers concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-07", "file": "debates1947-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "db4978373fdaf555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2151.1", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL FUEL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "preceding_text": "the House and the country should feel indebted to the hon. Member for Darwen (Mr. Prescott) for raising this subject on the Adjournment today, and I was pleased to see the belated realisation on the part of the hon. Member for Stoke (Mr. Ellis Smith) of the seriousness of the situation. It is a pity that in the speech he has just made, he did not treat the subject with the seriousness it deserves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-07", "file": "debates1947-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "db4978373fdaf555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2154.1", "colnum": "2154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL FUEL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman seems to me to be rather like the late Minister of Food, who was always hoping that something would turn up. He sent a whaling fleet off to the South Pole thinking that it would help him with his fat ration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-07", "file": "debates1947-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "db4978373fdaf555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2168.3", "colnum": "2168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL FUEL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " guarantee be given, owing to changing and unforeseen circumstances, that it might not be necessary to reduce allocations, and so on. Then, we have been told that there was no plan. That is the right hon. Gentleman's case—that there was no plan, that there was a lack of foresight, a lack of perspicacity on the part of the Minister of Fuel and Power, and, it may be, other Members of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2168.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-07", "file": "debates1947-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "db4978373fdaf555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2170.0", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL FUEL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "By whom?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-07", "file": "debates1947-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "db4978373fdaf555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2170.1", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL FUEL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "r understanding in the industry. In that I succeeded. That was a worth while plan. As a result, we introduced into the mining industry last year rather more than 76,000 persons, men and boys. I agree there has been a remarkable wastage due to all causes—old age; accidents; illness associated with the mining industry, silicosis, pneumoconiosis, insidious industrial diseases that menace mine workers", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-07", "file": "debates1947-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "db4978373fdaf555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2171.0", "colnum": "2171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL FUEL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman allow me? He has referred to the legacy which he was left by the right hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Pembroke (Major Lloyd-George) due to the war years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-07", "file": "debates1947-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "db4978373fdaf555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2171.0", "colnum": "2171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL FUEL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Prewar.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman allow me? He has referred to the legacy which he was left by the right hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Pembroke (Major Lloyd-George) due to the war years. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Due mainly to the war years, and a month or two afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2171.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-07", "file": "debates1947-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "db4978373fdaf555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2184.1", "colnum": "2184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL FUEL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which one?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I might add that there is no truth in a lot of the statements the noble Lord has made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-07", "file": "debates1947-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "db4978373fdaf555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2184.5", "colnum": "2184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL FUEL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to hear it. Every paper has headlines on it. It is in every newspaper today. Why did the right hon. Gentleman not get up in this House and instead of accusing me of being a liar—I know he likes to call people liars; it is a privilege to be called a liar by him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2184.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-07", "file": "debates1947-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "db4978373fdaf555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2184.5", "colnum": "2184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL FUEL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "aper has headlines on it. It is in every newspaper today. Why did the right hon. Gentleman not get up in this House and instead of accusing me of being a liar—I know he likes to call people liars; it is a privilege to be called a liar by him. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] Instead of accusing me of being a liar, why did the right hon. Gentleman not get up and say that there is not a word of truth in it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2184.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-07", "file": "debates1947-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "db4978373fdaf555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2184.7", "colnum": "2184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL FUEL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": " behind me, is not of the quality we had before the war—we shall be able to build up a sufficient reserve of coal between now and next October to enable our industries to be carried on at full speed next year? We must do that if we are to avoid causing very serious hardship. Believe me, it is a serious hardship. I do not want to end on a controversial note but all of us on both sides of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2184.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-07", "file": "debates1947-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "db4978373fdaf555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2191.3", "colnum": "2191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL FUEL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "I understand there are some Public Relations Officers in the Ministry of Fuel and Power who earn a lot of money. Would the Minister explain why a responsible newspaper quotes those instructions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2191.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-07", "file": "debates1947-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "db4978373fdaf555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2192.1", "colnum": "2192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL FUEL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is not being quite straight. Were those instructions sent yesterday by his Ministry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-07", "file": "debates1947-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "db4978373fdaf555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2192.1", "colnum": "2192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL FUEL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": " was Minister, I lost, in one week, 360,000 tons through transport delays. The whole purpose of stocking in winter is for the time when you consume more than you produce. You must allow for certain interruptions of transport through weather. The fact is that the right hon. Gentleman has not really got down to this thing at all; he is doing now the things that he should have been doing months ago.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-07", "file": "debates1947-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "db4978373fdaf555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2194.0", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL FUEL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and gallant Gentleman is indulging in a lot of challenges. I do not propose to waste a lot of time on some of them, but would he say what he would do if he were building up stocks now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-07", "file": "debates1947-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "db4978373fdaf555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2194.3", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL FUEL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer it then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "That shows that the right hon. Gentleman has no ideas. I am not afraid to answer this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-07", "file": "debates1947-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "db4978373fdaf555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2195.1", "colnum": "2195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL FUEL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What would you have done?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "I know that. I am backed by HANSARD.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-07", "file": "debates1947-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "db4978373fdaf555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2195.1", "colnum": "2195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL FUEL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "enged him on the open-cast increase, and I think that will be justified. I challenged him on the question of oil from coal, and that has been justified already. I said that his figures were too optimistic. In view of the warnings he got in July, that was the time to make the plans that he is making now. I know that he cannot help it, that he has only a certain amount of coal. I am not blaming him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2195.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-07", "file": "debates1947-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "db4978373fdaf555", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2201.5", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL FUEL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "The noble Lord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-07a.2201.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.12.0", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "Oh, no, Sir, that is a complete misapprehension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.12.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.19.2", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Lindsay", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker. Can we have some more candles?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.20.4", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BEER (HEAVY INDUSTRIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "While I thank my right hon. Friend for his reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.20.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.20.4", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BEER (HEAVY INDUSTRIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "While I thank my right hon. Friend for his reply— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] —may I call his attention to the fact that there is grave disquiet among heavy workers in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.20.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.31.6", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "Since it is the policy of the Government to spend part of the American Loan on capital goods, will the right hon. Gentleman look into the possibility of placing orders for rolling stock in the United States?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.31.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "cision to make these drastic cuts was only reached as late as the morning of Friday? Secondly, once the decision was made, why did not the Minister of Fuel and Power, or the Prime Minister himself, or some other important functionary opposite, inform the House immediately, in order to enlighten them on the Debate, which would never have taken place if we ourselves had not forced it upon the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.38.2", "colnum": "38", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "I am aware of the difficult circumstances of the Debate last Friday. There is a very deep interest in the House and in the country and I shall be very glad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.38.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.38.4", "colnum": "38", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has made a statement, the full import of which it is very difficult for people to appreciate when they have only heard it read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.38.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.38.4", "colnum": "38", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has made a statement, the full import of which it is very difficult for people to appreciate when they have only heard it read.[ Interruption .] There must be a lot of statisticians opposite who can understand all the figures which have been quoted. I should have thought a little reflection might have been all to the good. I am willing to make a concession to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.38.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.38.4", "colnum": "38", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "st be a lot of statisticians opposite who can understand all the figures which have been quoted. I should have thought a little reflection might have been all to the good. I am willing to make a concession to the House— [ Interruption .] Ignoring these interruptions, I am prepared to make a concession for an early Debate. If there is an insistent request, indicating that the House wants it today —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.38.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "PRIVILEGES (COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order, Mr. Speaker. As I understand the hon. Gentleman's drift, he is trying to bring out facts which would prove that the conclusions which were arrived at by the Committee of Privileges were, in fact, misguided or mistaken. But, surely, if that were so, and if these facts, which I understood, took place at about the time of the incidents complained of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.49.5", "colnum": "49", "heading": "PRIVILEGES (COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down\".", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. May I call your attention, Mr. Speaker, to your specific Ruling on this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.49.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "PRIVILEGES (COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Wintertan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Wintertan", "preceding_text": "time I have heard an hon. Member get up and repeat an alleged private conversation that he had with a stranger in the Lobby. It is the first time I have ever heard it done, and I hope, for the honour of the House —and for the honour of the Communist Party —that it will never be done again. I hear with the gravest suspicion any story of the kind told in the House by the hon. Member for Galashiels —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "PRIVILEGES (COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Wintertan", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Wintertan", "preceding_text": "t done, and I hope, for the honour of the House —and for the honour of the Communist Party —that it will never be done again. I hear with the gravest suspicion any story of the kind told in the House by the hon. Member for Galashiels —[ Interruption ] —for West Fife. I apologise to Galashiels. I do not want to include Galashiels with the constituency which the hon. Member for West Fife represents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.55.2", "colnum": "55", "heading": "PRIVILEGES (COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "Is it not clear from the evidence given by both parties that the Pressman was the first to lay his hand on the hon. Member —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.55.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.57.4", "colnum": "57", "heading": "PRIVILEGES (COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "comparatively new Member of this House, I am rather astonished at the manner in which this affair has been dealt with. We have had speeches from the party leaders, the leader of our Party, the leader of the Opposition Party, the leader of the Liberal Party, and a representative of the Independents, and there seems to be a kind of feeling in the House that now we ought to close down the discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.57.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.57.4", "colnum": "57", "heading": "PRIVILEGES (COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "cussion.[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I must say that I am astonished at the levity with which an affair of this importance is being regarded. Since I have been in this House we have discussed matters of tremendous international and national significance, but I do not think there is one issue which has caused me so much anxiety, so much strain, and so much uncertainty as has this particular issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.57.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.57.4", "colnum": "57", "heading": "PRIVILEGES (COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "put a stigma upon two people, I feel hound to consider this matter very seriously and deeply indeed. Let me say that I hope no hon. Member will cast a vote, upon this question unless he has read every word of this Report, and every word of the evidence. Unless he has done so he is not entitled to make a judgment on this question. Let us be clear —and I am sorry to take up the time of hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.57.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.62.5", "colnum": "62", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R.S. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R.S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ou there is not going to be a crisis in coal, if, by crisis, you mean that industrial organisation is going to be seriously dislocated and that hundreds of factories are going to be closed down. Does the right hon. Gentleman deny that hundreds of factories are going to be closed down, and that industry is being seriously dislocated at the present time. At least, he refrains from making that claim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.62.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr.R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "At a more appropriate moment. It so happens that my job now is to be the interrogator, not to be interrogated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell)", "preceding_text": "merge after the French disaster in the war in 1940. No one is more conversant with that fact than the right hon. Gentlemen the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill). What happened on that occasion? A vast amount of coal, produced in this country and designed for French operations, military and civil, was held hack. There was obviously no purpose in sending the coal to France in view of the collapse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I gathered from what the right hon. Gentleman said—and this was the gravamen of the charge—that I had not taken adequate steps to build up the stock position in advance. Therefore, he must have suspected that I must have been satisfied with the position. Well, I was not satisfied with the position; on the contrary, I repeated my warnings in almost every speech I made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When was it? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ary saving in consumption of at least so per cent. This saving of 10 per cent. is needed in coal, gas and electricity, and must apply to all consumers, not only in industry, but al3o in the home and in public and commercial undertakings. Then I added this: At the moment it is clear that although production is rising, consumption is outstripping it by far. There was a warning if ever there was one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman knows, I have the highest respect, and a great admiration, for his qualities, but honestly I am bound to say that that is about the weakest observation that has ever fallen from his lips.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.82.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.82.2", "colnum": "82", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "No, I did not say that. I said, in view of the possibility of an emergency arising through weather conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.82.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I can tell hon. Members that we have consulted the experts on this subject, and we are informed that not only as regards severity, but as regards universality, this is the worst blizzard since 1894—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Well, I will not join issue with the right hon. Gentleman. It may well be that instead of having a general Debate I could have intervened and said, \"I have a grave statement to make.\" But the hon. Member for Darwen and my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke had already intervened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.91.3", "colnum": "91", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "osite had not, at that time, arranged for their return to this Parliament. Quite early in the Session, the hon. Member for Brighton (Mr. Teeling) made his final appeal for further men to work in the mines knowing, as the right hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington had said, the seriousness of the manpower position. Speaking of volunteers, he said that these young men will be wrecking their lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.91.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.94.2", "colnum": "94", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What do you think you are?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "the Members for the City of London. I always look at it in this way: The people who vote in the City of London have two votes. One they cast in a residential suburb, if one may be permitted the expression, for some general Conservative purpose or, to snatch a metaphor from the poultry fancier, for a White Sussex or a Buff Orpington. But for their business purposes they cast their vote for someone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.94.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "My point did not concern the hon. and gallant Member. My point was that production had increased in the course of the year, and I doubt whether that would have happened under a Tory Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON Members: \"yes", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I believe that the lesson of this week may be a merciful deliverance for this country if it makes us realise that we have to do that. Maybe if the weather had been nicer, we should not have had this Debate. We should have just slipped through the crisis, and the country would never have been faced with the fundamental issue we are facing today, which has nothing to do, of course, with the Weather—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.114.3", "colnum": "114", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "If it should result in the expulsion from power of our present rulers, it would, indeed, be a merciful deliverance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.114.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "some quite definite reward in the shape of a mitigation of basic conditions would come to our people as a consequence of victory, and the fact that it has not come, in spite of all the expectations which were dangled before them, vaunted before them—all the baits which were held out—is a deep and bitter disappointment to all. I am not going to put all the blame upon the Minister of Fuel and Power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.119.0", "colnum": "119", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "We can go a little further back in this matter. The Minister can look behind him to the third Bench above the Gangway where he will see a member of his own party—a miner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.122.1", "colnum": "122", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ecautions against dangers which must have been, or ought to have been, apprehended as very likely to occur in the present season of the year. I have spoken about these matters, and I shall take other opportunities of speaking in the country upon them. There is no need for us on this side of the House to hesitate to point the moral. There is the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I believe he will reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"During the coal shortage?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "presentation of Oldham, which he used to represent many years ago. The only thing which comes between his repre- sentation and mine is a couple of wars and long years of unemployment. I promised many things, but they have all been achieved, and I can report to my constituents today and say that the things that I promised at election time have now been achieved and we are marching on to the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson Harris", "preceding_text": "iscrimination. That depends, of course, upon how one defines discrimination. The \"News of the World\" with its seven million circulation—and with a seven million circulation it must use a good deal of electricity—is to be free to pursue its civilising mission, while the \"New Statesman,\" \"Spectator\" and so on, are to be suspended. We have heard that the \"Radio Times\" is excluded from this suspension", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": ", there were 3,250,000 tons in stock at the power stations. In December, 1945, the figure had fallen to 2,800,000 tons. In December, 1946, to 1,600,000 tons, to two and a half weeks' supply. This was the background against which this problem has arisen. I say frankly—and I do not think anyone will contradict this statement—that we had had no previous experience of full employment in time of peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.140.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.141.4", "colnum": "141", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" You did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "I think this is really needless heat; but I am very happy to reply at once to the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition, that, of course, I did not for a moment mean that that was so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.141.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A disgrace to the country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "hink that credit should be given, in the midst of any party turmoil, which anybody, including myself, may be responsible for stirring up, though this problem should be well above party, to those people who have borne the brunt of this work during these past weeks. I think that we should all pay our tribute to the work of the railways, which have moved this coal in very difficult conditions indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "e, at this moment, between two million and four million unemployed in this country. That is the least part of the mischief. In my own house—and I only mention this because it is characteristic of the feeling of many millions of anxious parents in the country—there is a little baby, three weeks old. That baby's nursery is heated by electricity, which has been cut off during certain hours of the day", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "ew—apart from the Minister—that a crisis was certain to occur, why was not better preparation made to meet it? A great leader of the Opposition once described the Treasury Bench as \"A range of extinct volcanoes\" I prefer myself to borrow the felicitous phrase of the right hon. Gentleman himself. It is a poor bag of assets, and in that poor bag of assets there are a couple of empty-headed braggart—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1376.6", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that it is never too late nor too early to speak the truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1376.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "It is not a matter of what I think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1385.0", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "One might have a considerable Debate on this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1392.2", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the right hon. Gentleman has not had an extensive experience of Standing Committee work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1392.2", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the right hon. Gentleman has not had an extensive experience of Standing Committee work. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] That is true, and the right hon. Gentleman knows it. This is not a departure in principle at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"The House's right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "Any Government determines what Bills should go to Standing Committee. That is the Government's right, and we shall retain it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1394.10", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak tip.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I hope we shall be able to dispose of the Third Reading of the Civic Restaurants Bill in a fairly reasonable time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1394.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1399.5", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What reason?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have already stated the reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1399.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1400.1", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "What are the reasons which make this time appropriate for a change? There must be some reason. Surely, the right hon. Gentleman did not wake up one morning, and say, \"Oh, let us get another Viceroy\"? It must have some purpose or reason behind it, and we have a right to know what is that purpose or reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1411.6", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "I am sorry this situation has arisen. It is not the first time such a situation has arisen in this House; complaints have been made before about the short time hon. Members are able to have a reprinted Bill in their hands. There have been a number of cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1411.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1412.0", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about Scotland?", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": " me a chance to make a statement of three or four consecutive sentences without interruption. I do not as a rule interrupt others. Am I not right in saying, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, that this Bill now, on all major issues, including the controversial point which the hon. and learned Member for Carmarthen (Mr. H. Morris) made, is substantially the same as it was when it was introduced on Second Reading?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1411.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1412.2", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "It is substantially the same, Scotsmen, after all, are less than 10 per cent. of the population of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1412.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1418.1", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "cotland must be dealt with in a different manner. To continue with what I was saving about Wales, the hon. and learned Member will, I think, agree that the councillor is very near his people. That is the safeguard. It will be difficult, in Wales, for a member of a local authority to be irresponsible in the matter of administering this particular provision. May I say a word to the Scottish Members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1426.1", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "preceding_text": "om the Bill. The modern housewife is being invaded by the B.B.C. and by the daily Press with news of what is going on in the outside world, but I do not think anyone in any part of the House would deny that in a modern age, with new opportunities opening before women, in theory, those who have to carry the daily domestic burdens are having a harder time now than they have had for a very long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1435.3", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sargood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sargood", "preceding_text": "likely to be less efficient and less honest in dealing with my public duties than I am in dealing with my private capacities, I would remind hon. Members opposite that everyone of these accounts of civil restaurants will be submitted to the public auditors. I ask hon. Gentlemen opposite whether they would be willing to have the accounts of their own trading concerns audited by the public auditors?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1435.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1438.1", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Low", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Low", "preceding_text": "gument by stressing once again that this Bill has absolutely no effect on the main problem to which the hon. Lady the Member for Cannock referred, the burden on the housewife due to the shortages. This Bill has simply nothing to do with greater production. If it does anything at all, it will employ more local government servants, and will, therefore, take more men away from productive enterprises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1445.4", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member for that interruption. The point I am making is, that at this time we do not want to encourage, on an enormous scale, the restaurant habit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1445.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1454.1", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the brewers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "of facing the future, face the facts. The facts are as follow: Scotland rose in revolt against this Bill arid compelled the Scottish Labour Party to change their minds. The churches rose in revolt, the temperance movement, which represents hundreds of thousands of Scottish people, rose in revolt, the youth movements, the local authorities, and the co-operative societies in Scotland rose in revolt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1456.3", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Either we stand for the sanctity and development of the British home as a centre of British life, or we do not. The moral issue dividing that side of. the House from this is simply this: We stand for the sanctity of the home to the greatest possible extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1456.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1457.3", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "nd the Co-operative vote. We are to have splendid, beautiful, well-designed places as the civic pubs of the future; but if they are anything like the present British Restaurants, I am sorry for the working class. Every local authority in England, dominated by a Labour majority, will see that there is a civic pub in the town, and drive its people into that civic pub by encouraging them to go there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1457.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1458.0", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague (Islington, West)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague (Islington, West)", "preceding_text": "Who is stopping the hon. Gentleman enjoying it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1458.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1467.0", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What did the right hon. Gentleman do?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": " clearly they believe that there is nothing wrong in having civic pubs in the middle of community centres. Among the Members of the Government who answered, \"Yes,\" to that question were the Home Secretary, the Minister of Defence, the Solicitor-General, the Secretary of State, the new Minister of Education, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Secretary of State for War and the Chief Whip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1466.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1474.0", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Flint.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "had before. There is nothing immoral in a working-class family going to a civic restaurant. There is nothing wrong, as my hon. Friend the Member for West Islington (Mr. Montague) said, for them to enjoy the kind of social life which hon. Members opposite enjoy. The right hon. Member for Southport mentioned the speech of the hon. Member for Stone (Mr. H. Fraser)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1474.0", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ber for East Fife. For 20 years I prescribed bottles of medicine, when I should have been prescribing food for undernourished people. I do not overstate the case when I say that this contribution to the services of the local authority is as important as any of the services which we have supplied for the prevention of disease. I look forward to the day when we shall have a well-nourished community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1482.0", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Under British command.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": "esisted with a heroism to which every one of us, I am sure, will pay tribute. A good many soldiers were wounded in that campaign, and they afterwards joined the British Forces. They came through Russia into Persia, and from Persia to the Middle East, and joined up at Tobruk with the Carpathian Brigade of General Kopanski. They fought all through the Italian campaign, and I think it would be wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1498.0", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.''", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": "The Minister has said that it is not the intention that these pensions are to be discontinued at the end of five years, but that is not what the Bill says. The Bill says they shall he discontinued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1498.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1506.2", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "But in the Polish Forces.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "My point still remains. These Poles served under British command—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1506.4", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "In the Polish Forces.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "But under British command. I am only quoting what the Home Secretary said about an hour ago, and I think I have it right. In this case they served under British command—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1506.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1506.7", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "As I understood the arrangements made during the war, the whole of the British Forces who fought from D-day onwards through France and Germany fought under the command of General Eisenhower. Would the hon. Gentleman say that that makes the American Government responsible for them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1506.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1507.1", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "s own country, he ceases to be a member of the class for whom this Bill is being passed. It is being passed for the benefit of those members of the Polish force under British command who cannot go back to their country. If we were to pay the pensions of those who can go back to their country, we would have to pay the pensions, in fairness and logic, of all those Poles who never left Poland at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1533.1", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Hynd", "preceding_text": "al institutions, or some Polish doctors in some of the medical institutions, we shall not segregate the Poles into separate institutions, separate communities, and keep them together in an organised body of any kind. Frankly, I am suspicious of it. I might as well be quite frank about it. I believe that efforts are being made to keep those Poles together as far as possible and as long as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1566.0", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Bellenger)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Bellenger)", "preceding_text": ", into the Armed Forces of this country but not as a unit, only as individuals. In regard to what the hon. Member for West Fife (Mr. Gallacher) said, I am glad to hear his remarks about not wishing to demote these men. After all, many of these officers did good service and as long as they continue to observe the forms of democracy which we understand in this country and which we are teaching them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1566.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-10", "file": "debates1947-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "dc77c69cba28c35e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1580.1", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "May we hear what the position is? As I understand, the Home Secretary has withdrawn the Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-10a.1580.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-11", "file": "debates1947-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f036871b5b68ed87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-11a.162.2", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman, in view of the very serious statement he has just made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-11a.162.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-11", "file": "debates1947-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f036871b5b68ed87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-11a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "The latter part of the question is totally uncalled far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-11a.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-11", "file": "debates1947-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f036871b5b68ed87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-11a.167.2", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington-Lodge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington-Lodge", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister not agree that the holding of this party at all was most undesirable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-11a.167.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-11", "file": "debates1947-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f036871b5b68ed87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-11a.170.7", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "Well, he claims to have them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-11a.170.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-11", "file": "debates1947-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f036871b5b68ed87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-11a.170.8", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that Professor Laski is a recognised international authority?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-11a.170.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-11", "file": "debates1947-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f036871b5b68ed87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-11a.251.0", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "e relationship of the Ministry of Civil Aviation with the three Corporations whose deficiency grants are included in these Estimates. Many of the points raised by hon. Members opposite have been points of administration within these Corporations I think that, sometime or other, this Committee will have to make up its mind exactly what it does require of the Minister or his Parliamentary Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-11a.251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-11", "file": "debates1947-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f036871b5b68ed87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-11a.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has just said it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "Does the statement which the right hon. Gentleman has just made mean that none of this expenditure has yet been incurred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-11a.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-11", "file": "debates1947-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f036871b5b68ed87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-11a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. Now we come to the last Supplementary Estimate which this Government are likely to put before the House before they load themselves with all sorts of other responsibilities, for which we do not know whether they are qualified or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-11a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-11", "file": "debates1947-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f036871b5b68ed87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-11a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. G. R. Strauss)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. G. R. Strauss)", "preceding_text": "In presenting this Supplementary Estimate I will again be brief in my explanation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-11a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-11", "file": "debates1947-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f036871b5b68ed87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-11a.321.2", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinehingbrooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The silent Service.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinehingbrooke", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman vouchsafe a little more information on Subheads B and C? I think he said the cost of the Washington Missions was borne on the Vote of his Department. Does Subhead B represent travelling to and from Washington or does it include other things? Could the right hon. Gentleman also explain the £1,000 item for telegrams and telephones?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-11a.321.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-12", "file": "debates1947-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f188298d3477b220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.356.7", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Tell that to your constituents.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.J Hynd", "preceding_text": "Fifty-three deaths from cold or exposure were reported, and 799 persons were admitted to hospital suffering from frostbite, or from other maladies to which exposure had been a contributing factor. These figures refer to all the British zone, except Schleswig-Holstein, for which figures are not available for either month, and Lower Saxony. for which only the December figures can be given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.356.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-12", "file": "debates1947-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f188298d3477b220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.361.7", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDO-CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the statement issued at the end of M. Blum's visit did make a wider reference to the need for the preservation of peace and security in the general sense, and is he aware that many of us are extremely concerned at this recrudescence of Imperialism on the part of France?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.361.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-12", "file": "debates1947-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f188298d3477b220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.371.2", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I think this is important, and so I hope, Mr. Speaker, that the House will forgive me if I answer the right hon. and gallant Gentleman again. We have, every month or so, a food survey, because we are anxious to discover how each social unit, let us say, of the community is faring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-12", "file": "debates1947-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f188298d3477b220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.378.2", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman suggesting that it is now possible to go back to Poland and carry on a democratic way of life there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.378.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-12", "file": "debates1947-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f188298d3477b220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "ll those Poles who were abroad. It is rather upsetting that this Bill should be introduced within a week of the newly elected President of Poland emphasising the fact that he wished to encourage everyone to return to Poland and that there would be a political amnesty. Poland needs manpower, and if hon. Members raise the question of manpower, we all know there are other ways of solving the problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-12", "file": "debates1947-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f188298d3477b220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.433.3", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "azis. The trial lasted month after month, and we are told it was a demonstration of British justice, and the method of applying British justice. Why does not the Minister of State, or the Foreign Secretary and the Front Bench, apply the same method of justice to Poland? Why is it they take information from one side, and one side only? Have they got any evidence from the metal workers' trade union?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.433.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-12", "file": "debates1947-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f188298d3477b220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "All their evidence comes from the representatives of the old ruling class in Poland—or from the Press of this country; and the Press go to Poland with instructions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-12", "file": "debates1947-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f188298d3477b220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "That is an entirely different matter. The Communist Party may make a decision to support or oppose at any particular moment. If they take that decision it is done openly. But that is an entirely different thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-12", "file": "debates1947-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f188298d3477b220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.438.3", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ng in Poland, you have a chance of balancing the economy of Europe, and putting an end to the situation in which all the heavy industry was in Germany and all the countries about were satellites. It is very important not to keep the Polish people here but to get them back to Poland as quickly as possible. The days of Tsardom have gone and the days of political and religious persecution have gone.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.438.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-12", "file": "debates1947-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f188298d3477b220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.443.3", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And some were interned.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "d the Poles to get into the difficulties they are now in. It was the Government of Great Britain, the Government of Neville Chamberlain, with the support of every section of the House, which said to Poland \"Stand fast against Hitler \", arid from that moment they put up a desperately heroic struggle. But there were large numbers of Socialists and Communists in Germany who fought in the German Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-12", "file": "debates1947-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f188298d3477b220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "nd that something must be done for them. We can do with them in British industry—that is quite clear with the present shortage of manpower; but we are not getting our money's worth. The right hon. Member for North Leeds (Mr. Peake), this afternoon, pointed out that they are costing us about by million a year. It is implicit in the Bill that that expenditure will go on for about another five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-12", "file": "debates1947-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f188298d3477b220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Law", "preceding_text": "like to ask the Government about this question of the Resettlement Corps and the attitude of those Poles—the Home Secretary said something more than 15,000—who have been approached but who are still undecided. I believe it to be the case that a number of Poles would like to join the Resettlement Corps but are quite literally afraid to do so because they fear reprisals on their relatives in Warsaw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-12", "file": "debates1947-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f188298d3477b220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.489.4", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOTBALL POOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr, Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, Osborne", "preceding_text": "cellor hoped? I should like to see, underneath the poster which refers to the £25,000, another poster, pointing out the risk that the pools contributor takes and the little chance that he has of winning a £25,000 prize. The very fact that such big prizes are offered takes away from the ordinary working man the desire to do a steady week's work. He is looking for his excitement in something better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.489.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-12", "file": "debates1947-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f188298d3477b220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOTBALL POOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A pussyfoot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "e challenge me when I say it is a mug's game. Before I leave the financial side, may I say I think it is admitted by reasonable men in industry and sociologists of all shades of opinion that if a man is looking hopefully week by week to winning an unexpected large prize he is much less likely to be satisfied with the humdrum day to day and week to week job. I have been accused of being a killjoy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-12", "file": "debates1947-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f188298d3477b220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOTBALL POOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bleak House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "22, C. 2155.] The junior Burgess for Oxford University also said: I am sure that before this Parliament ends the right hon. Gentleman opposite and his friends will have to face this national cancer, whether from a moral or financial point of view…\"— \"OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th May, 1946; Vol. 422, c. 2156.] That is the sober and declared opinion of one of the most cheerful Members of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-12", "file": "debates1947-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f188298d3477b220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.492.0", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOTBALL POOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": " for the expenditure on pools? And, if there is none, what steps have the Government taken to carry out the Chancellor's promise and threat that they should be stubbornly forced down? We are entitled to know. The brave new world which we on this side will say to certain hon. Members that they honestly promised the deluded electorate in 1945, is very slow to come. May I remind hon. Members of this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-12", "file": "debates1947-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f188298d3477b220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.492.0", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOTBALL POOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nor the Stock Exchange.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "n? We are entitled to know. The brave new world which we on this side will say to certain hon. Members that they honestly promised the deluded electorate in 1945, is very slow to come. May I remind hon. Members of this? [ Laughter .] I do not see what there is to laugh about in a serious matter like this. I say this to Ministers, that a brave new world will not be built up on dog racing and pools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-12", "file": "debates1947-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f188298d3477b220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOTBALL POOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "ld be driven round the corner to the small people who deal in this sort of thing, and where he has no chance at all if some fellow whom he does not know desires to get away with the amount of money that man wants to put on a horse. I have heard no question of racing being stopped. The biggest percentage of people who bet on racing are people who support hon. Members on the other side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-12", "file": "debates1947-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "f188298d3477b220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOTBALL POOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not the right word.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "I am told that all of them have entered into a gentleman's agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-12a.498.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-13", "file": "debates1947-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7dfd77e4e6836279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.517.7", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am suggesting that this Question is inadmissible for the two reasons set out on the page of Erskine May that I have mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.517.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-13", "file": "debates1947-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7dfd77e4e6836279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.520.4", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, not at this juncture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.520.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-13", "file": "debates1947-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7dfd77e4e6836279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "the net salary to about the same sum as before the increase. It has, therefore, been decided that £4,000 of the salary of the office should be treated as an expenses allowance which will be deducted for Income Tax. I am sure that the House will agree that the arrangement is a fair and reasonable means of ensuring that the Prime Minister may be able to fulfil his duties with dignity and efficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.523.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-13", "file": "debates1947-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7dfd77e4e6836279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.525.2", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " is an evasive answer. I am following here a very excellent practice which previous Governments have followed in this respect. Where negotiations take place on such a matter, His Majesty's Government take the responsibility to settle them. Then they report the settlement to the House of Commons, the settlement can be debated and, if the House disapproves, the Government can be removed from office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-13", "file": "debates1947-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7dfd77e4e6836279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.538.5", "colnum": "538", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS. \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the growing interest in the economic position of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.538.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-13", "file": "debates1947-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7dfd77e4e6836279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.546.10", "colnum": "546", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.546.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-13", "file": "debates1947-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7dfd77e4e6836279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.559.1", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about consumers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "Under the Bill independent members must be persons as to whom the Board or Minister concerned is satisfied that they have no such financial or industrial interest as is likely to affect them in the discharge of their functions as members of the council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-13", "file": "debates1947-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7dfd77e4e6836279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.569.6", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "All the things I have mentioned deal directly with labour questions, but if hon. Members imagine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.569.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-13", "file": "debates1947-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7dfd77e4e6836279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.571.3", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "ow to the question of the so-called independent members. To earn the title \"independent,\" members must have no such financial or industrial interest as is likely to affect them in the discharge of their functions. Expressed in less elegant language, the qualification is that the member knows nothing whatever about the industry in which he is about to perform the duties of schoolmaster and adviser.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.571.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-13", "file": "debates1947-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7dfd77e4e6836279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.609.3", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shephard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shephard", "preceding_text": "No, certainly not, but I do not think scientists are envisaged as people to be co-opted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.609.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-13", "file": "debates1947-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7dfd77e4e6836279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.616.4", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "m a practical point of view, because, unless there are trade union leaders elected who are able to carry the workers with them, that Clause is going to be worth nothing. Our experience on both sides of the House, as revealed by strikes at the present time, shows that the weakness in the trade union organisation is exactly that there are no persons or group of persons who can speak for the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.616.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-13", "file": "debates1947-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7dfd77e4e6836279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "certain information. The Minister was questioned from the Benches here when he made his speech as to the kind of information that had to be supplied to those councils. Was it to be passed on from one competitive firm to another? I see great danger in that sort of thing. Let us have the thing in proper perspective. It is no use telling the country that everything in the garden is lovely; it is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-13", "file": "debates1947-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7dfd77e4e6836279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the workers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": "ry industrialists have raised this country to a very high standard of living. They have made it possible for a small island, which normally would support a population one-fifth of its size, to attain a position of pre-eminence in the world and to enjoy a standard of living higher than any other country in Europe. That has been due, in the main, to the energies and enterprise of our industrialists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-13", "file": "debates1947-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7dfd77e4e6836279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.649.3", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": "No. What I was saying was a statement of fact. It is perfectly easy to ascertain, if, in fact a majority is in favour of a development council, but it is not so easy to prove that a majority is not in favour of a council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.649.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-13", "file": "debates1947-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7dfd77e4e6836279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the coal situation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": "A great deal needs to be done by everybody concerned; that has to be recognised by everybody concerned, and I make no reservations in that respect; but the drive must come, in the first instance, and is coming, from the Government. The Government cannot do the physical work, but the Government can make such plans and provide such legislation as will enable other people to go ahead with their jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-13", "file": "debates1947-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7dfd77e4e6836279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": "ernment cannot do the physical work, but the Government can make such plans and provide such legislation as will enable other people to go ahead with their jobs. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the coal situation?\"] It is most unfair of hon. Members to refer to a situation which has come about through a combination of climatic conditions and many years of failure to do anything for the coal industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-13", "file": "debates1947-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7dfd77e4e6836279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.672.3", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED EX-SERVICEMEN (MEDICAL TREATMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "Well, I should be very willing to consider it again. I am only too anxious to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-13a.672.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-14", "file": "debates1947-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "c43d19e31008b092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-14a.675.9", "colnum": "675", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The Minister is in short supply", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orbach(By Private Notice)", "preceding_text": "asked the Minister of Supply whether he will cancel the sale by auction of surplus generators and diesel engines which has been advertised, and, as an emergency measure, loan without delay these power producing plants to industrial establishments on a priority basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-14a.675.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-14", "file": "debates1947-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "c43d19e31008b092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-14a.708.4", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOLLOWAY PRISON (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ayrton Gould", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ayrton Gould", "preceding_text": "rison feeling very sorry, very humiliated and utterly miserable, and perhaps with grave home troubles. They do not know what is happening to their families, and whether their families are suffering severely because they are not there. These women, whatever their circumstances, are finally locked up at 4·30 p.m., and see no one between then and when they are called at 6 o'clock next morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-14a.708.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-17", "file": "debates1947-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "faad0d2883a11a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.786.6", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ication as from today for the fortnight, with the exception of daily and Sunday papers, and so on. I was not present at the discussion but I gather that the organisation which represents all these periodicals agreed in a very public spirited manner to the suspension of issue for the time being. Quite clearly they were of opinion—an opinion which I share—that if some had to do it, all had to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.786.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-17", "file": "debates1947-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "faad0d2883a11a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I am satisfied with the Ministers statement that, in these particular activities, district councils will have the right to provide food and refreshment, and, on that understanding, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.811.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-17", "file": "debates1947-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "faad0d2883a11a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.818.2", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "le who decide in a democratic manner, whether they are going to use this, or any other powers, given to the local authority. I have spoken at some length on the merits of the case upstairs, and, therefore, I do not propose to say much more today. There are hon. Members with very strong conscientious principles on these matters, and we respect their principles. I ask them to respect our principles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.818.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-17", "file": "debates1947-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "faad0d2883a11a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.820.6", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Member that when he needs my protection, it will be afforded to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.820.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-17", "file": "debates1947-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "faad0d2883a11a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "I should like to make it clear that I never said that hon. Members and right hon. Members opposite had the interests of the brewers solely at heart. They have many interests which they guard closely as well as those of the Brewers", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-17", "file": "debates1947-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "faad0d2883a11a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "which they guard closely as well as those of the Brewers [ Interruption ] Hon. Members opposite are extremely free at casting every kind of aspersion on the Government, but if there is the slightest answer to them, they regard it as an outrage. They show themselves utterly unable to take what they are so fond of giving—hard hitting. May I now say one or two words about the merits of this proposal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-17", "file": "debates1947-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "faad0d2883a11a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ke out a case for asking this House, on the Report stage, to reverse a decision reached after a full and long discussion by the Standing Committee upstairs. Not only is the House being asked to reverse this decision, but the methods that have been adopted by the Government and by the Labour Party generally for buttressing up their intention savour in our minds of the greatest political dishonesty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-17", "file": "debates1947-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "faad0d2883a11a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.823.3", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "cal authorities and not lay down any decision here, is really burking the issue. It is not a question of saying that we trust the local authorities; it is a question of saying to the local authorities, \"Here is a brand new departure in which the Government and the House of Commons deliberately go out of their way to say that they believe that drink ought to be served in these British restaurants.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.823.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-17", "file": "debates1947-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "faad0d2883a11a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.828.1", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "preceding_text": "s of the country are very much concerned. The growth of crime, and of juvenile crime, has become a problem, and the people engaged in dealing first hand with it, are really concerned about this provision being inserted in the Bill. Can the Minister justify himself, in view of the fact that when this provision was defeated in Committee, a sigh of relief went up in the country from all these bodies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-17", "file": "debates1947-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "faad0d2883a11a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.834.2", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not forget the Tory clubs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "ovement. As a member of the club, I held what is called an affiliated card and I went lecturing in South Wales, in Cardiff and other places. I know 10 places in Cardiff where, with all the Sunday closing which has been talked of, one can get all the drink one wants any hour of the day, if one holds such a card. What humbug it is to talk about the Nonconformists stopping drinking by Sunday closing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.834.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-17", "file": "debates1947-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "faad0d2883a11a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.834.2", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": " of class behind this Amendment that I object to it. It is the idea that Tories can have it, but not the working man. I do not believe that by interfering with the personal habits of people, rather than by moral encouragement, moral argument, and moral example, we can overcome evils of the character which have been described. The evil exists, but I believe in freedom. Because I believe in freedom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.834.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-17", "file": "debates1947-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "faad0d2883a11a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.845.2", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glanville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glanville", "preceding_text": " am sorry to see good friends of mine, honest, conscientious men who have a right to their opinions, relying on the arguments of hon. Members opposite, between whom and themselves there is no identity of interest whatever. My hon. Friends on this side of the House are opposing this Measure because they conscientiously believe that to be the right thing to do. Hon. Members opposite are opposing it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.845.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-17", "file": "debates1947-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "faad0d2883a11a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.846.3", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glanville", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glanville", "preceding_text": "Not on your life. My hon. Friend the noble Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.846.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-17", "file": "debates1947-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "faad0d2883a11a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.846.3", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glanville", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glanville", "preceding_text": "ng class are as high and as pure as theirs. We think as much of our children as they think of theirs. Nothing but the best is good enough for them. The average working man does not neglect his children and his home for a pint of beer. That is particularly true since we have had a Labour Government which guarantees decent wages and enables a man at the end of the week to buy himself a pint of beer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.846.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-17", "file": "debates1947-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "faad0d2883a11a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.851.4", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "Wait until I have done. I shall not give the names of the hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.851.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-17", "file": "debates1947-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "faad0d2883a11a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "ilities for moderate and reasonable drinking, without any pressure, and without that whole atmosphere of drinking for the sake of drinking or for the sake of profits, which is inseparable from the private provision of liquor. For that reason, and for another reason, we believe in this provision. The other reason is that we believe that these facilities are better given by Socialist establishments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-17", "file": "debates1947-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "faad0d2883a11a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "If the hon. and gallant Member thinks that civic restaurants are racketeers, that is a new charge. These are institutions which are entirely disinterested, run on Socialist principles by municipalities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-17", "file": "debates1947-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "faad0d2883a11a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.878.5", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "e rates. The unfortunate small trader is in this position, that not only has he his own local authority competing against him— I do not know whether that is considered good Socialism — and at the same time he is compelled to pay rates to subsidise his own competitor. If that is good Socialism, it is certainly understandable that a good many people in this country are getting fed up with Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.878.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-17", "file": "debates1947-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "faad0d2883a11a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.897.6", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "Lord Woolton introduced this for industrial workers.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.897.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-17", "file": "debates1947-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "faad0d2883a11a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.923.0", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "ort (Mr. R. S. Hudson) is now anxious to change the word \"each\" to \"period\" The difference, I am sure, is appreciated by most hon. Members. If we substitute \"each\" for \"period,\" it will mean, as the right hon. Gentleman says, that a civic restaurant can make a loss on its first and second years, but must, in its third year, make a profit big enough to wipe out the losses of the two previous years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-17a.923.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-18", "file": "debates1947-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "79d31fdc8b319c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.950.6", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paling", "preceding_text": "We saw this difficulty when this was given, and we discussed it, and decided that we could only go back to the beginning of the last war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.950.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-18", "file": "debates1947-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "79d31fdc8b319c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.970.4", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS' \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "The arrangements are laid down, as I have said, in the first Schedule to the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.970.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-18", "file": "debates1947-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "79d31fdc8b319c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.992.3", "colnum": "992", "heading": "PALESTINE CONFERENCE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was the number?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I stand to be corrected, but I understand that the White Paper came to an end on 31st December, 1945, and one of my first duties as Foreign Secretary was to take the whole thing up, about continuing immigration, with the Arabs and with the Arab States at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.992.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-18", "file": "debates1947-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "79d31fdc8b319c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "bulous matter. We must decide what is the legal standing of this organisation, and what authority there is to pay money to it. It is no longer an Allied force, and if it is not an Allied force, then it must be somebody's private army. Whose private army is it, and when did the Government get authority to pay people' to maintain a private army? If I raise a private army, will the Government pay me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.1046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-18", "file": "debates1947-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "79d31fdc8b319c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.1061.2", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "ccurred right from the start when British troops went into occupied countries. I suppose I must condemn any private enterprise operations such as these. It is obviously not right that British troops or anybody else should make a profit out of the British taxpayer and the British Treasury, but the fact remains—I put this to hon. Gentlemen—that when wars happen, all sorts of transactions take place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.1061.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-18", "file": "debates1947-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "79d31fdc8b319c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.1078.5", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman knows that it is not That is not treating the Committee or the country fairly. Before we vote this money we are entitled to know whether or not the object is legal. I appeal to the right hon. Gentleman to prevent the inevitable conclusion that it is illegal and to give chapter and verse for its legality. I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman desires to rise and do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.1078.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-18", "file": "debates1947-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "79d31fdc8b319c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.1093.4", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "on. Lady is quibbling at the expense of a few thousand pounds spent on this particular purpose. She is quite entitled to make her inquiries, but I have no doubt that she did so for the particular purpose of probing into this matter. I agree with what was said by the hon. and gallant Member for Lichfield that it is money well spent, but it is not so much money as the hon. Lady hoped she would find.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.1093.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-18", "file": "debates1947-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "79d31fdc8b319c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.1094.0", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "pposition by the Government at the moment in control. I make no bones about it. I made a statement upon the public platform that at the very first opportunity I would ask for the answer that the country was entitled to have. The Member opposite was quite right. I dislike anybody who holds certain opinions. I do not like their faces. I have certainly no intention, whenever I get an opportunity of —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.1094.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-18", "file": "debates1947-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "79d31fdc8b319c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the other things?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "It carries out all kinds of research in the Polar regions, dealing with the various types of fish and mammals found there, with temperatures, arid with all the various things which mankind should know about those regions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-18", "file": "debates1947-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "79d31fdc8b319c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.1119.5", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "the sort of thing which I, for my part, would not like to have to justify to a body of agricultural workers or miners. It is very easy for right hon. Gentlemen opposite to be free with money here. But the money is coming out of the pockets of the ordinary working people of this country. There is really no justification for expecting the miners, who are working so gallantly for the country at this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.1119.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-18", "file": "debates1947-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "79d31fdc8b319c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.1130.0", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": " that he should ask himself \"Where is the manpower?\" It is in establishments where the Government are hiding it—where the Government are hiding people instead of putting them into their proper places. The Home Secretary laughs, but if he does not know the facts he is not fit to hold his present position. I should like to get an answer as to why this Estimate was so badly done when first presented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-18a.1129.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-19", "file": "debates1947-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a4bd84f25532824", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1180.1", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "But what has that to do with the licensing of fish shops?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-19", "file": "debates1947-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a4bd84f25532824", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1188.0", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "FUEL AND POWER CUTS (PARTIAL RELAXATION)", "cue_speaker": "Major Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Poole", "preceding_text": "d if many small firms could get possession of generators? While I am aware of the procedure which exists through the Minister of Supply, does not the Prime Minister agree that for very small businesses it is a definite hardship to ask them to purchase these generators, as they have not the necessary capital, and if they purchased them they might find them left on their hands in a fortnight's time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-19", "file": "debates1947-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a4bd84f25532824", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1253.0", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You should have waited for television.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": "nk it would have the effect of increasing the value of our discussion, and so for a change perhaps it would be better to speak of my own experiences in connection with my efforts to broadcast. I have tried many things in my life with varying success, and confess quite frankly to the House that I rather fancied myself as a broadcaster. That was largely because I had heard other people broadcasting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-19", "file": "debates1947-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a4bd84f25532824", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1261.0", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn Levy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn Levy", "preceding_text": "ure that the corresponding product of today is really so demoralising either. The right hon. and gallant Member for the Scottish Universities complained on a quantitative as well as a qualitative score, and appeared to have a special grudge against Mr. Bing Crosby. I am bound to confess that if he had his way with that warm, melodious minstrel, I for one would consider it a most grave deprivation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-19", "file": "debates1947-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a4bd84f25532824", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1269.4", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members can yawn to their hearts' content, but when an hon. Member gets infantile, and puts the question, \"Who is he?\" when I say there is no greater or better known speaker than Harry Pollitt, and the hon. Member who interjected knows that is true, then that is a different matter. Harry Pollitt would be an asset to the B.B.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1269.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-19", "file": "debates1947-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a4bd84f25532824", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1271.2", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "ration, who will never see his like again in this austere period of our history, that records of that rich and fruity voice of Colonel Chinstrap should be retained, and also the method by which he achieved it. Crooners, with their dreary, unmelodious, untuneful voices, should be definitely barred, and for the benefit of those with the weaker brand of eardrums, brass bands might well be restrained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-19", "file": "debates1947-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a4bd84f25532824", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1271.2", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "od of our history, that records of that rich and fruity voice of Colonel Chinstrap should be retained, and also the method by which he achieved it. Crooners, with their dreary, unmelodious, untuneful voices, should be definitely barred, and for the benefit of those with the weaker brand of eardrums, brass bands might well be restrained—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—both in their enthusiasm and frequency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-19", "file": "debates1947-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a4bd84f25532824", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "jority, but I think in matters of controversy it is the minority which ought to have overrepresentation. I think there can be no doubt of that, because it is the minority which is offering the criticism. If it is given only that proportion which its present strength is offered, it can never have a proper chance to put its criticism forward. That fact has been wholly overlooked by the B.B.C. itself", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-19", "file": "debates1947-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a4bd84f25532824", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ng that only two million people listened to it. Is it nothing that two million want to listen to a good programme? Are they to be debarred from doing so at the saving of quite a small amount of power when large amounts are wasted in much more frivolous ways? The responsibility rests quite squarely on the shoulders of the Government and not on the Governors of the B.B.C. I could make a long speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-19", "file": "debates1947-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a4bd84f25532824", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1296.1", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Guy", "preceding_text": "I want to ask a question with regard to Subhead P, which is headed \"Miscellaneous Recoverable Expenditure by Local Authorities.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-19", "file": "debates1947-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a4bd84f25532824", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1299.1", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No trouble.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardman", "preceding_text": "l students and to take them up with my Department. Indeed, some principals have already told us that they have instructed all students to go to them if there is any difficulty. Complaints addressed to us are dealt with as speedily as possible, and I am somewhat surprised that students should not have availed themselves of this obvious remedy but should have troubled hon. Members of this Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-19", "file": "debates1947-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a4bd84f25532824", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1334.2", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "cess of the Ministry of Fuel and Power, and unless this scheme succeeds, the rest of the Government's schemes must fail. I would ask a question about the money that has been expended, especially under Subhead B. Additional expenditure of £25,000 is being asked for in respect of travelling expenses, making in all £200,000. How much of that money is being spent on train travel, and how much on cars?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-19", "file": "debates1947-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a4bd84f25532824", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1335.1", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How would it reduce the coal output?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "he work of mine managers, and I want to know whether that number has since been increased, and whether the Minister realises that, every time this money is used for the purpose of officials travelling unnecessarily to the pitheads in order to take the manager away from his job of production, it is hindering the chief aim of 'his Department. I should like to see less money spent for such a purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-19", "file": "debates1947-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a4bd84f25532824", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Major Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Roberts", "preceding_text": "t to know whether, in \" et cetera \" are included the various parties which the Minister has given. It produced a certain amount of despondency about the country when, at the time of crisis, the Ministry were holding parties, and if that is so I for one do not propose, without proper explanation, to pass this extra £40,000. I think that is an improper way to spend public money. Secondly, publicity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-19", "file": "debates1947-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a4bd84f25532824", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Major Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Roberts", "preceding_text": "f the Ministry was writing letters trying to defend his master. I do not think that that is a proper way of expending public money. In all nationalisation schemes, as I think the Parliamentary Secretary must appreciate, it would be very dangerous if the Government used for political purposes the money put into their hands. There is a possibility that we on this side of the Committee may be biased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-19a.1338.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-21", "file": "debates1947-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "f8773a18e368869b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-21a.1612.3", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "Nevertheless, a quid pro quo in such a matter would be most valuable. There are a number of other provisions which arise out of the Chicago Convention, and it would indeed be most interesting to cover the whole field of the Convention and its Agreement. However, I feel that we must in this case await the development of events. The Bill is a good start. It is now up to the Ministry of Civilisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-21a.1612.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-21", "file": "debates1947-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "f8773a18e368869b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-21a.1635.3", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY EDUCATION CORPS (TRANSFER REFUSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Fascist?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "I was quoting the A.C.I. There is no need for this exclusion, because no Communist, Conservative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-21a.1635.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-24", "file": "debates1947-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "00e5d1cb0bf9e453", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1721.7", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "reat deal of consideration to this matter, but I came to the conclusion that the appointment of two separate Boards would be impracticable. In addition to receiving claims for payment, under Part IV of the Bill, the Board will have to assess the amount of development charges to be paid under both the English and the Scottish Bills. A body with a duty of this character must clearly be a single body", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1721.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-24", "file": "debates1947-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "00e5d1cb0bf9e453", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1721.7", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that a guarantee?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "nditions, including particularly all the different forms of Scottish land tenure. The Board will work under directions given to them by the Minister of Town and Country Planning and the Secretary of State for Scotland jointly. Special Scottish requirements will be covered by directions given by the Secretary of State alone. Of course, some of the members of the Board will undoubtedly be Scotsmen.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1721.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-24", "file": "debates1947-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "00e5d1cb0bf9e453", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1722.1", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "I cannot do so at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-24", "file": "debates1947-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "00e5d1cb0bf9e453", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1730.1", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "ls almost every type of building, and almost every type of change of use. It does not say, \"All that you have to ask for is permission,\" but, \"You have to pay for every kind of change of use.\" The sum one has to pay might, very easily, take the whole profit out of the project. Indeed, it is the intention of certain Socialists, that the sum to be paid shall take the whole profit out of the project.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-24", "file": "debates1947-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "00e5d1cb0bf9e453", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1730.1", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "eld up at every turn. That, apparently, is Socialism. I come to a point which we shall have to raise in further detail when we reach the Financial Resolution, namely, the fact that there is to be a joint Board with England. The Secretary of State made some assertions about that, and gave some reasons, but this joint Board is not merely to be a machinery body, but a body which must work out policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1730.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-24", "file": "debates1947-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "00e5d1cb0bf9e453", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1775.0", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He never wrote a note to his landlord.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "itating regulations and sub-regulations which are drawn up to govern these things. All one can say about the poet's house is that it would be very interesting to consider how many forms the poet's father would have had to fill up, how many permits he would have had to get and how many formalities he would have had to go through before permission to proceed was refused by the competent authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-24", "file": "debates1947-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "00e5d1cb0bf9e453", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1791.1", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "ther side of the House, who do not realise that this Government was put into Office when those Nonconformists and their friends were spurned by the people of this country, by a people come triumphantly out of a war. And we can also thank the Tories for bringing us into it. It was a people, not in despair, but a people triumphant in victory which put a Socialist Government in Office with a mandate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-24", "file": "debates1947-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "00e5d1cb0bf9e453", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1793.1", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "e Secretary of State for Scotland to do this; it is an instruction, not merely a mandate from the people of this country. The right hon. Gentleman is taking his orders from the electorate, and from the majority of the people, in bringing forward this Bill tonight. He has got to do it, even if he did not like the Bill himself, because it the demand of the people of this country that he shall do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-24", "file": "debates1947-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "00e5d1cb0bf9e453", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1796.9", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " part of this Bill has the Secretary of State a scrap of authority in the assessment of the critical figure of compensation If I am wrong the right hon. Gentleman will no doubt correct me. All power in regard to compensation, which is the vital element in this Bill, lies in the Central Land Board in London, and Scottish men and women will have their fortunes affected, if not filched, by direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1796.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-24", "file": "debates1947-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "00e5d1cb0bf9e453", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1796.9", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " which can follow from the passing of this Bill, which will, no doubt, be carried through with the same steamroller tactics as before—more muddle, more bureaucracy and more delay. The right hon. Gentleman knows, and the hon. Member for West Fife knows it too, that the Fife county council have begged him to short-circuit and simplify the whole method of procedure in the case of housing, for example", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1796.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-24", "file": "debates1947-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "00e5d1cb0bf9e453", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1800.3", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "the £300 million. But take another man, whose landed property he has acquired by the labour of a lifetime, and who does not suffer the same hardship. He is to have only a small percentage of the £300 million. That is not justice. I repeat, and I keep on repeating, and I beg the House to realise, that nothing but justice should control our views upon this matter, and I say there is no justice here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1800.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-24", "file": "debates1947-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "00e5d1cb0bf9e453", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1815.3", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1815.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-24", "file": "debates1947-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "00e5d1cb0bf9e453", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1829.2", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that a threat or a promise?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "t were in Order, to deal very fully with the hon. Gentleman's interruption, but I am afraid that if I did that, I should perhaps get into more trouble, so I will keep my answer to the hon. Gentleman until another time. I can assure him, however, that he will get an answer sooner or later, and I think I can assure him that it will be one which he does not altogether like—but that is another matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1829.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-24", "file": "debates1947-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "00e5d1cb0bf9e453", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1837.6", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "I hope the right hon. Gentleman will clear up the point whether this was done deliberately, or accidentally. If it was done deliberately, we feel that he has been less fair to the people of Scotland, who were promised Home Rule by Mr. Gladstone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1837.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-24", "file": "debates1947-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "00e5d1cb0bf9e453", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1837.7", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "I hope the right hon. Gentleman will clear up the point whether this was done deliberately, or accidentally. If it was done deliberately, we feel that he has been less fair to the people of Scotland, who were promised Home Rule by Mr. Gladstone—[ Laughter ]. Certainly, and whether the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1837.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-24", "file": "debates1947-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "00e5d1cb0bf9e453", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1840.2", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "Both the Secretary of State and myself are in a difficulty in this matter. As you have said, Major Milner, you have had to rule the Secretary of State out of Order. You have not yet ruled me out of Order but you have indicated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1840.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-24", "file": "debates1947-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "00e5d1cb0bf9e453", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1840.2", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": " not found it possible to rule this completely out of Order, opens up some very interesting avenues of discussion, into which we do not propose to enter here. We do not ask any Ruling on it because, as you truly say, it would be limiting the discretion of the Chairman of the Committee upstairs. But it certainly is a fact that we find ourselves in a position of difficulty and considerable interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1840.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-24", "file": "debates1947-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "00e5d1cb0bf9e453", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1844.0", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "n, and then there will be claims for compensation, although it is not called compensation. When I was told by the Minister that it was not compensation, I asked him what it was. The answer was \"Oh, it is a kind of gratuity.\" So what we are to get is a kind of gratuity, without a means test, handed out to landlords in Scotland, to be paid out of this money we are voting in the Financial Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-24a.1844.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1875.9", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRISONERS OF WAR", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Put them down the mines.", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "How many of these men have been returned to Germany since the end of the war? What does the right hon. Gentleman intend to do with those now in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1875.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1879.3", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WEEKLY PERIODICALS (SUSPENSION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It was actually done by agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1879.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1901.3", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "PALESTINE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, h ear. \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "ct—I do not desire to escape it that when I was a Member of the Coalition Government with right hon. Gentlemen opposite I took my corner in trying to see what solution we could find for Palestine. I have a perfectly open mind about it. All I want is a settlement, and I want a settlement because this is one of those sore spots in the Middle East that may, if not settled, lead to much wider trouble—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1901.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1903.1", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "PALESTINE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I always regard this House as continuing from eternity to eternity, and I meant it in that sense. I think I am right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1903.1", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "PALESTINE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I always regard this House as continuing from eternity to eternity, and I meant it in that sense. I think I am right—[Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I did not mean the actual Members of this House. What I meant was that the House in 1939 did, in fact, vote—and the Arabs took that as a decision of the British Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1904.1", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "PALESTINE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "It was regarded by the Arab States at that conference as an undertaking by the British Parliament and one which would be carried out. May I suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1904.3", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "PALESTINE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "ad not been increased by American pressure for the immediate admission of 100,000. I do not desire to create any ill feeling with the United States; in fact, I have done all I can to promote the best possible relations with them, as with other countries, but I should have been happier if they had had regard to the fact that we were the Mandatory Power, and that we were carrying the responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1904.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1904.3", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "PALESTINE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "rk on the cantonal principle, I really cannot see why it cannot work in Palestine as elsewhere. We then tried to convene a conference of both Arabs and Jews. We tried very hard to get the Jews into the conference. I interviewed their representatives in Paris, in London, and I tried to persuade them, to the best of my ability, to come in and face the issue with us. I profoundly regret they did not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1904.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1911.1", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "PALESTINE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": " do not say that unkindly, but whether anyone can explain what people meant at the time, I do not know. When I used it, there was an understanding on the part of the Arabs that in Palestine, in view of certain historical associations, those Jews who had migrated there should have their liberty and freedom—no pogroms, no persecution—and be equal citizens of the State. That makes it a national home—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1911.3", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "PALESTINE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "Because they agreed in their plan—hon. Members have it before them —that \"You can have your own language, your own university, your own religion — everything\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1911.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1914.2", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "PALESTINE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1945.1", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "PALESTINE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"peak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I can find almost nothing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1953.3", "colnum": "1953", "heading": "PALESTINE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "orld which is striving. however ineffectually, towards inter nationalism; and moreover, there was to my mind objection to the avowed intention of Zionists to swamp Palestine by immigration in order to create a Jewish State in Palestine when the time for independence should arrive. But that objection has now been removed. There is no possibility any longer of the Jews being able to swamp Palestine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1953.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1953.3", "colnum": "1953", "heading": "PALESTINE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "Zionists to swamp Palestine by immigration in order to create a Jewish State in Palestine when the time for independence should arrive. But that objection has now been removed. There is no possibility any longer of the Jews being able to swamp Palestine—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"]—because six million of them have been slaughtered in Europe. There are not sufficient numbers waiting to go to Palestine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1953.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1967.3", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "PALESTINE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are the figures?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "sure that behind the scenes, these matters have a great bearing on this situation. I think it was a great mistake to mix up the question of the persecution of the Jews in Europe with the Palestine problem. But people always seem to do that. We all know that Mr. Balfour had no thought of Hitler in mind when the Declaration was made. There was no thought of thousands of Jews wanting to leave Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1967.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1983.1", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "PALESTINE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "another compromise which will keep us balancing between the two. We all know that we are now ruling Palestine—we did not know it until last week—under the White Paper. The Foreign Secretary says we are bound to do it because it is a pledge to the Arab world. I would point out that if it is a pledge to the Arab world, it was also declared illegal by the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1990.1", "colnum": "1990", "heading": "PALESTINE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "The way to get it is to go to the United Nations organisation for the temporary cover under which we release our troops and set up the framework of a democratic self-governing Palestine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1998.0", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "PALESTINE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the same thing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "transitional proposals. I do not agree with that, and I think that if the hon. Member studies it carefully he will see that it contains both short-term and long-term proposals. I am also asked to suggest the course to be followed now. The question we have to discuss tonight is not so much the policy which one of us might think right, but the course which His Majesty's Government should now pursue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.1998.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.2003.2", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "PALESTINE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "The Morrison Plan, obviously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.2003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.2003.4", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "PALESTINE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Arabs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "ve attempted to impose a solution, either of partition or of some plan along the lines which had previously been announced in the House of Commons in July of last year. It was not possible to impose a partition plan in Palestine, even if there had been the unanimous backing of the whole of Jewry, or even assuming that some practical scheme could have been found which would have satisfied the Jews.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.2003.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.2004.1", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "PALESTINE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "That is not the interpretation which has been placed upon it by our own legal advisers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.2004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.2007.1", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "PALESTINE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It can call a special meeting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "We are already exploring the question of how a speedier discussion of this problem can be achieved. it has been represented to us that we should go to the Security Council. I suggest that for the purpose of dealing with a problem such as this the Security Council is an imperfect instrument. Indeed, the machinery of the Security Council is such that it may not make a recommendation to the Assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.2007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.2008.2", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHEESE (CONTROL AND PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS 'Why?'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "preceding_text": "g to the Minister, consist of Cheshire, Wensleydale, which is mentioned in Part I of the First Schedule, Lancashire, and one or two other cheeses. The reasons given by the Parliamentary Secretary for this limitation are rather mystifying. She said in this House on 23rd January of last year: … we can only manufacture in this country cheeses which conform to a certain type —the Cheddar type.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.2008.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.2019.5", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHEESE (CONTROL AND PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Has the hon. Gentleman forgotten that the cheese ration is two ounces a week?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.2019.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.2020.1", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHEESE (CONTROL AND PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman said that last January I stated that it was difficult to include imported cheeses in the ration and I gave the reason. It is because of the difficulties of the grocers, and these difficulties are still with us. The question has been asked why we do not import more cheeses, and why we do not take off all control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.2020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.2021.1", "colnum": "2021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHEESE (CONTROL AND PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": " with speciality cheeses. A number of hon. Members have suggested that speciality cheeses were made here before the war and that we are now denied them. A very small amount of Blue Cheshire was made before the war. Some hon. Member mentioned Double Gloucester and Blue Vinney from Dorset. The production of these two cheeses, which I understand went chiefly to large hotels and clubs in the West End—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.2021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-25", "file": "debates1947-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "0352f5f8d1acf33c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.2023.6", "colnum": "2023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHEESE (CONTROL AND PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I will sit down when I have completed my question. The hon. Lady makes a series of cheap jibes and attempts to suggest that the purpose of this Prayer is to try to preserve a few things, eaten only by a limited few, at the expense of things required by the general body of the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-25a.2023.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2041.2", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "Can my hon. Friend say whether the irregularities referred to in the Question and answer have anything to do with the procedure which caused a Supplementary Estimate for Lao million?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2045.2", "colnum": "2045", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "I understand that that was fully replied to in the recent Debate", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2045.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2048.0", "colnum": "2048", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That statement may have been made in answer to a Parliamentary Question which may not have been reached—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2048.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2048.8", "colnum": "2048", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Was it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I gather the hon. and gallant Gentleman has stated that it was not an arranged Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2048.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2054.2", "colnum": "2054", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JAPAN (BRITISH TRADERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will have to ask that question many times before he gets an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2054.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2091.3", "colnum": "2091", "heading": "FUEL EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I was not advocating decontrol at this particular moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2091.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2112.3", "colnum": "2112", "heading": "FUEL EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "use. I hope I have covered all the points which the right hon. Gentleman put to me, and I would like now to add a few points of my own in order to give him a little more information. I would like to deal with the question of what the problems and the difficulties are as regards the allocation of solid fuel for industry. When the revised allocation scheme, which has wrongly been dubbed with my name", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2123.3", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "FUEL EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "hich could be saved there would be an advantage. I think it could he done. I regret to have to say this, but must we go on for the whole of next year with planned cuts throughout industry and cuts to our domestic consumers? Is there nothing else that we can do to restore the position? One hates to suggest this, but is it really impossible to get some coal from outside for this temporary emergency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2123.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2128.1", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "FUEL EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The railmen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "ve failed lamentably. Now, a Ministerial Committee has been set up. Is that to be permanent machinery? If so, what is the position of the Minister of Fuel and Power and the Minister of Transport on that Committee? I cannot conceive a proper system of machinery which bases itself on two or three Ministers who are fully occupied with legislation in this House. Who is running transport at the moment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2131.1", "colnum": "2131", "heading": "FUEL EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": " me what the Minister of Fuel and Power said on 26th June? That is an attitude of mind which is preventing these reforms coming into being. That is one of the things which makes me so worried. I cannot feel that there is any sense of urgency on the Government benches. What we require is more coal now, and a radical approach to this matter; not this conservative approach of letting things drift on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2146.1", "colnum": "2146", "heading": "FUEL EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "en of varying points of view, and temperament. That was the leadership that came forward and formed the Vigilance Council, and that was the leadership that was kicked in the teeth. I say to this House that your most precious asset in the coal pits are the men. If you want, I believe you can get not 200 million tons but more than that in 1947. We argue amongst ourselves on these benches about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2162.0", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "FUEL EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "Perhaps he has seen the Minister and perhaps the Minister does not think much of it. At any rate, there is a bottleneck, and, for months past, before this bad weather set in, coal has been cut out of the mines and placed in the colliery yard, and because there have been no wagons to take it away there has been very bad distribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2162.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2183.0", "colnum": "2183", "heading": "FUEL EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear, and 1930 to 1934.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": " those vital export efforts have been impeded as a result of the shut-down that is taking place today. I venture to think that it is very considerably more than it would have been if he had followed the advice of the President of the Board of Trade last summer and had had an even flow summer and winter. Hon. Members opposite are never tired of twitting us that we were responsible for unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2181.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2184.1", "colnum": "2184", "heading": "FUEL EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "I would like again to correct that. I said exactly the contrary. We contemplate making no cut in solid fuel for domestic consumption. This is the third time I have said that. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman—not because I mind in the least, but from a public point of view—will not repeat that again because it will get into the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2185.0", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "FUEL EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "Do not let us quibble—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2186.5", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "FUEL EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "I could not agree with the hon. Lady more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2186.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2186.5", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "FUEL EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "Government is making today, the great mistake it made in the White Paper and I believe I am backed up by what the hon. Member for Cannock said—is that they have set the target too low. I recollect that during the war, when I was trying to get food for this country from the farmers, I did not go about saying, \"I am going to give you more money for your wheat.\" That was not the incentive I held out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2186.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2188.7", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "FUEL EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "nd with others who have spoken in similar terms on the subject of export, that this will not provide a margin for adequate exports. The Government regret that it should be so, but we cannot speak in terms of ample exports until we have satisfied the needs of British industry. That is the primary consideration. It may be that the target is optimistic in this sense: We may not be able to achieve it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2188.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2195.1", "colnum": "2195", "heading": "FUEL EMERGENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "e, never missing an opportunity of putting the facts before them, however unpleasant they were, and, if I may say so, taking a lot of kicks in the process. As for putting the facts before the public, I really am surprised at the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Warwick and Leamington. Over and over again, in the House and elsewhere—and it is on the records—I issued warnings, in October, in June", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2202.2", "colnum": "2202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimston", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimston", "preceding_text": "The only word used is \"mark.\" The reference in the first case is to marks which were printed in the United States. Frankly, I do not know the answer, because neither Reichsmarks nor Allied Control marks are referred to by name. The question is about marks only.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2202.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2206.2", "colnum": "2206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "bury asked me whether this £20,000,000 represented the whole of the losses incurred in this way. It does not. I do not think I shall have to come and ask the House for a further approval, but, nevertheless, this £20,000,000 is part of a larger sum, the greater part of which, £38,000,000 was written off in the Army account for 194546. So far as I can estimate, the total loss amounts to £58,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2206.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2214.2", "colnum": "2214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": " by the former Secretary of State for War, referred to the new currency known as B.A.F.V.S., which is now circulating in B.A.O.R. I have endeavoured to be as frank as I can in this matter. The House wants me to apologise for not having gone into greater detail when introducing this Supplementary Estimate. We are all so wise after the event. Perhaps we should have decided to use these at the start.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2214.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2220.0", "colnum": "2220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braddock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braddock", "preceding_text": " is liable to happen not only under war conditions but under peace conditions, when the great incentive is supposed to be above all things, to make a profit at any price. These men on the Continent lived their young lives under those conditions. It is obvious that those who were in command over them and to whom they should have looked for an example, have been carrying on the same wicked campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2221.0", "colnum": "2221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "Let us get this matter right. I am endeavouring to get the Army to obey orders, and sometimes I am not helped in that respect by certain hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2221.3", "colnum": "2221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Low", "preceding_text": "s he not know the facts? They must be available by now. He then told us that Dominion Forces and some of our Allies were engaged in it. Could he be more explicit on matters concerning the Dominion Forces and the Allies? We should have some further explanation, and if it is impossible to give an explanation, I suggest that on that and one or two other points there is great need for further inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2221.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2222.4", "colnum": "2222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2222.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-26", "file": "debates1947-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4a0a58a965b8cc3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2227.0", "colnum": "2227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": " this side, among other questions to which we have sought and have not received answers, want to ask this question: Is there no way of making the German and Austrian people responsible for this huge sum of money? Is there no way of getting it out of them? Are we, as representatives of the British taxpayers, calmly to accept tonight a situation that here are 20 million badly needed in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-26a.2227.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-27", "file": "debates1947-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "36fdf4c722b248c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2266.1", "colnum": "2266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is a letter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I understand that the questionnaire has been withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-27", "file": "debates1947-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "36fdf4c722b248c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2282.0", "colnum": "2282", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "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": "The Business for next week will be as follows: Monday, 3rd March—Consideration of a Time-table Motion for the Transport and Town and Country Planning Bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-27", "file": "debates1947-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "36fdf4c722b248c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2282.2", "colnum": "2282", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I must remind the House that this is not unprecedented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2282.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-27", "file": "debates1947-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "36fdf4c722b248c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2282.2", "colnum": "2282", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On what Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I must remind the House that this is not unprecedented—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, it is.\"] The Guillotine upstairs is not unprecedented. I have suffered from it myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2282.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-27", "file": "debates1947-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "36fdf4c722b248c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2283.1", "colnum": "2283", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was voluntary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "What we had on the Standing Committees upstairs was the old \"Kangaroo\" Clause which in effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2283.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-27", "file": "debates1947-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "36fdf4c722b248c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2284.1", "colnum": "2284", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "May I again ask the right hon. Gentleman about Monday's Business? As this is a new procedure inaugurated as a result of the recommendations of the Lord President of the Council, may I ask if the right hon. Gentleman will suspend the Rule on Monday so that the House may have ample opportunity to discuss this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-27", "file": "debates1947-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "36fdf4c722b248c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2285.0", "colnum": "2285", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I should think my hon. Friend, if he exercises his mind, will find that there are quite a number of opportunities during this Session when he could raise the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-27", "file": "debates1947-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "36fdf4c722b248c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2327.2", "colnum": "2327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" And in the fireplaces.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "ed part, do not consider foreign policy is a matter of far-away countries about which we know nothing. We, on this side, have always considered that foreign policy finds its truest reflection in the wage packet. I think that ordinary people in the country will judge the reputation of this Government, not by its reputation among Statesmen and diplomats, but by its reputation on the breakfast table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-27", "file": "debates1947-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "36fdf4c722b248c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2327.2", "colnum": "2327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Face upwards.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "is very necessary that we—particularly on this side—should realise that democracy is often used as a stalking-horse by people who have no interest in it, but who have more sinister aims which they would prefer not to disclose. This is a matter on which one should speak out openly and frankly, a matter in which, in the immortal phrase of my right hon. Friend, we should \"put our cards on the table.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-27", "file": "debates1947-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "36fdf4c722b248c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2354.1", "colnum": "2354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the reverse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "emarkable results were achieved in 1944. In particular, it was discovered how to achieve a mutation of bacteria in the space of a few months which, in the ordinary way, it would have taken nature thousands of years to do. It is obvious, that with discoveries of this kind, it might be possible to produce bacteria of a highly virulent form, and enable it to be distributed in ways not yet thought of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-27", "file": "debates1947-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "36fdf4c722b248c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2383.1", "colnum": "2383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "preceding_text": "ment are indistinguishable and, therefore, we shall think more clearly if I describe the Franco Government as totalitarian and Spain as a police State with the swollen army that a police State requires. Again, I want to make this point, that Russia is far more of a police State than Spain. Just before Christmas I went to visit a small property that my wife and I have owned in Spain for some years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-27", "file": "debates1947-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "36fdf4c722b248c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2384.2", "colnum": "2384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "preceding_text": " the Committee why U.N.O. outlawed the Franco Government. There is only one remaining honour- able reason—in the interests of the Spanish people themselves. That again can be proved to he a false reason. Since the end of the frightful Spanish civil war the situation in Spain has been improving. The social services, although watered down by general Spanish inefficiency, are scarcely behind our Own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-27", "file": "debates1947-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "36fdf4c722b248c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2384.2", "colnum": "2384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "preceding_text": "tuation is improving. No responsible Spaniard, of whatever class or party, wants to put the clock back now by violent political disturbance. A Spaniard who fought on the Republican side said to a friend of mine the other day, \"If it came to a civil war now, I should find that I should have to fight on General Franco's side because I prefer assassination with order to assassination without order \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-27", "file": "debates1947-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "36fdf4c722b248c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2384.2", "colnum": "2384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "preceding_text": "e Republican side said to a friend of mine the other day, \"If it came to a civil war now, I should find that I should have to fight on General Franco's side because I prefer assassination with order to assassination without order \"—[ Laughter ]I am glad that I am amusing hon. Members, because it has been rather a dull Debate. The majority of Spaniards seem to be heartily sick of the Franco regime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2384.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-27", "file": "debates1947-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "36fdf4c722b248c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2385.0", "colnum": "2385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "preceding_text": "only Government outside the democratic pale. However much the youthful U.N.O. is bound to toady to one of the Great Powers on which it depends, we in this country cannot. afford to put on again those rose-coloured spectacles through which the intrigues and the weaknesses of the old League of Nations used to look like strong policy. If we do, we shall be caught out once more with our trousers down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2384.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-02-27", "file": "debates1947-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "36fdf4c722b248c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2388.0", "colnum": "2388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is unusual.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " equally authoritative testimony from the White Paper on Defence before the Committee, but I spare the Committee that, because I do not think it is necessary, and I wish to save all the time I can. The first specific topic to which I desire to draw the attention of the Committee, is the topic of Greece. I apologise beforehand if I am about, as is probable, to speak with an appearance of dogmatism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-27", "file": "debates1947-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "36fdf4c722b248c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2388.1", "colnum": "2388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "lly conscious when I err in that way. Any vice is tolerable so long as self-criticism persists. It is not possible in the time to produce the evidence upon which one bases one's assertions, and necessarily most of the evidence is indirect. We have not all been to Greece very lately, and even those who have been have not perhaps the direct experience as the strongest part of their mental machinery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-27", "file": "debates1947-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "36fdf4c722b248c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2388.3", "colnum": "2388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Germany before the war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "the whole, for the party of the Right to support its country in its foreign conflicts. We are often accused in my party of being too apt to say, \"My country, right or wrong,\" whereas the Left, on the whole, tends to the temptation of allowing itself to be deceived into using international necessities towards trying to get its own way inside its own country. If that is a risk which we sometimes run", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-27", "file": "debates1947-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "36fdf4c722b248c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2388.3", "colnum": "2388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Munich?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "right or wrong,\" whereas the Left, on the whole, tends to the temptation of allowing itself to be deceived into using international necessities towards trying to get its own way inside its own country. If that is a risk which we sometimes run [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Germany before the war?\"]—Yes, and in Germany, too. I ask right hon. and hon. Members to consider that possibility. And, lastly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-27", "file": "debates1947-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "36fdf4c722b248c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2395.3", "colnum": "2395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "d have enjoyed political freedom, and would have had governments fully representative according to the will of the electors. We know—we admit freely—that free elections are not the rule in Poland, Bulgaria and Rumania. The recent elections in those countries, in spite of the pledges given, were certainly not free; and we have made our views on this subject very plain to the governments concerned.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2395.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-27", "file": "debates1947-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "36fdf4c722b248c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2423.1", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING OPERATIONS (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Does that mean that if, by prudence and foresight in earlier days, I and many other people have collected, from property or anything else, enough timber to rehouse our own agricultural workers, we are not allowed to rehouse any of them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-27a.2423.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-02-28", "file": "debates1947-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cf09a8f75d241da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-28a.2503.6", "colnum": "2503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1946–47", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I did not adroitly avoid that. I avoided it because I was not concerned with those people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-02-28a.2503.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "PALESTINE OUTRAGES (MARTIAL LAW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "The reply to that question is that the Government are not drifting in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.36.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.49.6", "colnum": "49", "heading": "DEATH SENTENCES, GOLD COAST (RESPITES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "I have already informed the House that I will immediately communicate with the Governor of the Gold Coast. I will ask him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.49.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But they did not approve it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "It is no good hon. Members opposite saying that the right hon. Gentleman who was then Prime Minister regarded this as a purely frivolous suggestion on behalf of somebody. The Government did in fact examine it very seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.55.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.64.10", "colnum": "64", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Mackeson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Chelsea barracks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Mackeson", "preceding_text": "May I draw attention to the fact—[ Interruption .]If hon. Members want me to, I can show that I have a much louder voice than they have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.64.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.65.2", "colnum": "65", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "takes up so much time of this House between Whitsun and the end of July. We have now reached the period of this Session when legislation should be well advanced, and further advanced than it is at the present time. I may say that it is the intention of the Government, so far as we can, to avoid an autumn Session, a conclusion with which, I think, hon. Members on both sides of the House will agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.66.0", "colnum": "66", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I explained last Thursday that we have no intention of cutting it down. A heavy burden is likely to be thrown on Parliament in future Sessions. Our programme was put before the country, and, in accordance with our undertakings, it has been carried into effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.66.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.67.3", "colnum": "67", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I am not going to answer the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.67.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.67.3", "colnum": "67", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I am not going to answer the question. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"] I am saying that the progress on these two Bills is too slow. Therefore, we propose to apply the new procedure. The broad issues which divide you and us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.67.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will have perceived already that we on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "f in the relevant period a situation arises where one or more important Bills are likely to be lost through lack of time at the end of the Session the first line of defence should be, in their view,\"— that is the Government's view— to prolong the Session so far as this is possible. Yet today the right hon. Gentleman comes down and says: \"We cannot do that. We might have to have an autumn Session.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "kely to be lost through lack of time at the end of the Session the first line of defence should be, in their view,\"— that is the Government's view— to prolong the Session so far as this is possible. Yet today the right hon. Gentleman comes down and says: \"We cannot do that. We might have to have an autumn Session.\" [HON. MEMBERS:No.\"] If he did not mean that, perhaps he will explain what he meant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.68.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "s yet made. The \"Daily Herald\" says today: In the past few weeks the Tories have been seeking, by all manner of dilatory and obstructive tactics, to hold up…measures of reform. It goes on later to say: The Opposition by delaying procedure in Standing Committee … I am going to ask the right hon. Gentlemen in charge of these Bills whether they allege obstruction or whether they do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.70.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.70.4", "colnum": "70", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I asked the right hon. Gentlemen who are in charge of these Bills a question which, I submit to you, Sir, is entirely in Order, which is germane to this discussion, and which is relevant to this monstrous article in a daily newspaper. I ask the two Ministers whether they take the view that the discussion on those two Bills has been obstructive or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.70.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.71.2", "colnum": "71", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about the Minister of Transport?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged. We shall await the right hon. Gentleman's reply with interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There was no legislation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ment. We sat facing each other, and never on any occasion in the worst of the war years, as far as I can recollect—I stand to be corrected—was there an attempt on this scale to curtail discussion against the strongly-expressed wish of this House. It is not true, as the right hon. Gentleman says, that there was no Opposition. There were minorities, there were minorities which sat below the Gangway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " war years, as far as I can recollect—I stand to be corrected—was there an attempt on this scale to curtail discussion against the strongly-expressed wish of this House. It is not true, as the right hon. Gentleman says, that there was no Opposition. There were minorities, there were minorities which sat below the Gangway. [HON. MEMBERS: \"There was no legislation.\"] Still the principle is the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He can read what is going on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "preceding_text": "Any reduction would be an improvement, because it would enable Members to deal more effectively with business. One Committee, obviously, would be better than five. The first necessity in a democracy is that a Member of Parliament should be well informed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ing and further experience of Socialist rule, beginning by the strangulation of Parliamentary Debate, enforcing ill-considered legislation through the snoopers of 17 different Departments, and finally no doubt, as the ideals are further realised, being assisted by a police Gestapo. There is the path on which we are embarked under the impulse of hon. Members opposite. The first step has been taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ered legislation through the snoopers of 17 different Departments, and finally no doubt, as the ideals are further realised, being assisted by a police Gestapo. There is the path on which we are embarked under the impulse of hon. Members opposite. The first step has been taken. [ Interruption .] The hon. Gentleman should contain himself. The first step in endangering our National liberties is the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"War.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "preceding_text": "n responsible for the affairs of this country at the greatest crisis in its history, and no one on this side would wish to take away from him the glory that is his, on the way in which he managed affairs. But how were affairs dealt with at that time? The Government required the railways and they took them by Order in Council, I think. They required the mines, and they took them in the same manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.107.5", "colnum": "107", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "What the hon. and learned Member has failed to understand is that there was never a Guillotine. The Time Table was agreed between the usual channels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.107.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.113.5", "colnum": "113", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "On the contrary, the Government and the party never gave any pledges, nor did I.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.113.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.113.5", "colnum": "113", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "ns? It is no good hon. Members opposite appealing to us, as they do, to safeguard the old principles of Parliamentary democracy without realising that those principles must be adapted to the changing conditions of the modern world. That is the essential point. We cannot achieve economic democracy, which is our objective, unless we adapt political democracy to the achievement of economic democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.113.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.115.2", "colnum": "115", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": " speed at which administrative action to implement it is both possible and effective. I think that is a principle which the Government could accept, and I hope that my right hon. Friend, when replying to the Debate, will indicate that they have accepted it. It is not really a party view, but it is held in many quarters, that what is needed more than anything now is effective administrative action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.126.3", "colnum": "126", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is the chaos?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I was coming to that, if the right hon. Gentleman will allow me. I have tried to be very fair to hon. Members opposite who have spoken, and have. listened to all they have had to say. With regard to the Transport Bill, I think it is becoming more and more apparent that we cannot have the chaos and uncertainty which exists with regard to the transport arrangements of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.126.3", "colnum": "126", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "second, because I regarded that as the more urgent of the two Measures, having regard to the practical affairs of our time. My hon. Friend the Member for King's Norton (Mr. Blackburn) asked two questions to which I propose to give some answer. He suggested that the speed of the legislative programme ought to be adapted to the capacity of the administrative machine. May I say that I entirely agree?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.126.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.127.4", "colnum": "127", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "There was not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "As I understand it, in respect of the Coal Bill there was a working arrangement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.127.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.128.3", "colnum": "128", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was taken in Committee of the Whole House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ing arrangement, not subject to a formal Guillotine Motion, with regard to the Transport Bill, the right hon. and learned Gentleman, for good and sufficient reasons of his own, felt that he could not enter into the arrangement for which he was asked. I had a little experience in the last Parliament of helping to get one big Measure through—the Education Act—which was not subject to the Guillotine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.130.3", "colnum": "130", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the country?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman, at the time this Bill was introduced, argued that it was of constitutional importance. That may be the view of other hon. Members, but I do not think it is the view of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.130.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.130.3", "colnum": "130", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman, at the time this Bill was introduced, argued that it was of constitutional importance. That may be the view of other hon. Members, but I do not think it is the view of the House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the country?\"] Frankly, I do not think that the country interests itself in nice constitutional points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.130.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.131.5", "colnum": "131", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Byers", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman allow me to ask him a question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.131.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Mackeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He cannot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Mackeson", "preceding_text": "he Opposition assert their right to ask for points to be reconsidered on Report, and when Members of the National Liberal Party and the Liberal Party, and hon. Members on the back benches of the Socialist Party have asked for points to be reconsidered—how, at this stage, can the right hon. Gentleman assess the number of hours required for the Report stage? Will the Lord Privy Seal answer that now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.139.3", "colnum": "139", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "t the rushing of the Report stage and the limiting of the Committee stage were due to the fact that the Bank of England advisers and experts had told the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the time has come to put an end to his cheap money policy. That is the reason, and the reason for the urgency of the Transport Bill is to plunder the railways and pillage the road hauliers while the going is good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.139.3", "colnum": "139", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Such as?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "s likely to be the state of the Order Paper when we reach the Report stage? The difficulty into which the Government are running day by day is that they are legislating all the time for the year 1967 and are ignoring the problems of 1947. The Minister of Transport calls his Bill a longterm Measure, so does the Minister of Town and Country Planning, but there are really far more important Measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.140.5", "colnum": "140", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "Do not legislate for 1966.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.140.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-03", "file": "debates1947-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "17f9b78b795a146b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL AND TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "at reason that lies behind this arbitrary procedure. We are told that this is all part of an effort to stream-line Parliamentary procedure, in keeping with the needs of this Socialistic age. But we are not streamlining Parliamentary procedure in this way; we are refining it away; we are making it a mere Belsen ghost of what used to be the robust body of Parliamentary democracy. I want to conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-03a.147.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-04", "file": "debates1947-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "9548b4c3a4ae0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilfrid Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilfrid Roberts", "preceding_text": "nite loss, not only to the farming community, but to the country as a whole—a loss that could be measured, if we could get all the information, in hard cash—and one wonders whether the Government have fully realised that. It is especially a hardship in the north of England and in Scotland. I see an Amendment on the Order Paper proposing to leave out Scotland, but I suppose that is not practicable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.255.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-04", "file": "debates1947-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "9548b4c3a4ae0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kendall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kendall", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member wants to clear his ears out and he will see how well he can hear. [ Interruption .] I was merely replying to the hon. and gallant Member's interjection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-04", "file": "debates1947-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "9548b4c3a4ae0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.288.8", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kendall", "preceding_text": "Perhaps a great deal better than the hon. Member. If the hon. Member would like to look at his election figures and compare them with mine he will see that mine are pretty good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.288.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-04", "file": "debates1947-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "9548b4c3a4ae0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.318.0", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A hundred years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "preceding_text": "werful Governments may desire, in the future, to use for their safety. It is difficult for me to understand the reluctance of the Government—and I imagine there is some reluctance—to accept this Amendment. I agree with my hon. Friends, that there has not been much consultation on this matter. The Government Front Bench has fewer Scotsmen on it than any Government Front Bench for the last 25 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-04", "file": "debates1947-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "9548b4c3a4ae0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Thomas Fraser)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Thomas Fraser)", "preceding_text": "I am going to suggest at the outset that the Opposition have not made a case for their Amendment. Indeed, I suggest that we have mainly had a continuation of the Second Reading Debate. I am disappointed, because I thought hon. Members were going to advance cogent reasons why this Bill should not apply to Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-04", "file": "debates1947-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "9548b4c3a4ae0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.322.8", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "d I was just proceeding to confess that the argument on those grounds for double summer time was not so good in Scotland as it is in England. I confess that straight away, but I would remind hon. Members that, likewise, the fact that we have shorter hours of darkness in summer in Scotland makes the inconvenience rather less to agriculture in Scotland than it is to agriculture in England and Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.322.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-04", "file": "debates1947-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "9548b4c3a4ae0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In London?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "The answer is that I invited the officials of the National Farmers' Union in Scotland to come and talk to me at the same hour as the National Farmers' Union officials came to talk to my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-04", "file": "debates1947-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "9548b4c3a4ae0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.327.2", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "That may be, but I merely say that, as far as Scotland is concerned, if it is intended to continue this, English Members will need to look out for themselves but we in Scotland in another year will certainly not permit this process to be continued. I counsel my hon. Friends on this occasion, the Ministers having made their concession and having asked for it on bended knees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-04", "file": "debates1947-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "9548b4c3a4ae0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.327.2", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "forward a Bill and say that he hated it very much, that he was willing to change it from a permanent Measure into a Bill to be carried on from year to year at the sufferance of Parliament, and then on that understanding beg the House, in view of the muddle into which the Government had got, to give them the legislation for one year only. That is what I call bringing forward a Bill on bended knees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-04", "file": "debates1947-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "9548b4c3a4ae0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "tch the atmosphere of this Debate, but I would like to ask him two questions. First of all, in reply to my noble Friend the Member for Roxburgh and Selkirk (Lord William Scott) he said that he had met in London, with his right hon. Friend, representatives of the farmers. I understand the hon. Gentleman to be indicating dissent. I understood him to say that he had had conversations here in London.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-04", "file": "debates1947-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "9548b4c3a4ae0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.347.2", "colnum": "347", "heading": "POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "rts and are serving purely illegal sentences. The question was decided by the courts on an application for a writ of habeas corpus by Eugenius Zytomerski. When the matter came up, the writ was granted, and then the matter came before the High Court. I am glad to see that the learned Attorney-General is in his place; because in this case a man was imprisoned without any justification in law at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.347.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-04", "file": "debates1947-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "9548b4c3a4ae0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Private enterprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "preceding_text": " actively associated with black market operations in London, and a number of them have appeared before the courts and have received comparatively severe sentences. There was one man who wandered off from a Polish camp and managed to evade all arrest or detention for three months. Having left the camp with nothing, in three months he had amassed a bank balance of £10,000. That is pretty good going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-04", "file": "debates1947-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "9548b4c3a4ae0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "preceding_text": "ere was one man who wandered off from a Polish camp and managed to evade all arrest or detention for three months. Having left the camp with nothing, in three months he had amassed a bank balance of £10,000. That is pretty good going. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Private enterprise.\"] Whether it was private enterprise or not, I am sure it is not the kind of thing that will be supported anywhere in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-04", "file": "debates1947-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "9548b4c3a4ae0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.366.2", "colnum": "366", "heading": "POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman has said, they are getting progressively less bad, but even this Clause is a bad Clause. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will not provoke a Parliamentary crisis by pressing it on the House tonight. He had much better take this Clause away and give it some further thought and consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.366.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-04", "file": "debates1947-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "9548b4c3a4ae0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": " this Clause. The right hon. Gentleman divided the Poles into three categories, namely, those prepared to go back to Poland, those who will willingly come into the Resettlement Corps, and those who refuse to do so. The right hon. Gentleman spoke at rather considerable length on this last category, and I think actually made a threat that, in certain cases, those people would be deported to Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-04", "file": "debates1947-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "9548b4c3a4ae0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": " we are told there is no complaint, and we are asked to apply it now under the difficulties that have been pointed out by a great many hon. Members. With regard to the extent to which the British courts would test it, I respectfully agree with the Attorney-General that it is quite plain that you could try habeas corpus . It is plain you could try certiorari , but it is not an easy task to convince", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.390.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-04", "file": "debates1947-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "9548b4c3a4ae0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.413.0", "colnum": "413", "heading": "POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Published here?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "uire the British way of life…. We do not intend to consider ourselves as candidates for de-nationalisation. We do not consider our sojourn in Great Britain final and permanent. We believe that conditions in Poland will undergo—within a time difficult to define at present—such a change that we shall be able to return to our motherland. The \"Polish Daily and Soldier's Daily\" of 15th February—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.412.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-04", "file": "debates1947-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "9548b4c3a4ae0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.413.2", "colnum": "413", "heading": "POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": " political character; and because it is a political emigration conditions prevailing in Poland must influence its existence. This is particularly so on the question of the return of the emigration to Poland and the question of its assimilation in Great Britain. The emigration will return to Poland, in its majority, when our country is free: the emigration rejects assimilation into other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-04", "file": "debates1947-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "9548b4c3a4ae0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.434.4", "colnum": "434", "heading": "POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "All the information I have is that they are in detention now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.434.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-04", "file": "debates1947-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "9548b4c3a4ae0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.434.5", "colnum": "434", "heading": "POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "May I ask the Home Secretary under what powers he will be able to review these sentences, which surely come under an entirely different Subsection?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": ", that as soon as the administrator is appointed, his first task will be immediately to review the sentences of any men who may then be in detention and to make any adjustment of those sentences he thinks right having regard to all the circumstances of the case in the light of the powers with which the Clause is armed. We will endeavour to bring this state of affairs to an end as soon as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.434.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-04", "file": "debates1947-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "9548b4c3a4ae0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "POLISH RESETTLEMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Greece?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "May I put to the hon. Gentleman one point? None of these other countries is in the same position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-04a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-05", "file": "debates1947-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06493f092e3bb55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.452.2", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY (BRITISH SUBJECT'S DEATH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "The application to accede to these things was under consideration when Dr. Chatterton-Hill died.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.452.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-05", "file": "debates1947-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06493f092e3bb55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.453.2", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY (BRITISH SUBJECT'S DEATH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give an undertaking that if, in future, any British subjects are in difficulties in Germany their cases will be dealt with efficiently, and not like this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-05", "file": "debates1947-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06493f092e3bb55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "In reply to the first question, we have never made a decision about the date of the withdrawal of British troops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-05", "file": "debates1947-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06493f092e3bb55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.470.1", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Fawzi El Kaukji", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philips Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has committed many murders.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philips Price", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that this gentleman is a Syrian subject, and unless he has committed a murder or something of the kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.470.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-05", "file": "debates1947-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06493f092e3bb55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.471.3", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "The explanation is quite simple. The late Governor has been on the pay roll until the last week or so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.471.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-05", "file": "debates1947-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06493f092e3bb55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.488.3", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEATH SENTENCES, GOLD COAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Before leaving the particular aspect of the matter for the general aspect, may I ask whether the Colonial Secretary is aware that not everybody who has made a close study of the facts of this case would accept his summary as a fair summary of it, and that in the opinion of many people there is the possibility, indeed the probability, of a grave miscarriage of justice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.488.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-05", "file": "debates1947-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06493f092e3bb55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.489.9", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEATH SENTENCES, GOLD COAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "May I assure the right hon. Gentleman that if HANSARD has not been altered, he did say that these men were brought on five or six occasions to the place of execution, and entirely misled this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.489.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-05", "file": "debates1947-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06493f092e3bb55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.492.6", "colnum": "492", "heading": "AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND GIFTS", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": " the House that His Majesty's Governments in Australia and New Zealand have announced their intention to make gifts to His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom for the reduction of the heavy burdens which the people of the United Kingdom are carrying, as a consequence of financial arrangements entered into during the War. The Australian Government are making a gift of £25 million Australian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.492.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-05", "file": "debates1947-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06493f092e3bb55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.492.6", "colnum": "492", "heading": "AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND GIFTS", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "o make gifts to His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom for the reduction of the heavy burdens which the people of the United Kingdom are carrying, as a consequence of financial arrangements entered into during the War. The Australian Government are making a gift of £25 million Australian—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—and the New Zealand Government a gift of £12½ million New Zealand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.492.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-05", "file": "debates1947-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06493f092e3bb55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Anderson", "preceding_text": " lines of argument. The first I think is that the fixing of a date, as I have already indicated, cannot be reconciled with the nature of the problem. You can fix a date for completing a process which you can estimate, weigh and measure, but if the process is indeterminate, if it cannot in the light of present knowledge be assessed accurately, how can you with any certainty fix a date? If you knew—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-05", "file": "debates1947-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06493f092e3bb55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Anderson", "preceding_text": "ver provisional, however interim, the Government may be, it will have to be provided with all the necessary organs. There will have to be provision for the enforcement of individual rights, for the protection of individuals and communities; there will have to be provision for all the elementary functions of Government, otherwise there faces India nothing but \"red ruin and the breaking up of laws.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-05", "file": "debates1947-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06493f092e3bb55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "hon. Members on all sides of the House will agree that tonight we have heard one of the most remarkable speeches on India. It was one of the most remarkable I have ever heard during my time in Parliament, and it was from my right hon. Friend the Member for Scottish Universities (Sir J. Anderson). If ever I have heard a White Paper torn to shreds by cold, dispassionate argument, I heard that today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-05", "file": "debates1947-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06493f092e3bb55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.559.1", "colnum": "559", "heading": "INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "n in response to the demand of an enlightened and united people; if it had been at the request of vocal and knowledgeable minorities; if it had been at the plea of the abject minorities—then I should say that there was some justification for our going, going so hurriedly, going with such reckless speed. But, apparently, the decision was a casual one. The announcement, certainly, was casually made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.559.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-05", "file": "debates1947-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06493f092e3bb55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.561.0", "colnum": "561", "heading": "INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "5 months in those circumstances. But to ask that vast congregation of different castes, colours and tongues to come together and agree amongst themselves, is simply asking for the impossible. I very much fear that this is due, to some extent, to the vocal requirements of the politically active leaders of the Congress Party—15 in all on the Working Committee—who see lucrative jobs in front of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.559.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-05", "file": "debates1947-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06493f092e3bb55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.561.3", "colnum": "561", "heading": "INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wicked.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "riticism, arising out of my conception of the situation, that the present Indian leaders, supported, as we know, by Indian industrialists, are demanding that we shuffle away from our responsibilities with our task uncompleted. I said I thought it was, possibly, due to the fact that the politically active leaders in India of the Congress Party saw lucrative jobs in front of them. Is that monstrous?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.561.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-05", "file": "debates1947-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06493f092e3bb55e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.562.2", "colnum": "562", "heading": "INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "I really—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-05a.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.630.5", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Co-ops.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkes", "preceding_text": "Will the President of the Board of Trade take special care that these extra consumer goods go to the shops in the smaller mining villages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.630.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.638.2", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "That is a matter within the jurisdiction of the National Coal Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.638.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.638.3", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Is there not, in any case, an essential difference between a house attached to a public undertaking whose tenant has the protection ultimately of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.638.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.643.2", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I never ride roughshod over anyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.643.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.644.9", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Do not gate crash", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I was present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.644.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.651.11", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. During Question time, Mr. Zilliacus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.651.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.651.11", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"So are we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. During Question time, Mr. Zilliacus—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"]—the hon. Member for Gateshead—[An HON. MEM BER: \"The Member for Moscow\"]—put a question, in which he said that according to information from America, Greece was on the verge of financial bankruptcy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.651.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.660.7", "colnum": "660", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I thought we had acted with great generosity when we gave three days to this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.660.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "That was written to me two days ago, because the point was made against me that some new declaration had been made during the time of the interim Government while the election was going on, and I am anxious to show that there is nothing which has been said by us, consciously, which in any way carries the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "fare between the two principal religions. Corruption is growing apace. They talk of giving India freedom. But freedom has been restricted since this interim Nehru Government has come to power. Communism is growing so fast that it has been found necessary to raid and suppress Communist establishments and centres which, in our broad British tolerance, we do not do here, and have never done in India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "fend any action in my public life, here in this House, if it is challenged in due course—provided, of course, that military plans were not exposed or compromised. Before the war, statements for the reasons justifying the resignations of Ministers or functionaries were a common place. My right hon. Friend the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Eden) resigned in 1938. We all approved his action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "paration for civil war; and they will be marked continually by disorders and disturbances such as are now going on in the great city of Lahore. In spite of the great efforts which have been made by the leaders on both sides to allay them, out of sheer alarm and fear of what would happen, still these troubles break out, and they are sinking profoundly into India, in the heart of the Indian problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.676.3", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "David, keep quiet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.676.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Men of straw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I said nothing about Mr. Nehru except that he had very good reason to be a bitter enemy of all connected with Britain—very good reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is a very learned gentleman, but I have expert advisers also, although they do not all come from Cambridge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is a very learned gentleman, but I have expert advisers also, although they do not all come from Cambridge. [ Interruption .] I wish that some hon. Members opposite would give me the same consideration as I have given them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.690.2", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"None.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "The noble Lord to whom I was referring has had great experience in India. He took the general line that although he might not agree with the fixing of a date he could not very well object, unless he had some better alternative to propose. What better alternative was proposed by the right hon. Gentleman this afternoon? What is his constructive policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.690.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Indian parties.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "arter of the United Nations and of the Atlantic Charter, with the formulating of which the right hon. Gentleman had so much to do, but it would also have been a decision that we ought not to face in the light of our present resources. Above all, it would have been one to which my hon. Friends on this side of the House would never have consented The desire of the Government is that the two parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Flight-Lieutenant Crawley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Flight-Lieutenant Crawley", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) did not give us a policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.707.6", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Flight-Lieutenant Crawley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unity.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Flight-Lieutenant Crawley", "preceding_text": "He said that in his opinion there would not be agreement without the British Raj.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.707.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.741.3", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "The Minister is developing an argument which takes the matter much beyond the point which I was making. That point was in regard to other countries. I am not referring to the Soviet Union. I am referring to Transjordania. It is well known that we have troops stationed in independent countries at the direct request of what I will call puppet Governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.741.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was the date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We were near the end of the war, and were planning for the future, and I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman was as confident as I was of how well we were getting on at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman must remember that although we have had considerable experience in the Provinces it has been one of the faults—I think, a very grave fault—of the reforms we have carried out over these years that we have taught irresponsibility instead of responsibility. All Indian politicians were permanently in opposition, and speaking with long experience, it is not good to be always in opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " to have been fulfilled long ago. I want to say another word on our obligations. Of course, His Majesty's Government will carry out all their proper obligations to the members of the Services; who can be assured that they will not be let down. I come now to what is, after all, the essence of the speeches of those who support the Amendment. In essence they are a plea for delay, a plea for inaction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.781.3", "colnum": "781", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS AND SUPPLE MENTARY ESTIMATE, 1946–47.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "May I appeal to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, who, after all, has on behalf of the Treasury some overall responsibility for all Estimates presented in this House? It seems to me intolerable that this House tonight should be asked to vote the great sum of £800,000 and that no Minister is apparently prepared to take the responsibility for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.781.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.790.6", "colnum": "790", "heading": "CLASS VII", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too much\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I would like to ask the Minister whether he is satisfied that those engaged in television services are adequately paid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.790.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.802.5", "colnum": "802", "heading": "CLASS VII", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now we know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "It is exactly what I am seeking to ascertain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.802.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.806.7", "colnum": "806", "heading": "CLASS VII", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Neither.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I do not know if one is to take that as an apology or a withdrawal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.806.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.806.7", "colnum": "806", "heading": "CLASS VII", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I do not know if one is to take that as an apology or a withdrawal. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Neither.\"] In any case, an apology ought obviously to be made. It was a most improper, misleading, and, I would say, unfortunate suggestion to have made, and one with which I am sure the right hon. and learned Member for the West Derby Division of Liverpool (Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe) would not wish to be associated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.806.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.809.7", "colnum": "809", "heading": "CLASS VII", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has already spoken. If he has not the leave of the House, if one hon. Member objects, he cannot speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.809.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-06", "file": "debates1947-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "2dd74bc93c10aa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.810.3", "colnum": "810", "heading": "CLASS VII", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "r. If that means anything it means that year by year the amount in the Government Hospitality Fund may be increased. If it is increased and the balance is not drawn out and repaid to the Exchequer, what is the present capital value of the fund? It may be very substantial. Therefore, I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will be able to give me that information, because it is altogether wrong that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-06a.810.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-07", "file": "debates1947-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cae1eb4d8d3bbcb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-07a.825.12", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food (Dr. Edith Summerskill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food (Dr. Edith Summerskill)", "preceding_text": "wed for a ration of 4 oz. In regard to meat and livestock, increased prices have been paid to home farmers, and to exporting countries. In addìtion, the decline in stocks has been less than was expected, which has caused an increase of approximately £9 million in cash requirements. Hon. Members will forgive me for dealing with each of these commodities but I think it better to explain them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-07a.825.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-07", "file": "debates1947-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cae1eb4d8d3bbcb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-07a.842.4", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry if I have transgressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-07a.842.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-07", "file": "debates1947-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cae1eb4d8d3bbcb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-07a.842.4", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Suppose we have no choice?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry if I have transgressed. [ Interruption ] The policy of the Communist Party is not to know the Rules but to keep blundering on. I want to know what price we are to pay, and if we are to pay a higher price for potatoes in America than the prices paid to our farmers? To pay a higher price abroad than we pay at home for supplies, is wrong and unjustifiable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-07a.842.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-07", "file": "debates1947-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cae1eb4d8d3bbcb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-07a.842.4", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Hogsnorton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "y for such a poor result does not suggest good judgment or sound business. I understand that the number of hogs we are getting from Canada has dropped tremendously over the last three years. I believe we had 4,669,000 in 1943, whereas the figure was only 2,415,000 last year. Are we getting fewer hogs from Canada, because there are fewer hogs in Canada, or because we are not getting our fair share?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-07a.842.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-07", "file": "debates1947-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cae1eb4d8d3bbcb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-07a.848.3", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER\" Socalist planning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "re bought by the Ministry of Food and controlled by them, although I should certainly think that nobody believes they are subsidised by the Ministry; but what I want to have from the Minister is a clear statement of who is buying them. Is it the speculators and gangsters—because there are gangsters in the business world today who have gone abroad and are working a racket with Covent Garden Market?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-07a.848.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-07", "file": "debates1947-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cae1eb4d8d3bbcb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-07a.848.3", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "erence to the Vote relating to eggs and egg products, to which reference was made earlier. I think it was appalling bad form on the part of the Ministry of Food last week-end to put over to the British people the simple statement that dried eggs were going up from 1s. 9d. to 2s. 6d. without informing them why it was happening. It was actually known months ago to this crowd at the Ministry of Food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-07a.848.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-07", "file": "debates1947-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cae1eb4d8d3bbcb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-07a.848.3", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Socialist planning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "dried eggs were going up from 1s. 9d. to 2s. 6d. without informing them why it was happening. It was actually known months ago to this crowd at the Ministry of Food—[ Laughter .] I say it deliberately, because I know it is true in the Public Relations Department. I believe the village grocer at Slocum-on-Slush could do a better job of public relations than the whole set-up at the Ministry of Food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-07a.848.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-07", "file": "debates1947-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cae1eb4d8d3bbcb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-07a.851.0", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is your responsibility.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ion of groundnuts in East and Central Africa, an item of the utmost importance to this country. The item includes the cost of capital equipment, including railway construction and clearing operations. What degree of priority is being given to the railway construction work which is to be undertaken there? What trucks are being sent abroad, what locomotives? This places us at home here in a dilemma.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-07a.851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-07", "file": "debates1947-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cae1eb4d8d3bbcb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-07a.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Well, I only repeat what hon. Members have told me, that we are not being served as they would like us to be served. I am only saying that in my experience—and some of us are quite capable of summing up businessmen—I know that their enthusiasm has not waxed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-07a.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-07", "file": "debates1947-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cae1eb4d8d3bbcb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-07a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nationalise it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "ay be conveyed by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Home Secretary. Finally, I urge that this money should be devoted to a campaign, if I may so call it, to \"brighten up Britain.\" I have done an enormous amount of travelling during the last few months and I can say that this country is not what we should like it to be in the way of an attraction to any type of visitor, whether foreign or British—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-07a.895.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.926.14", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Belgian Bricks (Government Purchases)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that this is a hidden subsidy on housing, and will he say what other housing subsidies are hidden in this Vote?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.926.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.931.8", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA (BRITISH CITIZENS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Free?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will refer to his Question he will find that, in substance, he asked whether British subjects who may desire to leave India before June, 1948, will be provided with the necessary facilities, and my reply was that they will be provided with any necessary transport to bring them home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.931.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.957.6", "colnum": "957", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "pended for one hour today for the Economic Debate. I think it would be convenient to the House for the Rule to be suspended, in view of the large number of hon. Members who wish to take part in this important Debate. If the Motion on the Paper is agreed to, we propose to move the Adjournment of the Debate at about eleven o'clock, or as soon as the hon. Member then speaking has finished his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.957.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "ry by industry has always been resisted. For instance, the export groups have been abolished, and nobody has any idea what their export targets are expected to be. They may reach the Board of Trade, but they never reach industry. The next matter on which I wish to touch is that of the school-leaving age. Nothing is more repugnant to my feelings than to have to delay raising the School-leaving age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1011.3", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the text books.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "t against raising the school-leaving age just now, but we must have more information before we can make up our minds on this point. By raising the school- leaving age in 1947—and this is one part of it—would it simply mean increasing the size of the classes, and overcrowding the schools? Have we got the men and materials at this moment with which to build the schools, and have we got the teachers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1011.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1016.2", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "pend it on the other hand. Now the Government are going to create more leisure and decrease pleasure, treating like a lot of naughty school children the population upon whose honour we have to depend over fuel rationing and upon whose willingness to produce we have to depend for our very existence. There are to be no shirts in Merrie England except hair shirts. I have detained the House over long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1016.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I thought the hon. Gentleman was better aware of that well-known phrase than he appears to be. I must have heard it at least half a dozen times since I have been a Member of Parliament, but I cannot at the moment quote any hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Major Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Roberts", "preceding_text": "I wish to put the point that if there is any question of a Coalition there must be resignation by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1045.4", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Major Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Roberts", "preceding_text": "Unless we do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1045.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "rk with men of goodwill from all parts of the House. I am not one of those who believe in a Coalition at present, but I am one who says to this Government, \"If you are sincere in your desire for national union, if you believe that the position is as grave as you declare it to be in the White Paper, show signs of your sincerity by abandoning such things as nationalisation.\" Is that too much to ask?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": " not planning. It is sheer lunacy. Finally, we are suffering, and have been suffering for a long time past, from an acute shortage of feedingstuffs, and I would say to the House—to right hon. Gentlemen on the Treasury Bench—that it is very much better to import feeding-stuffs at a quarter the price or at least half the price we are paying for the finished articles we could produce in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "suffering, and have been suffering for a long time past, from an acute shortage of feedingstuffs, and I would say to the House—to right hon. Gentlemen on the Treasury Bench—that it is very much better to import feeding-stuffs at a quarter the price or at least half the price we are paying for the finished articles we could produce in this country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where from?\"] We must go get them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1061.1", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: The \"Economist\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "ided into two great opposing blocs ; I want to see a middle and balancing bloc in which we can play a most important part. I have never made so long a speech as this before in the House of Commons, and I do not think that I shall do so again. I have already had to leave out four or five most important points. I want to conclude with a quotation which I think we should all do well to take to heart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1061.1", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Exiled.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "ave out four or five most important points. I want to conclude with a quotation which I think we should all do well to take to heart. [An HON. MEMBER: The \"Economist\"?] No, not from the \"Economist,\" but from a man who lived long before the \"Economist\" was thought of. He is my political hero, the first of the Tory democrats, Viscount Bolingbroke, one of the greatest statesmen this country ever had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1072.3", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "he Opposition sometimes calls a high functionary. He was Coal Controller until March, 1921. At that date, controls were completely removed from the mining industry; and the result we all know. There was a collapse of prices, a collapse of wages, a collapse of employment, a series of stoppages in the industry, and the industry never subsequently recovered anything approaching its former prosperity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1072.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1079.2", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shawcross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under the Liberals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shawcross", "preceding_text": "rs you plant trees, and if you want to plan for 100 years, you plant men. We have had some rather annoying references to Tory misrule for the last 20 years, and I do not want to deal with that matter, but is it not a fact that we are now suffering from what was sown in this country by free, uncontrolled -private enterprise 100 years ago? Certainly, that is so in the basic industries in Lancashire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1079.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1079.2", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shawcross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shawcross", "preceding_text": "results of free and uncontrolled private enterprise. Therefore, I could not help feeling that it might have been a little more than a coincidence when one hon. Member opposite said that his remedy, reluctant though he would be to propose it, would be once again to make use of child labour and delay the raising of the school leaving age. I hope I have not taken up too much of the time of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1079.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1079.2", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shawcross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What plan?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shawcross", "preceding_text": "said that his remedy, reluctant though he would be to propose it, would be once again to make use of child labour and delay the raising of the school leaving age. I hope I have not taken up too much of the time of the House. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You have.\"] If so, it has been because of certain interruptions. I want to deal with one aspect of this plan, and that is the figures in relation to defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1079.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1079.2", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shawcross", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shawcross", "preceding_text": "s what plan. I suggest—and I hope my right hon. and learned Friend would not regard this as superfluous—that one should remember, when considering the plan which he exposed and explained so lucidly, that even hon. Members opposite could see it plainly this afternoon, that this must be considered against the background of the, plan put forward and accepted by the country in \"Let us Face the Future\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1079.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1079.2", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shawcross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shawcross", "preceding_text": " nationalise transport. That is the basic plan, and though hon. Members may laugh, I invite them to say whether, if they were now in power, they would return the mines to private enterprise, whether, if they were now in power, they would reverse the policy of nationalising transport, and whether they would return to private ownership what is already in public ownership in the electricity industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1079.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1079.2", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shawcross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Recorder.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shawcross", "preceding_text": "for operations based upon the basic plan of nationalisation, and it can be carried out only on that basis. It is nonsense to say that it contains no plan. I come to the one point which I want to make concerning diversion from the total labour force for the production of wealth in this country, to defence. There are figures in all these various papers—the White Paper on Defence, the White Paper on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1079.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-10", "file": "debates1947-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9f8ebf00ad010313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Duncan", "preceding_text": "s of genuine coal of the quality that we want, it might he a different story. But the target of 200 million tons of coal is too low. I realise that we might not get 200 million tons produced this year, because there are such problems as that of recruitment for the mines being affected by the raising of the school-leaving age, and there is the prospect that the five-day week will reduce production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-10a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1118.3", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "May I press the right hon. Gentleman? Will he undertake, at all events, to press his colleague the Leader of the House, and anyone else concerned with making these arrangements, for a two days' Debate? It is an extremely important matter for Scottish Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1118.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "k the House this question: Does anyone believe that output would have gone up as it has since the beginning of January if we had not taken over the mines? We shall help to maintain manpower in the industry by not calling up the young men for service who are in that industry. No one at present employed in coalmining who is in the range for call-up will be called up as long as he stays underground —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "accepted the introduction of other nationals, if the need should arise. We want to emphasise that the production of 200 million tons of coal this year is an in dispensable minimum. We must produce at least 200 million tons this year, and we want the industry to understand that that is not the maximum; it is the minimum. By various means, by publicity, by the giving of housing—promising of housing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1169.6", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Men?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "f policing the world? Is it not about time that some other nation helped to bear that burden? Have we no hope that the United Nations will undertake some of the duties that we have had to carry out until now? Even when we have got the figure down to 1,087,000, that will only be a reduction of 340,000, when we are already short for the export trade of 500,000 and short in the home trade of 750,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1169.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1169.6", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "hool age which were first put forward by Mr. Fisher in his famous Education Act, were not carried out at that time. One of the comments which I now have to make could not then have been made, because we should now have had the schools and the proper materials to carry out the proposals. What is happening now? At this very time the Government say that they are going to raise the school-leaving age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1169.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1169.6", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "een made, because we should now have had the schools and the proper materials to carry out the proposals. What is happening now? At this very time the Government say that they are going to raise the school-leaving age. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Very well, but do those cheers merely mean that to the minds of hon. Gentlemen opposite compulsory attendance at school is the same thing as education?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1169.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1180.11", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "in to the public at large the apparent inconsistency of taking this step, which will divert a certain number—I am not quite sure how many—young men and young women, from productive industry, at a moment when so much stress is being laid on our manpower situation. I say that the Government must consider very carefully how they would explain that. I am not advocating a reversal of the policy at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1180.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1207.1", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The 'Financial Times'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "oyment, and that the greatest threat to full employment is under-production. It is most necessary that a point of that type should be hammered home. It may well be, though I feel rather like the right hon. Gentleman, in that I do not want to insult the public, that unless the reasons for our shortages today are explained they may believe headlines in the \"Evening Standard\" and papers of that type—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1217.1", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I would only say to the hon. Gentleman in all seriousness that I do not think there is much difference between the President of the Board of Trade's conception of planning and the conception which is held by hon. Members here who understand industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1221.4", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "t monetary mismanagement is largely responsible for this distortion of our economy. What ought we to do now? We must reverse the bad policy of this Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Budget must be balanced, at somewhere below —3,000 million. The cheap money policy must be stopped at the point where it requires the creation of additional bank money, and the nationalisation programme must be dropped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1221.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1221.4", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "y, 10, 20 or 30 per cent.? Thus, in my final remarks I return to this question of productivity. Suppose the Government have the courage to stop inflation, and suppose they have the competence to secure an adequate supply of food and raw materials; will the British people then work hard enough to pay their way in the world on a rising standard of living? Will they do that? I do not think they will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1221.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Hutchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Hutchison", "preceding_text": "t has been going on for a generation. Now at last their chickens are coming home to roost, and they find them to be ill-omened birds, and very unwelcome. The White Paper talks, and the hon. Member for West 'Nottingham spoke, about restrictive practices. Let it be known and understood—and it cannot be too widely diffused—that those of us who sit on this side of the House are not anti-trades unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Hutchison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose fault is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Hutchison", "preceding_text": "ster of Supply crowed over the fact that electric fires were doubled last year on what they were in 1938. Refrigerators jumped in the period of October to November, 1946, from 448 to 7,000. Would not anyone with an idea of planning have estimated that this would call on an increased supply of electricity? Then we are told in regard to generating plant that it, takes three or four years to provide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1235.1", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, for calling me, although I think that the time allotted to this Debate is far too short—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1235.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1237.3", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Steel.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": "Can the hon. Member say in which sectors of British industry competition had entirely disappeared?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1239.5", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ich are so profound, the deficiencies in plant layout and assembly, then I shall begin to accept—and I think ordinary men and women will begin to accept—their strictures on matters of output and manpower; but do not let us use the so-called low output of manpower to shore up the deficiencies in managerial experience. That is really what we are being asked to do throughout the whole of this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1239.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1242.3", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Of course there are difficulties. No one is pretending or suggesting that our commitments should be lessened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1242.5", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am glad to have that encomiom on his own force from the hon. and gallant Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1242.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1242.5", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "on his own force from the hon. and gallant Member. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] I will with draw if I am called on by Mr. Speaker. Because of our criticism of the Minister of Defence, we are invited by the hon. Member for Hallam (Mr. Jennings) to vote against the Government. No, we are not going to vote against the Government: we shall sustain them with our votes and criticise them in our speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1242.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1242.5", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Try us and see.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " to vote against the Government: we shall sustain them with our votes and criticise them in our speeches. [ Laughter .] That has obviously been received with a marked sense of pleasure on the Opposition benches, because the one thing they do not want is to defeat the Government. If they thought that by our voting with them they would defeat the Government they would run away from their own Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1242.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1259.1", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "On the other hand, the figure of £899 million gross, including the Ministry of Supply element which the Armed Forces are estimated to cost in 1947–48, is something like £768 million less than the cost in the previous year, or a reduction in the next financial year of no less than 45 per cent. That is a very drastic financial cut on top of the cuts which had taken place in the previous year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1268.1", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": " in the methods of the Opposition. They have not given us one alter native which has not been tried between the two great wars, and found to be entirely useless in producing any finally satisfactory result. I want to give a few reminders to the House. I got them out today. In the period 1924 to 1929, it may be remembered that the present Leader of the Op position was Chancellor of the Exchequer. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1268.1", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "kers of this country. Let us now look at finance. The right hon. and learned Member for Montgomery spoke about the need to balance Budgets, and things of that kind. I dare say that he will be strongly supported by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wood ford. I have a memory of that period when he, the right hon. Gentleman, was Chancellor of the Exchequer. I went back to some of the records.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1271.0", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": " exchequer. The treasure it handed over to its successors was one of bare cupboards, plundered shelves, and empty boxes. The Conservative Government took everything it could lay its hands on. It raided the Road Fund of £20 million, stinted the Sinking Fund of £60 million, and treated as current revenue £13 million which, by right, belonged to the Currency Reserve Fund. This is the kind of finance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1271.0", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "ment took everything it could lay its hands on. It raided the Road Fund of £20 million, stinted the Sinking Fund of £60 million, and treated as current revenue £13 million which, by right, belonged to the Currency Reserve Fund. This is the kind of finance—[ Interruption .] What do you expect? The House of Commons has had to listen for the last two days to nothing but this old piffle and poppycock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1271.0", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "here were two things hon. Gentlemen opposite could not tolerate. One was indecision and the other was the promotion of sectional against national interests. I was very much taken by that great pronouncement about decision and indecision. Again, I would like to refer to what was said by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford. I quote now from the records of the House on 6th October, 1931.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "What is this country under the great need to deal with? It is under the need to deal with a shortage of goods and services as a result of six years of dreadful war. This great fight for production has now to be carried on with the overhanging National Debt of £24,000 million—created by whom? By us? Created by the war. Led into by whom? Led into the war by the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1272.6", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "I am giving sufficient evidence to the House tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1272.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "The House has gone very queer tonight. It is not many hours ago since I was accorded, without a Division, the suspension of the Rule. That was accepted by the House. I was cross-questioned, and I gave the answers. The questions which are being raised tonight were put to me this afternoon. I suggest that the House is going back on its tracks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is no use.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "d between Front and back benchers in this House. There is a distinct point of view that back benchers could put forward to the Front Bench. I am not in favour of an unlimited exten- sion of time, because then the Debate gets ragged as the morning advances, but I do ask my right hon. Friend the acting Leader of the House for some extension tomorrow, so that we can get in more back bencher speakers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1287.3", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "We cannot discuss the crisis. We can only discuss whether the Debate should be adjourned or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1287.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "nd is that a disproportionate amount of the Debate has been occupied by Front Bench speakers. I hope that it might even now be possible for the right hon. Gentleman the Patronage Secretary through the usual channels to make some arrangements for these matters to be further discussed. But I recognise that it would be highly inconvenient from everybody's point of view to continue the Debate tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-11", "file": "debates1947-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "364df36e07f8d1cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1288.2", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "ary through the usual channels to make some arrangements for these matters to be further discussed. But I recognise that it would be highly inconvenient from everybody's point of view to continue the Debate tonight. [HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"] I think it would, and if we have an assurance from the right hon. Gentleman that further time will be found, I believe that that will meet the wishes of everybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-11a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1316.2", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AFRICAN COLONIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind that the statement he has just made will relieve the anxieties of many people who have heard this statement made on what seemed to be indubitable authority, and may we take it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1328.3", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "Could the right hon. Gentleman not induce the Government to adopt a more humane policy on this question of deserters, which is a running sore and a continuation of Nazi ideas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1328.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1332.9", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "n which it lies this afternoon, and with even more alarming prospects opening upon us in the future. That is their offence, from which we shall suffer much, and with the guilt and discredit of which their name and the doctrines of their party will long be identified in British homes. For our part, when this Government first took office, although profoundly distressed by the vote of the electorate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1332.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1332.9", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ng the highest standard of living in the world. We are not even suffering from as many shortages as people would imagine. What chance have we got before these international committees of making our case for the hard-working people of this island, when it is given away beforehand by the Minister? I affirm here this afternoon that the British people today are under-nourished. They are less well fed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1332.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1332.9", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " falling-off in individual output to which attention has been drawn from every quarter of the House, is only partly due to Socialist teachings. It is mainly due to a shortfall in the necessary calories in respect especially of the heavy manual workers. All this is quite apart from the dreary, dull monotony of diet which directly affects incentive. Let us put up a fight for John Bull's food anyhow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1332.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1332.9", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "elimination of the inefficient. That is a general principle. I say that the wanton and partisan—this is only an incident, but I cannot omit it here—destruction of the Liverpool Cotton Exchange will be for ever held against the distinguished record of the President of the Board of Trade as an act of folly and of pedantry, amounting to little less than bad citizenship. Now I turn from bread to coal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1332.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: What about after the last war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "n spite of all the regulations, penalties and paper forms, we built fewer permanent houses than were built every two months under private enterprise and Tory government before the war. Remarkable. In those two years, when it was really Operation No. I, fewer permanent houses were built than were built in the ordinary course of affairs, under private enterprise and a Tory Government before the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "f the Exchequer will be following this discussion, for I am sure he cannot be entirely blind to some of the tendencies which I am indicating. We come now to the Minister of Defence. As I say, I was glad not to have heard his quite unexpected performance yesterday. I have a regard for him, and I also think that a Minister of Defence should stand a little aloof from party and Parliamentary disputes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ol should prevent waste, and overcharge to the public. It is doubly important now to reduce redundant noneffectives—quite apart from strategic issues—when so many of our troops are abroad and, consequently, affect our limited foreign exchange. There are two great topics with which I ought, certainly, to deal—agriculture and finance; but' I cannot trespass too long upon the indulgence of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "res in this way? What is the truth about the export of this electric generating equipment and mining machinery at this time above all others? What was the quantity of this vital apparatus exported last year? What was its value? Where did it go? And what did we receive in exchange? The President of the Board of Trade told us that it was particularly for Russia. What then did we receive in exchange?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1358.1", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ering today, and from which we have suffered, would, in ways which have not yet been disclosed from the benches opposite, have been avoided—including the recent long spell of bad weather. This is just wishful thinking on the part of hon. Members opposite. Let us suppose the worst. Let us suppose that a Conservative Government had been returned in July, 1945. Would coal output have risen last year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneyeroft", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneyeroft", "preceding_text": "I have heard that argument before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneyeroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneyeroft", "preceding_text": " better still the Prime Minister, would get up at this moment and say that they still believe in Socialism, but they realise that they will not be able to do what they stated in the White Paper, because they want to put first things first, and they intend to drop nationalisation of the roads or of electricity—if he said that, I do not believe that his party would lose a single vote in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Are you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "Sweeping away the facts is always a very useful thing to do in argument. We agree then about both sides of industry, but what are we prepared to do about it? What are the Government going to do about it? It is not enough to put it in a White Paper and politely regret it. Are they prepared to have a public inquiry, into the dockworkers' industry and into the lamp rings?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sing it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Taylor", "preceding_text": "of coal. Our exports, our housing, our consumer goods, transport and distribution, all depend upon coal. It is basic and fundamental to our economic prosperity. I recall that many years ago, when I started work in the pit, as a boy, when we were going down the shaft and walking along the roadways, we used to sing a song. I have not heard it for many years but I would like to quote a few words now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1403.1", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Langford-Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Langford-Holt", "preceding_text": "he conviction that hon. Members opposite have not yet realised the gravity of the situation which faces the country today. Many of them have an insight, and a great understanding of a certain part of the problem. But the whole tone of hon. Members opposite has been that we are merely passing through a transitory state, which is the direct outcome of two feet of snow and two months of hard weather.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1404.1", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Langford-Holt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: And the Government's.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Langford-Holt", "preceding_text": "e said: We cannot afford increases in wage levels or shorter hours unless they increase productivity per man year.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT. 10th March, 1947; Vol. 434, c. 994.] I want to know if hon. Members opposite believe that to be a true statement of fact, and a true statement of the absolute necessity of the present times. The President of the Board of Trade also announced his own personal belief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1404.1", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Langford-Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Langford-Holt", "preceding_text": " of words in which he told us how wonderful everything is, I think we might have been a lot nearer understanding the situation than we are today. Lastly, there have been the statements of the Minister of Fuel and Power. His statements have been so varied and so conflicting on all occasions, be it in the House or be it in the country, that I will not waste the time of the House by quoting them now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hubbard", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hubbard", "preceding_text": "alking about the introduction of Polish miners into the coal mines, and we are reminded of an occasion when the Polish coalminers were competing with the miners in this country. The wages of the Polish workers were 45 per cent. lower than ours and that was used by the hon. Members opposite to support their argument that wages should be reduced in this country because of the keen world competition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1419.1", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. As this is probably the last speech on this side of the House, may I ask for your guidance to ascertain whether the Leader of the House or the Prime Minister can tell us if there will be any opportunity for the very large number of back benchers who have not been able to catch your eye to speak in a continuance of this Debate either this week or next?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1430.5", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " for consultation with individual industries in regard to their own particular problems. Let me say that when I heard, as I did hear, hon. Members stress the need for consultation with industry, I carried my mind back to the scorn with which the first proposals of my right hon. and learned Friend the President of the Board of Trade for working parties were treated. Yet they proved very successful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1430.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1430.5", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t planning by a Government. We must proceed on our own lines. May I remind the House of two things? For the first time in our history an attempt has been made to produce a plan of this kind in peacetime. In the planning that we did under the Coalition Government, in the planning we have done under this Government, for the first time in our history we are trying to plan for the whole of the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1430.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1430.5", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ose wheels going slowly—and a mass of unemployment, a reduced standard of life and generally a far worse psychology, than we have today. I can remember the psychology in the year and a half following the first world war. It is upon the industrial factor—the coal industry—that was grossly neglected and mishandled during the inter-war period that this strain has come. We are paying for past neglect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1430.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-12", "file": "debates1947-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "ffb2c37109487caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1438.2", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ve us some very fine oratory today emphasising the fact that we have a common cause today. The fact is that that is exactly where the right hon. Gentleman has made his mistake—in thinking that nationalisation is a mere fad. He imagines that nationalisation is desired for nationalisation's sake. It is not so; it has never been so put forward in any Socialist writing; it is simply a means to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-12a.1438.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1471.9", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Domestic coal.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says that no coal at all was exported in 1946—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1471.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1475.3", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Domestic coal is in such short supply that it is quite impossible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1475.3", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Domestic coal is in such short supply that it is quite impossible—[ Interruption .] No one has ever denied it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1476.0", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I have never said anything of the sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1476.2", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "That is an entirely different question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1476.4", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We all have them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend will let me have particulars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1476.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1478.9", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OIL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I imagine that that is hypothetical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1478.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1487.1", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that if all the young doctors who wish to go abroad were allowed to go abroad there would be a serious danger of the Health Act not being worked?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1492.0", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The morning papers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I hear from the people who have seen some of the earlier evening papers, which I have not had time to see myself, about some statement having been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1492.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1494.7", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware, in regard to Committees meeting in the afternoon, that that has always happened?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1494.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1495.3", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Turkey.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I doubt, subject to your Ruling, Mr. Speaker, whether any question of Hungary, or whatever it is, can arise on an estimate for British aid to Greece.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1495.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1495.3", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I doubt, subject to your Ruling, Mr. Speaker, whether any question of Hungary, or whatever it is, can arise on an estimate for British aid to Greece. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Turkey.\"] Well, Turkey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1495.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1501.0", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "DEBATES (SELECTION OF SPEAKERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "heir own planning, by collecting and collating information, with which to take part in a Debate, and then sitting for three days on these benches waiting to be called. After going to Mr. Speaker and asking him, or Mr. Deputy-Speaker, to take down their names, they wait and wait to be called. Quite frankly, a number of hon. Members have spoken to me about the nervous strain imposed by such waiting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1506.0", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "DEBATES (SELECTION OF SPEAKERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Chamberlain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Chamberlain", "preceding_text": "May I ask your guidance, Mr. Speaker, on the very important matter of the limitation of time, not for the Front Benchers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1506.3", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "U.S.S.R. DELEGATION (RECEPTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "before we get on to the Business. I would like to remind hon. Members that a reception is being held in the Royal Gallery at 4.30 tomorrow, Friday, by the Lord Chancellor and myself, to meet the delegation of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., who are expected to arrive here this evening at the invitation of both Houses of Parliament, and to whom I extend on behalf of the House a cordial welcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1506.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1531.1", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "r schools—have had the same experience with the intake of boys, purely from an educational point of view, and not from the point of view of intelligence, which is perhaps higher than it was. A certain headmaster told me that, in his view, the intelligence of boys of 14 to 15 was probably better than it was before the war, but from the point of view of education it was 40 to 50 per cent. less good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1537.5", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "tements I shall be very glad to have the hon. and gallant Member correct me. In fairness to the hon. and gallant Gentleman, I must say I quite agree with him, that all units which have a high prestige and morale do get a good recruitment. I think he and I would be in agreement when I make this observation. There is an old saying that there is no such thing as a bad regiment, but only bad officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1537.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1537.5", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "ish officer of the British Army are the bravest of the brave in war, indomitable and unyielding; and in peacetime, when doing garrison duty, however lonely or unpleasant, whether being stoned by mobs in India or attacked by terrorists in Palestine, they show a natural discipline and restraint unexampled in any other Army in the world. I think that fact should go out from this House this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1537.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1550.4", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whitewash.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "e for War after completely forgetting that he had announced in December that he was ordering an immediate investigation, told another hon. Member that he had ordered a court of inquiry—a court of inquiry four months after the incident had occurred, when this officer had been promoted, that officer had come home to England, and another officer had gone, and the men involved may have been scattered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1550.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1570.1", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"30,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "We all admire the way in which the hon. Member for Londonderry (Sir R. Ross) puts forward the views of his native land, and sympathise with him in the tremendous task he must have had in looking after 7,000 women—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1570.1", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "n into this position, and that the Committee that is set up to inquire into it will have power to make ruthless cuts in the manpower of these establishments. Going through the Estimates as well as I could I thought the headquarters staff of the War Office does assume a very bloated appearance in relation to the other figures. Could we be assured that there are no people sitting on their backsides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1593.1", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "n the Ballot. My hon. Friend has taken a special interest in, and he has great knowledge of, Army affairs. He has drawn the right thing and he has made a powerful case for the Government to answer. Before coming to the critical part of my speech, I would like to congratulate my hon. Friend the Financial Secretary on being on the Front Bench and on the fact that he will have to reply to the Debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "preceding_text": "Personally, I am not quite sure that that is the real reason for the alteration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1598.3", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "preceding_text": "No, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1598.7", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "preceding_text": "I still contend that there has been a considerable change of plan at the last moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1598.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1599.7", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He made a mistake there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "preceding_text": "tle without them. He said again today that he feared this was one of the reasons why the Army was such an enormous affair at the present time. In November, 1945, he also criticised many generals, who, he said, should be nameless, and criticised the Service chiefs of the Army. In fact he criticised practically everyone in the Army, with the exception of brigadiers, whom he dammed with faint praise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1599.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1604.3", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wigg", "preceding_text": "following month, that was, March, 1920, conscription would be abolished, and that, one month later, every man in the Armed Forces who was conscribed during the war would be released. His second point was that the process of demobilisation had been speeded up, and his third was that the strength of the Army, exclusive of men in India, had been reduced to 220,000 men. What were our commitments then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1624.3", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Palestine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "t no Army should be over-committed on insufficient strength. Who can say, after talking to any G.O.C., that he has sufficient men for his commitment, if the worst actually happened? You say that nothing is going to happen, but, if nothing is going to happen, why are they there? And if it might happen; should they not be sufficiently prepared to carry out their job? I choose the instance of Greece—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1624.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1633.5", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "I suggest, with great respect, that my opinion is just as good as the hon. and gallant Member's on this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1633.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1694.0", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were not answered.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry to hear this slight insubordination in the ranks of the majority, not the minority, because I should have thought that the questions that have been put on Vote A had already been debated, to a large extent, earlier in the night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-13", "file": "debates1947-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "1d9a76e12bf772f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1695.2", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "t is quite fair to compare the en- lightened administration of the Air Force to—as I presume he means to imply—the unenlightened administration of the Army. They are two totally different Forces. What has happened in the Royal Air Force is that their coloured airmen and officers have been in aeroplanes and only a limited number in the ground forces. It is an entirely different problem in the Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-13a.1695.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-14", "file": "debates1947-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "82c6ce0d7e24fe8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1751.3", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has been spent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "Some figures are given earlier in the Bill as to finance. We are legislating to enable a great deal of money to be spent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1751.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-14", "file": "debates1947-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "82c6ce0d7e24fe8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1757.1", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [7th March]", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "I was not going over the same ground, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. I was trying to show that the Government had confessed that State control had been wrong because they were now appealing to the individual. The Minister of Food should appeal to individual traders to help us out of our difficulties. A little more faith is needed, instead of sending panicstricken mountebanks flying all over the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-14", "file": "debates1947-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "82c6ce0d7e24fe8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1775.0", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [10th March]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Greek Army\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "I must confess that I listened with some impatience to the statements which have come from the other side of the House about the guerrillas and about the part which the Greeks played in the late war. There is unanimity in this House about the valour of the Resistance Movement of Greece—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-14", "file": "debates1947-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "82c6ce0d7e24fe8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1779.0", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [10th March]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "o confirm or correct whatever has been said. It really is no use hon. Gentlemen opposite twitting us for, not producing evidence for everything we may say on this matter. Evidence, in any strict sense of the word, is really not producible, and with respect to the hon. Gentleman the Member. for Central Cardiff (Mr. G. Thomas), he did not himself produce any evidence in the strict sense of the word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-14", "file": "debates1947-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "82c6ce0d7e24fe8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1786.0", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [10th March]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "r conclusions were pretty near the mark. First, let me say a word about the speech of the hon. Member for West Coventry (Mr. Edelman). He said that the Greeks wanted a broader Government. I think his advocacy was for a Coalition. It may be that we think a Coalition would be good for Greece, but the Greeks do not happen to think that it is good for them. That is just too bad; but it has to be faced", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1786.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-14", "file": "debates1947-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "82c6ce0d7e24fe8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1792.0", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [10th March]", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "For the Government.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "uidance in the conduct of this civil war in Greece. Remember that this civil war is a war which has been said to be unlike any civilised or normal type of warfare. It is a warfare in which horrible private vendettas are carried out, and whatever may be said of the atrocities committed by the Left Wing, we are not being asked to provide money for arms for the Left, but money for arms for the Right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-14", "file": "debates1947-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "82c6ce0d7e24fe8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1795.1", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [10th March]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": " for two reasons. The first is because economic essentials have not been present, and, secondly, it is because there has been continued political and social disturbance. But there has been a substantial degree of reconstruction. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs said earlier, it is true that roads, and to some degree railway travel, has been substantially restored.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-14", "file": "debates1947-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "82c6ce0d7e24fe8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1795.1", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [10th March]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "ntials have not been present, and, secondly, it is because there has been continued political and social disturbance. But there has been a substantial degree of reconstruction. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs said earlier, it is true that roads, and to some degree railway travel, has been substantially restored. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"]. Within the last 12 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-14", "file": "debates1947-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "82c6ce0d7e24fe8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1797.3", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [10th March]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should we?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "ar experience with a coalition, that the hardest thing to form in Greece is a coalition. I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman's life is going to be utterly ruined because the Derby is to be held on a Saturday and the Test Match postponed, but even those events could scarcely produce an extensive coalition in Greece. I have had some little experience in attempting to form a coalition in Greece.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-14", "file": "debates1947-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "82c6ce0d7e24fe8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1797.3", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [10th March]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Greek girls?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "ch are strictly not covered by the Estimate but are complementary to it. One of the things in which I find great pleasure is that the opinion of the ordinary Greek pers6n is much more likely to be formed by his acquaintance with the British soldiers who have been there than with the speeches made in this House. That is not a criticism of the House, it is rather a criticism of the Greek newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-14", "file": "debates1947-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "82c6ce0d7e24fe8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1799.5", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [10th March]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "Perhaps in my rather hurried remark about the Liberal Party I did a great injustice to the hon. Lady opposite, which I should never want to do. The bulk of Greek opinion is of a Liberal type. The bulk of the people are outside the disorder which has overtaken the country, and it is for the benefit of those people that this Supplementary Estimate has been spent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-14a.1799.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-17", "file": "debates1947-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "c9f3fa2b8a3ae7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-17a.4.0", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Before asking a supplementary question, may I be permitted to say, Mr. Speaker, that I am sure I speak for the whole House when I say how deeply we deplore these awful events? Are His Majesty's Government considering the relevance of these occurrences to their recent declaration of the new Indian policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-17a.3.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-17", "file": "debates1947-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "c9f3fa2b8a3ae7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-17a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BULGARIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman agree that gross exaggerations of trivial incidents like this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-17a.22.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-17", "file": "debates1947-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "c9f3fa2b8a3ae7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-17a.22.4", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BULGARIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say whether similar treatment is accorded by the Bulgarian Government to the missions and legations of countries which are under the domination of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-17a.22.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-17", "file": "debates1947-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "c9f3fa2b8a3ae7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-17a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SNOWBOUND AREAS (RELIEF MEASURES)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "If I may press the Minister upon that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-17a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-17", "file": "debates1947-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "c9f3fa2b8a3ae7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-17a.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SNOWBOUND AREAS (RELIEF MEASURES)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I do wish to press the Minister —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-17a.36.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-17", "file": "debates1947-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "c9f3fa2b8a3ae7e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-17a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The weather is worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "preceding_text": "tleman the Secretary of State said these officers were almost invariably right, and yet that there was much to be desired in the service they rendered. I am perpared to listen to the argument that there is still much to be learned in meteorology, but I would like an assurance from the Under-Secretary, not that there is much to be learned, but why for some reason or other meteorology has got worse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-17a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-18", "file": "debates1947-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3f00dbef00f73348", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-18a.176.4", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "It is not a miserable total as compared with the figure for Edinburgh before the war when labour and materials were in abundance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-18a.176.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-18", "file": "debates1947-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3f00dbef00f73348", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-18a.204.7", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty (Mr. John Dugdale)", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty (Mr. John Dugdale)", "preceding_text": "rtant year. At the moment some Departments have the difficult, but at the same time very stimulating, task of building and creating—building houses, factories and schools, and adjusting the financial system. Service Ministries, for one of which I am speaking, have the other side of the medal. My right hon. Friend the Minister of Health would never have built the houses which are being built today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-18a.204.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-18", "file": "debates1947-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3f00dbef00f73348", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-18a.204.7", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty (Mr. John Dugdale)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty (Mr. John Dugdale)", "preceding_text": "inancial system. Service Ministries, for one of which I am speaking, have the other side of the medal. My right hon. Friend the Minister of Health would never have built the houses which are being built today—[ Laughter ]—I knew that would happen. That was too easy for the Opposition to resist. Nor would my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade have had his successful export drive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-18a.204.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-18", "file": "debates1947-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3f00dbef00f73348", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-18a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "They are Departmental working parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-18a.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-18", "file": "debates1947-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3f00dbef00f73348", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-18a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "preceding_text": "Sometimes when I go to make speeches in the country I am introduced by my chairman with the words, \"Now we are ging to have a breath of fresh air from the sea.\" One really finds that a little exasperating. I can feel the members of my audience settling down with an anticipatory wriggle almost as if they were expecting to see the hairs on my chest pop out of my shirt. It is not at all a good thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-18a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-18", "file": "debates1947-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3f00dbef00f73348", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-18a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brendan Bracken", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is no reason for them to\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brendan Bracken", "preceding_text": "ment. Nobody could have attached more importance than the right hon. Gentleman did to the development of the Admiralty's scientific services, and what do we see now? We see that the Government have not even spent the modest sum that they put in their last year's Estimate to cover scientific services. Really, I do think that the Government must sometimes think that this is not a wholly adult House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-18a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-18", "file": "debates1947-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3f00dbef00f73348", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-18a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That means the right hon. Gentleman himself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": " Admiralty Office. We know that the Fleet has been greatly reduced; we know that hundreds of thousands of sailors have been demobilised, but I must say that the reduction in the expenditure of the Admiralty Office is lamentably insufficient. We have few men at sea, but the Admiralty is heavily barnacled by bureaucrats, and the blame for this must rest with the politicians, and not with the sailors", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-18a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-18", "file": "debates1947-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3f00dbef00f73348", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-18a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "d by the right hon. Gentleman, he will be pleased to know, I am sure, that so far as our modernisation schemes for the Royal Naval and Royal Marine barracks are concerned, we are getting outside architects to help from the Royal Institute of British Architects. I understand that they have been over to the most modern barracks in Germany, and we hope to get some benefit from what they have learned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-18a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-18", "file": "debates1947-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3f00dbef00f73348", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-18a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": " Exchequer said, that account must be taken of the need and hardship involved. But I suggest to the House that, in the case of the officers who received pensions under the 1919 Warrant, it was not a case of an ex gratia payment at all; it was a case of whether the Government were going to fulfil their obligations or not under that 1919 Warrant, and they did not do so. I have another point to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-18a.362.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-19", "file": "debates1947-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "36eeee7eb062b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.382.4", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "If the House desires, with your permission, Mr. Speaker, I am quite prepared to read the statement again at this moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-19", "file": "debates1947-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "36eeee7eb062b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "n, if every hon. Member of the House will search his soul and speak the truth. There has been talk from the other side of the House about restriction of this, that and the other. If there was time to discuss it there would be scope to speak of the need for restriction in profits. But the time has arrived for all concerned to get right down to brass tacks and to the survival of this nation as such—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-19", "file": "debates1947-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "36eeee7eb062b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joynson-Hicks", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a reflection on the British working man.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joynson-Hicks", "preceding_text": "eriod of shorter hours, less work, and an easier life by gaining Socialism in their time; it stands to reason that now they have Socialism in their time, they should put into practice those principles for which they have been working, because this is what the British workman has been fighting for, and having won, he has the commonsense to take advantage of those principles for which he has fought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-19", "file": "debates1947-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "36eeee7eb062b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.468.1", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "ss on a Sunday afternoon, they remember when 56 per cent. of them were unemployed, and they want to know what is going to happen next year, and the year after. They want to know what their chances are. Where there is no vision the people perish. Up to the moment we have lacked vision; for God's sake let us pull ourselves together. Our people will go anywhere, but they require a lead and direction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-19", "file": "debates1947-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "36eeee7eb062b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": "ing that would be all right, but unfortunately that is not so as I propose to show in a moment or so. There is a great deal of prejudice in this country against the employment of foreign labour. Some of it may be well founded but in my opinion it is out of date. Some of it is uninformed, ill-founded and arises largely from our inherent insularity. Some of it has been inspired by Moscow propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.494.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-19", "file": "debates1947-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "36eeee7eb062b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.499.0", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "rred to Moscow-inspired propaganda one of the things I had in mind was a report I read on the 18th February in an evening paper. It was a statement attributed to Mr. Will Lawther, the Mineworkers' President. This statement says: Mr. Lawther, the mineworkers president, told me, 'We are surprised there should be suggestions to introduce D.Ps. into the coal mines without consultation with our union'.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-19", "file": "debates1947-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "36eeee7eb062b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "eless to have the plan to which the right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister referred in his broadcast last night, if the will or the means to carry it out are lacking. I suggest to the House that the fundamental difficulty is that the right hon. Gentleman and his Government have twisted and distorted the normal price mechanism, by price controls, by limitation of every sort and by nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-19", "file": "debates1947-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "36eeee7eb062b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Private enterprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ncreased productivity in the mines. There has been—and I am sure all hon. Members have been glad to hear it—an increase in the last few months over the output per man year in 1945, but do hon. Members opposite realise that the level in 1945 was the lowest for a great many years, that it was roughly 50 tons per man year less than 1941, and marked the lowest stage of a steadily descending staircase?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-19", "file": "debates1947-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "36eeee7eb062b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "dy in this country should realise that what an hon. Member opposite called national survival depended upon everybody putting their heart into their job. I hope that hon. Members opposite will support the Prime Minister's appeal in that respect, and I hope that they will not hark back to their speeches of not so long ago when they advocated somewhat different courses. I do not want to go into that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-19", "file": "debates1947-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "36eeee7eb062b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ational survival depended upon everybody putting their heart into their job. I hope that hon. Members opposite will support the Prime Minister's appeal in that respect, and I hope that they will not hark back to their speeches of not so long ago when they advocated somewhat different courses. I do not want to go into that—[ Interruption. ] If hon. Members opposite so desire, I am only too willing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-19", "file": "debates1947-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "36eeee7eb062b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.517.1", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF MANPOWER", "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": "National Joint Advisory Council White Paper on the economic considerations. Equally, it has been recognised throughout the Debates that our economy is distorted and some of our basic and manufacturing industries have been seriously undermanned. In other words, not only are we short of manpower over the whole field, but what we have is wrongly deployed. I think there is general agreement upon that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-19", "file": "debates1947-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "36eeee7eb062b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.536.3", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [7th March]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ave the news on the front page that the four big railway unions were asking for an all-round increase of £I a week, and, in addition, the National Union of Railwaymen and the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen were asking for a reduction in hours from 48 to 40, and the railway clerks were claiming a reduction to 35 hours a week. If the railway clerks get a 35 hour week granted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-19", "file": "debates1947-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "36eeee7eb062b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [7th March]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "of the OFFICIAL REPORT—that it was to offset the increase in the price of men's suits and overcoats. That, he said, was why he wanted the extra £4½ million. He demands a vote of £4½ million to subsidise wages, and sell men's coats and overcoats at less than cost of production. I would ask, if men are prepared to pay real prices for their beer and tobacco, why not for their clothes? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-19", "file": "debates1947-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "36eeee7eb062b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [7th March]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ep our people warm. And that is planning. What I want to know is this: if we are to attract these 400,000 people back into the textile and clothing industry we can-not do it on the grounds that our factories are modern and up to date, because the industry is old, especially the spinning side. We cannot expect girls to come from modern wartime factories willingly to go into the old fashioned mills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-19", "file": "debates1947-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "36eeee7eb062b6b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [7th March]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "d that ground is higher wages. If we are going to get these 400,000 back into our industries we have to attract them by paying higher wages. I should like to remind the House that in the \"Ministry of Labour Gazette\" for October, 1946, which is the last one to give us any comparable figures for any of our industries, on page 273, these average wages are given—Cotton, 805.; wool, 775.; hosiery, 675.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-19a.540.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-20", "file": "debates1947-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5e05cb66d779bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-20a.580.0", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Titterington", "preceding_text": ", storage and the use of rag flock and other fillings? Is he aware that those recommendations arose out of the alleged infectious, contagious and distressing afflictions to which humanity is apparently heir? Is he also aware that humanity spends one-third of its time in physical contact with these materials in sleeping or sitting, and will he give close attention to implementing those regulations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-20a.579.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-20", "file": "debates1947-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5e05cb66d779bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-20a.588.6", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Disgusting.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am sorry the hon. Member drew attention to it. It was certainly in very bad taste.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-20a.588.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-20", "file": "debates1947-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5e05cb66d779bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-20a.589.7", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The less said the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-20a.589.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-20", "file": "debates1947-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5e05cb66d779bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-20a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Major Vernon", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Major Vernon", "preceding_text": " development is such that it can never lead to a condition of stability. The temptation to rapid, treacherous attack is tremendously greater. The sentence from the Minister's statement to which I would draw attention was the one in which he said that one of the purposes of our Armed Forces was Lo strengthen the hand of our spokesmen. This conveys the idea that the old time diplomacy still goes on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-20a.634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-20", "file": "debates1947-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5e05cb66d779bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-20a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "preceding_text": "most directly drawn attention in this country to the fact that in the new conditions of warfare that may be expected this country is in a most vulnerable position. Everybody knows that is true. What we have to face is the central fact of importance that if we allow ourselves again to be involved in a great war we in this country shall be extinguished. That is what it means. That is quite possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-20a.642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-20", "file": "debates1947-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5e05cb66d779bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-20a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "preceding_text": " to have responsibility for decision on these matters. We have to face the fact, unpalatable though it is, that the old position of Britain based on dominant sea power in all the seven seas of the world is an epoch which has passed. We have to face the realities of our situation. That kind of world domination will no longer be effective and we have, therefore, to think in new terms. I must finish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-20a.642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-20", "file": "debates1947-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5e05cb66d779bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-20a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "preceding_text": "ulty in foreseeing the future as those of us were who were in the Parliament that succeeded the last war. I heard exactly the same kind of speech made in 1918 by hon. Gentlemen who had within them that real desire that we all have, that some organisation should be set up to make war impossible. We all believed in the League of Nations; we all tried to make it succeed, and I think we must remember—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-20a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-20", "file": "debates1947-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5e05cb66d779bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-20a.646.2", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What enemy? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "preceding_text": "ch detailed evidence. I beg the House—and I am speaking with some sense of responsibility—I really was astonished during the whole of the Debates on the Army, Navy and Air Estimates at the concensus of opinion on all sides of the House that more information should be published. We have to evolve something in the machinery of this House which will prevent us giving information to a potential enemy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-20a.646.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-20", "file": "debates1947-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5e05cb66d779bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-20a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Low", "preceding_text": "ch of the Governor-General. There have also been references to this matter by leading statesmen in Canada and South Africa. In Canada, in the course of discussions, a member of their House stressed the importance of cooperating with members of the British Commonwealth, which he said was the greatest team for defence that the world has ever known. He is actually a member of the Social Credit Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-20a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-20", "file": "debates1947-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5e05cb66d779bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-20a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkes", "preceding_text": "to alter their dispositions according to the manpower ceiling that had been given to them. I want to end upon a constructive note. I hope that we shall get an answer to the points we have raised. I was glad to hear the speech of the hon. and gallant Member for North Blackpool (Brigadier Low), whose contributions are well above the average of what we have come to expect from that side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-20a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-21", "file": "debates1947-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ad2f1aa20f02afe2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-21a.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "WAR DAMAGE (INCREASE OF VALUE PAYMENTS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " it has been common knowledge, and it has been admitted by all Ministers in successive Governments when they have had to deal with these things since the end of the war, that this basis of value payments would give quite inadequate amounts to those concerned, and a terrible word called \"escalation\" has crept into these discussions. I have used it myself on occasions, but I prefer to say increase.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-21a.729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-24", "file": "debates1947-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f7ff2aa70d205b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-24a.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "FLOODED FARM LANDS (GOVERNMENT AID)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliott", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliott", "preceding_text": "May I press the Secretary of State for Scotland on the point which has been raised by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Perth (Colonel Gomme-Duncan) concerning the disaster in Scotland, which is comparable with the disaster in the Fens?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-24a.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-24", "file": "debates1947-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f7ff2aa70d205b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-24a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT AND IMPORT TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lent to the world, not the Empire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "preceding_text": "as anxious as they are to see the Empire prosper, but we are equally emphatic in saying that the one way to prevent the Empire prospering is by fostering Imperial Preference. That is not a disagreement about the Empire. The right hon. and gallant Gentleman provided a very interesting illustration. Later in his speech he said that we had lent £8,000 million and £4,000 million of that had been lost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-24a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-24", "file": "debates1947-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f7ff2aa70d205b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-24a.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT AND IMPORT TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And France.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "preceding_text": "d many people who passed resolutions about collective security, but when the actual day of crisis came, the only countries which came to our assistance voluntarily were the four great free Dominions of Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. The only countries that declared war voluntarily in the last war were the countries of the British Empire. The others fought when they were attacked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-24a.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-24", "file": "debates1947-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f7ff2aa70d205b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-24a.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT AND IMPORT TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "h Square, to explain these things to their people. It could be that what our comrades are asking for is greater leisure to eat less food, more time to wear fewer clothes, greater leisure in which to see fewer of the more bedworthy denizens of Hollywood, more time in which to drink less ale and to smoke fewer cigarettes. That is what they may well be asking for. I apologise for detaining the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-24a.906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-24", "file": "debates1947-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f7ff2aa70d205b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-24a.962.1", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT AND IMPORT TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": " used words to much the same effect. The President of the Board of Trade said in the House, on 10th March, that exports must be a prior charge on our resources, and that we should have to content ourselves with what was left over, and nothing that he said today in any way detracted from that. Is that the best thing that statesmanship can do at this time? Do we have to work our fingers to the bone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-24a.962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-24", "file": "debates1947-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f7ff2aa70d205b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-24a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT AND IMPORT TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shawcross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Adolf Hitler's.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shawcross", "preceding_text": "here are many small items imported from America and other hard currency countries, which really do not seem necessary to the ordinary working people of this country. The noble Lord also referred to the state of this country in comparison with Belgium. One of the things which he mentioned as, I suppose, an important factor, was the worn out condition of factories and machinery. Whose fault is that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-24a.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-24", "file": "debates1947-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f7ff2aa70d205b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-24a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT AND IMPORT TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shawcross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shawcross", "preceding_text": "eferred to the state of this country in comparison with Belgium. One of the things which he mentioned as, I suppose, an important factor, was the worn out condition of factories and machinery. Whose fault is that? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Adolf Hitler's.\"] I am not aware that Hitler had anything to do with the wearing out of factories or machinery. The amount of damage to factories was comparatively small.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-24a.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-24", "file": "debates1947-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f7ff2aa70d205b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-24a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "oral to do so. After all that we have said about the policy that the Germans themselves pursued in this matter in the way of the enslavement of millions of people in order to serve their national end, and for no other reason than that the Germans had the power to enslave them, it is wrong that, because we have harvest difficulties, because we have difficulties imposed upon us as a result of flood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-24a.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-25", "file": "debates1947-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "99b2b77a8c240f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-25a.1062.0", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "ration the views of a large number of officers and men of all ranks, and drawn from all branches of the Army, were obtained. The estimated cost of red cloth is approximately twice that of blue or green. The general public has not seen the Army, apart from Household Troops and regimental bands, in scarlet for over 30 years, and it was felt that this colour would no longer appeal to popular opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-25a.1062.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-25", "file": "debates1947-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "99b2b77a8c240f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-25a.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERS' RESIDENCES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "Is this how the commissars of England feather their nests?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-25a.1075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-25", "file": "debates1947-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "99b2b77a8c240f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-25a.1081.4", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RURAL HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ers than of houses for agricultural workers. The estimated number of inhabited houses in the rural areas is about 2,225,000, representing some 17 per cent. of the population. That is the broad picture of the situation as it is now. What is required? It is perfectly clear, for one thing, that a great many of the existing houses in rural areas are bad and old. After all, the countryside has existed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-25a.1081.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-25", "file": "debates1947-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "99b2b77a8c240f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-25a.1087.3", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RURAL HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " how sorry I am that we should have initiated this Debate in the absence of the Minister of Health himself, but urgent problems cannot always wait. We did hope that by now the right hon. Gentleman would be well enough to be back with us. Certainly the Parliamentary Secretary is capable of dealing with the matters which I have put before him. Nothing that I have said today has been startlingly new.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-25a.1087.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-25", "file": "debates1947-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "99b2b77a8c240f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-25a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RURAL HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "s is still not opened. I hope we shall make use of all available capacity. I would like to say a word as one of those who signed the Hobhouse Report on reconditioning. I have always thought that hon. Gentlemen above the Gangway have greatly exaggerated the importance of reconditioning. They have always spoken about it as though it were an instrument for revolutionising housing in the country side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-25a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-25", "file": "debates1947-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "99b2b77a8c240f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-25a.1126.1", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RURAL HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "ly. One must be one's own judge on moral questions. The Hobhouse Committee is not there to tell me what is right but to make certain public recommendations, which it has made. I would like to say one word more about reconditioning. It seems to me that reconditioning is not the same thing in most cases as repair, and there has been a tendency on the benches opposite to treat them as the same thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-25a.1126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-25", "file": "debates1947-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "99b2b77a8c240f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-25a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RURAL HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the same.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": " it has been used very much today. I do not like the word \"reconditioning\" in connection with housing. So much do I dislike it, that when I was responsible for setting up a sub-committee of the Housing Advisory Committee for Scotland, and giving them a remit—we use the word \"remit,\" whereas in England the term \"reference\" is used—I never used the word \"reconditioning\" but the word \"modernisation\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-25a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-25", "file": "debates1947-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "99b2b77a8c240f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-25a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RURAL HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "h complaint has been made. Incidentally, sometimes my difficulties in getting printing done are a little more difficult in Scotland than in England. I prefer to have the delay and have the printing done in Glasgow than to send the order for printing to London. I do not think any of my Scottish colleagues on either side of the House will complain about that. A word about what we are actually doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-25a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-25", "file": "debates1947-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "99b2b77a8c240f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-25a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RURAL HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "I would hope to be in a position to make an announcement as to Government policy towards the end of July. I have tried in the limited time at my disposal to deal with questions raised in a United Kingdom Debate dealing with both England and Scotland. There is one thing this House can rest assured on. The agricultural community must get a fairer deal in the future than it has received in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-25a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-26", "file": "debates1947-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "18a2c2275033aa8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-26a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL COMMISSION ON PRESS (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "Will it be erased from HANSARD, Mr. Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-26a.1234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-26", "file": "debates1947-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "18a2c2275033aa8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-26a.1237.7", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that that reply will give great satisfaction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-26a.1237.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-26", "file": "debates1947-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "18a2c2275033aa8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-26a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "e increased cost of labour, paper and printing, the cost would have been much higher, and it is for that reason that I say we should be well advised to lay down a definite figure. If we leave the matter vague and indefinite, a certain pressure may come from the Treasury, as a result of which the charge might go up to 6d., and we should know nothing about it. That is the way these charges do go up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-26a.1245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-26", "file": "debates1947-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "18a2c2275033aa8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-26a.1256.8", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "he man's pay, whereas in the case of officers, no matter how unworthy an officer's behaviour, no matter how he neglected his domestic obligations, and no matter how completely those facts were established to the satisfaction of a civil court and an order made, there were no means left of making an officer pay if he was unwilling to do so. That was wrong, and it ought to have been amended long ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-26a.1256.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-26", "file": "debates1947-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "18a2c2275033aa8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-26a.1256.8", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": " The Clause as it is now drawn exempts him from that. If he is demobilised, then in spite of the fact that he had for years, while in receipt of good pay and allowances, wilfully neglected his domestic responsibilities, he would still be protected, although his service was ended. The order could not be enforced by imprisonment because of the fact that he had means during the period of his service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-26a.1256.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-26", "file": "debates1947-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "18a2c2275033aa8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-26a.1281.2", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "In this very intricate argument, while I know that my hon. and learned Friends are well versed in war", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-26a.1281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-26", "file": "debates1947-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "18a2c2275033aa8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-26a.1299.6", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Wells", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend in that last sentence that my hon. Friends and I have been actuated in putting down this Clause. It has not always been the fact, in the history of the Services, that the Navy has been first in the field with reforms, though it has always held pride of place in the affections of the nation, and I would say that, at least in welfare matters, the Army has probably led the other Services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-26a.1299.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-26", "file": "debates1947-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "18a2c2275033aa8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-26a.1333.0", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "Mr. Churchill) or the right hon. Member for Warwick and Learning-ton (Mr. Eden) should ask for a date on which the discuss the whole question of court-martial law when that Committee reports. I am quite sure the hon. Gentleman opposite who has just spoken only said it as a joke, but I should regard it as most injurious if that sort of thing were said by one colleague in this House against another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-26a.1333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-26", "file": "debates1947-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "18a2c2275033aa8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-26a.1360.0", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORESTRY BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "is today. For that reason I think the compensation should be very much lower than three per cent., unless the Minister really wants to go against the Chancellor's wishes. May I be allowed to say one other thing? Forestry does not particularly affect my constituency, but I thoroughly agree with one hon. Member in all these matters, that it is best to agree to what the Communist Party boss asks for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-26a.1360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-27", "file": "debates1947-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "163f6db6abc81848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-27a.1380.8", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "This Mr. Smith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-27a.1380.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-27", "file": "debates1947-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "163f6db6abc81848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-27a.1408.1", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I hope that after Easter the position will be eased, but I would point out that there is a tendency on the part of hon. Members in Standing Committees to talk a little too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-27a.1408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-27", "file": "debates1947-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "163f6db6abc81848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-27a.1424.1", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRE SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "t last year, and I know that he is held in great affection and esteem both by the Police and by the Fire Service of the country. When this Service was taken over from the local authorities in 1941, a pledge was given in the name of the Government of the day that when the war was over it would be returned to local government. It is in fulfilment of that pledge that the Bill is being promoted today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-27a.1424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-27", "file": "debates1947-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "163f6db6abc81848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-27a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRE SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. Jones", "preceding_text": "idered desirable. There was no need for 1,440 separate fire authorities to remain in existence. By the powers contained in Clauses 5 and 6 they could have been reduced to a smaller total, each authority being of a serviceable size. This whittling away of the power of the medium-sized local authorities one after the other is undermining the respect in which local government is held in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-27a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-27", "file": "debates1947-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "163f6db6abc81848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-27a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRE SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "preceding_text": " welcome it, and I hope there may be a combination of efficiency with that local patriotism that some of us admire so much in provincial towns. It is said that if there had been an attempt to deal with Birmingham in the same manner as London has been dealt with there would have been a revolution in the Midlands. Certainly the tragi-comedy of Waterloo Bridge could never have happened in Birmingham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-27a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-27", "file": "debates1947-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "163f6db6abc81848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-27a.1511.1", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRE SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Oliver)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait a few months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Oliver)", "preceding_text": "notwithstanding the fact that he had made objections against it. Unlike those cases, in the case of the fire services a promise was given that when they were nationalised they would be denationalised. In the nationalisation schemes which have taken place recently, no such promise was given. I do not suppose the right hon. Gentleman will enjoy in his lifetime an opportunity of denationalising them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-27a.1511.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-27", "file": "debates1947-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "163f6db6abc81848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-27a.1519.0", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRE SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members.", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "preceding_text": "n speaking at a very rapid rate, I have not been able to get through one quarter of the points which have been raised as I promised to sit down by two minutes to ten. I ask the House to let us have this Bill tonight because many, if not most of the points can be dealt with in Committee. I think on the discussion which has taken place that there is a unanimous opinion that this is a very good Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-27a.1518.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-28", "file": "debates1947-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "338f5ff2c7e4ab25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-28a.1532.1", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATIES OF PEACE (ITALY, ROUMANIA, BULGARIA, HUNGARY AND FINLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "This does not look like a very great occasion and perhaps, if there were any doubt about that, the fact that I am rising at this stage will remove all doubts. Yet in a sense this clearly is a very great occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-28a.1532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-28", "file": "debates1947-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "338f5ff2c7e4ab25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-28a.1570.1", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATIES OF PEACE (ITALY, ROUMANIA, BULGARIA, HUNGARY AND FINLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": "an but it was completely dominated by the Italian frontier, and in order to give France security, there has been a very slight rectification of the frontier there. I only regret that the French demand was not fully acceded to and that the question of Mont Genèvre was not also settled. Hon. Members will remember that it was by the Pass of Mont Genèvre that Hannibal crossed into Italy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-28a.1570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-28", "file": "debates1947-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "338f5ff2c7e4ab25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-28a.1570.1", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATIES OF PEACE (ITALY, ROUMANIA, BULGARIA, HUNGARY AND FINLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We could do with it here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": "flow of the River Pellice which otherwise would have flooded the village of Bobbio. If only the Duke of Bedford, when draining the Fens, had erected such a wall, we should not have been faced with the catastrophe with which His Majesty's Government are confronted today. Cromwell's wall is still standing, it is still effective, it protected the village only the other day from another serious flood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-28a.1570.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-03-31", "file": "debates1947-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3c56efa528faf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1654.2", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL COMMISSION ON PRESS (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that of the members of the Press Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-31", "file": "debates1947-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3c56efa528faf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1674.1", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"'Even'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "h thought or suggestion. I think that everyone of our people, who so willingly responded in the war when they had the clarion call from the then Prime Minister, deserves credit for the way they devoted themselves to the job. To pick out any one as against another, and to try to draw a distinction between them, is not reasonable or fair. Even the \"footslogger\" did his bit, with the training he had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-31", "file": "debates1947-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3c56efa528faf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1695.1", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "is matter, and that he will be able on all occasions to give the fullest possible assistance to the Minister of Defence, in order that the matter may be viewed from a central point of view. General Montgomery is a very gifted man, and I hope that he will be close to the Minister of Defence in all the months that are to come. I am very grateful to the House for giving me so much of their attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-31", "file": "debates1947-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3c56efa528faf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1705.3", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "as certainly different from the one he is playing here today. I know what the working classes think of the right hon. Gentleman, but I dare not quote in this place the language they employ in coal mines and factories about him. Nevertheless, he is a man whom I respect for his genius, but I say alto that he has brought more ruin upon this country and upon Europe than any other statesman of our time", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1705.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-31", "file": "debates1947-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3c56efa528faf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1718.3", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "ons in this Parliament when the Government have been guilty of political tergiversation, and when we on this side of the House have allowed it to go by. We intend to allow it to go by this time, because we believe that there are overriding factors which must be borne in mind. The hon. Lady said that she was speaking for the mothers of this country. May I also speak for the fathers of this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1718.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-31", "file": "debates1947-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3c56efa528faf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1721.1", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "een in the House a long time, and I have opposed every conscription Measure that has been brought before the House during those years. Of all the previous Bills, there is none which has filled me with so much dismay and regret as the present Measure. One hon. Member has said that if this Bill had been, introduced by a Conservative Government, every Member of the Labour Party would have opposed it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-31", "file": "debates1947-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3c56efa528faf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1729.1", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gould", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gould", "preceding_text": " someone says, \"I may be old fashioned, but I like to think of the girls at home,\" and when somebody else says, \"Well, there would be too many of them,\" and so on, I do feel that that is all escapism from the realities. There is no need to have too many of them, if we expand the Forces properly, particularly if we take only the single women. It may be said that that is pushing women into marriage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-31", "file": "debates1947-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3c56efa528faf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1738.3", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wigg", "preceding_text": ", and particularly the Chief Liberal Whip, must be careful because their role is extremely important. I do not think, however, their party has much future. The Chief Liberal Whip wants to be careful, because the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford is a very skilled body-snatcher, and the Chief Whip should keep a watchful eye on his party, otherwise some may disappear in front of his nose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1738.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-31", "file": "debates1947-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3c56efa528faf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1769.1", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It lost.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "ness and desertion among their comrades. This must not be allowed to happen in any way in our Army. The first thing we have to do is to keep the Regular Army, as a whole, more or less separate from the conscripts. That is most important. I will give another reactionary argument to support that claim also. I think the German Army was the most efficient, from the military standpoint, during the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-31", "file": "debates1947-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3c56efa528faf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1780.1", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "am perfectly certain the hon. Member himself would accept were he here, namely, that that speech should have been delivered from the Front bench. The hon. Member for Aston attempted, at any rate, to do what so far has not been attempted from the Front bench, to justify with facts and figures the necessity for this Bill. The right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Labour, in his admirably read speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-31", "file": "debates1947-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3c56efa528faf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1789.1", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "ould be accepted by the Government. The hon. Member for West Ealing (Mr. J. Hudson) said the right hon. Gentleman had altered his opinion as a result of certain pressure. I say that the Minister has not altered his opinion one iota. If there has been pressure, it has been brought about by the Members of the Government. The Government have determined it for him, and he has had to come to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-31", "file": "debates1947-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3c56efa528faf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1789.1", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "e to develop another park in the Southern part of London—an excellent idea. In this particular park they themselves, as a county council, hope to do the job as direct contractors. In London parks today—Kensington Gardens, Hampton Court, wherever one cares to go—one may partake of a meal. If you do not wish to partake of a meal and wish to ask for half a pint of lager, or a liqueur, or an aperitif—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-03-31", "file": "debates1947-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3c56efa528faf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1793.1", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIC RESTAURANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": " But I would add that no hon. Member has given the real reason for this Amendment. Everyone knows that the Minister wishes to make these civic restaurants a success, and everyone also knows that there is a shortage of beer and stout. It would be an awfully bad advertisment for these restaurants if anyone should put up a notice in them to this effect: No more beer. No more stout, You put them in \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-03-31a.1793.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1821.6", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Officers need more cleaning.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend say why there is this disparity in the provision of an essential service According to rank?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1821.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1837.2", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "We have already heard from my hon. Friend that there is great doubt as to when a balance sheet is a balance sheet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1837.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1856.1", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "ge which had been given before the Election, and the pledge which had been repeated exactly four weeks before the Bill was introduced. Although war was looming up at that time, although Czechoslovakia lay under the heel of Germany, and we knew that the terrible moment had to come when we would call a halt, the right hon. Gentleman opposite and every Member of that party voted against conscription.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1859.3", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "In time of war, when this country was threatened, I together with some right hon. Gentlemen opposite was urging that great Measure, passed through this House in about 10 minutes, which laid it down that in that time of grim necessity not only should we call in all the men and even the women, but that all our resources should be flung into the common pool for the defence of everything we held dear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1859.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1862.1", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " some other difficulty arises. What is there in logic or in any form of argument, to prevent someone standing at that Box and saying, \"The country is in danger and we have now got to use our young men to meet the situation?\" We are doing it even today. We have just had this tremendous blizzard, and extraordinary occurrences have taken place in the Fen district. The Army has been rushed in to help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1863.1", "colnum": "1863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I was not pressing that point, but may I repeat it in an elementary way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1863.1", "colnum": "1863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "s illustrating my point by that relatively small incident—small, though it affects the welfare of some thousands of people. In this necessity we can turn to the Army and use it; whether they are conscripts or volunteers, it just points the moral of the danger of introducing conscription in time of peace, namely, that it can then be introduced also for industrial purposes whenever the need is felt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1863.1", "colnum": "1863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "n 1938-1939, but what we could get under a voluntary system? We have not yet had a reply to that question. May we have one tonight? With regard to Commonwealth and overseas communications, what are they compared with what our position was at the end of the 1914-18 war? In 14 months' time, we shall be withdrawing from India. We are already withdrawing from Egypt. We shall be withdrawing from Burma.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1866.2", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "have been conscribed for military service. With regard to the third heading, we all ought to play our part with regard to United Nations obligations. It is there that really lies the peace of the world. But what is the position? We already have in this country conscription that will carry us to the end of 1948. Have the Government no hopes of getting the United Nations upon a proper working basis?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1866.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1868.3", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Fifteen years ago there was a small minority in the Labour movement fighting against overwhelming odds; 15 years ago I was one of the small group who stood for rearmament, in order to save the League of Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1868.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1868.3", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " be allowed to make my own speech. Fifteen years ago there was in the Labour Party a very small minority which stood for the things that are now accepted by the Government of the day, and I believe that we should extend to the minority who disagree with us on this Bill the same respect as the majority afforded to us at that time. This subject has been a continual problem within the Labour movement", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1868.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1870.1", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Switzerland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " show a little later why there has been a change since 1920. I think we ought to note one fact: every country in Europe which can be directly invaded by land has had conscription, and the two major countries which up till now could not be invaded by land, Britain and America, have not had conscription. I do not claim that there is anything final about this argument, but I think it should be noted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1870.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1871.6", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1871.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1872.3", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ere quite wrong to do so. I think many people on our Front Bench would agree with me that they should have seen the realities in 1939 as clearly as the mass of our people. The mass of our people had seen the change of situation since 1920. In 1939 they accepted the necessity, and there was scarcely a ripple in the country when conscription was actually introduced. There were a number of pacifists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1872.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1873.1", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ing from Britain. I come now to 1938. I happened to be in Czechoslovakia during the period of the May elections, when the Czech Army mobilized—one of the most heroic things I have ever seen, a small nation mobilising. But it was embarrassing to me, as a British Socialist, when Czech Socialists came to me and said, \"I notice you are still voting against re-armament.\" It made no sense to the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1874.1", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "eny the Government nationalisation of transport, or something of that sort, to bring pressure to bear on them? I want to change foreign policy, and I hope that in a year or two, we shall have changed it, but we shall have to have defence meanwhile as a means of carrying out that foreign policy. If any hon. Member believes that a Labour Foreign Secretary does not require an Army, Navy or Air Force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1876.3", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Navy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " more—strategically. If we are part of Europe, and want to play our part in leading Europe, we must pass what Europe regards as the acid test of British Socialism—acceptance of national service. How would a Frenchman react to what I have heard one hon. Member say, \"All conscript armies are defeated\"? He knows that the reason why the French Army was overwhelmed was because we did not come in time.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1886.5", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulvey", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulvey", "preceding_text": "It is a question. Can the right hon. Gentleman give any indication to the House as to how conscription can be effectively enforced in Southern Ireland? Can he further explain to the House what measures would be necessary to keep the followers of his own party from absconding across the Border to avoid conscription?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1886.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1886.10", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulvey", "preceding_text": "When conscription was threatened before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1886.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1887.5", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Four hundred and fifty thousand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "ment. For some years now our birthrate has been falling. Just before the war there were 417,000 young people of 18 in this country. In 1950 that will have fallen to 295,000, and this Bill takes 210,000 of those out of industry. In the circumstances of this crisis, the idea of still having in a years' time over one million men in the Forces—there are far more now, of course—supplied by 350,000 men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1887.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1890.0", "colnum": "1890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "iated, and the time to decide our contribution is when they are negotiated. In any case, that is not an argument for conscription either now or then. As to our commitments, we do not know what they are. It is absolutely monstrous that this House should be asked to vote Estimates without being told where our troops or ships are stationed and in what numbers they are in different parts of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1890.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1890.0", "colnum": "1890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Crete?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "d (Wing-Commander Millington) what he thought of this apocalyptic vision of descending furies and paratroopers, he said, \"Give me a few squadrons of fighter planes, and I would drown the whole lot in the sea long before they got to this country.\" My hon. and gallant Friend explained that in the last war a few squadrons of Whirlwinds destroyed, in a few minutes, two divisions of Germans in the air.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1890.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1897.1", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "y'. We, no doubt, on our side of the House, could, if we liked, have also made our decision an easy one. I noticed that my Sunday paper, last Sunday, was full of the events of what was described as the biggest sporting day of the year. The semifinals of the Cup, the Grand National, the Boat Race, and a speech by the Attorney-General. This speech was full of bitter complaint against the Tory Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1909.1", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "being an ally in a secret alliance. I hope that whoever is to reply to the Debate from the Government Front Bench will give us some information on that. Are we a party to this holy alliance? Are we to supply the men and the strategic bases, and they the money? The United States dare not bring in conscription in their own country. Why should they, if they can bring it into being in a debtor nation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1913.1", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Socialism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": " brasshats have told them? They say, \"We must have conscription, we must have more men.\" Every Debate in the House has proved that they could not utilise the services of the men they have already. We receive letter after letter showing that. I had a letter only this morning from a man about the time that was wasted and the stuff that was being disgracefully stolen in one of the navaldepôts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1913.1", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "ld not accept anything from any leader without question, and is prepared to examine the whole case on its merits, and on the merits of the case, up to the moment, the Government are cutting a very sorry figure. I am sorry I have to go into the Lobby against them. There is no question about it—this is the beginning of a real crack in the Parliamentary Labour Party. Do not make any mistake about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1914.3", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "For the simple reason that it is necessary to do so for people like the hon. Member who support the Government blindly. Sops have been thrown out to us. I have received several hints that if we were to ask for the period to be reduced for a year, we might get it reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1914.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1937.2", "colnum": "1937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "d he suggested, I think, that this proposal was contrary to all the practices of Liberal philosophy. With great respect, I think the right hon. and learned Gentleman is wrong on both counts. It is not a fact that compulsory service in this country in times of peace is without precedent. Surely, from the very earliest times, and we can go back to the days of King Arthur, up to the time of Napoleon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1937.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1939.1", "colnum": "1939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "y the left wing of the Labour Party, to which the right hon. and learned Gentleman has been steadily moving for such a considerable time with such obvious satisfaction to himself. We have observed it. He used to sit on our Benches, then he moved in front of us and before very long he will be over on the other side of the House. I assert—and I have some right to speak for the Liberal point of view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1939.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1949.2", "colnum": "1949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. A. V. Alexander)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1953.3", "colnum": "1953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "ht were most capably answered today by my hon. Friend the Member for East Coventry (Mr. Crossman), but I will say to my hon. Friend the Member for Gateshead that it would not be the first time by any means that a Government in office in the last quarter of a century or more has been asked to show its faith in some existing or future international organisation by engaging in unilateral disarmament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1953.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1957.3", "colnum": "1957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What numbers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "re the House further that these forces will continue to be reduced; it must not be assumed by my hon. Friends that this is a sort of static figure of forces which must be maintained indefinitely in future. Therefore, I would like to add to that, what is the general aim of the Government in this matter of forces. It is that we should obtain a regular force of minimum numbers and maximum efficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1957.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1969.6", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAFALGAR ESTATES (Re-committed) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " provides of Lord Nelson's merits laying the foundations of a distinguished family? We tonight ought to recognise the fact that we are tonight bringing to an end the material means by which that family can be maintained in dignity and honour. It may be right for the House to do what it is doing; what could never be right is that it should not recognise exactly what it is doing. Times have changed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1969.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1974.4", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAFALGAR ESTATES (Re-committed) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And are not receiving it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "uld like to say that I represent a naval constituency, and I, too, have been asked questions and have heard statements made on this subject. But I should not like to repeat the remarks to this House which have been used by some of the people at those meetings because the language would not bear repetition. There are naval pensioners who have not received the money which they should have received.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1974.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1977.1", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAFALGAR ESTATES (Re-committed) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil, Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil, Hall", "preceding_text": "efore, I think there is little or nothing in that point. As a matter of fact, taking the pension over the period since it was first granted, the Nelson family has received more than £700,000; and I can assure the hon. Gentleman that Income Tax during most of that time was either non-existent or very modest. In the year 1887, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who introduced this Bill, was born—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1980.2", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAFALGAR ESTATES (Re-committed) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": " say that we would put an end to them in the same way. Having issued that little warning, I wish to say a word or two about the only material matter in the Financial Secretary's speech. He talked about the generosity of the Government in giving a pension for two lives for Lord Nelson and his heir. Of course, he did not disclose to the Committee that both these gentlemen are nearly 90 years of age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1980.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1980.4", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAFALGAR ESTATES (Re-committed) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "nd now he has to fall back on the argument that perhaps they will go on living a long time more. Let me say to the Financial Secretary that I do not withdraw the word \"bilking.\" I repeat it, and I say that it does not lie in his mouth to talk as he has done tonight. If the Nelson family could get £2,000 a year free of Income Tax to keep up the house they live in, they would accept it very rapidly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1980.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1988.5", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAFALGAR ESTATES (Re-committed) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "The whole tendency of our public life today, dominated as it is by the Socialist Government, is to destroy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1988.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1988.12", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAFALGAR ESTATES (Re-committed) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "Since the hon. Member has been called to Order three times is he entitled to continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.1988.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.2000.7", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAFALGAR ESTATES (Re-committed) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "No, I am sorry. There can be no argument about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.2000.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.2001.1", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAFALGAR ESTATES (Re-committed) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why should he?", "preceding_speaker": "Major Poole", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman who was greeted with sneers and so on by the rest of the House, did not give way to allow me to ask him a perfectly simple question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.2001.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-01", "file": "debates1947-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "08b7347ee8ee1ea4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.2002.1", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAFALGAR ESTATES (Re-committed) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Do not worry.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Poole", "preceding_text": "I entirely accept that. All I wanted to do was to ask the hon. and gallant Member a perfectly simple question. Would he, on the basis of his argument, give us a categorical assurance that in no circumstances would any Conservative Government—if ever there should be a Conservative Government—repeal or alter any of the legislation passed by this Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-01a.2002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-02", "file": "debates1947-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "ddeabe39b3ee1574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2021.7", "colnum": "2021", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "That, I think, is a question that ought to be addressed to the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2021.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-02", "file": "debates1947-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "ddeabe39b3ee1574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2041.9", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"140 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "Members that the shortage of steel will cause almost as many difficulties to industry this year as the shortage of coal. Yet the production of steel is limited in its turn by the availability of coal. What priorities have the Government in mind for allocating available steel production? Will adequate steel be available, for instance, to achieve our export target of 135 per cent. of the 1938 level—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2041.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-02", "file": "debates1947-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "ddeabe39b3ee1574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2055.0", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And more manpower.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "nd gallant Gentleman is quite right, it is an old problem. But he had to deal with it as the general manager of a group of collieries during the war, yet we received many complaints during the war about the inferior quality of coal and its low calorific value. He was quite unable to deal with it. The matter cannot be dealt with until, as I have said, we get the machinery essential for the purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-02", "file": "debates1947-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "ddeabe39b3ee1574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2056.3", "colnum": "2056", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rub it in.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "of coal to be produced this year, or the target set for this year, they had in mind the calendar year. We prefer to take the coal year, because it may represent a difference. I will venture to indicate where that difference lies. In the last three months, in spite of the severe climatic conditions—no one will dispute them now, though there was some doubt on the subject some six or seven weeks ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2056.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-02", "file": "debates1947-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "ddeabe39b3ee1574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2067.1", "colnum": "2067", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "Not the Tory Housewives League?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2067.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-02", "file": "debates1947-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "ddeabe39b3ee1574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2072.7", "colnum": "2072", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "I am sure the right hon. hon. Gentleman does not wish to misrepresent me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2072.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-02", "file": "debates1947-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "ddeabe39b3ee1574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2075.1", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Lancaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Lancaster", "preceding_text": "curately on the crux of the situation. Dirt arises in the pit, not on the surface, and the deterioration started, as all deterioration in our conditions started, in 1941, not because the seams suddenly got dirtier or because there was a different method of winning the coal, but because—and this is not a contentious point—of the lack of discipline. I mean discipline in the highest sense in the pit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-02", "file": "debates1947-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "ddeabe39b3ee1574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2115.1", "colnum": "2115", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How does the hon. and learned Member know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "I have always believed was a strong consideration in the Government's approach to this question. I had always understood that the attitude of the Government with regard to reduced working hours was that they could not be justified unless it was ensured that they did not reduce output. It is a rather remarkable fact that the right hon. Gentleman has not taken that fact into his calculations at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-02", "file": "debates1947-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "ddeabe39b3ee1574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2115.1", "colnum": "2115", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No-body knows.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "ut. It is a rather remarkable fact that the right hon. Gentleman has not taken that fact into his calculations at all. [An HON. MEMBER: \"How does the hon. and learned Member know?\"] Because the right hon. Gentleman said so himself in his speech. I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman who interrupted was here, but the right hon. Gentleman the Minister said he did not know what the effect will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-02", "file": "debates1947-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "ddeabe39b3ee1574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2120.1", "colnum": "2120", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is less.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "preceding_text": "s, we know that in prewar days, when quite a small percentage of the workers were lucky enough to go away for a holiday—very few compared with the number that went last year and the number who hope to go this year—there were far more trains on the ordinary service than there are now. To cut the train service by 10 per cent. is panic economy, because it represents only one day's production of coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-02", "file": "debates1947-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "ddeabe39b3ee1574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2129.1", "colnum": "2129", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "It is being brought in. It is, in these circumstances, obviously a matter of doubt, and we admit it, what precisely will be the rate of production in these months. The difficulty in the situation is that if we are 10 per cent. wrong in our estimate, of course, it makes all the difference in the world. That is part of the coal dilemma.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-02", "file": "debates1947-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "ddeabe39b3ee1574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2132.2", "colnum": "2132", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Some miners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "Do not hon. Members realise that that sort of argument is putting the miner in the wrong light in the country? The miner is getting on an average more coal than in 1938.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-02", "file": "debates1947-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "ddeabe39b3ee1574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2152.1", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATIES OF PEACE (ITALY, ROUMANIA, BULGARIA, HUNGARY AND FINLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "o add is that really on this sort of point the right hon. Gentleman made a slight error—I do not suggest an error of wickedness, so to speak, but a slight error of judgment—in using at this particular point the argument about Parliamentary pressure. The business of His Majesty's Government is to govern the country to enforce the law and to arrange the relations of this country with foreign Powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-02", "file": "debates1947-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "ddeabe39b3ee1574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2182.1", "colnum": "2182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State quite right in saying that it is a consolidating Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-02", "file": "debates1947-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "ddeabe39b3ee1574", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2183.3", "colnum": "2183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TIED COTTAGES (EVICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wallace", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wallace", "preceding_text": "out of the large number in which I have interested myself personally, and where we have managed to solve the problem. The first case is of a man who was unable to carry out his work satisfactorily for reasons of health. He is an invalid ex-Serviceman—mark that point—and because his health gave out working on the land he was evicted five days before Christmas along with his wife and seven children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-02a.2183.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-03", "file": "debates1947-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "4b5ff948a5e8dee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-03a.2234.2", "colnum": "2234", "heading": "DEATH SENTENCES, COLONIES (LEGAL PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I did not get the full implications of the right hon. Gentleman's statement. It was just through not hearing the words. I should be obliged if he would make one point clear. So far as I understand the position, the Governor decided not to proceed with the execution of the full penalty in the case of two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-03a.2234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-03", "file": "debates1947-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "4b5ff948a5e8dee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-03a.2284.1", "colnum": "2284", "heading": "POSTAL REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper-Key", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper-Key", "preceding_text": "t many advantages could be obtained, not in the reduction of the Exchequer's revenue, but in the releasing of a tremendous amount of manpower and in the increase of national wealth that would accrue. I hope that he will not refer to the slight drawback of the rural areas. That has not been overlooked. Under this particular scheme, I know that in certain rural areas there are only two collections —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-03a.2284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-15", "file": "debates1947-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "87843d265e07b6f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.10.3", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "Is not this proposal a gross wastage of manpower and resources?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.10.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-15", "file": "debates1947-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "87843d265e07b6f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members: What", "cue_text": "is it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "nk, although I have done my best to inform the hon. Member of this House who purports to have written this document of my intention to do so, he would not have had time to consider any remarks he might desire to make. Therefore, subject to your permission and your Ruling, I ask leave to raise this matter fully tomorrow, and leave it today with the formal intimation that the matter has been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-15", "file": "debates1947-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "87843d265e07b6f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " the year. Stockbrokers have done very well under this Government. They have almost the least cause of all to complain. Death Duties at £148 million beat the estimate by £8 million. Surtax at £76 million, alone of the Inland Revenue duties, fell short of the estimate by £4 million, but, even so, it brought in £7 million more than in the previous year, although the rates of tax were still the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-15", "file": "debates1947-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "87843d265e07b6f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.38.4", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "luding Supplementary Estimates, we provided last year no less than £441 million for Social Services, or £117 million more than in 1945–46. For education, we provided £139 million, or £31 million more than in the previous year. For training and resettlement, we provided £22 million, or £9 million more than the previous year For housing subsidies, we provided £27 million, or £10 million more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.38.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-15", "file": "debates1947-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "87843d265e07b6f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.60.3", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "In September, I gave notice of a new Savings Certificate to replace the old at the beginning of this month, April. It bore a lower rate of interest, more in line with the higher level which national credit had then reached.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.60.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-15", "file": "debates1947-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "87843d265e07b6f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.66.0", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.66.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-15", "file": "debates1947-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "87843d265e07b6f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "r day in the Press: Well; your danger is as you have seen. And truly I am sorry it is so great. But I wish it to cause no despondency; as truly, I think. it will not; for we are Englishmen. And Scots as well. And, after heavy battle, the Ironsides won through, and so shall we. But our need to increase exports is more urgent than ever, and no one but a scatter-brained fool decries the export drive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-15", "file": "debates1947-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "87843d265e07b6f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Finally, the Budget Resolutions will provide for a number of small miscellaneous reductions in Purchase Tax. Dental sticks, razor strops and sharpeners will be reduced from 100 per cent. to 33⅓ hot water bottles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-15", "file": "debates1947-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "87843d265e07b6f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.85.4", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"Electric chairs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "upon in the field of taxation. In my first Budget, a few months after the end of the war, I took the Purchase Tax off a number of domestic cooking and heating appliances. At that time, everybody welcomed it. No one opposed it, in any part of this House. Indeed, I was pressed to extend the exemptions more and more widely, to include, among other things, electric irons and electric washing machines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.85.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-15", "file": "debates1947-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "87843d265e07b6f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.87.6", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "' limited quantities of cigarettes and tobacco in their canteens at pre-Budget prices. In present circumstances, I regret that this special arrangement can no longer be justified, and I propose that it should now be discontinued from the 27th of this month. It is not easy to estimate how much of a drop in smoking might be expected to result from this deliberate and very heavy increase in the duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.87.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-15", "file": "debates1947-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "87843d265e07b6f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.100.7", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ne listening to the right hon. Gentleman today would have thought that he was the first person who had ever heard of the cheap money policy. He spoke about the new social legislation, and invited us to look round at this world and at what we are going to enjoy. But most of it was based on legislation worked out by a previous Coalition Government. He forgot to mention that that ever existed at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.100.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-15", "file": "debates1947-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "87843d265e07b6f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGULATION OF PAYMENTS (GENERAL) ORDER, 1947", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Challen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Challen", "preceding_text": " clear that he should go out of his way to state the various authorities, powers and legislation that enabled him to make an order which will bind the subject in a variety of fashions, small or great, that interfere with his private life, and put him in the position of having to consider whether it is possible to contest the validity of such orders in the courts or not. I do not want to flog this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-15a.121.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-16", "file": "debates1947-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "fe80381485d26e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.198.3", "colnum": "198", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (NEWSPAPER ARTICLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "May I also associate myself with this Motion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-16", "file": "debates1947-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "fe80381485d26e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.199.8", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Anderson (Scottish Universities)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Higher or lower?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Anderson (Scottish Universities)", "preceding_text": " for the financial situation in which we find ourselves. I cannot help wondering what that situation would have been if we had had some other kind of Government. May I indulge in the luxury of speculating for a short time as to what might have been the situation? I think the revenue figures would certainly have been quite as good. I am sure the expenditure figures would have been very much better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.199.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-16", "file": "debates1947-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "fe80381485d26e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "his matter of food subsidies. I do not believe that reduction of food subsidies will lead to deflation. On the contrary the most likely effect of it will be another wage spiral and probably even greater inflation—but that is a debatable point. [ Interrup- tion .] All I can say is that the particular change of policy on which the right hon. Member picked, fills me with a great deal of apprehension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-16", "file": "debates1947-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "fe80381485d26e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.238.0", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Elliot", "preceding_text": "ot believe that for one moment. I am convinced they save at the present time for three reasons. First, in order to have a nest egg put away for a rainy day; secondly, because the Government tell them that it is their duty to save; and, third, because they have nothing else to do with their money. I cannot possibly accept the idea advanced from Members on the benches opposite, or from their friends", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-16", "file": "debates1947-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "fe80381485d26e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Elliot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Elliot", "preceding_text": "ey are the only individuals, apart from the joint stock companies, who have received their postwar credits both last year and this year. I hope that the Financial Secretary, when he speaks later this evening, may find it possible to make some helpful concession. I have already congratulated the Government on their policy. It is not very easy under democracy for a Government to do unpopular things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-16", "file": "debates1947-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "fe80381485d26e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawley", "preceding_text": "—or linseed, one finds that the world price of these commodities is very much above the price which the Government are paying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-16", "file": "debates1947-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "fe80381485d26e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.250.3", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": "but they are not able to. Consequently, we have to buy from across the Atlantic and spend dollars. The Soviet Government is fooling him as it is trying to fool other Ministers I said I would try to talk about basic principles, which affect this country and the world and which affect the success or failure of this Budget. The root cause of the troubles of the world today is the poison of Communism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-16", "file": "debates1947-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "fe80381485d26e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.254.5", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "show how the poison is percolating here. I have pointed out how one man could call out 300,000 telephone operators. Again, to show the power of the insidious working of Communism, I am told on good authority that the concession in regard to \"C\" licences in the Transport Bill Committee proceedings was made because of the urgent request—I will put it no higher than that—of the Co-operative movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.254.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-16", "file": "debates1947-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "fe80381485d26e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.255.3", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Communist?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "With great respect, if the Government offices are blown up by Communists, how can we possibly carry on the business of the country? Then again, Communist technique is holding up our dealings with the rest of the world. England is more dependent on other countries than is any other country in the world, yet the Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.255.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-16", "file": "debates1947-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "fe80381485d26e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.255.5", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "rmany and the Control Commission of Germany. In his speech yesterday the Chancellor said: Less pleasing to me are some of the other Supplementary Estimates which we have had to vote-439 million for the Control Office, in addition to the original estimate of go million, to feed and administer the Germans in our zone\"—OFFICIAL REPORT, 15th April, 1947; Vol. 436. c. 39.] I have some information here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.255.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-16", "file": "debates1947-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "fe80381485d26e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon-Walker", "cue_text": "AN. HON. MEMBER; \"What about dog-racing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon-Walker", "preceding_text": "cause of the full employment inflation. We have this vast accumulation of unspendable purchasing power and I wish to make two concrete suggestions for dealing with it. One suggestion is the imposition of a tax on football pools and totalisators, I am extremely sorry that we have not got a tax of that type. It is not that I want it from a moral point of view, but it is a perfect anti-inflation tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-16", "file": "debates1947-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "fe80381485d26e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Above the line?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": " accounts before the present year. Although it is partly the case that this £292 million is a non-recurring item, we must remember that there are items on the other side of the account which are also terminal and non-recurring. When Members opposite harp on the fact that we are getting this money once and for all they should, in common fairness, remember that on the other side we have large items.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-16", "file": "debates1947-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "fe80381485d26e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "ee knows, has made tax reliefs, but he has also put on other taxes to take their place, and make up the gap there would otherwise be. Although he has these miscellaneous receipts surplus, they will, we hope, be used, not as tax relief, but for the reduction of debt. I say that guardedly and advisedly, but that is our expectation and our hope. One never knows what may happen during the coming year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-16", "file": "debates1947-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "fe80381485d26e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "at the year will end well. The right hon. and learned Member for Montgomery (Mr. C. Davies) suggested that this surplus of £292 million, or, at any rate, £270 million of it, was \"phoney.\" His argument, if I understood him aright, was that it had to be set off against the items which appeared below the line, and that the difference meant that we were in the end running a deficit, and not a surplus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-16", "file": "debates1947-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "fe80381485d26e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.296.5", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": " me will read his speech tomorrow. They will find that his criticisms were almost completely destructive. He said again today what he said in the Budget Debate last year—namely, that if he had been in charge he would have reduced public expenditure. But he did not then, and he did not this afternoon, tell us what we should have liked to have heard. We, too, would like to reduce public expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.296.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-16", "file": "debates1947-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "fe80381485d26e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.296.5", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "ng it, nor to impose taxes for the sake of imposing them. If the right hon. Gentleman or any of his friends on that side of the Committee—and there will be an opportunity tomorrow for the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Bournemouth to take up this challenge—would give us any indication of where and what they would cut down in public expenditure we should be glad. Is it on the Defence Services?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.296.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-16", "file": "debates1947-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "fe80381485d26e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.296.5", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "hem. If the right hon. Gentleman or any of his friends on that side of the Committee—and there will be an opportunity tomorrow for the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Bournemouth to take up this challenge—would give us any indication of where and what they would cut down in public expenditure we should be glad. Is it on the Defence Services? [HON. MEMBERS; \"Yes.\"] Is it on the social services?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.296.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-16", "file": "debates1947-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "fe80381485d26e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": " to forget that. I hate doing that, because we are all extremely fond of the hon. Member who sits for East Aberdeen (Mr. Boothby) and we would like, if we could, on all occasions to answer the queries that he puts; but I am sorry to say that I cannot do any more than refer him to what the Chancellor of the Exchequer said on this subject yesterday afternoon. What he said was very carefully phrased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-16", "file": "debates1947-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "fe80381485d26e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.299.3", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I thought was an extremely fine speech and one which it would do hon. Members on the other side of the House good to read. It would enlighten them on many of the matters upon which at the moment they seem to need guidance. My hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham (Mr. Crawley) also made an interesting speech. May I say a final word about the Tobacco Duty? These Debates are ex- tremely interesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.299.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-16", "file": "debates1947-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "fe80381485d26e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The Chancellor is laughing.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "peech and one which it would do hon. Members on the other side of the House good to read. It would enlighten them on many of the matters upon which at the moment they seem to need guidance. My hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham (Mr. Crawley) also made an interesting speech. May I say a final word about the Tobacco Duty? These Debates are ex- tremely interesting—[ Laughter ]. Hon. Members laugh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-16a.299.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "quer. The real savings in interest account, after the deduction of Income Tax—because the Chancellor left out that small consideration—can be estimated with fair accuracy, and are comparatively trivial. I believe that the inflationary effect of the Chancellor's cheaper money drive is more than wiped out in savings on interest account. Though the Chancellor is a great lover of stunts and publicity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "ult to exaggerate the consequences of the Chancellor's neglect of the prime duties of his office. The first and worst of these neglects is the control of departmental expenditure. The fantastic waste he has permitted, condoned, or overlooked during the last two years would have injured the credit of the richest nation in the world. I do not want to take up the time of the Committee by roving over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.350.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": " think, the general approval of the House, to make a substantial contribution. I used the words in that connection. I said, \"I am happy,\" and then, thinking, of the misfortunes of those who suffered, I felt that \"happy\" was not quite the appropriate word, and I said: I am very content to be pledged… We shall not be niggardly about this.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 15th April, 1947; Vol. 436. C. 44.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.352.2", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "te the Chancellor. After all, I was only quoting a statement made from this side of the Committee yesterday. But I say this to the Chancellor: I am quite content with the quotation of the song in his heart. That is all that need be said of an extravagant Chancellor. I think that the Chancellor has admitted—I do not think that he will deny this quotation—that he has been a prodder of slow spenders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.352.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman will listen to me, I will tell him something. What is costing the country most today is that we have got half employment. Most of our major industries are paralysed through the futility of his own Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman said that last year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "ption. ] I am very glad for this respite. Now, if I could he allowed to go back to my uncontroversial argument, I ask, Is it to be wondered at that the Treasury's control over expenditure is weaker now than at any time in its history? Even Charles Townshend, hitherto the most foolish Chancellor of the Exchequer, kept more control over his spending colleagues than the right hon. Gentleman opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": " is, of course, to exercise a general supervision over the Civil Service. If ever there was a time when it needed supervision, it is now. There are no fewer than 713,589 civil servants in this country, and the number is increasing. Indeed, I notice in one of the recent public opinion polls, that the Civil Service now apparently makes a greater appeal to youth than at any other time in our history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "who are striving with all their might to get any sort of job overseas. They see no future for themselves in a land ruled by paralytic planners. I do not know which of these groups of young men renders the greater disservice to the country, the lively and adventurously minded who want to leave it, or the \"safety-firsters\" who want to swell the Civil Service. I cannot understand why the Chancellor —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or Japan.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "nterfering with the machinery he should use to control expenditure, because if we weaken the higher Civil Service, we create a good deal of confusion in our affairs. Let me turn to another of the Chancellor's neglects. In his Budget speech he uttered some unfinished criticisms against the unfair demands made upon us by creditor nations whom we saved from destruction or pillage by Germany or Italy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "s. Does that gentleman really believe that the British public are going to work for years to pay off some of the debts we have incurred by saving Egypt from invasion? Are our people to be kept short of clothes and furniture and other amenities of life, in order that our factory workers shall toil for years for the benefit of the Egyptians whom we saved from Axis invasion, exploitation and pillage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.356.5", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "s, the Chancellor may, or may not, cut down some of the more exotic subsidies. Surely, the Minister of Defence has no monopoly of timidity. To sum up the case against the right hon. Gentleman, this is a Budget of stagnation. It has little value save that it provides a few chinks for the seeing eye to discover what will happen when the sellers' market ends, and when our foreign loans are exhausted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.356.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "I do not disagree with the hon. Gentleman at all. I quite agree that the Chancellor has got his connections with the tax collectors, one of the most worthy bodies in the country. But he is apparently not sympathetic on this question of obsolescence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.359.3", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has been overbalanced.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ause the Chancellor and the \"Financial Times\" seemed to have hit on some of the same solutions together that he had rather a thin case to make today. For example, what did the \"Financial Times\" say on 1st April? I know it was All Fools' day, but they indicated there were two things which the Chancellor ought to do in his Budget, and, by some coincidence, they have been done. One was to balance it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.359.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.383.7", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "the other side to punish the Chancellor. My right hon. Friend is still upstanding and smiling, and still, if I dare say so, with a song in his heart. As I understand that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Bristol (Mr. Stanley) is to enter the ring in the last round, there is always a chance that an unlucky blow may temporarily increase the cardiac murmur of my right hon. Friend's heart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.383.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": " Why did he evade the issue of the cinema raised by the hon. Gentleman—why did he ignore the import of films from America—and a tax on the \"tote,\" so simple to work? It seems to me that the Chancellor has avoided several most useful sources of taxation, and almost deliberately chosen the one which will hurt hardest those who can bear it least. On Tuesday, after listening to those long three hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "er in my mind when he was referring to the speech he had made at Swansea. He ended the sentence by what I thought was a most accurate description of our economic position. He said, \"We must export or expire.\" What I want to know is what has he or the Government done to prevent us from expiring? That I shall examine in my few remarks. He has increased the Prime Minister's salary to £104,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": " as well. I ask the question, What are we to do now if we are to be saved? The chief responsibility for this saving process rests undoubtedly on the Chancellor and the President of the Board of Trade. I think everyone will agree that it is on our financial solvency and productive capacity that our emergence from possible bankruptcy depends. The Chancellor offers us cheaper and still cheaper money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.401.6", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman is not going to give way. The Chancellor offers us cheap money. What does the President of the Board of Trade offer? He offers little or nothing, except hope, and, as I said a few minutes ago, prayer. Unfortunately both these doctrinaire Ministers—and I am now coming to two points I want to make before I sit down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.401.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.401.6", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "ssibly, the lesser motives of more comfort for one's wife and more opportunity for one's children. Any of these may be the incentive, bin the inducement or incentive must be there. I think the greatest inducement for the wage earner is a full wage packet at the end of the week. That means substantially altering the incidence of P.A Y.E. I think the Chancellor has done something in this connection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.401.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It probably will be.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ies. He used the words, \"so far\"—so far as £425 million per annum. I hope that my right hon. Friend will keep the retail cost of living subsidies at not less than that figure, for this reason. It is quite wrong and a total superstitution that Budgets ought to be balanced. Budgets ought not in normal circumstances to be balanced. I hope this is the last balanced Budget we shall have in my lifetime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Peart", "preceding_text": "I shall be delighted to give evidence out of the mouths of hon. Members opposite. Under a Tory Government Budget for this year the British people would not have had the National Insurance Act, the Industrial Injuries Act, increased old age pensions; nor, I believe, under a Tory Government would we have had the raising of the school-leaving age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.421.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.437.0", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Bruce", "preceding_text": "on the subject. I concluded that his utterance was intended for the newspaper headlines and that he did not intend to go any further. There was from the back of him somebody who called out \"subsidies.\" It should therefore go out to the country that the Conservative Party are committed to the reduction or to the abolition of food subsidies, and that they wish to raise the food prices of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.437.4", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Major Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Bruce", "preceding_text": " was asking. If hon. Members will turn to HANSARD for yesterday's Debate they will observe that the hon. and gallant Member for Pudsey and Otley (Colonel Stoddart- Scott), when he was challenged by my right hon. Friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury about what reductions should be made, replied: Civil Servants and the food subsidies.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th April, 1947; Vol 436, c. 297.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.437.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "nd to inform us of the result. I hope that the Chancellor will not mind if, before I pass to considering the matter of his Budget, I say a few words about the manner of its presentation. I had plenty of opportunity on Tuesday to judge the Chancellor's manner. I was one who sat on an ever-hardening bench from which, it is only fair to say, a great many of the hon. Members opposite had already fled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": " no doubt, he says now, \"Every day and in every way I grow greater and greater,\" let him say, \"Every day and in every way I will try to he fairer and fairer.\" It is the fashion within the two days after the introduction of the Budget for everyone to give his general impressions of the Budget, and I would like to tell the Chancellor what are the immediate impressions which the Budget makes upon me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Three hours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "th the kind of way in which he thought that that particular thing should be done. I will not say any more about that point now. As the right hon. Gentleman has said, we can all exchange blows and opinions in the political life of this country, but I thought he was a little unduly acid at some stages both in the lengthy prologue of his speech before he got down to business and in the last sentence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": " in the last sentence. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Three hours.\"] I bear no grudge, and I hope the right hon. Gentleman does not, either. We shall, as has been said, have many further opportunities in the long habitual processes of discussion which go on, year by year, in this House on finance, and which the Government intend to propose slightly to abbreviate for next year. That will all come in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WORKERS (RATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They cannot feed them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that. I want to remind the hon. Gentleman of the ration which the agricultural worker already enjoys. It must be remembered that they can kill one calf every three months and a pig at set periods—two pigs a year—and they can kill extra sheep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.478.7", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WORKERS (RATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How on earth can they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": " shall be very successful. But, of course, it does depend upon the farmers, and I deplore the fact that some farmers have failed to introduce this service which is available. The hon. Member asked me a question about canteens. I agree that it is not so easy in the agricultural districts to pop into a canteen, but I would remind hon. Members opposite that we have invited farmers to set up canteens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.478.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-17", "file": "debates1947-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "118388d108fbb43b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WORKERS (RATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Farmers employing two men?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "It is a question of finding farmers who are willing to co-operate. When they are prepared to do so, we are prepared to give them the maximum meat ration for a canteen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-17a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-18", "file": "debates1947-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "9afeeed363101410", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-18a.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON (CENTRALISED BUYING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Some of them\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "ed on such poor and intangible grounds, I think that it would be helpful if we could have a statement from the Minister of the view likely to be taken by the Board of Trade and the advice that could be given to the cotton purchasing Commission. It would be interesting to know whether the Board of Trade are in favour of the merchants being retained. Make no mistake about it, I am in favour of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-18a.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-18", "file": "debates1947-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "9afeeed363101410", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-18a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON (CENTRALISED BUYING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unreservedly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "If you say so, Sir, I, of course, agree with you and withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-18a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-18", "file": "debates1947-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "9afeeed363101410", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-18a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HILL FARMING LOSSES", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture (Mr. Collick)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the United Kingdom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture (Mr. Collick)", "preceding_text": " of their losses arising from the exceptional severity and duration of the winter weather is fully recognised by the Government, who have been doing their utmost to mitigate the effect and they are taking further steps towards that end. The preliminary estimates of the losses were that we had lost one million ewes, and 1,750,000 born and unborn lambs which had perished from exposure or starvation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-18a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-21", "file": "debates1947-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "fd5a8a07d02b3c42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "preceding_text": "As I have explained, it has been felt to be prejudicial to the public interest to disclose the prices of articles purchased from particular firms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.595.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-21", "file": "debates1947-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "fd5a8a07d02b3c42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.596.2", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is the purpose?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "Does not the giving of notice negative the purpose for which the visit is made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-21", "file": "debates1947-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "fd5a8a07d02b3c42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.598.0", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STEEL INDUSTRY, SOUTH WALES (GOVERNMENT DECISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "preceding_text": "It will not be in fill, operation for some three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.598.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-21", "file": "debates1947-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "fd5a8a07d02b3c42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.645.2", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spence", "preceding_text": "n regard to carrying out research, will, in a sense, act as a stimulus to them. As the Secretary of State has consulted local authorities, it may be that he has some particular case in mind. If that is so, and if he would tell us what he has in mind, possibly it would make us all agreed on this point. Clause 17 gives him the fullest power to make grants to any person including the local authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.645.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-21", "file": "debates1947-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "fd5a8a07d02b3c42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.658.3", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "t to the Secretary of State's Amendment, subsequent to which I wish to move my own Amendment. I think it would be a little unjust if I were deprived of permission to speak to my own Amendment. I am speaking to his Amendment, under which there would be a proviso that the free beds should not be diminished by the provision of paying beds. That I accept, and propose subsequently to move my Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.658.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-21", "file": "debates1947-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "fd5a8a07d02b3c42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.732.3", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which part of the Bill does this come under?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "sources of the Government are turned on to defend their position and to explain how the people are better fed than they were before. It is with the utmost difficulty that we extract from the Government the fact that the average intake per head is not 2,900 calories, which is the gross figure; last December it was 2,390, which has fallen this December to 2,300, although the International Food Board", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.732.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-21", "file": "debates1947-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "fd5a8a07d02b3c42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.732.3", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "ard, where the subject becomes political as it inevitably does when these things come up to the Cabinet and concern the fate of Ministers, is a strong argument against the whole system which the Secretary of State brings before us. It is an argument which I fear will find itself extended into other fields than that of food, which I have taken as an example. It is not my desire to detain the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.732.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-21", "file": "debates1947-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "fd5a8a07d02b3c42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ng coming from the Tory benches. The right hon. and gallant Member for the Scottish Universities (Lieut.-Colonel Elliot) said that the world owed a debt to Scotland for her medical services, and the hon. Member for East Fife declared that never had there been medical services like those we had in Scotland. Yet we have, in Scotland, the poorest health of any people in any country in Western Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-21", "file": "debates1947-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "fd5a8a07d02b3c42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Niall Macpherson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Sixty years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Niall Macpherson", "preceding_text": "f the machinery which is set up in the Bill?. Of course, everybody in Scotland wants a Bill. The hon. Member for West Fife (Mr. Gallacher) said there was room for the Bill. Of course there is room for the Bill. There is a necessity for a Health Bill. I go further and say that if the National Government had been here at present, we should not have waited 20 months for the Third Reading of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-21", "file": "debates1947-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "fd5a8a07d02b3c42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.759.1", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "w is he to fulfil all the various duties? How is Parliament to control his fulfilment of them? There is growing up too much bureaucracy, and the Secretary of State will not be able to know what is going on under these various Measures. This House of Commons should be giving a health service to the people of Scotland. But this will not be a health service; it will be a vast bureaucracy of red tape.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.759.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-21", "file": "debates1947-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "fd5a8a07d02b3c42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.770.2", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "we are taking. Now let me turn from that to the ambulance scheme. Why should hon. Members ask me the same thing again and again. I dealt with that before. The ambulances will be a State service. I have explained that already. The district nurses will be the service of the local authority. Let me say a word or two on the other point. I wish that I could continue this Debate longer than is possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.770.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-21", "file": "debates1947-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "fd5a8a07d02b3c42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.770.2", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "e objections to it? The hon. Lady said that she is in favour of a national health service. She wants a national service but not this one. What kind does she want? I do not know. She surely does not want the present system. It is not a national service. And we have the spectacle of the pleading voluntary hospitals, giving people the chance of running about with a collecting box, asking for pennies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-21a.770.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.805.11", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Six months.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend what the difference is between losing everything one possessed in Salford in September and losing everything one possessed in the Fen district in March?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.805.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.806.7", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's weighing machine is out of order. What he has received are—I have looked into the case with care—four thin slips.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.806.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROCARBON OILS (CUSTOMS)", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": "oil which goes into a road vehicle, whether a heavy oil or petrol, is not under this Resolution exempt. The provision made in the Finance Act, 1935, still applies; and, up to the moment, at any rate, my right hon. Friend does not propose to alter what, at the moment, is the law. If we exempted kerosene there would, undoubtedly, be some pressure for exempting petrol, which is also used in tractors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.828.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROCARBON OILS (CUSTOMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "There are.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is not suggesting to the House that there are petrol-driven agricultural tractors. Petrol is used in starting some of them, but there are no petrol-driven agricultural tractors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.829.2", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROCARBON OILS (CUSTOMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On farms.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I accept that point, which, I think, is a valid one. It is true that the overwhelming number of tractors used—certainly on heavy land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.829.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.830.0", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROCARBON OILS (CUSTOMS)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "We are very much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for the assurance he has given, because we are satisfied that there is a case here. It is true that there is such a thing as a petrol-driven tractor today. But the number is minute. It is something which is new.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.834.4", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOBACCO (CUSTOMS)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "l people, including Mr. Churchill, have told me that we are smoking too much. I do not know what private conversation may or may not have passed between the right hon. Gentleman and my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition, but I do know that my right hon. Friend has never said any such thing here. The right hon. Gentleman produced a quotation on Thursday which certainly did not say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.834.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.844.1", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOBACCO (CUSTOMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "preceding_text": "uncomfortable than we should like to see. The Budget as a whole is, I think, an adventurous one. It does not do very much to the community, except to pave the way for the nationalisation of industry—the building up of a great fabric with which the old, poor people have not very much to do. The Chancellor has not made many concessions to Birmingham in the course of his life. Here is an opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.853.0", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOBACCO (CUSTOMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": " that it is misery. I have one suggestion to offer to the Chancellor. I believe that he should withdraw this tax and make an appeal for economy in smoking. I am perfectly certain from my own experience that there is no need for anybody to smoke at work. In the business in which I am engaged—my own family business of distilling—smoking is not allowed owing to the inflammable nature of the business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.853.0", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOBACCO (CUSTOMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": " for anybody to smoke at work. In the business in which I am engaged—my own family business of distilling—smoking is not allowed owing to the inflammable nature of the business. [ Laughter. ] As far as I know, neither clerks, directors nor workers miss it in the slightest degree. There are many other inflammable businesses and nobody misses smoking at all. I see no reason why anybody should work.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOBACCO (CUSTOMS)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will not last long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "-quarter, or 25 per cent., he or she will be spending 175. 6d. as against 16s. 4d. That is an increase in the weekly budget of 1s. 2d., no more and no less. On the other hand, if he wishes to save a little money and if he reduces his consumption by one-third, he will do better. One right hon. Gentleman has told us that he has already reduced his consumption not merely by one-third but by one-half.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOBACCO (CUSTOMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "There is not a large black market in cigarettes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOBACCO (CUSTOMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": " let alone the interests of the people of those lands. Yet we are spending dollars for that purpose. The Chancellor is far better aware than I am of the precise amount of dollars which we are spending in that way. Secondly, if we are to save dollars on our imports, I submit that there is quite a substantial list of semi-luxuries and luxuries which we are importing, which we need not import at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOBACCO (CUSTOMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "nufactured goods imported; we have never had that total broken down. It needs to be broken down, and we shall find that it contains luxury goods. Let us consider the question of films. We spend £17 million a year in dollars on importing films. I think that every intelligent Member of this House—every Member, if I may say so—knows that most of the films we import from America are not worth showing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.884.1", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOBACCO (CUSTOMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "hing else. He need not purchase any other form of merchandise in the co-operative shops. His purchases may go up by 10 per cent. or 15 per cent., and he can share them with his friends. He gets a dividend on those. I know that is a form of trading which the co-operatives have. Nevertheless, he is going to purchase cigarettes at less than the tax the Chancellor is putting on the rest of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.884.3", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOBACCO (CUSTOMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "We are talking about consumers. I know the hon. Member's idea. I do not trade with co-operative societies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.884.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.885.3", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOBACCO (CUSTOMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "I hope the Chancellor will use his influence to carry that practice right through the movement, as I am sure he could. I want to say one thing more in explaining why, with a good deal of regret, I am going to vote against this Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.885.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.885.5", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOBACCO (CUSTOMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "re is one thing which the Chancellor could have done. Perhaps it is too late now, and yet, if he took this step, he might go done to history as a great Chancellor, at any rate, great for one day. The one thing which this Government does not do is trust the people. This Government does not trust the people of the country, and never has trusted the nation, as the Leader of the Opposition trusted it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.885.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOBACCO (CUSTOMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": "he village inn. These centres of distribution are not the great stores where the rich people deal; they are small shops, pubs and the like, where the poor folk deal. Now I have noticed this about shops run by poor folk, that a rationing system can be applied by them on a voluntary basis, which works much more smoothly than a compulsory rationing system with the whole force of Government behind it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOBACCO (CUSTOMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The numbers compared are larger.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "ledge that he will consider sympathetically, and with hope in his heart, a relief for the old age pensioner, when he is able to do that and to face the administrative difficulties which there are in his way, I say that if he puts the same enthusiasm into it he will be perfectly well able to face the same administrative difficulties which would lie in the way of some general system of distribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.899.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.919.4", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARTIFICIAL SILK (CUSTOMS AND EXCISE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PURCHASE TAX (INTERMEDIATE AND HIGHER RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not by the Chancellor.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "sed last year, Purchase Tax was taken off items of this kind, and today we are making what all of us believe to be a retrograde step in that we are reimposing a tax on some of the things he relieved of Purchase Tax in his first Budget. May I say in parenthesis that I believe that hair dryers, to which the hon. Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Renton) referred, are used not only by ladies but by men too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PURCHASE TAX (INTERMEDIATE AND HIGHER RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "It may well be that I did not make this quite clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PURCHASE TAX (INTERMEDIATE AND HIGHER RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "ouse, as a result of this complete reversal of Government policy? That is a matter on which we have heard nothing from anyone on the Government Front Bench. Further, I cannot understand, when we hear these requests from the Financial Secretary, who tells us how necessary it is to curtail our consumption of power, why according to the Table which is now before us, we are allowed to use lawn mowers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.943.4", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PURCHASE TAX (INTERMEDIATE AND HIGHER RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He sleeps on them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "xury or the necessity of electric irons outside the scope of the ordinary housewife, I urge him to consider very carefully the fact that the housewife is today forced increasingly to do her own laundry at home. I do not know whether or not my right hon. Friend is in the habit of ironing his own shirts. If he is, I ask him this question: If he has not got an electric iron, what does he use instead?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.943.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.949.0", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PURCHASE TAX (INTERMEDIATE AND HIGHER RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "h the way in which the Financial Secretary was expected to wash his shirt. But I would remind the House that the right hon. Gentleman has an advantage over the rest of us in that, when he wants his shirt to be ironed, he has only to put it on the Despatch Box and get the Chancellor of the Exchequer to make a speech When. the right hon. Gentleman has banged the box enough, the shirt will be ironed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.949.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.950.0", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PURCHASE TAX (INTERMEDIATE AND HIGHER RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "is included in the list. Gramophones and player-pianos, which are sometimes very large things, can use current greatly in excess of the domestic electric irons which the hon. Lady referred to just now. People put in electric irons of the latest variety that plug in to the light, and come into the category of light appliances. Gramophones and player-pianos might consume a great deal of electricity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.950.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.958.2", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PURCHASE TAX (EXEMPTIONS AND REDUCTIONS OF RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Schoolgirls.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "is game? I am informed by the All-England Netball Association that the clubs affiliated to their membership can count on about one million members, and that million is not the whole story, because there are many teams, I suppose, in Scotland and Wales, for example, which are not affiliated to the All-England Association. The great majority of the players of this game are office or factory workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.958.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PURCHASE TAX (EXEMPTIONS AND REDUCTIONS OF RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": " my right hon. Friend is apprised of the views put forward, particularly the view expressed on both sides of the House that some women's games at any rate should be included in the concessions given and he will no doubt consider it before we reach the further stages of the Bill. The hon. Member for Torquay (Mr. C. Williams) asked me whether fur skins and rugs made of skins were included or exempt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (SAVINGS BANKS)", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At least.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": "y investment and the 2½ per cent. which the banks themselves give to the depositor on the money which they in turn use and invest. Actually on the Post Office Savings Bank it is necessary that 2¾ per cent. should be earned because 2½ per cent. is given to the depositor by way of interest, and the overheads, expenses of management and so on amount to another ¼ per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I was out of the Chamber when the right hon. and gallant Gentleman dealt with the tobacco tax, and I regret that I missed what must have been a unique experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.979.5", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "I know a good deal more about lawyers than does the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford. The Law Officers are not special friends of mine, but I can say that, since these two gentlemen came into this House, and took on their very responsible offices, which are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.979.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I hope that the Patronage Secretary will agree to postpone the final decision on this important matter until another day. That is what we are asking now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-22", "file": "debates1947-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "aa7281fba6f2f2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR (EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that my hon. Friend misunderstands the position. It is not for the German prisoner of war to volunteer to stay here. It is for the farmer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-22a.1000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-23", "file": "debates1947-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "052cc096a956401b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BERMUDA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Meanwhile will my right hon. Friend try to stop the recruiting of white applicants from Canada and various other colonies besides Bermuda—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1017.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-23", "file": "debates1947-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "052cc096a956401b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1027.2", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MR. HENRY WALLACE'S BROADCAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burke", "preceding_text": "All those questions as to what the B.B.C. will do are covered by the first part of my answer. With regard to the other part of the Question, the hon. Member knows that President Truman's announcement on aid to Greece and Turkey was broadcast by the B.B.C. He also knows that last night the B.B.C. broadcast the United States Ambassador's speech at the Pilgrims' dinner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-23", "file": "debates1947-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "052cc096a956401b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1027.10", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MR. HENRY WALLACE'S BROADCAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Fulton.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "What about Churchill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1027.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-23", "file": "debates1947-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "052cc096a956401b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "INCOME TAX: CHARGE OF TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "ult. But, now we are in a time of peace, there is no justification whatever for this penal system of taxation at the rate of 9s. in the pound and at the rate of Surtax which people are expected to bear today. We are getting into an appalling situation as regards people who are endeavouring to keep up a certain standard of life. After all, we cannot all live in Acacia Avenue on some housing estate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-23", "file": "debates1947-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "052cc096a956401b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "INCOME TAX: CHARGE OF TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "he man who is starting a new business. He says \"When I have finished at the end of the year, what have I got left? I have practically nothing of my earnings left after the Chancellor, the most senior partner, the major partner, the persistent partner, has taken his whack out of my business.\" More than that, existing businesses are paying in taxation, money which should go back into the businesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-23", "file": "debates1947-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "052cc096a956401b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "INCOME TAX: CHARGE OF TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On the social services.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "on that if taxation had been reduced by one shilling or two shillings the incentives to work would have been greatly increased, and we should have had greater and accelerated production in this country. The Chancellor may say, \"Where am I to find this reduction?\" I say, quite frankly, that a reduction in Income Tax could have been found by a reduction of millions in the expenditure of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-23", "file": "debates1947-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "052cc096a956401b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "INCOME TAX: CHARGE OF TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "incentives to work would have been greatly increased, and we should have had greater and accelerated production in this country. The Chancellor may say, \"Where am I to find this reduction?\" I say, quite frankly, that a reduction in Income Tax could have been found by a reduction of millions in the expenditure of the country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"On the social services.\"] I could give endless instances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-23", "file": "debates1947-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "052cc096a956401b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "INCOME TAX: CHARGE OF TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "s in the expenditure of the country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"On the social services.\"] I could give endless instances—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on\"]—of where this money could have been found. It is no answer to say we should cut the social services, because that is a very topical shout from the other side, and hon. Members opposite know perfectly well that it is not part of our policy to cut the social services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1043.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-23", "file": "debates1947-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "052cc096a956401b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1133.0", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "PROFITS TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come over here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "hare of taxation. In my view, this Profits Tax is well calculated to touch a particular class of gains and a particular class of person who are at the moment appropriate for taxation in that sense. I ought to say to the House that I have this amount of personal interest in the matter—that I have been a director of public companies for many years, and I am at the moment chairman of several of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1133.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-23", "file": "debates1947-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "052cc096a956401b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1136.0", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "PROFITS TAX", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will allow me for one moment I would say by way of personal observation that I am an example both of that principle and of the opposite non-hereditary principle, although I am not quite certain of the relevance of that to this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1135.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-23", "file": "debates1947-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "052cc096a956401b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1166.0", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "LEGACY AND SUCCESSION DUTIES: CHARGE OF ADDITIONAL DUTY", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "I should like to make the general observation upon this Resolution that the higher the party opposite attempt to raise the salary of the Prime Minister, or the Chairman of the National Coal Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-23", "file": "debates1947-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "052cc096a956401b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1166.2", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "LEGACY AND SUCCESSION DUTIES: CHARGE OF ADDITIONAL DUTY", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "I was giving an illustration. The higher hon. Members opposite raise the salary of the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1166.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-23", "file": "debates1947-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "052cc096a956401b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1166.4", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "LEGACY AND SUCCESSION DUTIES: CHARGE OF ADDITIONAL DUTY", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "It is all too clear that hon. Members opposite are not disposed to hear the kind things I proposed to say to them. I submit, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, that I am perfectly entitled to make a statement of this kind. All I say is that the higher the party opposite raise the salary of the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1166.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-23", "file": "debates1947-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "052cc096a956401b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1187.1", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "BONUS ISSUES OF SECURITIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS— \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "There are all sorts of other examples. In the case where the Capital Issues Committee agrees to a bonus issue—an issue which is completely genuine—that, of course, is all right. The fact is, nevertheless—and this is a point to which hon. Members opposite should listen—that there is a capital payment made to the shareholder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-23a.1187.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-24", "file": "debates1947-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "3af6dd9a229ab049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1236.8", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "Can the hon. Gentleman say whether these periodicals will be in the English language, or in the language of the countries to which they are being exported? Can I emphasise what was said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1236.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-24", "file": "debates1947-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "3af6dd9a229ab049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1262.5", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman did ask about a Debate next week, and I thought he was assuming it would be a Supply Day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1262.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-24", "file": "debates1947-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "3af6dd9a229ab049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1266.1", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "STANDING COMMITTEES (LAW OFFICERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Law Officers.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "not move another Amendment. It seems to me, therefore, her attention having been drawn to the fact, that the hon. Lady used the right words \"ought not to move an Amendment,\" and I think myself that this Sessional Order is a badly worded one; it is not clear. I should like to see an Amendment made quite soon to make it perfectly clear as to whether or not the Solicitor-General can move an Amenment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-24", "file": "debates1947-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "3af6dd9a229ab049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1334.3", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is serious.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "preceding_text": "now flying on many routes and are doing well. I was very sorry to hear of the mishap which the hon. and gallant Member for Macclesfield (Air-Commodore Harvey) reported, and no doubt our experts are busily engaged in examining its causes. But, of course, an isolated accident cannot always be avoided, I am afraid, in any form of movement in any element. The air accident must be investigated at once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-24", "file": "debates1947-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "3af6dd9a229ab049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1337.1", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under free enterprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "preceding_text": "o that in a moment. The hon. Member also spoke about the export achievements of the industry, and what he said was fully justified. It is estimated that about 700 new civil aircraft, of a dozen different types, all of British construction, will be exported during this year to the value of some 7 million, a figure which is more than the prewar value of aircraft exports, civil and military combined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-24", "file": "debates1947-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "3af6dd9a229ab049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1372.7", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD (CONTROL AND PRICES) ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ion of 3d. per pound, increase the subsidy which is at present paid in respect of cheese? My next question is, What benefit would there appear to be for the individual cheese eater in that reduction of the price, when his present allocation is two ounces per week? It means that the individual is saved a halfpenny a week by this particular Order. Turning to the next Order, that dealing with butter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1372.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-24", "file": "debates1947-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "3af6dd9a229ab049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1373.1", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD (CONTROL AND PRICES) ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ase the subsidies, and the sugar Order does precisely the opposite. We then come to the next Order, No. 525, which increases the price paid to the producer for eggs. The producer gets 1d. a dozen more, and the price of eggs to the consumer is decreased by 3d, a dozen. What on earth difference does it make to us whether we get the eggs for 2s. or 1s. 9d. a dozen? We never get any eggs, in any case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-24", "file": "debates1947-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "3af6dd9a229ab049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1374.5", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD (CONTROL AND PRICES) ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"More. If we get so few eggs what difference does it make whether we pay 2d. for each egg or 1¾d.? [HON. MEMBERS: \"One farthing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I do not want to go into the size of my family but I have a large one. I am not talking about getting eggs from under the counter. What I am talking about is the allocation of eggs per year, and that is 53. If the hon. Lady will work that out carefully, she will find that it comes, more or less, to one a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1374.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-24", "file": "debates1947-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "3af6dd9a229ab049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1375.0", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD (CONTROL AND PRICES) ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "our public expenditure, might seem to be passing out of our own control, and we might be seen to be dragged along by rises in prices all over the world, independently of our own decisions, and hitched to a most out of date and generally discredited index of the cost of iving. This would be a very unfortunate and? ignominious situation.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 15th April, 1947; Vol. 436, c. 43 and 44.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1374.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-24", "file": "debates1947-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "3af6dd9a229ab049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1377.1", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD (CONTROL AND PRICES) ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ion of the House to seek to elicit the reason from the responsible Minister. The reason may be good or it may be bad, but at the moment we do not know what is the reason. Whether the reason be good or bad, the effect of these Orders is of very great interest to the people of this country. I am perfectly certain that the Parliamentary Secretary will welcome the opportunity of explaining the Orders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-24", "file": "debates1947-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "3af6dd9a229ab049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1377.1", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD (CONTROL AND PRICES) ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "n her the opportunity. What we want to know, and I hope the hon. Lady will make a note of it, is why are these changes being effected? Against the background of food subsidies to the tune of £400 million a year they are small matters, financially—quite small; and therefore it is the more interesting to discover why it has been thought necessary to make these adjustments. There must be some reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-24", "file": "debates1947-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "3af6dd9a229ab049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1377.1", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD (CONTROL AND PRICES) ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "thout considering their effect on the cost of living index figure, and therefore I think it would be of interest to hon. Members and to their constituents to know what that effect is. I hope that the points upon which hon. Members would be grateful for information are clear to the hon. Lady; but to avoid any risk of a waste of time due to any misunderstanding, I would like to repeat the questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-24", "file": "debates1947-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "3af6dd9a229ab049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1389.3", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD (CONTROL AND PRICES) ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Sir. What we have heard from Members opposite tonight is only part of the nonsense they put forward when wanting to attack something with which they do not really disagree. They do not really disagree with the Ministry of Food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-24", "file": "debates1947-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "3af6dd9a229ab049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1389.3", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD (CONTROL AND PRICES) ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "ind of detail that does not really matter so that he can build up a case. When he gets an answer such as the Parliamentary Secretary gave him tonight he ought, in honesty, to get up and say, \"The sensible explanation which the hon. Lady has given is very convincing, and is good economics, and we are very grateful to her.\" The hon. Member for Twickenham (Mr. Keeling) said that every kind of cheese—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-24", "file": "debates1947-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "3af6dd9a229ab049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1389.5", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD (CONTROL AND PRICES) ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sunlight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "ut every form of subsidy from these various odds and ends of cheese that are covered by the acquired-taste group. It is far better that we should recognise the principle that the ration means the ration which is commonly consumed by the average citizen and that that type of cheese should be subsidised, but that all the other odds and ends, whether they come from Italy, from Denmark, or from Port —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-24a.1389.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-25", "file": "debates1947-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "5dad6694a627af02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-25a.1415.2", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATISTICS OF TRADE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": "e more legislation. I thought it was the desire of hon. Members particularly on the other side of the House, to avoid legislation and, surely, it is far better legitimately to bring into a Bill of this kind a Clause to meet a future need, rather than wait until later and introduce a new Bill. On the subject of information to be required, I am prepared to agree that possibly Subsection (1) is wide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-25a.1415.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-25", "file": "debates1947-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "5dad6694a627af02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-25a.1431.0", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATISTICS OF TRADE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No Opposition ever is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": " It is unfair that the same person should be asked to give the same statistics to three or four separate Departments. I quite agree that it is to some extent a matter of good administration, but I hope the right hon. and learned Gentleman will not think me rude if I say that we on this side are not altogether happy about the excellence of the administration of his and other Government Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-25a.1431.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-25", "file": "debates1947-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "5dad6694a627af02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-25a.1484.2", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATISTICS OF TRADE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "preceding_text": "I agree that the acceptance of the previous Amendment rather helps with regard to this matter, and, therefore, I beg to ask leave to withdraw my Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-25a.1484.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1541.1", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Whose fault is that?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "esponse to arguments made in Committee. I should think, therefore, that a large number of the Government Amendments do not need long discussion. As regards others, I would hope that reasonable time could be given for their discussion. But I would point out to the House that if we had unlimited discussion, and supposing the House sat all night, the Guillotine will fall at 9.30 on Wednesday evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1541.3", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read 'The Times.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "Certainly not. The House agreed to that by a very large majority. Suppose we were to sit all night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1541.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1541.3", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": " I should like to put to the House. If we had unlimited suspension, then the chances are that a very large number of Amendments which hon. Members opposite and some of my hon. Friends would like to have discussed might be crowded out, because, as the Order stands now, the Guillotine falls on Wednesday at 9.30. I should have thought myself that that cannot be altered. It is not going to be altered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1541.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1542.1", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Poole", "preceding_text": "There is no reason why we should not have an extension of four or six hours to give proper time for all these important Clauses to be discussed. If it is agreed that we are to have a limited extension, is there any reason why it should be limited to one of two hours? If it is extended to four or six hours, you, Mr. Speaker, would have exactly the same right of selecting Amendments as you have now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1542.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1542.3", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "d \"unparalleled,\" may I ask him if it is not unparalleled that we have to consider 176 Amendments moved by the Government? Does not the right hon. Gentleman think that he might possibly meet the House in this way, and that, if he will not extend the time tonight, he might give a much more extended time tomorrow, so that the House may have a better opportunity of discussing this very large Measure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1542.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1543.0", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I have already answered twice, last Thursday and this afternoon, the first question of my right hon. Friend. The Government Amendments, or most of them, are in response to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1543.0", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "t of concessions made by my right hon. Friend in Committee, and I do not regard them —if hon. Members will play fair—as being in the region of acute controversy tonight and tomorrow. On the other matter, the second point raised by my right hon. Friend, I am prepared to see how the Business goes tonight, and, through the usual channels, if we are agreed that justice is not being done in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1543.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1545.0", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I repudiate the in sinuation by the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1558.2", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "been dispossessed. Therefore, in our view, railways and canals do not lend themselves easily, if at all, to the principle of the net maintainable revenue being taken as a basis of compensation. From that fact every other argument springs in this Committee. We have gone into the matter carefully and we have come to the conclusion that adoption of the net maintainable revenue standard is impossible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1558.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1558.2", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": " I do not say that it would be impossible, as that would be wrong, but it would be next door to impossible. It would be a most laborious job and would necessitate the employment of a very large technical staff, who, quite frankly, are not available. When we had valued many of those assets, what guarantee should we have that we had placed the proper value on them? Many of these things are relative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1558.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1562.1", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Financial Secretary has used this word \"justice\" practically every two minutes in his speech. May I ask him before he sits down to tell us how can there be justice, when the income of so many of these people is to be reduced? Can he explain that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1562.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1565.3", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who did?", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Mackeson", "preceding_text": "It was not the hon. Member for Enfield (Mr. Ernest Davies) who said it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1565.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1578.1", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": " Friends, and I must say that I do not intend to be pushed about by the Opposition in this matter. Members opposite are complaining because these compensation terms are not such as they would have given to the railway shareholders if they had been carrying through a Bill of this description —although I do not suppose for one moment that they would ever have attempted to put forward such a Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1579.4", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "e observed property being dealt with very roughly, from time to time, when it suits the convenience of the Government of the day. But I do not think that is the issue. I recognise that there were alternative methods. It was only after full examination that it appeared that the advantages—I am putting it on the balance of advantages, because I do not think that there is any principle involved here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1579.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1579.4", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": " the circumstances require. It appears to rue that on every basis on which one analyses the two alternatives, the balance is on the side of that which the Government eventually decided. I have already referred to the fact— and it has not been substantially disputed —that if you have arbitration procedure, no one could say that a very substantial difference would emerge as a result of that process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1579.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "lied Nations fighting operations—and the strain on the railways was enormous. At the present moment, we are labouring under conditions in which they cannot even, spend the depreciation reserve necessary for the purpose of bringing the permanent way, the locomotives and wagons up to normal efficient standards. We are living in a period in which civil aviation has not yet got into its proper stride.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1591.0", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "t. There is nothing in the Bill to say so. All it says is that it will be issued at rates prevailing as and when the time comes for it to be issued. We do not know what the rate of interest will be. It may be 3 per cent. It may be the amount that the right hon. Gentleman the junior Member for the City of London (Mr. Assheton) wants. I do not think it will, but it may, possibly, be even 5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1604.1", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does the hon. Member object?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "North-Eastern Railway Company, four per cent. debenture stock which is going to be compensated at £118, and lower down they will see deferred ordinary stock as low as £3 12s. 6d. What is the situation here? For the first time, the ordinary and deferred shareholders, who for years have not had any dividend on their money, are going to be compensated in Transport stock which will give them dividend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1609.1", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "We had behind it the guarantee of 5 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1610.0", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members seem to be engaging in the most extraordinary views on finance, in regard to compensation for these debenture stocks. The right hon. Member for Bromley (Mr. H. Macmillan), who paid a flying visit to this Chamber in order to intervene just now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1632.5", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"The basis.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "I think it is equally ridiculous for the right hon. Gentleman to assume that we should be prepared at this moment to state all the details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1632.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1636.4", "colnum": "1636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneyeroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneyeroft", "preceding_text": "ll facts of this situation, would wish to see that injustice perpetrated. I will give one or two examples, which I hope will appeal to hon. Members opposite. Take a man of 50 years of age—I believe that the Parliamentary Secretary has note of this case—who, after 20 years of building up his business, is earning a net income of £1,000 per annum. There is nothing immoral about earning £1,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1636.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1647.3", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "at is what the position of these men will be. They will be thrown out of their livelihood. They do not want to go. It must not be suggested that these people are anxious to sell their businesses to the Government. They are anxious to go on with their businesses and to serve the community. They have built up their firms, and they want to go on doing the job. Hon. Members opposite want to stop them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1648.2", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "I am very glad there will be places for some of these men, but certainly there will not be places for all of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1648.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1650.0", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Poole", "preceding_text": " made and I apologise for that—but for the remarks of the hon. and gallant Member for Lichfield (Major C. Poole). The hon. and gallant Member and I have certain things in common, but we have not the same views on transport and compensation, and I hope he will forgive me if I take up the point which he made. He said that all the road hauliers would be offered adequate jobs under the new Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1652.2", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I heard the hon. Member say that. I have myself seen this operate from its inception. If the hon. Member cares to look at the reports of the cases in these matters he will see on what I base my interest. I should like the hon. Gentleman to give me one concrete example where a small road haulier has been driven out of business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1652.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1681.1", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": " know anything about I.C.I. We know where the sympathies of the hon. Gentleman lie. The Commission, I say, undersell this man who is trying to carry on his trade and make it impossible to carry on his business. Then he approaches the Commission and offers them the remainder of the business that they have undermined and destroyed. Under this Clause the unfortunate man gets no compensation whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-28", "file": "debates1947-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "7238f2224e95cd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1689.10", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why regret?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in page 109, line 4, after \"scheme,\" to insert \"or order.\" This, and the two subsequent Amendments, are, I regret to report to the Committee, of the same species as those with which we have just been dealing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-28a.1689.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-29", "file": "debates1947-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "904ee297e8be6c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1698.5", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OLD AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that Members of Parliament are inundated with complaints about these delays?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1698.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-29", "file": "debates1947-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "904ee297e8be6c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1718.2", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TOBACCO SMOKING (RESTRICTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Usborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Usborne", "preceding_text": "Would the Prime Minister consider the advisability of prohibiting smoking in Underground trains?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1718.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-29", "file": "debates1947-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "904ee297e8be6c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1754.2", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (RECOMMITTED) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "preceding_text": " extent reconsidered this matter, but we hope that before he comes to a final decision, he will have consultations with the representatives of this city, and. cities similarly placed. The compensation has been considered inadequate and, perhaps, in some cases unjust, but I do not like to use that word, because the Minister throughout the Bill has shown that he is possessed of a spirit of fairness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1754.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-29", "file": "debates1947-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "904ee297e8be6c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1756.0", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (RECOMMITTED) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "he speeches we have heard with regard to Scotland and Bristol, it seems that there are still grave apprehensions in the minds of the local authorities as to what will happen. Bristol has had to seek outside protection today because the right hon. and learned Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade, who should be here to defend his constituency, rarely attends the House except to give orders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-29", "file": "debates1947-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "904ee297e8be6c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1756.2", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (RECOMMITTED) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "er was going to help us more on this matter. I would like to see the two global sums considerably extended, and I hope that in another place it will be arranged that the power to make regulations will not rest with the Minister, but with an outside, impartial body. I know that the Minister is trying to meet the local authorities on his matter. I do not know how I shall vote if there is a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1756.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-29", "file": "debates1947-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "904ee297e8be6c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1766.4", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (RECOMMITTED) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "As one who supports the nationalisation of the railways, I find this a very worrying situation. Can we have an assurance from the Minister that this is the only liability he is taking over", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1766.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-29", "file": "debates1947-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "904ee297e8be6c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1780.3", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EIGHTH SCHEDULE.—(Orders giving effect to Schemes.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": "omes private monopoly. It is argued that competition breeds the combine, and that if you are to have the combine it is better that it should be under public control. Accepting that argument, I think the case in the Bill for one half of the problem—the railways—is made out. But by these very same arguments it is not made out when we are dealing with road transport. Road transport is not a monopoly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1780.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-29", "file": "debates1947-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "904ee297e8be6c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1782.2", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EIGHTH SCHEDULE.—(Orders giving effect to Schemes.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": "at the end of our programme, 80 per cent. of industry is still to be in private hands, it will be as well if we make it clear that we are not indisposed to be fair. If, in the circumstances I have mentioned, we create the impression that the State will treat subjects arbitrarily and unfairly, I submit that that would be a most unfortunate thing. I come now to the Amendment moved by my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1782.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-29", "file": "debates1947-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "904ee297e8be6c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1795.1", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EIGHTH SCHEDULE.—(Orders giving effect to Schemes.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": " result of these conversations. I suppose it was not opportune because those responsible for running the road transport services all over the country had not been able to impress the right hon. Gentleman with the strength of their case. The hon. Gentleman was so anxious to get on with Socialism in our time that he ruthlessly turned down the proposals of these combines and of all people interested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-29", "file": "debates1947-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "904ee297e8be6c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1837.1", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE I.—(The Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Mackeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Mackeson", "preceding_text": "t. My point is that they will not in fact be executive officers. They will be staff officers without responsibility. What worries me is that unless these members of the Commission are whole-time members, they may quite inadvertently spend more time on other duties than they would if it were not possible for them to have outside duties. I am sure the Minister accepts that as a most difficult point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-29", "file": "debates1947-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "904ee297e8be6c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1848.8", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Powers of Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": " on it, but the point here is very similar. Under the Bill the Government take over, as far as the passenger traffic is concerned, the London Passenger Transport Board. Later on, under Part IV of the Bill they may, without a scheme being put up, take over road passenger transport in a particular area. Under Clause 2 (2, e )—if I may have the attention of the Parliamentary Secretary for one moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1848.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-29", "file": "debates1947-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "904ee297e8be6c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1868.1", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Powers of Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "cks on efficiency to be in existence. We suggest that there are two motives. One is that we have to try to disguise inefficiency, and the other is that the State monopoly, from its very origin and from its method of working, is prey to one of the most sinister defects which we have seen in the 20th century, the lust for power and the determination to get a dominant and ever more dominant position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-29", "file": "debates1947-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "904ee297e8be6c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1888.2", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 5.—(The Executives.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is meant by 'immediately'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "bject to public ventilation. The Minister, when an appointment is made which arouses feeling in Parliament, can make a check. The right hon. Member for the City of London said he did not see the need for a Docks Executive. I see every need for it. Immediately the railways are vested in the Commission, the railway docks must be severed from the Railways Executive, and passed to the Docks Executive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1888.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-29", "file": "debates1947-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "904ee297e8be6c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1893.2", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 5.—(The Executives.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "Minister to explain himself a little more adequately. Does he really think that by coming to the House and saying, \"I have appointed Mr. Jones an executive\" he has fulfilled his responsibility, and does he not think that a corollary of his appointment is to allow the House to ask about the doings of these Executives which are running the most important business of this country, which is transport?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-29", "file": "debates1947-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "904ee297e8be6c18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1895.1", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 5.—(The Executives.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister not think that it is desirable that somebody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-29a.1895.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-30", "file": "debates1947-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "95b31e1d768872e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.1941.8", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "The cost falls on Imperial funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.1941.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-30", "file": "debates1947-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "95b31e1d768872e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.1958.2", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister Without Portfolio (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "That the Control of Fuel (Restriction of Heating) Order, 1947 (S.R. & O., 1947, No. 765), dated 25th April, 1947, a copy of which was presented on 28th April, be annulled.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister Without Portfolio (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "gh the usual channels as I promised last week with regard to the arrangements for the Debate on the fuel situation which is to take place tomorrow. The Prayer to annul the Control of Fuel (Restriction of Heating) Order which stands on the Paper in the names of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Eden) and others, will be taken as the first item of Business tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.1958.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-30", "file": "debates1947-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "95b31e1d768872e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.1980.0", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Barnes)", "preceding_text": "t (Mr. Byers). After all, what does the Amendment propose? It would only offer to the Minister the opportunity, either to postpone the date, if it suits his convenience or meets his judgment, or, if the Minister so desires, to advance the date. So that it is not in dispute that it is left entirely to the discretion of the Minister. If that is the case, can anyone complain if I make up my mind now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.1979.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-30", "file": "debates1947-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "95b31e1d768872e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.1985.0", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Thirtieth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "al Assent, and assuming that the Minister survives. All these things are uncertain, all sorts of things may happen, but our object is to try and make the thing work in the best way we can Now the Minister tells us that he makes this decision now, and that it is, therefore, not necessary to give him this permissive right to put the date forward or back. He makes the decision now, today, 28th April—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.1985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-30", "file": "debates1947-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "95b31e1d768872e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.1985.0", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "s. All these things are uncertain, all sorts of things may happen, but our object is to try and make the thing work in the best way we can Now the Minister tells us that he makes this decision now, and that it is, therefore, not necessary to give him this permissive right to put the date forward or back. He makes the decision now, today, 28th April—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Thirtieth.\"]—whatever it may be..", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.1985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-30", "file": "debates1947-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "95b31e1d768872e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.1985.0", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Honourable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "r Oxford University (Sir A. Salter). From his very long experience, the right hon. Gentleman tells us of the value to a Minister of feeling that he has this amount of play and flexibility in his hands. The right hon. Gentleman the Minister has not considered that in his reply, but it is quite an important point, and I should have thought he might have mentioned it. The right hon. Member for Acton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.1985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-30", "file": "debates1947-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "95b31e1d768872e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.1985.0", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman tells us of the value to a Minister of feeling that he has this amount of play and flexibility in his hands. The right hon. Gentleman the Minister has not considered that in his reply, but it is quite an important point, and I should have thought he might have mentioned it. The right hon. Member for Acton—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Honourable.\"] The hon. Member for Acton (Mr. Sparks)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.1985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-30", "file": "debates1947-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "95b31e1d768872e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.1985.0", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Socialists.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan", "preceding_text": " do, while the hon. Member for Acton and the hon. Member for Enfield have told us that it could easily be carried through because there was so little that remained to be done. I think the Minister has given a much more correct account of the working of the system in the control period than the hon. Gentlemen behind him. Then the Minister give his little piece about \"victory day:\" Victory for what?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.1985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-30", "file": "debates1947-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "95b31e1d768872e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.2010.2", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "As the Financial Secretary has challenged me, may I refer him to the Committee proceedings, during which the Parliamentary Secretary stated the position quite clearly in agreement with myself? I raised the matter there and made it perfectly clear that this sum was put aside for making up such repairs and damages as could not be carried out during the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.2010.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-30", "file": "debates1947-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "95b31e1d768872e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.2012.0", "colnum": "2012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": ", ( b ), ( c ), ( d ), ( e ) and ( f ). What I am concerned with is the importance of the standing of this officer. In order to carry out the purpose of the Clause, obviously, he will have to be a man of the highest standing, and I observe that Clauses 121 and 122 make it clear that this Bill applies not only to England and Wales, but to Northern Ireland and Scotland, and so the officer appointed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.2011.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-30", "file": "debates1947-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "95b31e1d768872e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.2042.2", "colnum": "2042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Post Office?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " was to be a monopoly. If it were to be a monopoly, there would be some reason to be concerned about the small man, but this is not a monopoly. The right hon. Member for Bromley is either crassly ignorant or deliberately wicked, when he says that it is a monopoly. A monopoly is a great concentration of capital in the hands of a group of people who have only one concern, and that is to get profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.2042.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-30", "file": "debates1947-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "95b31e1d768872e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.2043.3", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Co-op.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Member wait a moment. The relationship of the \"B\" licence holders to this institution is something entirely different from what the position of a \"B\" licence holder would be to a monoply. A monopoly crushes its competitors and pulls down their businesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.2043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-30", "file": "debates1947-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "95b31e1d768872e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.2047.1", "colnum": "2047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wadsworth", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wadsworth", "preceding_text": "ut by many juniors. In fact, it will be remembered that, quite recently, on the National Coal Board the question arose of whether there should be \"Brylcreem\" machines at the pithead. It caused great consternation and, judging from the newspaper articles, it seemed almost to break up the Coal Board. That sort of decision would obviously be made in private enterprise by some junior in eight minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.2047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-30", "file": "debates1947-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "95b31e1d768872e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.2052.3", "colnum": "2052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ownership, is a rather risky thing to do. Under the Bill as drafted that will probably happen towards the end of next winter. A Commission recently appointed, probably with its plans somewhat ill prepared, is to be faced not with the option, but with the duty, of taking over a lot of transport undertakings. The Amendment is designed to avoid placing the Commission in such an embarrassing position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.2052.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-30", "file": "debates1947-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "95b31e1d768872e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.2056.1", "colnum": "2056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": " certain impression to his own back benchers who are in the habit of revolting. He is afraid that he will get a back bench revolt because this Amendment will be interpreted by some of his back benchers as an indication that he is going back on his desire to nationalise road transport. This Amendment does nothing of the sort. I can assure him that we would support him against his own back benchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.2056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-30", "file": "debates1947-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "95b31e1d768872e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.2080.0", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Herbert", "preceding_text": "Will you not allow me to finish my sentence, Mr. Speaker? I was not blaming you but if hon. Members opposite who have caused this situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.2080.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-04-30", "file": "debates1947-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "95b31e1d768872e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.2085.2", "colnum": "2085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is there no means of stopping this farcical procedure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.2085.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-04-30", "file": "debates1947-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "95b31e1d768872e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.2096.0", "colnum": "2096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ward (Burslem) Holmes, H. E. (Hemsworth) Morgan, Dr. H. B. Davies, Hadyn (St. Pancras, S.W.) House, G. Morley, R. Davies, S. O. (Merthyr) Hoy, J. Morris, Lt.-Col. H. (Sheffield, C.) Deer, G. Hudson, J. H. (Ealing, W.) Morris, P. (Swansea, W.) de Freitas, Geoffrey Hughes, Hector (Aberdeen, N.) Moyle, A. Delargy, H. J. Hughes, H. D. (W'lverh'pton, W.) Murray, J. D. Diamond, J. Hynd, H. (Hackney, C.)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-04-30a.2093.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2148.8", "colnum": "2148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Express' is right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister take the opportunity to express—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2148.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2149.4", "colnum": "2149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Oh, no. I am responsible to the requirements of the House in general; indeed, I must be, but it depends on the merits of the Question that is put to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2149.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2149.7", "colnum": "2149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Is there not something wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2149.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2150.0", "colnum": "2150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We know that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is for the House to say if a Minister is not efficient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2153.2", "colnum": "2153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "The mineworkers are the only persons concerned in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2183.2", "colnum": "2183", "heading": "CONTROL OF FUEL (RESTRICTION OF HEATING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has been got\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "uce 220 million tons, and, probably, even get it up to 235 million tons, if the necessary enthusiasm were inspired and instilled into them. So that it is because the Government has failed to inspire the miners with the necessary enthusiasm that they are now saying that this cut is necessary. So much for the first question, as to whether it is necessary. I believe increased production could be got—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2189.1", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "CONTROL OF FUEL (RESTRICTION OF HEATING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not a ration.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "They may get nothing. At all events, it is a reduction of the ration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2189.1", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "CONTROL OF FUEL (RESTRICTION OF HEATING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, we may get more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "They may get nothing. At all events, it is a reduction of the ration. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not a ration.\"] The main point is that we shall all get less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2189.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2210.0", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "CONTROL OF FUEL (RESTRICTION OF HEATING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Grant", "preceding_text": "the Fort William scheme and similar schemes may use their own source of power. I support everything which has been said regarding the detrimental effect this Order will have on those who have the task of keeping house today. The housewives of the country have all along been only too willing to co-operate. One has to remember that an Order of this nature is striking at the very root of family life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2210.2", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "CONTROL OF FUEL (RESTRICTION OF HEATING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Lady Grant", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Grant", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members would only wait until I have finished my sentence. Husbands and others when they come back from work expect to have some little relaxation. Are they always expected to be in the best temper, when they find they are not able to have a little warmth?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2210.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2217.3", "colnum": "2217", "heading": "CONTROL OF FUEL (RESTRICTION OF HEATING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ly. The hon. Lady has almost in the same words repeated the argument to which I referred, and I am grateful to her for refreshing the memory of the House on the matter. The hon. Lady spoke in support of this Order. The only conceivable relevance to this Order of a refer- ence to homes being cold before the war was that because homes were cold before the war it did not matter if they were cold now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2218.3", "colnum": "2218", "heading": "CONTROL OF FUEL (RESTRICTION OF HEATING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "of a voluntary appeal that a necessary condition of that appeal is that it should be made by a Minister of Fuel and Power whom the public believe to have some tenderness for the consumer and not to be wholly interested in keeping in with the National Union of Mineworkers. The right hon. Gentleman has decided to bolster up his failure to provide adequate fuel with the sanctions of the criminal law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2218.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2221.1", "colnum": "2221", "heading": "CONTROL OF FUEL (RESTRICTION OF HEATING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "n, for the first time in our history, of certain forms of heating during the summer months, is a matter which would entitle hon. Members of this House, in their duty to their constituents, to endeavour to ascertain whether the responsible department, so far as health is concerned, had been consulted, and what its opinion was. Therefore, obliged as I am to the hon. Member for Dundee for his expert—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2221.1", "colnum": "2221", "heading": "CONTROL OF FUEL (RESTRICTION OF HEATING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "tary considered what the effect of English hotels being extremely cold places this summer will be upon that tourist trade, particularly upon the American tourist trade? If it is necessary, and I have an open mind on this point, to stop heating hotels, surely it would be advisable to warn would-be tourists that they are coming to a very cold and uncomfortable country, and had better prepare for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2223.1", "colnum": "2223", "heading": "CONTROL OF FUEL (RESTRICTION OF HEATING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "n asked by the right hon. Gentleman, quite fairly, whether the electricity industry, who we consulted, were in favour of the first of these restrictions? No, Sir. They were opposed, they always have been, to any form of statutory restriction, but I think I am entitled to say that one does not usually find in those particular circles any great enthusiasm for cutting down the demand for electricity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2227.1", "colnum": "2227", "heading": "CONTROL OF FUEL (RESTRICTION OF HEATING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "e premises is quite sufficient to prevent wasteful heating of that kind in those premises. I now turn to a number of what I might call pleas of various kinds for various classes of persons, of all ages. My hon. Friend the Member for Hitchin (Mr. Asterley Jones) in his, if I may say so, admirable and most intelligent speech, seemed to me to have exactly the right perspective about the whole matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2229.3", "colnum": "2229", "heading": "CONTROL OF FUEL (RESTRICTION OF HEATING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay", "preceding_text": "There is one further point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2229.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2229.8", "colnum": "2229", "heading": "CONTROL OF FUEL (RESTRICTION OF HEATING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Snoopers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " further and making those who consume gas and electricity make a contribution, surely it is the latter we must ask for it. In my own constituency, repeatedly, people have come up to me and said, \"Why do you not do something to restrict the extravagant use of electricity?\" They have come up and said, \"We know that so-and-so has an electric fire on practically all day.\" We think that that is unfair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2229.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2229.8", "colnum": "2229", "heading": "CONTROL OF FUEL (RESTRICTION OF HEATING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The fault of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ot official snoopers, but very naturally indignant neighbours. It is also a fact—and the House must take note of it—that, according to the last estimates we have had, the increase in the consumption of electricity by domestic consumers in 1940 over 1945 was a third—33⅓ per cent. increase. Practically the whole of the total increase, it is now evident, was on account of domestic consumption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2229.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2230.1", "colnum": "2230", "heading": "CONTROL OF FUEL (RESTRICTION OF HEATING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": ". We can deal with really flagrant cases. I do ask hon. Members to believe that there is a lot of indignation in the country about people who are using electricity and gas extravagantly, and we must, in the last resort, be able to deal with them. I have even heard of cases of persons, not being friendly to the present Government, even deliberately, going to great expense to turn on electric fires.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2230.1", "colnum": "2230", "heading": "CONTROL OF FUEL (RESTRICTION OF HEATING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " Members opposite will agree that even they would not support actions of that kind. I believe that the general public understand the need for this Order. They know perfectly well that something must be done to restrict the consumption of gas and electricity. They know well—better than some of the hon. Members opposite who spoke today—that we still face, unquestionably, a very grave fuel situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2230.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2233.1", "colnum": "2233", "heading": "CONTROL OF FUEL (RESTRICTION OF HEATING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Clark Hutchison", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2235.4", "colnum": "2235", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "0 skilled miners supervising them. Clearly, in those circumstances, any attempt to have a greater throughput of new men in that pit might lead to actual diminution of output through the withdrawal of a larger number of skilled men to work as supervisors alongside that \"green labour,\" where they could not produce anything like the same output as when they were working by themselves. Is that not so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2235.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2275.1", "colnum": "2275", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat Amory", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat Amory", "preceding_text": " ossification; which some of my hon. Friends foresaw when the Coal Nationalisation Bill was being discussed. One hears of bureaucratic methods, delays, preoccupation with details of administration and remoteness. If this is true, it is very disturbing. I only want to say this on the five-day week. That issue has been settled, and we must now await its result. I have been down a coalmine only once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2282.1", "colnum": "2282", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell)", "preceding_text": "The House has listened with its usual courtesy to a most interesting essay, which bore the mark of careful preparation. Undoubtedly, the composition was impeccable, though I am bound to say that the content was infantile.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2283.1", "colnum": "2283", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "do we all. But, in the circumstances, it is inevitable. I hope it will be temporary in its duration, and, in so far as it is necessary to adopt modifications, as my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary has indicated, we are prepared to consider any reasonable proposal that is made to us. I repeat, at bottom it is a matter of production. We cannot solve this fuel problem unless we get more coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2283.1", "colnum": "2283", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ime, precisely because we understand that production alone can solve this problem, however much one cares to promote fuel efficiency, which, of course, is very desirable. I can tell the right hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Pembroke in parenthesis, that we are doing far more in respect of fuel efficiency than ever he did when he was Minister of Fuel and Power, no matter what he has done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2283.1", "colnum": "2283", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ers opposite do not like what I am saying. That is precisely why I am saying it. No matter what one does in respect of fuel efficiency, no matter what may be done in the way of imposing restrictions on consumers, it is production we want, and it is production we must seek. We have tried to increase production, but, obviously, it is not the Ministry of Fuel and Power that increases fuel production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2286.0", "colnum": "2286", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "matter effectively. We do not want to throw a spanner into the machinery at this moment, although I understand that before long a new wage structure will be negotiated. I prefer to leave this matter—whether hon. Members opposite like it or not—to the National Coal Board and the National Union of Mineworkers. Never a word is said about fishermen, and fishermen are a very hardy and fine type of men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-01", "file": "debates1947-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "7829197aefdb26fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2288.2", "colnum": "2288", "heading": "FUEL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ut in the next quarter we may get none. We may in the following quarter get some, but that depends on the allocation provided by the United States authorities for the European countries. I must say on this matter that I am surprised at hon. Members opposite when they make the suggestion that we made no effort to do this. It is not entirely in my hands. It is a matter for the Government as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-01a.2288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-02", "file": "debates1947-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "992ee7f522a19125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-02a.2332.0", "colnum": "2332", "heading": "BURMA (FAILURE OF CONSTITUTIONAL MACHINERY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Keep to the Left.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "If we are talking about confusion on this side of the House, the hon. Gentleman should search his own conscience and see if there is any confusion on matters of foreign policy and other questions on that side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-02a.2332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-02", "file": "debates1947-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "992ee7f522a19125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-02a.2332.3", "colnum": "2332", "heading": "BURMA (FAILURE OF CONSTITUTIONAL MACHINERY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Yes, but when the hon. Gentleman was interrupted by my hon. Friend the Member for West Leyton (Mr. Sorensen), he said quite categorically, in reply to the interruption, that he did not consider it was our duty to find out what the Burmese want—as HANSARD will show tomorrow unless the hon. Gentleman rewrites it first.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-02a.2332.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-02", "file": "debates1947-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "992ee7f522a19125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-02a.2333.1", "colnum": "2333", "heading": "BURMA (FAILURE OF CONSTITUTIONAL MACHINERY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": " and one-eighth Karen. That shows the difficulty of dealing with this problem, because the populations are so extraordinarily mixed up together. The continuance of democratic liberty, which has been assured under the regime of the present Interim Government of Burma, has been kept up despite the most violent and vicious wrecking tactics of the Opposition, both of the Right and of the extreme Left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-02a.2333.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-05", "file": "debates1947-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "7dbc9e466a8376e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "I am not making a charge of obstruction at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.43.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-05", "file": "debates1947-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "7dbc9e466a8376e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.43.8", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is what the Minister said.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "That is precisely what the right hon. Gentleman did not say. If he had said that we had tried by all legitimate means to stop the Bill becoming law, it would have meant that we had done no more than our duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.43.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-05", "file": "debates1947-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "7dbc9e466a8376e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.87.3", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I was venturing to submit that I understood that the Transport Bill was a Bill for the nationalisation of transport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.87.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-05", "file": "debates1947-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "7dbc9e466a8376e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.90.2", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You said nationalisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "No, that was not what I said. All I said was that nearly all expert authorities have recommended co-ordination in some form—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.90.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-05", "file": "debates1947-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "7dbc9e466a8376e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Hutchison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Hutchison", "preceding_text": "Yes, but that does not remove the danger, and in my view sooner or later a clash is bound to arise between the trade unions and the Government, who are responsible for the running of the nationalised industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-05", "file": "debates1947-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "7dbc9e466a8376e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Hutchison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have you ever been a member of a trade union?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Hutchison", "preceding_text": "re responsible for the running of the nationalised industry. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members may laugh, but that is what has happened in countries abroad, and eventually the status of trade unionism has been reduced to that of a mere debating body pressing certain measures upon the Government but forced to accept with resignation the government's decision, having really no power to enforce their views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-05", "file": "debates1947-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "7dbc9e466a8376e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Hutchison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Hutchison", "preceding_text": "the Minister inferred that all the consideration was to take place outside the House of Commons. If that sort of argument were continued to its logical conclusion, it would lead to one saying that if only the country were told three or four years before what was to be done. and if the Measure were left to be debated at considerable length in another place, we might as well all pack up and go home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-05", "file": "debates1947-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "7dbc9e466a8376e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.112.2", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "make your flesh creep.\" I think their attitude to all these nationalisation Bills is based upon a desire to frighten other people into thinking that something terrible is going to happen. All the things which they have said about this Bill they said about the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act, and they have ignored the fact that, since the vesting date under that Act, production has been going up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-05", "file": "debates1947-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "7dbc9e466a8376e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.112.4", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": " mass of our people are no longer prepared to give the greatest part of their energies in what they believe to be the pursuit of profit for the few who own the industry in which they are engaged. That factor has been deep in the minds of the railway workers for two generations, and we know that, on 1st January next year, there will be that tremendous surge upwards in the hearts of railway workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.112.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-05", "file": "debates1947-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "7dbc9e466a8376e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "preceding_text": " agreed by the parish council and by all the people whom this extension was to serve that it would be welcome. It was agreed by the traffic manager of the Southern National Bus Company in Exeter, who referred it on 28th January to the Transport Commissioners for a decision. He has had no reply of any sort or kind since then. The Traffic Commissioners are a body set up by the Ministry of Transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-05", "file": "debates1947-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "7dbc9e466a8376e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": "bout it. Is this the first Government that ever had a mandate? One would think so, judging by the number of times the claim has been put forward. But hon. Members forget that hon. and right hon. Gentlemen who voted against this Bill on Second Reading represented 52 per cent. of the electorate who voted at the General Election. Do they forget that since then there has been a swing away from Labour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-05", "file": "debates1947-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "7dbc9e466a8376e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": "er of times the claim has been put forward. But hon. Members forget that hon. and right hon. Gentlemen who voted against this Bill on Second Reading represented 52 per cent. of the electorate who voted at the General Election. Do they forget that since then there has been a swing away from Labour? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] Hon. Members have only to look at the results of local government elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-05", "file": "debates1947-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "7dbc9e466a8376e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": "ason could be possible? I submit that by their refusal to allow that inquiry they quite clearly showed the weakness of their own case. There never was a time, in my submission, when we could less afford to put control of our transport system, in the words of a Socialist, the hon. Member for East Middlesbrough (Mr. A. Edwards): in the hands of superannuated trade union officials and civil servants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-05", "file": "debates1947-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "7dbc9e466a8376e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The blue light.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": "case. There never was a time, in my submission, when we could less afford to put control of our transport system, in the words of a Socialist, the hon. Member for East Middlesbrough (Mr. A. Edwards): in the hands of superannuated trade union officials and civil servants. [ Laughter. ] There is no point in hon. Members opposite laughing at that quotation. One of their number has seen the red light.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-05", "file": "debates1947-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "7dbc9e466a8376e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "l consideration by these bodies. The other point made with great emphasis by the right hon. and gallant Gentleman, and, I think, by some other hon. Members, was: \"Why there should be any hurry about this matter; what immediate benefits are likely to be forthcoming.\" My answer is that this industry is in an exceedingly unsatisfactory and unstable state, and there are great difficulties ahead of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-05", "file": "debates1947-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "7dbc9e466a8376e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not in Committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "aint, because of its obvious political value. I would first like to correct the impression that has gone out to the country that, in imposing the Guillotine to get the Bill through, we were doing something entirely unprecedented, and calculated to undermine Parliamentary democracy. The fact is, however, that since 1887 the Guillotine has been used over and over again by every Government in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-05", "file": "debates1947-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "7dbc9e466a8376e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "impression that has gone out to the country that, in imposing the Guillotine to get the Bill through, we were doing something entirely unprecedented, and calculated to undermine Parliamentary democracy. The fact is, however, that since 1887 the Guillotine has been used over and over again by every Government in office. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not in Committee.\"] There is no difference in principle at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-05", "file": "debates1947-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "7dbc9e466a8376e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman not aware that the gravamen of the charge against the Government is not simpliciter the imposition of the Guillotine, but the combination of these factors: first, the sending of a Measure of this magnitude upstairs to a Committee of 50 right hon. and hon. Members and the gagging of 590 Members; further the imposition of a second Guillotine on the Report stage, and then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.160.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-05", "file": "debates1947-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "7dbc9e466a8376e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.182.2", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PHYSICAL EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Only when war was declared.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. K. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "It was buried in 1939.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-05a.182.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.222.0", "colnum": "222", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "as absolutely necessary to maintain our position abroad, and which had been worked out for months. Within 48 hours it has been changed to another plan, which may also be explained by the Minister of Defence to be a solution. It is obviously quite different. Surely, we are not going to have a statement from the Minister of Defence, whose position is much called in question, without having at least—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.245.0", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "t part of my right hon. Friend's speech, which is devoted to showing that everybody inside a certain period would be deferred, was a speech against his own point of view. If, on the other hand, we think they ought to have the period of compulsory service and call-up in the middle of the period of training, then we do not want elaborate provisions and elaborate machinery to prevent that very thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "There are people who believe that Conscription Acts are usually passed by Parliaments whose average age is beyond the calling-up age fixed in the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "It would not necessarily follow—the arithmetic is sound but the logic faulty—that 42 or 84 would be better. I am saying that 21 would be better from the military point of view than 19, and I think it would also be better from a social point of view. It is a great pity to take a boy at the age of i8 and place him compulsorily in a milieu where all responsibility for his actions is removed from him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.258.5", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "esses because those employers may not perhaps have the business knowledge necessary to formulate paper documents on which the apprenticeship arrangements are based. I have one last point which I hope will appeal to the Committee. If this Amendment is accepted, it means that no one will be called up for two years, and if no one is called up for two years, will the Committee accept the consequences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.258.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "I have got to go to my people. Surely, if I go to the Lobby to support this Measure I have to go to the people of Bridgeton to tell them why I supported the Measure? I have to tell them that they have serious commitments, and that they have to face up to them. Let us look at the military position so far as Scotland is concerned. We have never been an aggressive people at any time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.271.3", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": " not an aggressive people. We are asked to face up to our military obligations. What are our military obligations today? Almost half the people of Scotland live in the crowded Southern belt, and in modern warfare Scotland, in the economical and in the physical sense, could be wiped out in less than 24 hours. We are quite incapable of producing an Army that could be of service in any foreign field.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": " the population should be excluded. To the hon. and gallant Member for Pollok who referred to mandates, and to the right hon. Member for West Bristol (Mr. Stanley) who intervened on the question of majorities, I would say that there was a complete majority in the Bridgeton area against conscription, because Guy Aldred and the Scottish Nationalist, with Jimmy Carmichael, stood against conscription.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": "n reply to questions: This question has for some time past engaged the attention of His Majesty's Government, and I hope to be in a position to make a statement about it on the first Sitting Day after this week.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 20th May, 1941; Vol. 371, c. 1390–1] That was before the House adjourned on the Wednesday, and in those days the House used to sit again on the following Tuesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What year? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": " adjourned on the Wednesday, and in those days the House used to sit again on the following Tuesday. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What year?\"] In 1941. In the meantime an extraordinary event happened. Mr. de Valera summoned a special meeting of the Dail of Southern Ireland by telegram for the Monday, the very day before this House was to have an answer from the Prime Minister. What Mr. de Valera said was this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.309.0", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John E. Haire", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John E. Haire", "preceding_text": "hat in a later debate—in the fullness of time, what form of Government she should have. I would submit to my hon. Friends on this side of the Committee that in Northern Ireland there is, if I may say so, what I consider to be a reactionary regime, somewhat politically backward, because the men and women of Northern Ireland have not developed that progressive instinct which we in this country have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.309.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.315.3", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "at he actually said so that shall not be thought to be doing him an injustice. Speaking of private employers in the racy idiom he so often employs, he said that, so far as Catholics were concerned, his view was that no one should have one about his place. Subsequently, speaking in the constituency of the hon. Baronet the Member for Londonderry, he said; When I made that declaration last Twelfth \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.315.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.315.4", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry, the 12th July celebrates the Battle of the Boyne.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.315.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.315.4", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry, the 12th July celebrates the Battle of the Boyne. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] Perhaps hon. Members will allow me to complete the quotation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.315.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.315.6", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry, Sir Charles, but I was dealing with the matter of dates. The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.315.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.315.6", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry, Sir Charles, but I was dealing with the matter of dates. The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland said—[HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"]— in 1934—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.315.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.315.6", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "t you are about to rise, Sir Charles. Before you do so, may I present this argument to you? What I am arguing is that if it is in fact the case that the country is in such a desperate state that such regulations are necessary, then it is not a fit country in which to enforce conscription. 9.0 p.m. If it is necessary to have regulations enabling the imprisoning indefinitely of anyone without trial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.315.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.324.7", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Davies", "preceding_text": "d into this Bill. The right hon. Gentleman contented himself by saying that various arguments had been thrown backwards and forwards across the Committee. What was the real reason why the Government could not bring in Northern Ireland? It was the difficulty of enforcing this Bill, and I warn this Government now that there will be those same difficulties of enforcement as far as Wales is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.324.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.328.2", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Roberts", "preceding_text": "I wish to support the Amendment moved by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Montgomery (Mr. C. Davies). I regard this Amendment as the most important proposal in relation to Wales that has ever come before this Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.328.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"You did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "preceding_text": "ld rely upon a voluntary system in the event of the danger of war arising. The whole of the manpower and womenpower of this country becomes immediately involved in a modern war. The suggestion is that, face to face with that danger, we should leave it to volunteers. In other words, the suggestion is that I should get out of my responsibility by waiting and looking round for some-body to volunteer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.337.6", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "preceding_text": "hcoming in voluntary fashion. I ask the Committee seriously one question. Have we ever had a voluntary system? What recruited men into the Armed Forces in the past? Poverty, unemployment and the Conservative or Tory boss in industry. This country recruited its so-called voluntary Armed Forces by a process of social conscription. That was done everywhere in Wales as well as in England and Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.337.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wales.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "preceding_text": "that the Welsh people shall be separated from their brothers and sisters in England, Scotland or any other part in time of common danger is not British; it is a narrow, hypocritical piece of nationalism, and, on behalf of Wales, I object to the proposition. We have to decide a very serious issue. In time of danger to this country, upon whom do we think the responsibility must rest for its defence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.339.3", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "preceding_text": "n of mankind, I cannot imagine a situation arising in this country in which Wales would seek to shirk its responsibilities in wars of that kind. That is not the issue at all. The issue is how can Wales best play its part, and how can England and Scotland best play its part. This is not conscription in wartime or in time of emergency; it is conscription in peacetime, and when there is no emergency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.341.0", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No more than England.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the senior Burgess for Oxford University (Sir A. Salter) has spoken about opposition to the Bill at an earlier date. I opposed it on the Second Reading, and I oppose it now. I am speaking now on why Wales opposes it. Wales has the voluntary principle, and has worked the voluntary principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.341.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.342.2", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "preceding_text": "I apologise, Major Milner. I am simply pointing out that hon. Members from Wales certainly could not have been accused of taking a narrow party point of view. But the situation has changed, because the Government have surrendered to pressure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "preceding_text": "tion in peace time, and not only to conscription of Welshmen in peace time. This Amendment will have the effect of calling all the other people in the United Kingdom—with the exception of the people of Northern Ireland—to the colours for conscription, except Welshmen. I believe that the entire spirit of Wales is against conscription, and that the overwhelming majority of her people are against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Kingdom. In Wales, there is a small Nationalist Party. It has been pandered to in some of the speeches we have heard. There are people holding responsible positions in Wales who are frightened of the Welsh Nationalist sentiment, and, after the war, of course, it had a little fillip. It has now had a few injections, but, unless it gets some more injections of that sort, it will die a healthy death—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Northern Ireland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "after time by the very party group to which the hon. Member belongs. I think I have covered most of the points that have been raised in the Debate. Here is the position we have to face. England and Scotland now have conscription, as a result of the decisions to which we have come. Wales is left, the last to be outside. Wales gets all the advantages of the general legislation through this Chamber.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-06", "file": "debates1947-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "3127f3891057c0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MATRIMONIAL CAUSES RULES", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Hartley Shawcross)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Hartley Shawcross)", "preceding_text": " implemented already, to £66 15s. 7d. But this is the point I want to endorse, because I cannot think that it has been fully appreciated by hon. Members or perhaps even by the Members of the Committee itself. If every recommendation which the Committee made in regard to this aspect of the matter had been adopted, the additional saving in the ordinary run of costs would only have been a further £4.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-06a.373.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.427.7", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "As Dartmouth is in my constituency, may I be allowed to ask a question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.427.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.444.4", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "ood deal of ventilation in the Press of the relationship of His Majesty's Government with the Chiefs of Staff on such matters as the present proposal, and, in case further references are made in the course of the Debate, it might be well if I define that relationship as the Government see it. I ought perhaps to add that the Prime Minister has approved the terms of the statement I am about to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.444.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.448.3", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "er completing the ground work of his Service training, which a man will spend applying that training as a working member of a unit or of a ship's complement. I am not in any way going to minimise the great value which accrues from that later period, when a man applies the instruction which he has been receiving and, in combination with his fellows, learns his job as a part of the military machine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.448.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.451.5", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "His Majesty's Government have to make a realistic approach to this problem of the peace-time security of this country and the maintenance of its essential defence responsibilities. They were forced to the conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.451.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.451.9", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Last March.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "ondly, they had to weigh very carefully the optimum needs of the Services against the disadvantages unavoidable in removing appreciable numbers of the youth of the country temporarily from its civilian economy. Their original decision taken after careful consideration of the circumstances as they then presented themselves last autumn, was to ask for 18 months' full-time Service. Five months later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.451.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.453.1", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Touché .\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "til finally an agreement was reached on which all could in saying that it was the minimum. I do not think any one can fail to be impressed by the powerful character of the statement made to the House, and we on this side of the Committee were impressed by it. But now the right hon. Gentleman comes down and tells us in elegant language that what he said on 20th March was all \"piffle and poppycock.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.453.1", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "in his statement he made explaining this somersault, or tergiversation—however one likes to express it—he admitted, nakedly and squalidly, that the reason was political He said nothing about this wonderful revelation of economic difficulties in which our country stood, which came to him on the morrow of the Division in the House. What he said was in the light of the Debate in the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The boys had told you off.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "entlemen on this side will go more into the details of this matter. As soon as I heard of the change—it was astonishing, considering we supported the Government in the Lobby with all our strength, that not even a word was said to us on a matter of this kind—as soon as I heard it on the telephone, I issued a statement saying that we must consult together to reconsider our position. We have done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ust consult together to reconsider our position. We have done so. [An HON. MEMBER: \"The boys had told you off.\"] The hon. Member, no doubt, has been snooping around to try to collect information from the meetings of the Conservative Party. I can assure him that I have not changed my view one-eighth of an inch since this business started. We have come to the conclusion that in spite of this change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "here are many Members on both sides of the Committee who are in the same position. Some hon. Members opposite will be extremely embarrassed when they are asked by their leader tonight to support a period of 18 months. If the period had not been altered, I am willing to prophesy now that there would have been some Conservative Members in the Government Lobby, if such an Amendment had been put down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.462.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.463.0", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " had to take their share, and their share only, of the full ration available to the nation as a whole of our industrial strength. There have been many occasions, and the right hon. Member has been closely connected with them, when political considerations have prevailed over military considerations. Was Field-Marshal Lord Wavell wholly in favour of the excursion into Greece, during the recent war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": " the Government.\" That position is perfectly logical. It seems to me that the really serious aspect of this matter has been brought out by the hon. Member for East Coventry (Mr. Crossman). I see that my hon. Friend is not in his place at the moment, but I' warned him that I was going to refer to what he said, and perhaps his private secretary, the hon. and gallant Member for Dudley (Colonel Wigg)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.474.4", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "I will try to keep to that point. At a meeting of this divisional Labour Party, it was carried by 350 votes to 12 that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.474.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.475.3", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I am hoping that we will get a clarification of this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.484.2", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In two days.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ing in the House of Commons. This decision of the Government was taken not because of the attitude of a small number of Members who voted against the Government; and not only because of the attitude of those Members who supported the principle of the Bill, but indicated in the Debate that they felt that 12 months was a preferable period to i8. It was taken after a review of the economic situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.484.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.506.0", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "ly false reasons which were given by the Leader of the Opposition in his speech. It was first said that the 18 months' period had been the period advised by the General Staff; that the General Staff advice was being thrown over, and that an arbitrary figure was being adopted for political reasons. That is wholly at variance with the facts. The General Staff were asked what their requirements were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.506.3", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Against six months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "e a balance between those two. The other suggestion made by the Leader of the Opposition was that this Government had been forced to accept this alteration by the people who voted against conscription in the Second Reading Debate. Nothing could be further from the truth. Those people who voted against conscription, voted because they were against conscription, against 18 months, against 12 months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.506.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.506.3", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are all amused.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "vide ready-made units, it is to provide a Reserve; it is to provide men who have done their individual training and are available for welding into Reserves. That is the distinction which hon. Members opposite have not drawn, and 12 months is ample for that individual, basic training. I would pose this question to hon. Members opposite, and particularly to the one in the middle who seems so amused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.506.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.506.3", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"Brigadiers are not commanding officers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "nto Reserves. That is the distinction which hon. Members opposite have not drawn, and 12 months is ample for that individual, basic training. I would pose this question to hon. Members opposite, and particularly to the one in the middle who seems so amused. [HON. MEMBERS: \"We are all amused.\"] I mean the hon. and gallant Member for North Blackpool (Brigadier Low). He has been a commanding officer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.506.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.506.3", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": " who have been commanding officers. Put yourself in this position: You have to form a unit, whether it be a ship or a battalion or a squadron. You are sent Reservists: you are told that some of them have done 12 months' service, some 13, some some 18. Would any hon. Member in the position of a commanding officer, having to form that unit, draw the slightest distinction between any of those people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.506.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wigg", "preceding_text": "juncture, will be asking for as much as it can get, for as long as it can get it. I would much prefer the Government to come along and ask for the period to be a year. The Government have got 18 months to work out a scheme, and to bring that scheme to the House and tell us what it is. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) today was in one of his most irresponsible moods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "en the period of service. There are two ways in which that may be achieved. First, we may find that the campaign to attract young men will be more successful than it has been. I ask the Government, Was the campaign to attract young men more successful in those 48 hours than it had been, and if so, to what extent was it successful? We should like to have the figures of the success of that campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "gn to attract young men will be more successful than it has been. I ask the Government, Was the campaign to attract young men more successful in those 48 hours than it had been, and if so, to what extent was it successful? We should like to have the figures of the success of that campaign. [ Laughter. ] I am quite serious about it. I want to know the figures of the success of voluntary recruiting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. A. V. Alexander)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. A. V. Alexander)", "preceding_text": " with the principle or the facts of the National Service Bill. What he was quoting from was a speech which I made in the Debate on the Defence White Paper and the whole of the remarks which he quoted me as having addressed to the House were addressed with regard to the preparation of the Service Estimates for 1947. The whole of the long quotation he made was completely irrelevant to the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. A. V. Alexander)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. A. V. Alexander)", "preceding_text": "wed with the Cabinet and with the Chiefs of Staff on the Estimates, and within a few days of that he was saying that these Estimates were indicative of our incompetence and inefficiency and that he would have liked to have got at these Estimates with a red pencil, with which he could have saved scores of millions. I find that kind of comment upon our defence position today completely inconsistent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. A. V. Alexander)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ten years ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. A. V. Alexander)", "preceding_text": "try. The right hon. Gentleman made some very great strictures upon what he described as the running away from and giving way to political pressure. I suppose that he would know as much as most people in the House of Commons about giving way to political pressure. My hon. Friend the Member for South Cardiff (Mr. Callaghan) made reference tonight to an incident in connection with the Budget of 1937.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. A. V. Alexander)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Is this relevant?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. A. V. Alexander)", "preceding_text": "House of Commons about giving way to political pressure. My hon. Friend the Member for South Cardiff (Mr. Callaghan) made reference tonight to an incident in connection with the Budget of 1937. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Ten years ago.\"] If we are being attacked upon whether or not we give way to political pressure by those who have given way to political pressure before. surely, we are entitled to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. A. V. Alexander)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. A. V. Alexander)", "preceding_text": "ellor of the Exchequer. He said: Perhaps the House may remember that only seven or eight years ago I got into some trouble myself about the Kerosene Tax. It was a very good tax. I was quite right about it. My right hon. Friend slipped it through a year or two later without the slightest trouble, and it never ruined the homes of the people at all. Anyhow, the Chief Whip of those days telephoned me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. A. V. Alexander)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. A. V. Alexander)", "preceding_text": "n the country after the Budget speech. The Chief Whip said, 'You had better come up, all our fellows are against the tax, and all the others, too.' I do not know whether any similar communication has been made by the present occupant of that most important office. Anyhow, I acted with great promptitude. I came up to London immediately. It was said to be very difficult to withdraw the Kerosene Tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. A. V. Alexander)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. A. V. Alexander)", "preceding_text": "cupant of that most important office. Anyhow, I acted with great promptitude. I came up to London immediately. It was said to be very difficult to withdraw the Kerosene Tax— [ Interruption. ] I have listened all day without making any interruptions. I think I am entitled to put my case. I will continue: I came up to London immediately. It was said to be very difficult to withdraw the Kerosene Tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.546.4", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "eech, which the right hon. Gentleman made on that Budget, when he was pleading for a proper reconstruction and a better form of taxation for meeting the defence provisions of the country. That is what I am quoting, and as it was in connection with the defence of the country, I would like to quote one other short passage The right hon. Gentleman this afternoon made grave reflections upon my leader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.546.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "ts we have had to undertake. We have taken a risk on that, and I was careful to say in my speech today, in submitting the case for this Amendment, that if the position, in spite of our plans in this direction, deteriorates, we shall have to look at the matter afresh, and the Committee may be quite certain that the Government, if they had to deal with that situation, would take all necessary steps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "e Member for Carshalton (Brigadier Head) used the word \"Quisling,\" which is so objectionable to any decent democrat in this country, and the hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Worthing (Brigadier Prior-Palmer) said that by my action, in being associated with the reduction in compulsory service from 18 to 12 months, I might be blamed on any future occasion for the erection of wooden crosses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": " months before the outbreak of war.\" I think it was in April, 1939. Already a state of emergency had arisen. As the right hon. Gentleman knows, we had been pleading, many of us, month after month, and year after year, for real preparation for collective security. I said over and over again myself in the House, at that time, that if the Government would adopt a proper policy of collective security—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your party voted against it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "n pleading, many of us, month after month, and year after year, for real preparation for collective security. I said over and over again myself in the House, at that time, that if the Government would adopt a proper policy of collective security—[ Interruption .] Even the Measure which the right hon. Gentleman opposite quotes provided for only six months' training, just before the outbreak of war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Forty-eight hours after the Second Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "estion whether these reserves will be as well trained as they would be in 18 months, is a proper subject for argument and debate. I have paid attention to what has been said, but I do not think that Members opposite have paid enough attention to all that I said in defence of the Government's reduction of the period to 12 months. The case I put was this: that in the light of the economic situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At the expense of defence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "n those circumstances, for our defence requirements. I wish the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford had been here when I dealt with the reference he made the other day to costs, when he said that he would like to get at our Estimates with a red 'pencil, because he could save scores of millions of pounds. Here is a way in which actually we shall be saving money with regard to the training.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.578.2", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "What we are asking for is that the sixty days shall be increased to 75. The Minister says that a day can be reckoned in a number of hourly periods, and when he says that this addition will lose 40,000 man-years he knows that he is deceiving the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.578.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Noble", "preceding_text": "s of the Committee will agree that this is a most interesting Amendment. We have heard a great deal about the Army side of it. I want to ask for a little information for the naval point of view. We all know that there are such things as nautical miles. In this connection there may be nautical hours. Perhaps one of the Admiralty representatives in the Government could give Members some information?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Peto:", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They were not conscripts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Peto:", "preceding_text": "ion is at stake, or if there is a general strike, surely it must be right for the Government to have the power to use what forces they like in order to see that the nation does not suffer. I feel that the likelihood of the reserve being called out is a remote one. In my recollection it has never happened before. We have had the Territorial Army on a similar basis, but it has never been called out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "preceding_text": "I think it would be most obnoxious to leave it to volunteers to have to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.603.2", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "I cannot understand the point which the hon. Member raises. Obviously the Committee is only too ready to have the advice of anyone who knows anything about the subject. But when one comes to points of law, which, as a layman, I always understood were governed by very high principle indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.603.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "It might be that someone who works a bridge across some canal in North-West or South-East England will say, \"I am going to close the bridge and allow no traffic to cross it.\" Under this definition, nobody who comes under the terms of the Amendment is allowed to assist in opening or closing any bridge or canal or anything else. 1.0 a.m. What is a trade dispute—one man, half-a-dozen men, twenty men?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "mething shameful, and because there was something shameful the conscripts have to be protected from it while the volunteers, the Regular Army, apparently are supposed to stand so much outside the ordinary life of the community that they can he used to do something which it would be dreadful to expect the conscripts to do. For those reasons, I entirely support the case made by the Solicitor-General", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.612.0", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which powers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "rnment are going to ask us to accept a measure of industrial conscription in this Bill, I say definitely that, as far as I am concerned, I have gone as far as I can go. It is all very well to say that these powers will not be used in this way, but the duty of Parliament is to know what powers it is giving. I have heard nothing from the Attorney-General to say that these powers are not being given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.612.0", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " my son should not be so used either without his consent. This is a Bill to call up young men of 18 into the Armed Forces, and not into the docks, or any other form of labour. 1.30 a.m. I want to say this because it is important. I do not know if the suggestion in the Amendment is that the Regular Army should be so used. The Regular soldier knows the existing law, and accepts it when he volunteers", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.621.3", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Because we want to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "The Minister of Defence has not given any satisfactory answer to what has been said by Members on this side of the House. Why is it necessary at this late hour of the morning to consider a Bill which affects the life of every young man in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.621.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.657.1", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "y to the mother-in-law, he will have to stay at home by himself until she comes back. It is a very serious matter. Let us assume, for instance, that he has made arrangements with his employer that he is going to be away for a fortnight. The employer arranges for a man to take his place, and then, the day before this happens, the notice is cancelled, and the whole arrangement at the works is upset.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said he did not know.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "This is a most important matter. We have had a categorical statement from the Secretary of State for War, and I think that the Minister of Defence made a statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have said all this.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "indedly, but seriously, with proper forethought, and with dignity. The proceedings of this Committee, during the last half an hour, or hour, have not been consonant with the atmosphere in which we should make a fundamental change in the law of this country. After all, what is the hurry? We are not at war. We are not waiting for these men. The Bill, when it becomes law, does not operate until 1949.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.694.2", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "s that the Government wants to have a free hand and to be their own judges in their own case about which and how exceptions shall be made. That cannot be a proper argument for refusing an Amendment, in any circumstances and upon any matter. Conscription, as has been said more than once, is the most odious form of taxation and the one which comes home most intimately to the bosoms of men and women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.694.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "It seems to me that whenever one tries to make a concession it leads one into further trouble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.712.0", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "I should like to support very briefly my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Dudley (Colonel Wigg). I have in my hand the report by Lord Sorell on education after the last war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.720.0", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "used to be one, but has rather gone out of fashion now; and \"education\" has always been one of those words. There are people who are always prepared, as long as anything contains the word \"education,\" to think it must be a jolly good thing, and that they had better have their name on the bottom of it. There really is a great new principle involved here, and I am not at all sure which side I am on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.720.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.721.6", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "No, there has not. This is the beginning of systematic conscription in this country which we are now discussing, so the thing is new.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.721.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come over here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "I must confess that I speak in this Debate under two difficulties. The first is that I have have broken my glasses, with the unfortunate result that I can no longer see clearly the faces of hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.730.3", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wigg", "preceding_text": "Having said that, I gladly agree to withdraw this Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.730.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": "aid \"No, go on; I can come in afterwards.\" I did not know then, as I know now, and as the Committee knows, that his purpose was to make some false accusations against me and then refuse to give me an opportunity to reply. I never at any point said I knew nothing about adult education. The hon. and gallant Gentleman can take that view about me if he likes. Any insult from him can only do me honour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.733.0", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": " should be restricted to educational attainments, that would be restrictive. He himself suggested that he hardly liked to have registrative statutory demands. On the other hand, that would be a statutory restriction. It is true that it would be possible for all sorts of undesirable questions to be put. But I think we must trust our Government Departments, whatever may be the Government of the day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.733.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.761.6", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "I beg to move \"That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again.\" We have had a long and busy Sitting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.761.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": " very useful morning's work, we are making very good progress, there is no sign of any obstruction from any part of the Committee. I think the Ministers would agree that we are doing very well and are co-operating very well. I wonder what possible advantage is to be gained by stopping now. We have lost the Standing Committees in any case. There is nothing we can do about it, and if we adjourn now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-07", "file": "debates1947-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fdeda0e8dbf856c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.764.3", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "and refreshment, and, if I might say so, as far as the Ministers are concerned, not only the material refreshment that I shall seek, but they might spend part of the time in refreshing their minds on the part of the Bill which still remains to be discussed. The learned Attorney-General, for instance, might look up the law on which, some hours ago, he quarrelled with the Secretary of State for War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-07a.764.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-08", "file": "debates1947-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ee69fb6cb8d8ab5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.811.0", "colnum": "811", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " it was rejected at the time. The Opposition must take the responsibility, and must not come pleading another story now. We still take the view, both on this Bill and on another Bill, that the amount of time allowed for in Committee was adequate for the proper consideration of the Bill if the Committee had conducted itself as a Committee, instead of conducting itself as if it were the whole House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.811.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-08", "file": "debates1947-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ee69fb6cb8d8ab5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.811.6", "colnum": "811", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think, and I have already given a Ruling on this matter, that the conduct of the Chair of a Committee is not a matter for discussion in the House. Presumably, the Committee had been properly conducted, and one cannot criticise the action of the Chairman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.811.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-08", "file": "debates1947-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ee69fb6cb8d8ab5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.811.7", "colnum": "811", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "If Mr. Speaker orders me to withdraw, I will withdraw. I will not unless. I made no reference to the Chairman, no criticism of the Chairman at all, nor did I allege that the Committee conducted itself in a disorderly way. If hon. Members in Committee make speeches which are longer than they need be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.811.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-08", "file": "debates1947-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ee69fb6cb8d8ab5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "o a university is at present i8. It is not so in Scotland. In Scotland a boy or girl goes to a university usually at about 17 years of age. Before I came to this House I taught boys right up to the age of 17 years, and I want to make a particular plea to the Minister. Those boys are certainly not fit to go into the Forces. They have led a very sheltered life indeed as pupils in a secondary school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-08", "file": "debates1947-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ee69fb6cb8d8ab5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.834.7", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "tee, the wellbeing of the individuals affected by it must come first. If the Committee accept that point of view, I think they must insist that what is, perhaps, the most important provision for the care of the individual concerned shall be written into the Bill. There will be this additional advantage. I will say, quite frankly, that, as far as I am concerned, I am far from happy about this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.834.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-08", "file": "debates1947-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ee69fb6cb8d8ab5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "But then we should have the position of a man, who is now liable for 12 months service, having that service postponed, because, in 10 months' time, he can get into a university. He might, indeed, spend such time in the university, under the right given to him by this Amendment, as would take him beyond the age of call-up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-08", "file": "debates1947-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ee69fb6cb8d8ab5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "ntry expecting to go to a university immediately or within 10 or II months, should have the absolute right to be exempted from service, so long as he continued at the university, the technical college or as an apprentice. I submit that this would create a situation which would be capable of very great abuse. A man might fail in one college; he might fail in Cardiff, and he could then go to London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.842.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-08", "file": "debates1947-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ee69fb6cb8d8ab5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Front Bench.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": " Therefore, I cannot see why the Government cannot accept the Amendment. Obviously, if they are going to say that conscription is necessary to carry them over the crisis, they will have to tell us, some time or other, what is this crisis. What are these commitments, all these things that we are told about in a vague, nebulous sort of way? Is there somebody round the corner waiting to pounce on us?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-08", "file": "debates1947-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ee69fb6cb8d8ab5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend was a Member of this House before I was and his knowledge and experience are greater than mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-08", "file": "debates1947-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ee69fb6cb8d8ab5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.928.4", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "cause I would have expected that hon. Members who are anxious about democratic principles being safeguarded so that Parliament can have a direct sanction for Bills of this kind, ought in consistency to say that the argument is an a fortiori argument so far as the electorate is concerned. I expect those Gentlemen to vote with us for this Amendment. I do not want to detain the Committee much longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.928.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-08", "file": "debates1947-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ee69fb6cb8d8ab5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Palestine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": " told what our military commitments are. Will he tell us what special merit there is in 1954 as against 1951? How comes it about that the Government want to extend conscription for 10 years after the end of the war? We are reminded almost every week that our troops are coming out of India, out of Egypt, out of Burma, and ultimately, I suppose, they will come out of Germany, Italy and Austria, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.930.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-08", "file": "debates1947-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ee69fb6cb8d8ab5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.946.3", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We heard it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": " therefore, when the Government are seeking to renew it they should justify it up to the hilt, by bringing forward an Act of Parliament. It is the only method whereby we can see perfectly the way in which conscription operates in the experimental period. For those two reasons we support this most excellent Amendment. If there is any hon. Member who did not hear my first argument, I will repeat it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.946.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-08", "file": "debates1947-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ee69fb6cb8d8ab5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.950.3", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": " that was not the intention, but that an arrangement had been reached through the usual channels which would prevent our sitting very late tonight and would en- able the Government to get the Bill tomorrow. The Government have done very well about this; we have gone a long way. It is true that the last two Amendments have taken a little time, but except for those, we have made remarkable progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.950.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-08", "file": "debates1947-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ee69fb6cb8d8ab5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.951.2", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman said, and it seems a reasonable arrangement, which we on this side will certainly not oppose. The only remark I have to make is that I have been looking at the pages of Amendments yet to be discussed, and I do not want to have any misunderstanding. It seems to be pretty heavy work for tomorrow, and I do not think the Government can necessarily guarantee to carry it through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.951.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-08", "file": "debates1947-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ee69fb6cb8d8ab5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.952.3", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "n on these matters but have solidly supported the Government, and who are prepared to support the Government for so long as the Government are prepared to go on. But we ought to make it clear there is a considerable demand on the physical strength of hon. Members on this side of the Committee, and perhaps when we come to some consideration of this matter the Committee ought to regard the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.952.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-08", "file": "debates1947-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ee69fb6cb8d8ab5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.953.6", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Clause be read a Second time.\" I hope this Clause will receive the support of the Members of the Committee. [ Interruption .] Perhaps hon. Members will give me their attention. The purpose of the Clause is fairly simple. There is a large number of people in Great Britain at the moment, very largely those in the employ of local authorities, who, under the Act of 1939, are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-08a.953.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-09", "file": "debates1947-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "fe482954f42e5780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-09a.1001.0", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the houses?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "preceding_text": "ther £100 million or £150 million if we had the labour. Think of the effect of our balance of payments if we had more labour on the land. We are told of the vital necessity of coal exports to improve our balance of payments. It is equally vital to reduce the volume of our food imports. That would have exactly the same effect. The Government should do something more to get the men back on the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-09a.1001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-09", "file": "debates1947-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "fe482954f42e5780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-09a.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "erybody out except Northern Ireland. It was quite clear on that occasion that everybody else wanted to stay out and that they alone wanted to come in. We came to the very remarkable democratic conclusion that we would keep in everybody who wanted to stay out, and would leave out those who wanted to come in. The concession that coalminers shall not be subject to call-up is already part of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-09a.1007.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-09", "file": "debates1947-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "fe482954f42e5780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-09a.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "As the Committee have now decided the question of industrial exceptions, I assume the principle is decided and I do not propose to call any of the other new Clauses dealing with the distribution of food, agricultural workers, and the like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-09a.1023.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-09", "file": "debates1947-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "fe482954f42e5780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-09a.1027.4", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "I will not detain the Committee for long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-09a.1027.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-09", "file": "debates1947-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "fe482954f42e5780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-09a.1038.2", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "We think that we ought to draw a distinction between the long-service Regular soldier who goes absent or deserts and the national service man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-09a.1038.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-09", "file": "debates1947-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "fe482954f42e5780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-09a.1038.2", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "We think that we ought to draw a distinction between the long-service Regular soldier who goes absent or deserts and the national service man. [HON. MEMBERS; \"Why?\"] The reason is that the long-service man has undertaken of his own free will a much more onerous contract. He has enlisted for five years at least, and, therefore, his is a much more serious case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-09a.1038.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-09", "file": "debates1947-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "fe482954f42e5780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-09a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "I make no apology for detaining the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-09a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-12", "file": "debates1947-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f879d761f4e15996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-12a.1081.4", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wait and see.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "What becomes of the promise of cheap and efficient transport under nationalisation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-12a.1081.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-12", "file": "debates1947-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f879d761f4e15996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-12a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING 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": "I can assure the right lion. Gentleman and the House that we shall do everything we can to meet the convenience of the House. But I think his judgment is a little harsh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-12a.1101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-12", "file": "debates1947-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f879d761f4e15996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-12a.1105.1", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "Since the question of sending this Bill upstairs to a Standing Committee of 50 Members has been raised, might I mention that at the Second Reading, when my right hon. Friend the Minister of Town and Country Planning introduced this Bill, there were 14 Members of the Conservative Party in this House as a maximum at any given time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-12a.1105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-12", "file": "debates1947-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f879d761f4e15996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-12a.1105.5", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Byers", "preceding_text": "I submit that there is a very important matter of principle involved here. It is that adequate time is not being allowed for Parliamentary discussion of this and other Measures, and I would like to ask the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-12a.1105.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-12", "file": "debates1947-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f879d761f4e15996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-12a.1107.5", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 5.—(Surveys of planning areas and preparation of development plans.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "ing Committee D, 5th March, 1947; C. 244.] That speech belongs, I suppose, to what in the history of town and country planning will figure as the pre-Stevenage era, because it now appears that there may be the possibility of uncertainty even in the case of the designation of new towns, which weakens to that extent the distinction which the Minister seeks to draw between the two positions taken up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-12a.1107.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-12", "file": "debates1947-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f879d761f4e15996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-12a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 5.—(Surveys of planning areas and preparation of development plans.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Medland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Medland", "preceding_text": "hority will decide what it is to do with this, that or the other piece of land inside the area as a whole. If the proposal, which we are now discussing, to give the owner of the land the right to demand that it be purchased from him at current prices—not at 1939 value—within three months, were put into effect, we should cast away all hope of replanning any of the devastated cities in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-12a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-12", "file": "debates1947-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f879d761f4e15996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-12a.1134.0", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 51.—(Payments for depreciation of land values.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "With great respect, this Bill is not yet through. The £300 million is not through. The giving of power to the Treasury to spend £300 million is not through. We may yet reject this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-12a.1134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-12", "file": "debates1947-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f879d761f4e15996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-12a.1232.0", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Temporary provisions for eliminating special value attributable to vacant possession.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": " always seemed to me to be inequitable that the community should be called upon to pay these highly inflated values for vacant possession. After all, the scarcity of housing is one of the consequences of the war. Apart from the war, there would not have been this tremendous scarcity and these high values for vacant possession. Before the war, we were gradually getting over the scarcity of housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-12a.1232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-12", "file": "debates1947-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f879d761f4e15996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-12a.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Temporary provisions for eliminating special value attributable to vacant possession.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "ded with other accommodation, and it would be wrong to pay these people inflated values for their property and, at the same time, provide them with other accommodation suitable for their reasonable requirements. 11.15 p.m. The right hon. Gentleman mentioned the business man. Even in those cases there is an obligation in the Bill to provide such people with other accommodation wherever practicable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-12a.1233.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-12", "file": "debates1947-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "f879d761f4e15996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-12a.1261.1", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "COTTON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "I think we have had a good explanation from the Minister, and I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-12a.1261.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-13", "file": "debates1947-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1e302d8ae0a12c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1265.7", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WAR PENSIONS (COST OF LIVING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "May we know what was the basis of the calculation, since I have really had no answer at all to this question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1265.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-13", "file": "debates1947-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1e302d8ae0a12c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that in one or two areas last year O.C.T.U. training was interrupted, and a good deal of dislocation caused by young officers having to help with the harvest? This meant a good deal of anxiety for those administering the O.C.T.U. Will he see that these men are not used for agriculture unless it is absolutely essential?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-13", "file": "debates1947-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1e302d8ae0a12c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1296.2", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THE SPEAKER (OFFICIAL INVITATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "reason why mine should come last, so I will read it first. I wish to inform the House that, as your Speaker, I have received an invitation to luncheon with the Lord Mayor on Thursday next on the occasion of the visit of Their Majesties to the Mansion House. I think right hon. and hon. Members would wish me to accept this and will therefore excuse my absence at the meeting of the House on that day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1296.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-13", "file": "debates1947-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1e302d8ae0a12c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1296.2", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THE SPEAKER (OFFICIAL INVITATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ers would wish me to accept this and will therefore excuse my absence at the meeting of the House on that day. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I have also received an invitation in the same way from the Lord High Commissioner of the Church of Scotland to stay at Holyrood and to be present at a session of the Church Assembly. I therefore hope the House will allow me to be absent on 22nd and 23rd May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1296.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-13", "file": "debates1947-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1e302d8ae0a12c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1297.1", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY (ORGANISING COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? Which tree?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Not for the first time—I can tell the right hon. Gentleman that I deplore the fact—the right hon. Gentleman is barking up the wrong tree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1297.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-13", "file": "debates1947-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1e302d8ae0a12c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1297.2", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY (ORGANISING COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Not for the first time—I can tell the right hon. Gentleman that I deplore the fact—the right hon. Gentleman is barking up the wrong tree—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? Which tree?\"] The right hon. Gentleman has a facility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1297.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-13", "file": "debates1947-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1e302d8ae0a12c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1298.2", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY (ORGANISING COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What has that -to do with this subject?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "s though he were up a tree. May I assure him that I do not rely only upon the newspaper Press? I took the trouble to procure the best reports available of certain remarks attributed to him. Of course, if he wishes to explain that he did not use those remarks, no one would be more pleased than I am and no one would be more ready to accept the fact that he disengages himself from the whole business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1298.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-13", "file": "debates1947-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1e302d8ae0a12c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1298.5", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY (ORGANISING COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I presume we are to await a personal explanation from the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1298.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-13", "file": "debates1947-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1e302d8ae0a12c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1298.10", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY (ORGANISING COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Shut up, Moscow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1298.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-13", "file": "debates1947-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1e302d8ae0a12c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1298.13", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY (ORGANISING COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do they work for nothing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "No question of salary emerges at this early stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1298.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-13", "file": "debates1947-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1e302d8ae0a12c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1300.0", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY (ORGANISING COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I have told the House about the position of Lord Citrine, but apart from Lord Citrine the persons concerned are engaged in other activities and are no' doubt receiving remuneration. There will be some question of readjustment for expenses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-13", "file": "debates1947-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1e302d8ae0a12c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1350.1", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PART II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "of the float value. That is what we are asking for. It may be that it cannot be precise, but it does not follow from that, that it would serve no useful purpose. I think that if the machinery of this new Clause is put into effect, we shall have a far more accurate estimate than we are likely to get by the assessment of the Minister arrived at by no one knows what political-economic considerations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-13", "file": "debates1947-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1e302d8ae0a12c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1397.1", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PART II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. York", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. York", "preceding_text": "I will not question your Ruling, Mr. Deputy-Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-13", "file": "debates1947-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1e302d8ae0a12c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1397.1", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PART II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. York", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has called you to Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. York", "preceding_text": "I will not question your Ruling, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] What is the matter? I daresay you, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, will call me to Order if it is necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-13", "file": "debates1947-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1e302d8ae0a12c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1403.4", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PART II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "y review. Surely, that is an unduly bureaucratic view to take of the Minister. It would be more in accordance with our constitutional traditions to assume that Parliamentary scrutiny of these matters would assist the Minister in coming to the right decision, because, if that is not so, it is difficult to understand what function the right hon. and learned Gentleman would leave to Parliament to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1403.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-13", "file": "debates1947-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1e302d8ae0a12c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1403.4", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PART II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "rdance with our constitutional traditions to assume that Parliamentary scrutiny of these matters would assist the Minister in coming to the right decision, because, if that is not so, it is difficult to understand what function the right hon. and learned Gentleman would leave to Parliament to do. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Nothing.\"] My hon. Friend says \"Nothing,\" and no doubt that is a correct assumption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1403.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-13", "file": "debates1947-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1e302d8ae0a12c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1405.0", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PART II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Medland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Medland", "preceding_text": "k this is something more than administrative action. Where by Act of Parliament we give powers to county councils and county borough councils, we ought not at the same moment to give the same powers to a Minister to take away those powers from them and put them into a joint planning authority. Such a matter ought to be decided in this House, and it is upon those grounds that I move this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1405.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-13", "file": "debates1947-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1e302d8ae0a12c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1405.0", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PART II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Medland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Medland", "preceding_text": "wers to county councils and county borough councils, we ought not at the same moment to give the same powers to a Minister to take away those powers from them and put them into a joint planning authority. Such a matter ought to be decided in this House, and it is upon those grounds that I move this Amendment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] At any rate, I support this Amendment, as I am too late to move it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1405.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-13", "file": "debates1947-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1e302d8ae0a12c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1452.2", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PART II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There would be a revolution.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "h. We are still not quite happy in regard to this Clause, and I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will be very sparing of the use of his powers under it. Nothing could promote greater fric- tion than the Minister suddenly directing that a part of Yorkshire should take over the planning of Lancashire or, indeed, that the Devon county council should take over the planning of the city of Ply-mouth.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-13a.1452.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-14", "file": "debates1947-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f812588a922f1eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1484.7", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which one?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend say a word about the way in which this very important news was communicated to the Press? Is he aware that these details were released to the Press confidentially two days ago, and that that confidence was honoured by all the newspapers except one?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1484.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-14", "file": "debates1947-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f812588a922f1eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1502.8", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Drawn.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. Eviscerated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1502.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-14", "file": "debates1947-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f812588a922f1eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1506.0", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "As to the first part of the right hon. Gentleman's observations, that is the kind of thing I should expect; it is the kind of aristocratic observation I should expect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-14", "file": "debates1947-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f812588a922f1eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1506.0", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "As to the first part of the right hon. Gentleman's observations, that is the kind of thing I should expect; it is the kind of aristocratic observation I should expect. [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Gentleman knows the reasons I did not stay longer than I did, and he ought to take them into account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-14", "file": "debates1947-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f812588a922f1eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1506.6", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He asked for it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the House made a very serious attack upon my right hon. Friend the Member for West Bristol (Mr. Stanley).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1506.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-14", "file": "debates1947-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f812588a922f1eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1540.0", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I always thought from the appearance and manner of the hon. Member for Torquay (Mr. C. Williams) that he had never known what it was to be young. I am certain that very few people will agree with him that the travelling fair is a general nuisance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1540.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-14", "file": "debates1947-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f812588a922f1eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1568.2", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Clause 62.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "n. Members who have spoken in support of it have suggested that the paragraph to which they object in Clause 10 would have the effect of discouraging an owner from carrying out conversion. I really fail to understand that argument. All that an owner is asked to do is to apply for consent, in the same way as he is required to apply today. There is no deterrent—no new deterrent—imposed by this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1568.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-14", "file": "debates1947-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f812588a922f1eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1569.1", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "That was exactly what was suggested by an hon. Member who spoke—that people would rather keep their places empty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-14", "file": "debates1947-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f812588a922f1eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "preceding_text": "I very much hope that my hon. Friend will not withdraw this Amendment. Speaking as an owner-occupier in a small way, I am not averse to control, as control, but I am very keen on keeping planners' noses out of the farmyard as much as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-14", "file": "debates1947-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f812588a922f1eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1600.0", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "s particular Amendment is being discussed. As several hon. Gentlemen have said, there is a conflict of view here. On the one hand, we are anxious to safeguard the beauty of the countryside. That is one of our most precious possessions, and it is something which every hon. Member of this House is anxious to see preserved to the fullest possible extent. That can only be done by a measure of control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1600.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-14", "file": "debates1947-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f812588a922f1eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1639.1", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COCOA PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who robbed the fund? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Fletcher", "preceding_text": "ng argument against the Order. The Order arrogates power to the Colonial Office and its officials. For them to say, \"We propose later on to use this £20 million for the benefit of the natives of West Africa,\" is exactly the same argument that was used about the Road Fund a good many years ago. That fund was to be used for the benefit of the users of the road. That was not its eventual destination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-14", "file": "debates1947-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f812588a922f1eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1642.1", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COCOA PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. P. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. P. Smith", "preceding_text": " native producer as if the Colonial Office were a Victorian parent docking his son's pocket money. Benevolent parentalism can be carried to something in the nature of a vice. I confess that I always suspect anything which is done by great and powerful Mr. \"X\" for what he calls \"the good\" of small and weak little Mr. \"Y.\" I always suspect that his benevolence conceals a subtle form of exploitation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-14", "file": "debates1947-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f812588a922f1eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1647.1", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COCOA PRICES 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": "d at 8.9 cents per lb. From 1944 until the middle of 1946 the pressure of increased demand on supplies continued, and it was evident that the ceiling price would have to be raised. As a result of long negotiations with America, prices were fixed. The hon. Member for Ashford asked how this price came about. I would inform the House that no price is arrived at without long and protracted discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-14", "file": "debates1947-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f812588a922f1eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1653.1", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COCOA PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "In the report. When the Director of Cocoa was called, and my hon. Friend the Member for North Islington (Dr. Guest) asked him about this profit and he said: I do not think the American manufacturers are particularly enthusiastic about it. I should think not. The cost to them is being doubled. Indeed, they are not enthusiastic: It is the Wall Street brokers, who see chances of making quick profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1653.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-14", "file": "debates1947-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f812588a922f1eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1666.0", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COCOA PRICES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read the whole sentence.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "I will: and there was also the complication of the Brazilian market; and we felt that if we could fix a figure which was more reasonable, it might commend itself to the Africans and be acceptable to the Americans. On the basis of that, they went on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1665.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-14", "file": "debates1947-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f812588a922f1eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1674.0", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"By prisoners of war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "al Warrant. I admit that there has been a good deal of misunderstanding about the acting unpaid ranks and the temporary ranks, and the war substantive ranks. In relation to a prisoner of war the Army Order was 155 of 1944. The Army Order defined this, but did not alter the situation which was prevailing in 1942. I may say that Army Orders were purchasable even in war time by members of the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-14", "file": "debates1947-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "f812588a922f1eea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1676.4", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "I am stating what the Army Order says, and, in effect, it says what the Pay Warrant says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-14a.1676.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-15", "file": "debates1947-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "502598429c4d272c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-15a.1714.2", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-15a.1714.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-15", "file": "debates1947-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "502598429c4d272c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-15a.1781.1", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "il war. It would have to be a free Press with full responsibility. I have known something of the Spanish Press as it was even before the first world war, when there was no responsibility at all. It was libellous and in every way disgraceful. He said that they would have to introduce a law of libel similar to that in this country. They would have to make the Press fully responsible for its actions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-15a.1781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-15", "file": "debates1947-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "502598429c4d272c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-15a.1820.0", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "sent state of opinion that kind of world Government is unthinkable. Therefore, we must ask ourselves whether, if we cannot obtain a world Government in one bite, can we do it in two, three, four or five bites? Is there any form of regional grouping which will form an approach towards that world Government? I read with great interest, as I am sure did many of us, the pamphlet entitled, \"Keep Left.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-15a.1820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-15", "file": "debates1947-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "502598429c4d272c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-15a.1827.1", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon-Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon-Walker", "preceding_text": "economy which, when the American slump comes, will be catastrophic. The American slump, without such a development, would not be so catastrophic. After the first world war we did this by private borrowing in the main; now we are doing it by Government borrowing and that, in a way, makes it worse because Governments, much more than private people, ought to know what they are doing with their money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-15a.1827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-15", "file": "debates1947-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "502598429c4d272c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-15a.1836.2", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'Why?'", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "as I am the last person to want to do any damage to recruiting for the Regular Army, I would like an assurance from the Under-Secretary now—which it is perhaps hardly necessary to ask him for—as to what the Secretary of State meant when he used this phrase: We think that we ought to draw a distinction between the long-service Regular soldier who goes absent or deserts and the National Service man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-15a.1836.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-15", "file": "debates1947-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "502598429c4d272c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-15a.1857.3", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": " is concerning mistakes with the procedure which now obtains. The number of mistakes is infinitesimal, and it is astonishing how few errors were made in war time in calling up the huge bulk of people who had to be taken into the Forces then. Under this Bill it is proposed to call up 200,000 at the outside, but this would involve 400,000 registered letters if we adopted my hon. Friend's suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-15a.1857.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-15", "file": "debates1947-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "502598429c4d272c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-15a.1864.4", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Accuse?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member mentioned the name of Birkenhead. I should like to tell him that Lord Birkenhead served in a yeomanry regiment. I was, therefore, rather surprised to hear him accuse Lord Birkenhead of being a conscientious objector.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-15a.1864.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-16", "file": "debates1947-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "70afd00c274ec02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-16a.1881.1", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Fletcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That accounts for the speeches.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Fletcher", "preceding_text": " matter. We want the appointment of more and younger, and probably more up-to-date, commercial councillors and consuls; we want consular officials who have possibly the new aspect regarding the commercial community partnership between us and China. It is worth pointing out that in the Chinese hierarchy the merchant holds a much higher position than the politician and that may be worth remembering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-16a.1881.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-16", "file": "debates1947-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "70afd00c274ec02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-16a.1918.1", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": " were incidents, they did a job of work and maintained a balance. I regret that the Dutch and even the Americans failed to realise that in that part of the Pacific zone it was the British troops who were bearing the brunt of cementing a system of society that might establish peace in the Pacific zone. We have not been given enough credit in America or Holland for what we tried to do in Indonesia.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-16a.1918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-19", "file": "debates1947-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac83be7bb09192b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.1993.5", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "Oh yes, Sir, we have heard of other miners, but it was stated very carefully in the course of Questions and answers at the time, that this concession was restricted to coal miners who, from the very much more dangerous type of work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.1993.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-19", "file": "debates1947-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac83be7bb09192b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2011.3", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": "l one. I gathered, from what they said then, that the arguments in support of that contention were that, as it consisted mainly of unspent Votes of Credit and non-current items, it must be looked upon as not a surplus in the strict sense of the term. I fail to follow these arguments. There are non-recurrent or terminal items on the expenditure side, which, I can assure the House, are all too real.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2011.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-19", "file": "debates1947-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac83be7bb09192b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2018.1", "colnum": "2018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I think, perhaps, that it would be unwise of me to enter into the point raised by the hon. Gentleman", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-19", "file": "debates1947-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac83be7bb09192b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2020.1", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "situation. The old theory that the Budget was just a matter of balancing accounts has gone out of fashion, at any rate, temporarily, and the Chancellor has often said that he agrees with the modern theory. He agrees with it, but I do not see that he is yet acting upon it. In fact, he is off with the old love, but he has not gone on with the new one yet. He is in suspended animation between the two", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-19", "file": "debates1947-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac83be7bb09192b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2020.1", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "t the Bill fails, and that we cannot support it. It fails as a monetary and economic weapon. It aims to collect far too much in taxation. Some of the new taxes, like those on tobacco and profits, are very bad. Furthermore, its pretended accounting is absurd. Its alleged surplus is, in our view, fraudulent. Having summed up my case against the Bill, I think in quite appropriate and polite language—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-19", "file": "debates1947-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac83be7bb09192b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2020.1", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ich he said we were voting against. Taxes cover many expenditures. He picked out all the things which he thought might make a nasty smear upon our perfectly pure political record. No one is better than the Chancellor and his friends at smearing other. people's records. Of course, he knew, as did other hon. Members, that it was an absolutely false argument, as it will be this year if he repeats it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-19", "file": "debates1947-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac83be7bb09192b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2032.1", "colnum": "2032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "man) reminds me of an example. If a company desiring a loan goes to a banker, and he looks at the balance sheet and sees a comparatively small capital but a large undistributed sum of profit, he will say, \"The first thing I want you to do is to transfer that profit to capital so that I know that the loan will be secured and that the company will not distribute this accumulated profit at any time.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-19", "file": "debates1947-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac83be7bb09192b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2034.1", "colnum": "2034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "hat this is not an adequate reason for this method of dealing with the matter. It is not, I would suggest, a watering of capital. I do not think it is a satisfactory method for concealing profits nor—if I may quote my right hon. Friend for the last time and make use of his own colloquialism—do I think it is \"sheer money for jam.\" It is not money for jam at all. In the first place, it is not money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-19", "file": "debates1947-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac83be7bb09192b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2088.1", "colnum": "2088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose people?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "azed at the statements coming from the Chancellor, and the only time they cheered very heartily was when the Chancellor announced that there was to be an increased tax on tobacco. Those hon. Members who were in the House will remember the cheers that went up from the opposite side. I was one of those who was very shocked. My immediate reaction was that this was a tax which would affect our people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-19", "file": "debates1947-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac83be7bb09192b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2100.1", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ternative? Our alternative proposal is the expenditure of million a year on staff. I agree it means double the amount of staff, if my right hon. Friend's computation is correct; I have not got the actual figures of staff involved. Our proposal means the expenditure of £2 million a year on staff, in order to bring in what can be. not an expenditure of any kind, but a revenue of £500 million a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-19", "file": "debates1947-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac83be7bb09192b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2100.1", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "reads my speech tomorrow—my speech of what I am going to say now, and not of what I have already said—that he will take note of my remarks. The next objection which has been raised and which, no doubt, will be raised tomorrow, is that the Town and Country Planning Bill has already taken the \"cream.\" I do not know what that means. Personally, I think the Town and Country Planning Bill is in a mess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-19", "file": "debates1947-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac83be7bb09192b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2100.1", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ield Trust does not die, the building societies do not die. Here they are, all round the country, buying up idle land for one reason only—that it is the soundest investment and in the end it gives the best return. I conclude by quoting two fundamental reasons why the Chancellor should con- template introducing a fundamental measure of this kind. I want, first, to say with great respect to my party", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-19", "file": "debates1947-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac83be7bb09192b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2113.1", "colnum": "2113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "ting out those Departments where the increase in the Estimates is more than £1 million, and in the last column it gives the main causes of the increases. In Department after Department one finds this sort of thing: Ministry of Health, increase £18 million. Main causes: provision for increased staff for new services\"; Ministry of National Insurance, increase £22,500,000. Reason: expansion of staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-19", "file": "debates1947-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac83be7bb09192b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2114.1", "colnum": "2114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "I was only stating the view, looking through this interesting and important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-19", "file": "debates1947-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac83be7bb09192b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2124.0", "colnum": "2124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On the following day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " to draw attention to the need for economy in general but that it must not be asked to be too specific. I do not want to press the right hon. Gentleman unfairly of course, particularly so late at night. I remember reading a speech by the Leader of the Opposition at Ayr, where he received the freedom of the burgh in the morning and gave an enthusiastic address at a party gathering in the afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-19", "file": "debates1947-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac83be7bb09192b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2132.3", "colnum": "2132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Class warfare.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ave an admirable series of arguments in favour of the Finance Bill. Just what does the Bill seek to do? We regard it as the third of a series, and I think it will be conceded- that through the Budgets and Finance Bills which have been introduced by this Government with its Parliamentary majority to carry them through, there has been running a certain thread which is to be found also in this Bill.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-19a.2132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-20", "file": "debates1947-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "22b044a08ebcaac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-20a.2153.4", "colnum": "2153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "That answer is most unsatisfactory and I must apologise to the House if my supplementary question is rather long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-20a.2153.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-20", "file": "debates1947-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "22b044a08ebcaac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-20a.2154.0", "colnum": "2154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "I very much regret that my hon. Friend, in a rather long supplementary question, should give what he purports to be facts, but which are not quite accurate. As it would be intolerable if I took up the time of the House in going into a detailed statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-20a.2154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-20", "file": "debates1947-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "22b044a08ebcaac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-20a.2159.3", "colnum": "2159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeman", "preceding_text": "My information is that I already own 3,620 of these acres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-20a.2159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-20", "file": "debates1947-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "22b044a08ebcaac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-20a.2186.3", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend realise that to accuse an alien, whose only desire is to make a contribution to his own upkeep by his own labours, of gatecrashing is offensive? Before he makes remarks of that kind again I hope he will consult with his right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour and discover, as I am sure he will, that my Question was put down at the Minister's request—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-20a.2186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-20", "file": "debates1947-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "22b044a08ebcaac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-20a.2218.1", "colnum": "2218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Longer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braddock", "preceding_text": "the Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. W. S. Morrison) suggest that this Bill should be read again in six months' time. I am not a very old Parliamentarian, but I rather gather that that means that in six months' time this Bill would have to be started all over again, and that would mean that there would be a delay of at least 18 months or two years, before we could get this thing started.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-20a.2218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-20", "file": "debates1947-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "22b044a08ebcaac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-20a.2277.1", "colnum": "2277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Town and Country Planning (Mr. Fred Marshall)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not on the Floor of the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Town and Country Planning (Mr. Fred Marshall)", "preceding_text": "scussed Clauses are important and contain vital provisions, we have not heard them discussed on the Third Reading. I want to say a word about the time allocated to this Bill, and I do not do so with the idea of causing contention and discord. I want to content myself with a statement of fact. The fact is that when we finish today we shall have devoted no less than 90 hours discussion to this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-20a.2277.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-21", "file": "debates1947-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "161980135ed6d4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2334.3", "colnum": "2334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The \"Ayes\" have it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Fletcher", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman agree with a number of hon. Members in this House that potato peeling is a skilled occupation and not semi-skilled?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-21", "file": "debates1947-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "161980135ed6d4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2338.0", "colnum": "2338", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": " Paper is such that we ought to make substantial progress. What we are concerned about is that we should get the Report stage and the Third Reading of the National Service Bill and the Statistics of Trade Bill by tomorrow night. How the House divides the time between the two, we do not mind as long as we get them. I should have thought that with reasonable co-operation and a good spirit all round—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-21", "file": "debates1947-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "161980135ed6d4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2338.2", "colnum": "2338", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I do not know about the greater part of the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2338.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-21", "file": "debates1947-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "161980135ed6d4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2377.4", "colnum": "2377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ile—and it would be one case in hundreds of thousands—on the legal sanction. Section 21 provides that for the case of a man who fails to appear at the time and at the place appointed for preliminary training or for annual training, or who fails to attend the number of drills and to fulfil the other conditions. \"Annual training\" is the annual camp, and \"preliminary training\" is the hourly training.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2377.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-21", "file": "debates1947-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "161980135ed6d4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2385.3", "colnum": "2385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "ar trade. This new Clause does anticipate that apprentices can go freely into what is a very close corporation. That is the first point I want to make, and I expect the hon. Gentleman would say that he was unaware of that. If that is so and he was not trying to make the distinction, he will appreciate now that he is, in fact, making a distinction between the manual worker and the academic student.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2385.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-21", "file": "debates1947-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "161980135ed6d4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2420.1", "colnum": "2420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "ounting to three months or more, and which provide, furthermore, that a man is not prosecuted more than twice even if these two prosecutions have resulted in prison sentences of less than three months, except where the sentences are derisory, for instance, small fines. The man goes before the tribunal, he fails to convince the tribunal, and his failure to convince it cannot be blamed upon anybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-21", "file": "debates1947-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "161980135ed6d4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2423.5", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You can reduce the period if you like.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "is goes into the Statute it is a direct instruction to the Minister. A man may have had two convictions against him, convictions perhaps of less consequence than three months imprisonment but this says that he must allow him to have three months' imprisonment first. That, it seems to me, is making the position worse for the mistaken case of a conscientious objector who is unable to get registered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2423.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-21", "file": "debates1947-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "161980135ed6d4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2423.5", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "risonment first. That, it seems to me, is making the position worse for the mistaken case of a conscientious objector who is unable to get registered. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You can reduce the period if you like.\"] That is what I cannot understand. First we are told that we have no legal right to do what we are now doing; and after having laid down a period, we are told that we can exercise that right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2423.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-21", "file": "debates1947-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "161980135ed6d4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2424.2", "colnum": "2424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "Then we shall get into this fine state, that a man will know beforehand—and I say this in the interests of conscientious objectors—that if he does a month in prison he will get off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2424.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-21", "file": "debates1947-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "161980135ed6d4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2424.2", "colnum": "2424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "Then we shall get into this fine state, that a man will know beforehand—and I say this in the interests of conscientious objectors—that if he does a month in prison he will get off. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] That is the danger we shall get into, and it will bring discredit upon conscientious objectors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2424.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-21", "file": "debates1947-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "161980135ed6d4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2453.10", "colnum": "2453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "we might score a \"hat trick.\" I say that, because all we are seeking to do here is to put into statutory form a pledge which the Government have given already. That pledge is contained in Paragraph of the White Paper \"Call Up To The Forces in 1947 and 1948\" Cmd. 6831. A White Paper has not the sanctity of the Statute Book and, although it may appear unusual in these days, Ministers do come and go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2453.10"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-21", "file": "debates1947-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "161980135ed6d4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2495.7", "colnum": "2495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The Parliamentary Secretary was granted it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-21a.2495.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-22", "file": "debates1947-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0ccdde496b1f960c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2531.2", "colnum": "2531", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Leader of the House to tell us the Business for next week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-22", "file": "debates1947-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0ccdde496b1f960c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2545.3", "colnum": "2545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And they want it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Well, with power to renew it. Can there be any reason other than that it is the intention of those responsible for the introduction of this Bill to make this a permanent feature? Can there be any doubt that if right hon. and hon. Gentlemen above the Gangway get back into power again they will welcome this power?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2545.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-22", "file": "debates1947-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0ccdde496b1f960c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2555.1", "colnum": "2555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That was the other way round.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "preceding_text": "I was not in the House at that time but I do not think the cases were similar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-22", "file": "debates1947-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0ccdde496b1f960c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2569.9", "colnum": "2569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "or consolation to the honest face of my hon. Friend the Member for Westhoughton (Mr. Rhys Davies) and say to him: Oh, thou who changest not, abide with me It seems to me, however, rather ironic that people who opposed conscription when war threatened civilisation are now supporting it when all our enemies are scattered and no embattled host threatens the Channel ports or the fair fields of France—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2569.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-22", "file": "debates1947-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0ccdde496b1f960c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2572.3", "colnum": "2572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ponsonby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ponsonby", "preceding_text": "I want to say a word or two as one of the old guard who is looking into the future. I am surrounded on this side of the House by a number of fighting brigadiers and colonels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2572.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-22", "file": "debates1947-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0ccdde496b1f960c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2590.1", "colnum": "2590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "thinks well of his country, and who believes that we have built institutions which ought to be a pattern for other nations, I have been sorry to find that we are not loved very much in foreign parts for what we have done there. Therefore, we must not talk about preparing against the aggressor, because in the long history of mankind—and let us be frank about it—we have been the greatest aggressors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-22", "file": "debates1947-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0ccdde496b1f960c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2613.0", "colnum": "2613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "That may have been one of the ambiguities which the hon. Member said he wanted cleared up, but there is not time to go into that now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-22", "file": "debates1947-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0ccdde496b1f960c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2613.0", "colnum": "2613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "d it in a way which showed the utmost reverence and sincerity. He said that under this Bill the State is supreme. Without trying to be irreverent at all, the State must be supreme. After all, though we all close our eyes in prayer, though there is an Almighty to whom all of us pay reverence, the administration of the nation is in the hands of the State, and the State must take the necessary steps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-22", "file": "debates1947-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0ccdde496b1f960c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2627.3", "colnum": "2627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATISTICS OF TRADE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He could be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. arid learned Gentleman really think the man would be instantly prosecuted for another offence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2627.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-22", "file": "debates1947-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0ccdde496b1f960c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2628.0", "colnum": "2628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATISTICS OF TRADE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "as an illustration or analogy the case of a man who was prosecuted because the lights on his motorcar had gone out. I think that, when he reads in HANSARD what he actually said, he will realise the absurdity of the analogy he drew. To suggest that, after a man had been prosecuted because the lights on his motor car were out, and he had been fined, he might immediately thereafter be summoned again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-22", "file": "debates1947-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0ccdde496b1f960c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2628.0", "colnum": "2628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATISTICS OF TRADE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ent people on both sides of the House. If some Acts have gaps and some have not, why on earth should not this Bill be included in those that have gaps? It is not difficult; there is no question of principle. Why should we accept that view merely because the learned Solicitor-General said so? He merely said he thought that was so; it is just an ipse dixit. That is part of the totalitarian attitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2628.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-05-22", "file": "debates1947-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "0ccdde496b1f960c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2662.3", "colnum": "2662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATISTICS OF TRADE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-22a.2662.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-23", "file": "debates1947-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ea7c4bee7febbff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-23a.2701.3", "colnum": "2701", "heading": "BANKSIDE POWER STATION SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bossom", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bossom", "preceding_text": "ithe. But is that a fact? I doubt it. Let me cite an example of what has been done elsewhere and if it can be done elsewhere it can be done here. In 1911 the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway built a headquarters in Richmond, Virginia, which was a building of 20 storeys, and the builders had to go down 80 feet for foundations. They did it in nine months. If they could do that in America we could do it.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-23a.2701.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-23", "file": "debates1947-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ea7c4bee7febbff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-23a.2701.3", "colnum": "2701", "heading": "BANKSIDE POWER STATION SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bossom", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bossom", "preceding_text": "bout one-eighth as much as those on the North side. Putting a power station on the South side in this position would jeopardise improvements. A building of this type cannot be put in the middle of an area of that kind without drawing other buildings of the same sort around it and we would never get a cultural group of buildings like the London University group built there beside the power station—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-23a.2701.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-23", "file": "debates1947-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ea7c4bee7febbff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-23a.2706.5", "colnum": "2706", "heading": "BANKSIDE POWER STATION SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jeger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jeger", "preceding_text": "of the City which lies between the river and St. Paul's. St. Paul's is surrounded at the moment by a mass of half-derelict property, where there is a great deal of squalor, a great deal of poverty, a great deal of dirt, and a great deal of decay. It is true we are going to have a new City scheme, but the new City scheme is not going to be a very great improvement upon what we have had in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-23a.2706.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-23", "file": "debates1947-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ea7c4bee7febbff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-23a.2708.0", "colnum": "2708", "heading": "BANKSIDE POWER STATION SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jeger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"May.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jeger", "preceding_text": "I understand that the Minister has definitely stated that he has received advice from his experts that the arrangements for filtering and washing the gas and fumes will eliminate the smell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-23a.2708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-23", "file": "debates1947-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ea7c4bee7febbff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-23a.2720.5", "colnum": "2720", "heading": "BANKSIDE POWER STATION SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "or three years ago. It might well be that the Council will take an entirely different view of the proper form of development in this area. But suppose they still adhere to the view that Abercrombie put forward. Then I ask the House to consider very seriously, and without prejudice, what is the objection to a power station which is admittedly well designed and attractive, which does not emit fumes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-23a.2720.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-23", "file": "debates1947-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ea7c4bee7febbff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-23a.2723.1", "colnum": "2723", "heading": "BANKSIDE POWER STATION SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "These flats were put up after a power station had been erected, and they are fully let.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-23a.2723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-05-23", "file": "debates1947-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ea7c4bee7febbff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-23a.2724.3", "colnum": "2724", "heading": "BANKSIDE POWER STATION SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "It is a fact that if we cannot use this site, the Greater London area will be short of electricity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-05-23a.2724.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-03", "file": "debates1947-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "1474c526f06f1741", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-03a.150.4", "colnum": "150", "heading": "SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES (ADMISSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": ". In seeking to face this problem my thoughts turn towards that organisation which comprehends not merely the production of good scientists and good technicians, but of good citizens, who in many ways are of equal, if not of greater importance, than the other two. I suggest that the solution of the problem lies along the lines of another university. That immediately raises the problem of location.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-03a.150.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-04", "file": "debates1947-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "22a9f4dc136209a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-04a.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "se accidents 43 people were killed, apart from those who were injured, and in one case, that of B.S.A.A. at Bathurst, the pilot was found to be inexperienced in the type of aircraft he was flying, having had only 3 hours, 52 minutes in command by day and r hour, 3 minutes by night, and had never done a full load take off in similar conditions? In another case, B.O.A.C. were blamed for bad crewing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-04a.168.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-04", "file": "debates1947-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "22a9f4dc136209a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-04a.168.6", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "But what is being done to increase the efficiency of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-04a.168.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-04", "file": "debates1947-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "22a9f4dc136209a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-04a.291.3", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Manning", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Manning", "preceding_text": " have representation in those areas. They know the farmers on the executive committees, and it is part of their job, as it is of ours, to see that the executive committees do their work properly. I hope we shall have the co-operation of all hon. Members opposite in trying to get farmers to co-operate with the executive committees. I hope they will not think them all unworthy and not to be trusted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-04a.291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-04", "file": "debates1947-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "22a9f4dc136209a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-04a.296.0", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Hare", "preceding_text": "justice. We feel that a grave injustice is being done to the small farmer by not allowing him a proper right of appeal. The right hon. Gentleman is underestimating the opposition which his attitude this evening will create in the farming industry. Is his Bill designed to assist the farmers? Has he consulted the farmers? Do the farmers consider the attitude he is taking up will be helpful to them?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-04a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-04", "file": "debates1947-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "22a9f4dc136209a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-04a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " suffered. Now the Paymaster-General is suggesting that the incoming landlord or tenant, if he wants to avoid the penalties of his predecessor, must get the Minister's sanction before he buys the land or becomes the tenant of it. Since when has one been obliged to go to a Government Department and ask permission to buy a piece of British land, which, after all, is the common heritage of all of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-04a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-04", "file": "debates1947-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "22a9f4dc136209a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-04a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "hing theory, and it is only the fact of our having this Amendment discussed which enables me to call attention to it. Of course, there is a difference of opinion between the two sides of the House on this issue, but I do not Understand why the right hon. Gentleman should end his speech by saying that this is a poor Amendment and that it has no political merit. We do not look for political—reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-04a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-04", "file": "debates1947-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "22a9f4dc136209a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-04a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Capt. Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That will be much better.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Capt. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ater strength than I can—that somebody coming in and buying this property, which the Minister under this Amendment will have to sell, will be just as likely to put it in good order as is the Minister through his Commission, but with the difference that the private purchaser will be doing it at his own risk and with his own money, and the Commission will be doing it with the money of the taxpayers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-04a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-04", "file": "debates1947-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "22a9f4dc136209a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-04a.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Gurney Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is Satan?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Gurney Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "I have not taken part in the previous discussions on this Measure and I only rise to comment upon the spectacle of Satan rebuking sin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-04a.340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-05", "file": "debates1947-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "66a07d980eab2897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.364.5", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "These are sweeping assertions. I am not prepared to accept all the implications of what my hon. Friend says. This is an isolated instance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.364.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-05", "file": "debates1947-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "66a07d980eab2897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.364.5", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "These are sweeping assertions. I am not prepared to accept all the implications of what my hon. Friend says. This is an isolated instance—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.]—I say that this is an isolated instance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.364.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-05", "file": "debates1947-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "66a07d980eab2897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.366.2", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Because my hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook (Mr. Shurmer) was referring to Birmingham, and not to Wadebridge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-05", "file": "debates1947-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "66a07d980eab2897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.405.0", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In war time? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "tive. It was, therefore, argued, from time to time that this was not quite fair, and it caused anxiety among the farming community which might result in a loss of production and that sort of thing. We have gone one step beyond that. I have said that in every case where a question of dispossession is likely to arise the person concerned will have a right of appeal to an independent appeal tribunal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.405.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-05", "file": "debates1947-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "66a07d980eab2897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.424.2", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "May we have an answer?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. York", "preceding_text": "If plot B is occupied by a tenant from year to year, then this Subsection would not apply? If it is occupied by a tenant on a 14-year lease this Subsection would apply?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-05", "file": "debates1947-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "66a07d980eab2897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, has that question any relevance to this Clause?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-05", "file": "debates1947-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "66a07d980eab2897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.428.5", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ent, because we take the view that it goes a good deal too far. What is the situation which one is considering? Clause 29 provides that the tenant, in the event of a notice to quit being given, is entitled to certain compensation for disturbance. The Amendment seeks to provide that where a landlord has served a notice on the tenant, but offers to withdraw the notice even at almost the last minute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.428.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-05", "file": "debates1947-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "66a07d980eab2897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. York", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. York", "preceding_text": "nt in the owner of the farm taking it over. In that case he would make the tenant an offer to withdraw the notice. Where the unfairness might come in would be if there was any unreasonable delay. The definition of \"unreasonable\" in this connection is very simple. It has been working for 25 years or so with perfect satisfaction, and never to my knowledge has there been one quarrel about this point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-05", "file": "debates1947-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "66a07d980eab2897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.455.3", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "preceding_text": "st of the farmers in his district on politics or religion, and they said to the landlord that it would be in the interests of farming in that district if he were to ask the farmer to leave. I do not say that these things are as frequent now as they used to be, but the door has been opened, and I can imagine cases of that sort occurring in the future. If I happened to be the tenant on a big estate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-05", "file": "debates1947-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "66a07d980eab2897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.455.3", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "preceding_text": "e, but the door has been opened, and I can imagine cases of that sort occurring in the future. If I happened to be the tenant on a big estate—[ Interruption ]—my opinions are known—I can imagine that it might easily be suggested that in the interests of the efficient farming of the district Mr. Alpass should be asked to leave. I might be as good or a better farmer than anyone else in the district.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-05", "file": "debates1947-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "66a07d980eab2897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.491.1", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "more of that group. If this matter is not thought about between now and the Third Reading, or in another place, and if no opportunity is given for further consideration, I cannot but feel that a prejudice—and I say that advisedly, and without heat or passion—will have developed in the minds of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen, and will have stood in the way of the bare justice for which I have asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-05", "file": "debates1947-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "66a07d980eab2897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "I rather think that a provision of this kind would be undesirable. After all, the tribunal's report is to the Minister, and the contents must be regarded as confidential. All that the applicant requires to know is what decision the tribunal has reached.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-05", "file": "debates1947-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "66a07d980eab2897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "preceding_text": ") gives the Minister power to acquire land where he feels that it would not be fully and efficiently used under private ownership because the fixed equipment required would be more than could reasonably be provided under private ownership. Examples of the sort of case in mind are the wide areas of neglected land which exist in certain parts of the country. This land is potentially very productive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-05", "file": "debates1947-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "66a07d980eab2897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.518.2", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Liberal\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Roberts", "preceding_text": "There are tracts of land which it is uneconomic for private owners to cultivate properly. As one example, which has not been mentioned, I would give parts of the Fens which were only brought to cultivation between the wars in spite of many years of Conservative Government", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.518.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-05", "file": "debates1947-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "66a07d980eab2897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Good planning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "ase once this Bill became law. I repeat that individual cropping directions will cease once this Bill becomes law. But there may conceivably be an emergency; and who am I to say what kind of emergency it might be? As my hon. Friend the Member for Epping (Mrs. Manning) said earlier, county executive committee chairmen were chosen before war broke out in an anticipation of the war that did breakout.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-05", "file": "debates1947-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "66a07d980eab2897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.575.1", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (EXEMPTIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "cue_text": "A HON. MEMBER: \"Not even under Socialism?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "preceding_text": "ilmarnock (Mr. W. Ross) said we might have made full use of the Armed Forces—a mobile force—to move round the country. In making that suggestion he overlooked the fact that the Armed Forces have to be accommodated, and he also overlooked the fact that we have a vast acreage to be harvested in four weeks, so a mobile force would be no good. You cannot take up all the potatoes on a farm in one day.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-05a.575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-06", "file": "debates1947-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "16b75a00566bd400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-06a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brendan Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brendan Bracken", "preceding_text": "f the Board of Trade today. In view of that tribute, perhaps I may be allowed to say that there is too much silly abuse of directors today. In the past, there were too many gilded incompetents sitting on boards. At one time, almost anyone felt qualified to be a director. Even Cabinet Ministers were directors when holding office. But times have changed, and I think they have changed for the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-06a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-06", "file": "debates1947-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "16b75a00566bd400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-06a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shawcross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shawcross", "preceding_text": "The junior branch of the profession, as I understand it, is the branch to which I do not belong. I was just about to say something with which I am sure my hon. Friend will agree, namely, that this Clause might well have provided that in the present state of the accountants' profession audits by solicitors, in addition to accountants, might be approved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-06a.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-09", "file": "debates1947-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "f3b194a7ee1f8de1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-09a.686.7", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "Naturally, they are the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-09a.686.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-09", "file": "debates1947-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "f3b194a7ee1f8de1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-09a.817.3", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "Certainly, I am quite aware of that, but nevertheless the fact is that the prices of young store pigs have been going up which, as I have said, indicates a considerable measure of confidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-09a.817.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-09", "file": "debates1947-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "f3b194a7ee1f8de1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-09a.820.0", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-09a.820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-10", "file": "debates1947-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "972eff686866e990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-10a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Old?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "The first ball in this timeless test having been bowled, I am anxious not to disappoint the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare (Mr. Orr-Ewing) or my hon. Friend the Member for Epping (Mrs. Manning) who is an old associate of mine in propaganda in rural as well as in urban areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-10a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-10", "file": "debates1947-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "972eff686866e990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-10a.892.0", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That will be moved separately.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ish exports in a number of markets, not only in the United States, but throughout the world. So I say that this is not an opportune moment to vary the preference, particularly as I have repeated the undertaking that we will buy any Empire tobacco available in the market at the current prices, though we hope these will not rise any further. This Amendment also covers the case of home-grown tobacco—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-10a.892.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-10", "file": "debates1947-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "972eff686866e990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-10a.932.3", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I have done so, and I am prepared to justify the statement I have made at any time if it is in Order to do so. I made the point without going any further now, but the fact still remains that if expenditure was brought down to a reasonable level it would be far more easy to secure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-10a.932.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-10", "file": "debates1947-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "972eff686866e990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-10a.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I do not suggest it; I know it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-10a.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-10", "file": "debates1947-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "972eff686866e990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-10a.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "in stopping it, and if it is not, it is then merely another measure propounded, not for the benefit of the body politic, but merely to satisfy the class hatred of hon. Members opposite. Until we know which is the issue, it is impossible for the Committee to judge it. This is something which the advisers of the Government have stated is used by unscrupulous people to the disadvantage of the State.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-10a.1011.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-11", "file": "debates1947-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7944186bb6221a7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1047.7", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "There is no truth whatever in this allegation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1047.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-11", "file": "debates1947-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7944186bb6221a7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1100.0", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. I. J. Pitman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the poor widow?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. I. J. Pitman", "preceding_text": "eged receivers of profits for discriminatory taxation, and that the most enterprising kind. May I again give a personal example of the unfairness of this tax? In my own company, we have redeemable preference shares. I thank the Chancellor very much indeed for his cheap money policy, because it has enabled us to substitute a 3½ per cent. Note Issue for a 5½ per cent. preference share.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-11", "file": "debates1947-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7944186bb6221a7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1105.0", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "It might be convenient if I said a few words at this stage, after a lively and interesting Debate in which my hon. Friends behind me have not abstained, as they sometimes do, out of kindly feelings towards the Opposition, from playing their full part in the exchanges,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-11", "file": "debates1947-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7944186bb6221a7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "distributed profits rate of tax—and then take the undistributed one-third and apply to it the non-distributed profits rate of 5 per cent., the net result is a rate of 10 per cent. In other words, if you take the case of a company which distributes two-thirds of its profits and apply these rates of tax, you will be doubling it—you will be taxing it at the rate of 10 per cent. instead of 5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-11", "file": "debates1947-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7944186bb6221a7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " of its profits and apply these rates of tax, you will be doubling it—you will be taxing it at the rate of 10 per cent. instead of 5 per cent. [ Laughter. ] I must start again. Take a company which distributes two-thirds of its profits. You apply the 12½ per cent. rate to two-thirds, and the 5 per cent. to one-third. You will find that you are taxing them overall at the rate of 10 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-11", "file": "debates1947-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7944186bb6221a7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1239.3", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who caused that fact?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "I was citing the fact, which cannot be denied, that there is no transport available for hon. Members who have not private conveyances of their own. That is a fact. It is a fact which we are entitled to take into consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-11", "file": "debates1947-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7944186bb6221a7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker Fletcher", "preceding_text": "o complain, and I will show them I am complaining.\" If one were really to paraphrase what the Chancellor has said, it would be, \"I will keep you here tonight and teach you that lesson not to oppose Clauses which I want to push through with my machine-made majority.\" If that form of mechanized warfare is to be introduced by the Chancellor at this time of night, gloating on the idea of private cars—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-11", "file": "debates1947-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7944186bb6221a7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1242.2", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is a public car.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker Fletcher", "preceding_text": "omplaining.\" If one were really to paraphrase what the Chancellor has said, it would be, \"I will keep you here tonight and teach you that lesson not to oppose Clauses which I want to push through with my machine-made majority.\" If that form of mechanized warfare is to be introduced by the Chancellor at this time of night, gloating on the idea of private cars—[ Interruption. ] He has a private car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-11", "file": "debates1947-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7944186bb6221a7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1255.5", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": " matter of fact, what is the real reason behind the Chancellor's proposals. It is that he is trying to create prejudice. I said that on a previous occasion, and I say it again. He wants to see companies with a small nominal capital declaring a very high dividend so that he and his friends can draw the false conclusion that an unreasonable rate of profit is being earned. The hon. Member for Moscow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1255.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-11", "file": "debates1947-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7944186bb6221a7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1264.2", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "One at a time.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "preceding_text": "Mr. Pitman rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-11", "file": "debates1947-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7944186bb6221a7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1265.3", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "e the operation found those shares worth £818; and if they still held the increased number of shares, after the operation, they were worth £875. Without doing anything about it, they made £57 a 6 per cent. profit. That seems to me to be \"money for jam.\" The Chancellor of the Exchequer used the phrase in the original Debate and it was called in question. I would have said that was \"money for jam.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-11", "file": "debates1947-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7944186bb6221a7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1271.0", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I should very much like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-11", "file": "debates1947-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7944186bb6221a7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "I have been listening to the Chancellor of the Exchequer very carefully, and have been wondering whether he really understood what he was saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-11", "file": "debates1947-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7944186bb6221a7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Legitimately?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " a general illustration, and if it approximates to a particular case, I hope that hon. Members will put that case out of their minds. I am simply explaining the general position. The group, having obtained control of the trade assets of the company, proceed to sell those assets and so arrange the sale that it does not attract Excess Profits Tax. If that can be done, an enormous profit can be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-11a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-12", "file": "debates1947-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "521f8fd99a466dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-12a.1321.0", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "Is there any facility for getting rid of our Fuel Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-12a.1320.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-12", "file": "debates1947-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "521f8fd99a466dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-12a.1328.4", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the British public is very long suffering? That must not lull the Government into believing that they can interfere more and more with the daily life of the nation. Our people merely want to lead their own lives in their own way —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-12a.1328.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-12", "file": "debates1947-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "521f8fd99a466dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-12a.1332.5", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I wish to draw your attention, Mr. Speaker, to the gross attack the Minister has just made in addressing you. He said that it would be better if you kept silent. Is that in Order from a Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-12a.1332.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-12", "file": "debates1947-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "521f8fd99a466dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-12a.1345.5", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "will the House permit me to say with what very deep regret all of us, in all parts of the House, have noticed that it was necessary for the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition to undergo an operation, and with what delight we have read that the operation has been a success? We all hope to see him back soon with his accustomed vigour, and that everything will be completely successful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-12a.1345.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-12", "file": "debates1947-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "521f8fd99a466dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-12a.1356.0", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "HUNGARY (POLITICAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "In view of the questions which have been put from the Opposition, I want to ask if it is not the case that this was a Government crisis which was solved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-12a.1356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-12", "file": "debates1947-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "521f8fd99a466dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-12a.1356.0", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "HUNGARY (POLITICAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "In view of the questions which have been put from the Opposition, I want to ask if it is not the case that this was a Government crisis which was solved—[ Interruption. ]—and solved with the least possible trouble? Have we not the glaring fact before us that this Prime Minister telephoned his resignation from abroad and left others to carry on? Why did he not go back?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-12a.1356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-12", "file": "debates1947-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "521f8fd99a466dab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-12a.1356.0", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "HUNGARY (POLITICAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ent crisis which was solved—[ Interruption. ]—and solved with the least possible trouble? Have we not the glaring fact before us that this Prime Minister telephoned his resignation from abroad and left others to carry on? Why did he not go back? [ Interruption. ] I do not care what anyone says. Any man with courage and with a clear conscience would go back to his own country and face his accusers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-12a.1356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1474.4", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": " have for many years past enjoyed and exercised precisely similar powers of detention without trial within the boundaries of Southern Ireland. It is also suggested, I believe, that there is some feeling regarding the local government franchise in Northern Ireland. I should have thought that that was a matter which might well be left to the authorities in Northern Ireland, to decide for themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1474.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1481.1", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "ack is that one word \"religion.\" The incitement of the Prime Minister is followed up by the present Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister—a Ministerial appointment in Northern Ireland—who supports his incitement, for, under the curious heading of \"Offences against sobriety,\" he circulated a notice saying: Any member of the Orange Institution found frequenting Roman Catholic public houses\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1482.3", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "ney-General confessed quite frankly that the situation was such that, if you happened to belong to a particular faith you were liable to be murdered. The actual words with which he opened his closing speech to the jury were: Members of the jury, in this case the motive is, as lawyers would say, 'at large.' The murdered man was a publican and a Roman Catholic, and therefore liable to assassination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1482.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1485.1", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "hat the Northern Ireland Members repudiate all these undemocratic practices and promise immediately to reform their state. I hope that, when they speak, hon. Members opposite will not deal entirely with the past. There were things in the past done on both sides in Ireland which it will be better for all of us to forget. In the heat and passion of civil war, things were done which we all look upon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1493.1", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. O'Neill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not this one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "I am merely stating the fact that they passed them. There were coercion Acts, Acts providing for trial without jury, Acts providing for the super-cession of the ordinary courts of law, for military courts and for martial law, and all these things were done by this British Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1495.1", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. O'Neill", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: Ten years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "ed by the Nationalist Party; they would not come and give evidence. They thought, of course, that the Parliament of Northern Ireland would probably succumb to the rebellion which was taking place within its borders, and for years they boycotted the Parliament. Their Members did not attend. The hon. Member for Fermanagh and Tyrone (Mr. Mulvey) did not attend this House for 20 years, I think it was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1502.2", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "liation in Northern Ireland, whatever the right hon. Member for Antrim says here. What does the Attorney-General say in the Debate on this issue? Not an inch will he give way; not a comma will he alter in these powers which have been built up year after year, and increased until there is nothing which I imagine the Russian Government would want which is not there for the Ulster Government to use.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1502.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1515.2", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Several Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Several Hon. Members rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1515.7", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. Colonel Sir Walter Smiles", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. Colonel Sir Walter Smiles", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Hornchurch (Mr. Bing). I might call him a banshee because a banshee is a very aristocratic ghost in a lot of cases. I might call him the banshee of Horn-church because he has raised a lot of points which I, who live in Northern Ireland, have never heard of before. I would start by contradicting one statement of his. In his mention of the Orange Order, he said it was a secret society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1515.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1525.4", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ronald Ross", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ronald Ross", "preceding_text": "erland (Mr. W. Roberts) said in a light-hearted way that he did not see what evidence there was of I.R.A. activity. North Cumberland is unstirred by the chances of such outbreaks. I would refer him to the events of 1916, when Mr. Birrell, an eminent Liberal, saw no signs of trouble in Dublin and Southern Ireland, when, as a matter of fact the rebellion which broke out in 1916 was entirely because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1525.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1525.4", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ronald Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bunkum.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ronald Ross", "preceding_text": "ers, not one of whom has discussed the Bill. There has been a whole catalogue of speeches from the other side against the powers which have been given to a Parliament—one of the few Parliaments which has decided to stand by this country. The attitude of hon. Members opposite is a fine example of the spirit which is preventing our having another community living on friendly terms with this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1525.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1525.4", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ronald Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ronald Ross", "preceding_text": " of Northern Ireland has to preserve order by the use of such powers as are at its disposal, and they are the constabulary and the special constabulary. The Government of Northern Ireland have been elected by the people of Northern Ireland, and there is far less doubt as to their commanding a majority of the people of Northern Ireland than there is about this Government here. That is certainly so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1525.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1529.1", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "preceding_text": "That point is very easily dealt with. It is perhaps unfortunate that every Catholic in the Northern Ireland Parliament voted against a Loyal Address being presented to Their Majesties. So far as that particular instance is concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1530.2", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "preceding_text": "I entirely accept everything which the hon. Gentleman says, but he certainly gave a most unfortunate impression—although I would never have thought it of him—that he went about throwing stones in this manner. I have been a member of the Orange Order for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1530.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1530.2", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "preceding_text": "I entirely accept everything which the hon. Gentleman says, but he certainly gave a most unfortunate impression—although I would never have thought it of him—that he went about throwing stones in this manner. I have been a member of the Orange Order for many years. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"] Why shame? Hon. Members opposite admit the right of anybody to become a Freemason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1530.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1530.2", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "preceding_text": "red to stand by that. To say that they go about throwing stones at people because they are of another faith is entirely untrue in my experience, arid I think my experience is a great deal more than that of the hon. Member for West Walthamstow. Political processions are not confined to one side or to one point of view, and normally the processions only go through areas where similar views are held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1530.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1531.1", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "preceding_text": "Why should not property be bought for Protestants?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1534.3", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Delargy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Delargy", "preceding_text": "s, as their pamphlet told us, that the year in which the Act was introduced, 1922, was a year of great upheaval; that there were enormous numbers of murders committed. This pamphlet tells us that there were 232 murders. What it does not say, of course, is that the large majority of those 232 people who were murdered were members of the minority, and were so murdered by hirelings of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1534.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1535.7", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Delargy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Delargy", "preceding_text": "or Londonderry. He said that my hon. Friend the Member for Horn-church had introduced this subject of religious persecution. What are we to do? Everyone who has studied the facts of the case, and everyone who has lived in Belfast for a few months, knows that religious persecution takes place. Are we always to keep quiet? Who introduced it first? It was not my hon. Friend the Member for Hornchurch?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1535.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1541.1", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": " the House—here I come to a more serious note—that he has done very real Mischief to the cause of good feeling between this country and not only Northern Ireland but Eire, by the way in which he has given the lead and the line in this Debate. In justice to my hon. Friends who come from Ulster—and I am proud of having Ulster blood in my veins—it was not by their wish that the Debate took this line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1542.1", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "he Palestinian Government. It might be asked, why are Jews unfit for democracy and governed in the way they are? The answer in all three cases—Northern Ireland, Eire and Palestine, is that the Governments of those three countries are faced with a small or large murderous and fanatical minority, who would, if those Governments were not armed with those special powers, kill everyone in high office —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1542.1", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "or democracy and governed in the way they are? The answer in all three cases—Northern Ireland, Eire and Palestine, is that the Governments of those three countries are faced with a small or large murderous and fanatical minority, who would, if those Governments were not armed with those special powers, kill everyone in high office —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and everyone associated with the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1542.1", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "sible humanity. I would say it in respect of both Governments, and I deeply regret that the hon. Gentleman should have made the kind of attack he has made this afternoon—of course supported by the extremists and those who represent the extremist point of view in Northern Ireland, a minority—I am not suggesting that they belong to the murderous minority but they belong to a very ferocious minority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1543.1", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "I was not referring to Palestine, I was referring to Northern Ireland. I only want to say one other thing in reply to the hon. Gentleman's speech. He made all sorts of charges which have been refuted by my right hon. Friend behind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1543.3", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Just wanting war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "nces—I think both governments have done their best—to reduce the amount of religious feeling that exists in those two countries. Also by way of obiter dicta I deplore these dissensions in the Christian Church because I believe that not many years and perhaps even months are going to pass before the Christian Church will be the bulwark against something which, I need not mention to the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1543.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1543.3", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Throughout the world.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "rhaps even months are going to pass before the Christian Church will be the bulwark against something which, I need not mention to the hon. Member—[AN HON. MEMBER: \"Just wanting war.\"] No, and I think hon. Members will not disagree, I want to see a community of Christian belief and endeavour in this country and in Western Europe for purposes which I hope and believe are both honourable and proper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1543.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-13", "file": "debates1947-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "34327c206d114a8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1544.1", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "preceding_text": "That is not the case. I am a Labour and Socialist representative in this House and also a Labour and Socialist representative in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-13a.1544.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-16", "file": "debates1947-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "7c12c7e03942c3fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1583.12", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS, STAFFS (REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander Hulbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander Hulbert", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. The hon. Member said that my Question was \"crazy, anyway.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1583.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-16", "file": "debates1947-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "7c12c7e03942c3fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1588.4", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I have already stated that the valuer does not submit details—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1588.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-16", "file": "debates1947-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "7c12c7e03942c3fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1588.4", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I have already stated that the valuer does not submit details—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] Because, apparently it is the right thing not to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1588.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-16", "file": "debates1947-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "7c12c7e03942c3fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1612.4", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alan Herbert", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who was the author?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alan Herbert", "preceding_text": " Cochran's last production but one, which was seen by many Members of this House, including Mr. Speaker and the Serjeant at Arms, neither of whom, apparently, considered the author should be committed for con- tempt, although it dealt with the proceedings of this House. It was a light musical play, but it had a sort of \"message;\" it paid respect to our institutions, and particularly to this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1612.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-16", "file": "debates1947-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "7c12c7e03942c3fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1612.4", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alan Herbert", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alan Herbert", "preceding_text": "d bringing that up. He is one of the hon. Members for Oxford University. That play went on tour for ten weeks and played to packed houses everywhere it went. It gave a great deal of pleasure and, although I say it myself, I think some little inspiration to many large audiences. During those ten weeks the public paid £39,000 to see the play. Of that, the management handed over £11,000 to the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1612.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-16", "file": "debates1947-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "7c12c7e03942c3fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1628.0", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn Levy", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On what terms? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn Levy", "preceding_text": "o the junior Burgess for Oxford University would have had a perfect ironclad case in saying that the Entertainment Duty should be reduced. But not since last year. For what happened last year? The Chancellor produced a Clause in the Finance Bill which completely and wholly exempted managers from that tax if they chose. There is now no obligation on any manager to pay any Entertainment Duty at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-16", "file": "debates1947-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "7c12c7e03942c3fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1642.0", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osbert Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osbert Peake", "preceding_text": "about the merits of a remission of the Entertainment Duty on the living stage. The hon. Member for Eton and Slough (Mr. Levy) feared that all the benefit of a remission might go to the landlords. My own view is that that would not happen, and that any remission of taxation on the living stage is bound automatically to be divided between the management, the public and the employees of the theatres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-16", "file": "debates1947-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "7c12c7e03942c3fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1652.0", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "atever you like, and because the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne has been so agile and so quick, he is to get the prize. But questions of taxation are not a gamble. It is true that the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne has—and we give him all the credit—exposed one hardship that occurs. In the course of examining that hardship, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has come across other comparable ones.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1652.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-16", "file": "debates1947-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "7c12c7e03942c3fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1659.3", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "I understood, from what the right hon. Gentleman said, that if anybody put them down, he will accept them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1659.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-16", "file": "debates1947-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "7c12c7e03942c3fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1672.2", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sarcasm\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": " system by which hon. Members who live in the suburbs have season tickets provided for them, which is an inverted method of setting off the amount against the expenses of employment. I am quite sure that the Government will not refuse the general public something which they have done for the hard-working community in the House. It seems that a concession is inevitable, as it has now been conceded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1672.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-16", "file": "debates1947-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "7c12c7e03942c3fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1751.2", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I was ready to corn-promise, but in order that business may be speeded up, I will not proceed. I hope there will be no sudden uprising of hon. Members opposite supporting this new Clause. I think it is a good one but having performed a useful job in speaking for a very large number of poor people, I cannot do more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-16a.1751.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-17", "file": "debates1947-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "5683619f8bb1fb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1773.6", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "That is the maximum pension payable under the Royal Warrant, which, I think, has the general acceptance of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1773.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-17", "file": "debates1947-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "5683619f8bb1fb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1793.8", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Shawcross", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Shawcross", "preceding_text": ". During the war it became apparent to the Government that when hostilities ceased our export trade would be a matter of vital concern, and, fortunately, at that time my right hon. Friend was the President of the Board of Trade. I remember that he kindly allowed me to go and talk to him about these problems, although at that time I was a very obscure individual of whom he had not heard previously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1793.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-17", "file": "debates1947-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "5683619f8bb1fb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1812.2", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: We have cheaper labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will allow me, I do not think his point is right, because the motor car manufacturer in this country has to pay almost three times as much for his coal and twice as much for his steel as does the American with whom he is competing", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1812.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-17", "file": "debates1947-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "5683619f8bb1fb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1816.1", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "n, and lecturing the motor trade on that subject. The motor trade is only too anxious to standardise if standardisation can be effected. There are the difficulties my hon. Friend mentioned, but I am not really thinking about trying to sell cars to America. Our export market for cars will not be in America. When I was in New Zealand and Australia in 1938 I could not find a British car on the roads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-17", "file": "debates1947-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "5683619f8bb1fb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1863.0", "colnum": "1863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax— Intermediate rate.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "e matter up—costs me res. a quarter. If the Chancellor puts the higher tax on water heaters, people will be charged twice as much. That is a very heavy imposition to put on the tenants of the new houses. It is a definite increase in the rent of the houses. That is not a good policy. I submit very earnestly to the Chancellor, now that the Labour Government are doing so well in providing the houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-17", "file": "debates1947-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "5683619f8bb1fb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1863.0", "colnum": "1863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax— Intermediate rate.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "g the houses. [ Interruption. ] I do not agree with the hon. Member for Stockport (Sir A. Gridley) who began his speech by suggesting that the houses were not being delivered by the Labour Government. At least he looked as though he would like to have said that, but knew that he would have destroyed his case if he had. But the houses are being built and are going to be delivered as houses to rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-17", "file": "debates1947-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "5683619f8bb1fb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1881.1", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIFTH SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax— Exemptions and reductions of rates.)", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": "I was endeavouring to show what it would mean to the taxi drivers if this remission of tax were granted, but, of course, Mr. Beaumont, I accept your Ruling and will not pursue that particular matter further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1881.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-17", "file": "debates1947-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "5683619f8bb1fb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1905.0", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIFTH SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax— Exemptions and reductions of rates.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "preceding_text": "uch better to insure that everybody, without any possible exception—we all know there are people who lack the means to get all the small necessities of life—should be able to get a tooth brush. As part of his argument, the Financial Secretary said that the tax was so small that no one would notice it. But, as has been pointed out, where there are a number of people in a family having to buy teeth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1905.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-17", "file": "debates1947-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "5683619f8bb1fb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1906.6", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIFTH SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax— Exemptions and reductions of rates.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to withdraw my Amendment, Mr. Beaumont.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1906.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-17", "file": "debates1947-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "5683619f8bb1fb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1908.2", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIFTH SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax— Exemptions and reductions of rates.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "ine 41 is in Order. All we are doing here is to take those to line 41 by votes and, by doing that, we jump some Amendments and we are not taking them strictly in order as they appear on the Paper. Therefore, in my submission, it would be quite in Order for you to take the one to line 41, in the name of the hon. Member for Ripon (Mr. York) although you have taken some before it and some afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-17", "file": "debates1947-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "5683619f8bb1fb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1908.3", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIFTH SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax— Exemptions and reductions of rates.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "On that point of Order, Mr. Beaumont, it is within my recollection that when you announced the four in that group, this particular Amendment was not included in the group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1908.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-17", "file": "debates1947-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "5683619f8bb1fb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1925.0", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIFTH SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax— Exemptions and reductions of rates.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "The actual Amendment moved was the one moved by my hon. Friend, the noble Lady the Member for Norwich (Lady Noel-Buxton).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-17", "file": "debates1947-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "5683619f8bb1fb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1939.2", "colnum": "1939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIFTH SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax— Exemptions and reductions of rates.)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "I have never attempted to argue with a Yorkshireman and would not do so even if you were not in the Chair. Shinty is much played in the North of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1939.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-17", "file": "debates1947-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "5683619f8bb1fb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1941.1", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIFTH SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax— Exemptions and reductions of rates.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ciation who have been making representations to the Treasury. I did not receive these representations personally but I indicated that I would be very glad to go as far as I could to meet their views. I dare say this is pretty nearly right but we would like to look at it again. But in substance we accept. In regard to games played in the tar North—I am told shinty is really another name for hockey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-17", "file": "debates1947-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "5683619f8bb1fb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1941.1", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIFTH SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax— Exemptions and reductions of rates.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hurley.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " \"No.\"] It has been suggested to me that hockey already covered it, but if that is not so I shall certainly have consultations made with certain Highland experts and we shall bring in whatever is necessary to enable the youth of the far North to play this game. I would like to see it sometime when I am up there. It seems to be an exciting game. Then I am told there is an Irish game called hurling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-17a.1941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-18", "file": "debates1947-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8dd6242554793f6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-18a.2051.5", "colnum": "2051", "heading": "HOUSING, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lady Grant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Grant", "preceding_text": "y making provision for a certain type of person who is perhaps wealthier than others. I know from personal experience that many people, especially those returning from the Forces, consider it a sound investment to put their money into house ownership rather than to put it into Government savings. The right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues should consider housing as being far above party politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-18a.2051.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-18", "file": "debates1947-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8dd6242554793f6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-18a.2062.1", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "HOUSING, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "these services will be undone if a mother and two or three children are huddled together in overcrowded conditions and denied all the hygienic and sanitary facilities which Members of this Committee have installed in their own homes. Two weeks ago a large number of women came to London from various parts of the country. A very excellent organisation, non-political, known as the Housewives' League.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-18a.2062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-18", "file": "debates1947-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8dd6242554793f6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-18a.2064.5", "colnum": "2064", "heading": "HOUSING, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under Lord Addison.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "—and, in point of fact, private enterprise has built more houses in the first two years after the war under a Labour Government, than private enterprise built in the first two years after the last war under the Government supported by hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-18a.2064.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-18", "file": "debates1947-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8dd6242554793f6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-18a.2089.0", "colnum": "2089", "heading": "HOUSING, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": "llant Member for East Renfrew on the Government Front Bench, because I would rather he sat in front of me than behind my back. But I know there is no one who can do what I have suggested. The Government need not worry. We on this side are prepared to defend their actions, if defence is necessary. We make no excuses. They should carry on with the good work. After all, there are two years to go yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-18a.2089.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-18", "file": "debates1947-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8dd6242554793f6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-18a.2113.1", "colnum": "2113", "heading": "HOUSING, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "preceding_text": "ible because next time there was a Debate we should not be able to refrain from cheering, and it would be impossible for us to criticise any more. What a change today. Practically every hon. Member opposite who has spoken has not tried to defend the Government, but has answered, \"Oh, but the Tories were much worse.\" We then get back to the question of who created the slums, and all the rest of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-18a.2113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-18", "file": "debates1947-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8dd6242554793f6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-18a.2168.7", "colnum": "2168", "heading": "CLAUSE 4.—(Interpretation.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "ludicrous to pass legislation and take pride in the number of Bills passed by the Socialist Government when the Measures apparently do not define the substance with which they deal. Apparently the Government are not in a position immediately to inform us why the definition is not included in the Bill. Why must we have legislation by reference? We may have to put down an Amendment on a later stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-18a.2168.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-19", "file": "debates1947-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8eadecf9e3ef38f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-19a.2226.5", "colnum": "2226", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "My difficulty is that, if this point was to be raised, I should have thought that it ought to have been raised before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-19a.2226.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-19", "file": "debates1947-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8eadecf9e3ef38f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-19a.2226.6", "colnum": "2226", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "My difficulty is that, if this point was to be raised, I should have thought that it ought to have been raised before. [ Interruption. ] We are discussing the Business for next week, and the Business for next week has nothing to do with whether a Question on the Order Paper should have been answered or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-19a.2226.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-19", "file": "debates1947-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8eadecf9e3ef38f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-19a.2234.3", "colnum": "2234", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY IN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "—after, the Committee will note, the Communist Party had made a vain attempt to deprive him of his parliamentary immunity. All the attempts made by the British and American Governments to obtain information about that have been rejected. Now here, let me say this. I am not asserting that everyone in the Smallholders' Party has necessarily behaved impeccably. I am not asserting that. I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-19a.2234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-19", "file": "debates1947-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8eadecf9e3ef38f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-19a.2252.0", "colnum": "2252", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY IN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "with his work. Mr. Nagy was a Smallholders' nominee. He is replaced by another Smallholders' nominee. That is all that has happened on the surface, and indeed under the ground, so far as one can see. The whole thing goes on exactly as in the past. The right hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington has spoken about elections, but the view in Hungary is that there are not going to be elections at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-19a.2252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-19", "file": "debates1947-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8eadecf9e3ef38f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-19a.2257.1", "colnum": "2257", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY IN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "They might have avoided some of the bitter onslaughts which they launched upon the record of Tory administrations in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-19a.2257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-19", "file": "debates1947-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8eadecf9e3ef38f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-19a.2311.1", "colnum": "2311", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY IN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does he want a doctor?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. and gallant Gentleman also sick?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-19a.2311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-19", "file": "debates1947-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8eadecf9e3ef38f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-19a.2311.3", "colnum": "2311", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY IN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "I would say at the outset that I have given no pledge whatever with regard to time, but I recognise once again the deplorable necessity of telescoping, cutting and mutilating what I had hoped would be rather a good speech. That seems to be the fate of all of us who are called late in a Debate. I have tried for the last two years to get in earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-19a.2311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-19", "file": "debates1947-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8eadecf9e3ef38f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-19a.2311.3", "colnum": "2311", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY IN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has been there a long time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "of the hon. and gallant Member for Lichfield, to his contact with a thing that we had hoped had been done away with many years ago in Europe—the terror. The terror is a nasty thing. It was clear that the hon. and gallant Member for Lichfield had come right up against the terror. He did not like it; and I think there are few hon. Members on either side who like it; but it is a fact in Europe today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-19a.2311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-19", "file": "debates1947-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8eadecf9e3ef38f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-19a.2329.1", "colnum": "2329", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY IN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Law", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Law", "preceding_text": "d not conceal, if he will allow me to say so, the passionate devotion to those causes which, thank God, we still hold in common on both sides of the Committee. There has been a great deal in the speeches today about our relations with Russia. I must say that I have some sympathy with the hon. Member for North Cumberland (Mr. W. Roberts). He is not in his place—the Liberal Party is so often absent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-19a.2329.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-19", "file": "debates1947-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "8eadecf9e3ef38f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-19a.2356.4", "colnum": "2356", "heading": "NORTH SEA (OVER-FISHING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Herring.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I think it was a report about white fish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-19a.2356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-20", "file": "debates1947-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "fd32d363d251963b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-20a.2395.1", "colnum": "2395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (EMERGENCY PAYMENTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stubbs", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stubbs", "preceding_text": "ng a shilling in the hat\" to meet cases of this sort. It ought to be done on a much higher level. These men in the Fen areas have a heartbreaking job. The whole of their lives have been devoted to it. They are beginning to say, \"If this is Fen farming, let somebody else do it,\" and the nation may be in danger of losing these expert farmers. The best farmers in the country are those in the Fenland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-20a.2395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-20", "file": "debates1947-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "fd32d363d251963b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-20a.2429.1", "colnum": "2429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (EMERGENCY PAYMENTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and gallant Gentleman is not quite right. What the House might be big enough to appreciate is that this spring the Government have done a lot, a surprising amount, to assist those who have been adversely affected by the severe winter—particularly those concerned in agriculture—without any very great pressure from hon. Members of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-20a.2429.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-23", "file": "debates1947-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "c3dde86e53d34174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.6.11", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Snoopers.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "preceding_text": "Why cannot evidence be obtained after a few minutes' watching?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.6.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-23", "file": "debates1947-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "c3dde86e53d34174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.25.7", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL PLANNING ORGANISATION (CHIEF PUBLICITY OFFICER)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, I have already answered that Question in a written answer which appeared in HANSARD on Friday, but there is no doubt that his qualifications are outstanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.25.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-23", "file": "debates1947-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "c3dde86e53d34174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "e staff in order to assist one another. That is all that is necessary, I would deprecate any kind of arrangement within a nationalised board whereby either a member of the board, or an officer or an employee of the board, apart from salaries and expenses to which he was justly entitled, would receive any temporary financial assistance. A nationalised undertaking is not a money-lending institution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-23", "file": "debates1947-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "c3dde86e53d34174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.100.0", "colnum": "100", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "will not accept this new Clause is beyond my understanding. It would assist him in difficult days ahead if taxation were to go spiralling up again, and I can see no justification for his refusal to accept the Clause. I will not address the House on finance, because it is a subject of which I know very little. The fact is that the Minister is, like Brunhilde, protected by sacred fire at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-23", "file": "debates1947-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "c3dde86e53d34174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.100.0", "colnum": "100", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "rs, but by the immortals. However, I warn the right hon. Gentleman that he should remember Brunhilde's ending. She ended in the flames of Valhalla, because Valhalla could handle the coal situation better than the present Government can. There is one point I would like to emphasise, namely, that the present occupants of the Front Bench are honest men. On the law of averages they must be honest men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-23", "file": "debates1947-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "c3dde86e53d34174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.107.3", "colnum": "107", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "be given statutory protection to prevent them suffering from victimisation because of some action they have taken. If the right hon. Gentleman, in the face of this demand, is not prepared to accept this Clause, or is not prepared to agree to the insertion of some similar provision in the Bill, he will leave in the minds of people outside the suspicion that some degree of victimisation is intended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.107.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-23", "file": "debates1947-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "c3dde86e53d34174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.110.2", "colnum": "110", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "all we allow any boards to inquire, into the political opinions of any person employed in the industry. I want to make that perfectly clear. I can well understand hon. Members opposite being a little concerned about this question of victimisation if I interpret it as they do, because private ownership indulged in victimisation over the years. Hon. Members opposite rarely protested against it then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.110.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-23", "file": "debates1947-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "c3dde86e53d34174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.110.2", "colnum": "110", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "tion. A score of times in the past few weeks I have tried to make clear beyond doubt what was in my mind. I say this now because it has a reference to the matter under review. I respect everybody who performs a social service of any kind, whether it is in a manual, technical, administrative, domestic, or educational capacity. I have no regard for those persons who perform no social service at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.110.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-23", "file": "debates1947-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "c3dde86e53d34174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.110.2", "colnum": "110", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ions in the Bill. Hon. Members opposite can divide the House if they care to do so. I am concerned about the attitude of the public to this Bill and its provisions, and I assure the public that we intend to provide electricity at the lowest cost, efficiently and effectively. We want to satisfy their needs; but I do not believe that the public are very much concerned about a provision of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.110.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-23", "file": "debates1947-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "c3dde86e53d34174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.120.4", "colnum": "120", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman, and that would be agreeable for all parties. The upshot of the right hon. Gentleman's speech, I think, very clearly was the same as of some of his earlier speeches, only in a language at once more chaste and appropriately more involved, more ambiguous —\"All the people I need worry about can be protected by their trade unions, and for the rest, about them I need not worry.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-23", "file": "debates1947-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "c3dde86e53d34174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.120.4", "colnum": "120", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "hat the electricity trade unions can do enough in this matter of victimisation. I have seen letters from trade union branches expressing extreme disagreement with the hon. Member's commendation of this Bill, particularly from the point of the position of employees, and even—if I may say so without gross immodesty—expressing preference for my own remarks and even my own arguments on the same point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-23", "file": "debates1947-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "c3dde86e53d34174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.120.4", "colnum": "120", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ce involved here, there were confused shouts of \"rubbish\" and so on from the other side and the hon. Member for Houghton-le-Spring (Mr. Blyton) made a speech with which I have a good deal of sympathy. He spoke, as he always does, first of all as one who does know something about mines, and second, as he always does, as if he meant it; but I would ask him and other hon. Gentlemen opposite to begin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-23", "file": "debates1947-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "c3dde86e53d34174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman can get up in a minute or two at the end of my paragraph. Nobody is to be appointed to a board of management who in the opinion of the right hon. Gentleman opposes Socialism and particularly so in the case of people whose opinion was that Socialism was not going to succeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-23", "file": "debates1947-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "c3dde86e53d34174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "I do not think the situation is at all comparable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-23", "file": "debates1947-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "c3dde86e53d34174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will lead to disaster.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "I do not think the situation is at all comparable. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"] I dare say that the hon. Gentleman has a particular person in mind in referring to this hypothetical director, but I do not know. That person has expressed a political view and he has expressed a view that nationalisation is tending to disaster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-23", "file": "debates1947-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "c3dde86e53d34174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "ERS: \"It is.\"] I dare say that the hon. Gentleman has a particular person in mind in referring to this hypothetical director, but I do not know. That person has expressed a political view and he has expressed a view that nationalisation is tending to disaster—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Will lead to disaster.\"]—or will lead to disaster. If he is the best man, he is probably the best man to stop that disaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-23", "file": "debates1947-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "c3dde86e53d34174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.127.4", "colnum": "127", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "I must answer that last intervention, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. I would like to make an announcement that I am the director of a small whisky company and a teetotaler.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.127.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-23", "file": "debates1947-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "c3dde86e53d34174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.128.2", "colnum": "128", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Fuel and Power. The right hon. Gentleman has an uncanny flair in his speeches—and I think he will agree with this now—for provoking the most lively apprehensions, most of which turn out to be fully justified before very long. I am bound to say that on this occasion the right hon. Gentleman has run entirely true to form. He has provoked in my neutral breast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.128.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-23", "file": "debates1947-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "c3dde86e53d34174", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.152.2", "colnum": "152", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "If I may say so, with the utmost respect, the hon. Member for South Edinburgh is a new Member of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-23a.152.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-24", "file": "debates1947-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a95914dd0eee6abe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.177.4", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "With regard to the first part of the supplementary question, I hope to be in a position to give an estimate of the results of the campaign in the middle of next month. As regards the latter part, I do not think it really arises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-24", "file": "debates1947-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a95914dd0eee6abe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.183.3", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "I am sending the hon. Member a copy of a booklet explaining the main provisions of the Rent Restrictions Acts prepared by my Department for issue to local authorities and Citizens' Advice Bureaux. The provisions of the Acts, however, are so complex that it would be misleading to rely on a simplified version of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.183.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-24", "file": "debates1947-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a95914dd0eee6abe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.184.4", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Sooner.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "preceding_text": "May I appeal to the right hon. Gentleman seriously? He knows as well as I do that the overwhelming majority of the people of Scotland, including his own party, want to reform the Rent Restrictions Acts. \"Sooner or later,\" he tell us. Is that all he can tell the people of Scotland? Will he not give us some comfort more than the words 'sooner or later\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.184.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-24", "file": "debates1947-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a95914dd0eee6abe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why 'fortunately'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ion does. We welcome the Amendment which the right hon. Gentleman has moved. It corresponds to and complies with a request that we put forward from our side of the Standing Committee. The only point where it is deficient is that indicated in an Amendment in our name to the proposed Amendment, after \"agriculture\" to insert \"housewives.\" Fortunately for the Government, it is not likely to be called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.243.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-24", "file": "debates1947-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a95914dd0eee6abe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "electricity in East Anglia unless the Minister first vets here to discover that she toes the party line. We have had that said today. Last night, the Minister said, talking not of these councils, but of other boards: —it would be quite improper to appoint to such boards a person who was definitely opposed to the nationalisation of the industry.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 23rd June, 1947; Vol. 439, c. no.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-24", "file": "debates1947-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a95914dd0eee6abe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Manning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Manning", "preceding_text": "I am very glad that J was able, with my own ears, to hear what he did say. What he said about this matter was that he would not necessarily be influenced by a member of the Housewives' League. She may be a member of a co-operative society, but he may have no knowledge of that society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-24", "file": "debates1947-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a95914dd0eee6abe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ws perfectly well, that a kind of joke often passes between the two Front Benches. My right hon. Friend said, in discussing the type of housewife who may go on a consultative council, that he meant a housewife not, of course, of the Tory type. What he meant by that was the type of person who really is not a housewife at all and does not know the difficulties under which the real housewife labours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-24", "file": "debates1947-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a95914dd0eee6abe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.298.3", "colnum": "298", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Directors without exception—directors as a class—should be eligible for compensation. Then we have to discriminate when it comes to whether or not they are to receive compensation? Presumably the hon. and gallant Member has in view the setting up of a tribunal for the purpose—or leaving it to the Minister, although I do not expect they would agree to leave it to the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-24", "file": "debates1947-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a95914dd0eee6abe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.298.3", "colnum": "298", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "itable form of words to sponsor this point of view could be provided by the Opposition to consider some arrangement to provide ex gratia payments of that kind. No attempt has been made to find such a form of words. I left the matter to the Opposition. What they now propose is to exclude the whole of the Subsection so as to bring all directors into the purview, in relation to compensation payments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-24", "file": "debates1947-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a95914dd0eee6abe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.298.3", "colnum": "298", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ate knowledge of the industry, and who is in quite a different category. So far as those persons are concerned, there is no justification whatever for recognition. If there were an amalgamation of electricity undertakings or, as sometimes occurs, absorption of one undertaking by another, does one expect the part-time directors of the absorbed undertaking to be compensated by the major undertaking?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-24", "file": "debates1947-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a95914dd0eee6abe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"By-elections.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "Fuel and Power rebuking other people for trying to create prejudice. Creating prejudice might be called his stock-in-trade. We do not complain about it. It is the most valuable of the assets which we have. Next to the Attorney-General—and nobody can surpass him, of course—the Minister of Fuel and Power is an easy top of the tree among manufacturers of prejudice, and, of course, Conservative votes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-24", "file": "debates1947-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a95914dd0eee6abe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Clarke", "preceding_text": "hat has grown up the system of compensation on retirement. As a rule, when a company is taken over by another company or board, either the directors of the smaller company are taken on to the board of the larger or some system of compensation is brought in. In this case a very large undertaking is taking over a number of smaller ones. On the vesting date those directors will be thrown out of work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-24", "file": "debates1947-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a95914dd0eee6abe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Roberts", "preceding_text": "This is a Bill to nationalise the electricity services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-24", "file": "debates1947-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a95914dd0eee6abe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "Secretary that the essence of company law is that the company is a separate individual. I would only quote him the case of Saloman versus Saloman in 1897, which is apparently a textbook case for everyone indulging in this particular branch of legal practice. If that is so, the Government have no right whatsoever to disband a company until it has finished whatever affairs it may be responsible for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-24", "file": "debates1947-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a95914dd0eee6abe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.320.2", "colnum": "320", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hal)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hal)", "preceding_text": "e aware in Committee upstairs, and have been made aware again tonight, that there is a certain amount of feeling on the other side because in this Bill we propose to put the companies out of existence as undertakings on the vesting date. It has been truly said that in other nationalisation Measures which this Government have passed, we have taken another course; but that is neither here nor there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.320.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-24", "file": "debates1947-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a95914dd0eee6abe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "sis on which compensation should be valued. If he takes that date on the one hand, why does he not want to take it on the other? He did mention the fact that we had taken certain dates, and I think these dates are fair. The one set of dates, the first set, was pre-Election, and I do not suppose there is anybody in the House who really believed that the General Election result would be what it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-24", "file": "debates1947-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a95914dd0eee6abe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": " well over 96 per cent. of those which come under this Bill. Unless I am pressed, I will not go into a long argument on the point about Consols which was put to me by the hon. Member for Flint because I do not think it is germane to the matter. It is true that Consols were 84 on the date in 1945 which he mentioned, and that they had been up to 98½. I think they are now down to 92, 93 or 94.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-24a.338.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-25", "file": "debates1947-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1bc5b40ed6905803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.434.2", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BUREAU OF CURRENT AFFAIRS (POSTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Lang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lang", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister bear in mind the inestimable services that this bureau has rendered", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.434.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-25", "file": "debates1947-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1bc5b40ed6905803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": " will indeed stand convicted of a gross breach of trust. We on this side of the House have, obviously, an irreconcilable difference of opinion with hon. Members opposite about the principles of this Bill, but there is one thing which we have brought up time and time again during the last three days, and that is that the Government have trampled upon all the established practices of commercial law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-25", "file": "debates1947-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1bc5b40ed6905803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.530.2", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Professor Gruffydd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Both of you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Gruffydd", "preceding_text": "hing which has already been said by my hon. Friend the Member for Merioneth (Mr. Emrys Roberts). It is time this Parliament started protecting Wales from being divided against itself time after time by Bill after Bill. This will emphasise the worst division—the division between North Wales and South Wales. My hon. Friend said that he welcomes this Bill. All of us on the Liberal benches welcome it:", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.530.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-25", "file": "debates1947-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1bc5b40ed6905803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.548.4", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I would ask the Minister to realise how extremely reasonable we have been in dealing with this Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.548.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-25", "file": "debates1947-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1bc5b40ed6905803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.557.2", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I am sure the Committee do not want to embark on a long discussion at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.557.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-25", "file": "debates1947-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1bc5b40ed6905803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "wo have done it in my own constituency, and there is no doubt that many municipalities are suffering great financial loss. This procedure puts a premium on the improvident and the whole of Government legislation is tending to do that. We want to register our protest at the way the improvident have been treated, and at the way Socialist town councils are neglecting their duty to their constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.557.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-25", "file": "debates1947-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1bc5b40ed6905803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.573.2", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "It was the Financial Secretary's hypothesis, if I may say so? I certainly do not wish to delay the Committee.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.573.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-25", "file": "debates1947-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1bc5b40ed6905803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.585.3", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Get up and say it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "It is nonsense. I say it is nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.585.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-25", "file": "debates1947-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1bc5b40ed6905803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.593.0", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "ich he has any financial connection should disclose that financial interest. I have no financial interest whatever. My connection with this particular organisation simply amounts to this, that I was made a vice-president of the association of Municipal Corporations, Liverpool branch, as a local M.P. Indeed, until I received the letter referred to I did not even realise that I was a vice-president.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.592.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-25", "file": "debates1947-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1bc5b40ed6905803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.593.2", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is not a financial interest.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": "I want to say quite frankly that I have no ill-will against my hon. Friend. I was simply quoting a statement made with regard to his being an officer of the association.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-25", "file": "debates1947-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1bc5b40ed6905803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.593.8", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": ", which, over a period of time, has not only provided an electricity supply but has also contributed to the rates, perhaps a sum of two million pounds—as with Liverpool. It is to be treated exactly the same as another municipality which has had to take money from the rates in order to help its municipal electricity supply. That is an example of penalising the efficient by means of the inefficient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.593.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-25", "file": "debates1947-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1bc5b40ed6905803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ompetent they intend it to be a form of politeness—as a Tory term of endearment. If having been described as grossly incompetent, and having received their usual castigation, I venture to respond even temperately, they are annoyed. The fact is that they like to give, but they do not like to take. The only other thing I want to say about personalities is this. I have been a long time in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-25", "file": "debates1947-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "1bc5b40ed6905803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "e course of our Debates hon. Members opposite say what they like about us, sometimes hitting below the belt, and they really must not squeal if some of us can hit straight from the shoulder. What hitting they can indulge in will not worry me. I can take half a dozen of them on before breakfast. Let us get down to facts. They are not likely to prove palatable to the right hon. Member for Southport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-25a.596.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-26", "file": "debates1947-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d3c8a9eff30bfbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.678.0", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC POSITION (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "May I first congratulate the Leader of the House on the colour of his tie—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.678.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-26", "file": "debates1947-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d3c8a9eff30bfbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "CONSUMER GOODS (SHORTAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Medlicott", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has the largest black market in the world.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Medlicott", "preceding_text": "That may well be, but, after all, it is the shops from which the consumers obtain their goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.689.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-06-26", "file": "debates1947-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d3c8a9eff30bfbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.692.3", "colnum": "692", "heading": "CONSUMER GOODS (SHORTAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is the Government's job.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Adams", "preceding_text": "What does the hon. Member suggest as an answer to these problems?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.692.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-26", "file": "debates1947-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d3c8a9eff30bfbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "CONSUMER GOODS (SHORTAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In America?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "t is necessary, I think, for hon. Members such as the hon.' Member for East Norfolk (Mr. Medlicott) to go to America and to see there the superfluity and abundance of consumer goods in the shops. We have slipped so long and so far that we do not realise how much we have given up of our prewar standards, and it is only by going across to America we can see what life really could be for all classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-26", "file": "debates1947-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d3c8a9eff30bfbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.696.5", "colnum": "696", "heading": "CONSUMER GOODS (SHORTAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And strikes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "One of the astonishing things there is that the country is full of drive, go, and vim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.696.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-26", "file": "debates1947-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d3c8a9eff30bfbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "CONSUMER GOODS (SHORTAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "No. Let me point out to hon. Members opposite, who are so anxious, that in this week's edition of \"Time,\" an American magazine which is a reasonably reliable paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-26", "file": "debates1947-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d3c8a9eff30bfbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "CONSUMER GOODS (SHORTAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is the labour force?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will possess his soul in patience, I will tell him. The President of the Board will say to me, \"What should be done?\"—that is, apart from getting rid of the Socialist Government. The labour force is here, the material is here, the machines are standing idle—why are we not getting the goods?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-26", "file": "debates1947-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d3c8a9eff30bfbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.703.2", "colnum": "703", "heading": "CONSUMER GOODS (SHORTAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "They were entitled to expect it, and we hoped, as everyone hoped, that they would get it, but I think this afternoon's Debate has shown that the shortages have deprived them of their hopes. As my last point, I want to quote what the right hon. and learned Gentleman said on page 78 of his remarkably good book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.703.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-26", "file": "debates1947-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d3c8a9eff30bfbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "CONSUMER GOODS (SHORTAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "As a matter of courtesy to the Committee, I was asked to speak early in order to provide perhaps some further facts. At present the Committee seems to be debating without any facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-26", "file": "debates1947-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d3c8a9eff30bfbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.709.3", "colnum": "709", "heading": "CONSUMER GOODS (SHORTAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "tion. The hon. Member for East Norfolk (Mr. Medlicott) suggested that the morale of industrial production would be improved if the Labour Party were to change its policy—if I may put it in that shorthand way. I suggest to him that that would be the most devastating thing for the morale of the people of this country. One thing that really cheered them up since the war was the last General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.709.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-26", "file": "debates1947-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d3c8a9eff30bfbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "CONSUMER GOODS (SHORTAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Davidson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Davidson", "preceding_text": "uying is. The Government buyer is heard miles off, like a herd of elephants, and they get ready for him. There is no doubt that it considerably influences the charge which is made for the goods that we require, and then those goods are very often in short supply. The Government should use for this purpose the traders, who know their job, have done it often before, and know the tricks of the trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-26", "file": "debates1947-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d3c8a9eff30bfbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "CONSUMER GOODS (SHORTAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Davidson", "preceding_text": " the goods that we require, and then those goods are very often in short supply. The Government should use for this purpose the traders, who know their job, have done it often before, and know the tricks of the trade. [ Laughter. ]I can assure hon. Members that there is nothing laughable about it. It is a fact that if you know your job you get the best for the public and safeguard their interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-26", "file": "debates1947-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d3c8a9eff30bfbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "CONSUMER GOODS (SHORTAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Davidson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are still there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Davidson", "preceding_text": "ere allowed to do their own work we should see a great difference. I had an opportunity during the war of sitting upon a committee of inquiry into the Ministry of Food, when Lord Woolton was there. Several hon. Members opposite were my colleagues and we were deeply impressed at the way in which that Ministry was run. Lord Woolton had brought in men who knew their jobs, and they did their own jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-26", "file": "debates1947-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d3c8a9eff30bfbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "CONSUMER GOODS (SHORTAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": " for the next rationing period than there were for the last. We can count on increased supplies for the civilian population, not necessarily in the next month or two but during the next rationing period. Of course, he might have been making such a speech at that particular time, in that particular place, for purposes of electioneering. Let me immediately dissociate myself from any such suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-26", "file": "debates1947-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d3c8a9eff30bfbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "CONSUMER GOODS (SHORTAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": " an age when an ordinary man's print shirt would be ticketed in a shop window as sold to prevent a queue forming up outside? On another occasion a business acquaintance of mine was asked whether he had had a successful business trip. \"Yes,\" he said, \"indeed I did—I was able to cancel a lovely lot of orders.\" That is the state to which this country is being reduced under the present Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-26", "file": "debates1947-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d3c8a9eff30bfbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "CONSUMER GOODS (SHORTAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": " shortage of fuel, and we all realise that. But if that is so why should there not be an increase in the amount of leather allocated for shoe repairs? At a time when there is a shortage of shoes the leather for the repair of footwear should be kept up to the highest possible level. It is interesting to compare these days in which we live with the earlier days before the war. Money only was needed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-26", "file": "debates1947-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d3c8a9eff30bfbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.806.0", "colnum": "806", "heading": "CONSUMER GOODS (SHORTAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-26", "file": "debates1947-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d3c8a9eff30bfbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.810.2", "colnum": "810", "heading": "CONSUMER GOODS (SHORTAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": "at demand. Perambulators were mentioned by the Noble Lady. As my right hon. and learned Friend said, so far as perambulators and folders are concerned, the production is already greater than it was in the last prewar year for which we have information. The answer to the perambulator shortage is that there are a quarter of a million more babies to be catered for. That is something wholly admirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.810.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-26", "file": "debates1947-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0d3c8a9eff30bfbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.810.2", "colnum": "810", "heading": "CONSUMER GOODS (SHORTAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": "al Bradford (Mr. Webb) about the shortage of workers in the textile industry. He asked, \"Where are the displaced persons?\" It is true that we hope to get into the textile industry large numbers of displaced persons. The principal limiting factor at the present time is shortage of accommodation. We are in the closest consultation with the other Departments concerned on the subject of accommodation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-26a.810.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-27", "file": "debates1947-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e5eb1886c2b51f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-27a.832.0", "colnum": "832", "heading": "CLAUSE 1—(Power as regards certain schemes extending athwart land frontier.)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mx. Ede)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mx. Ede)", "preceding_text": "rates. The carrying out of this project will involve some interference with roads and bridges, including railway bridges which run across the frontier. In those cases one end of the bridge is in one territory and the other end is in the other. Really, it is ludicrous that an important scheme of this kind cannot be carried through because there happen to be two Governments owing to the Act of 1920.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-27a.832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-27", "file": "debates1947-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "0e5eb1886c2b51f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-27a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "FOOD DISTRIBUTION COSTS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Leah Manning", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the inspectors?\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Leah Manning", "preceding_text": " that in distribution today a condition of sale is imposed in our markets. I am sorry to say that when I went to the market my name spread around before I had been there long, and it was very difficult for me to get the information I required. But I am sure that if anybody goes to the market unknown he would find, after being there only half an hour, that conditions of sale are being imposed today", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-27a.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "IMPORT PROGRAMME, 1947–48", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": ", and in another passage he talks about there being no increased hardship. That seems to me inevitable. If we do increase our exports there must be increased hardship. Of course, if we increase the proportion of textiles, for instance, which are mentioned in this statement, the result must be less textiles for our own people. I do not wish to argue; unless, of course, we can so step up the output—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "IMPORT PROGRAMME, 1947–48", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "reased production of textiles I have no doubt that would have the support of all sections of the House; certainly we would do what we could to use our influence to help. If the right hon. Gentleman contemplates a really serious increase of exports, par- ticularly of textiles, which he must have if he is to get more dollars, there is bound to be hardship on our people, even if production increases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.968.3", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Gaitskell)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Gaitskell)", "preceding_text": "ey should do so to start with, when those boards are the product of a piece of Socialist legislation to which they are opposed, but will it not get them into a very difficult position if, as may happen in the dim and distant future, they should by any chance return to power? What will be the position of the right hon. Gentleman opposite, for example, if he happens to be Minister of Fuel and Power?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.968.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "patronage. I gave figures the other day on the Second Reading, and I am not going to repeat them now. The effect was to show that the Bill will not only provide jobs for the boys, but will also provide cake for the boys in very great quantity indeed. When the Parliamentary Secretary looks at his remarks about area boards he will find that he came down to the pure milk of the totalitarian doctrine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "Yes, but they are not going to be elected. Neither the area boards nor the consultative councils will be elected. They are all to be nominated. Nominated by whom? By the Minister, and the Minister will be entitled to, and no doubt will, take steps to nominate his \"stooges.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The then Minister of Production.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am aware of that. I am also quite aware that both the companies and the Central Electricity Board continually warned the right hon. Gentleman of what would happen if he did not take certain steps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "preceding_text": "A proposition of that kind has to be settled promptly. It is complicated enough in itself, but, before reaching a final conclusion on a proposition of that kind, it will have to go from the area board to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This is one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "e prevailing situation. If I am asked what this has to do with the Third Reading of this Bill, I say that this Bill is one more of the 39 steps which the Government are taking to perdition, accompanied every fourth step, by the Liberal Party, whose representatives have now gone out like a fused electric light. This is a doomed and damned Government. It came into power to deal with urgent problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": " Stock Exchange prices, which he may very easily have hammered down for that purpose, and say, \"These are the values which I will pay, and it will be on your own showing unjust to ask us to pay more.\" The arguments which have been brought forward are admittedly those which hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite seem to feel keenly. They seem to feel that this evening a great advance is being made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1066.3", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ountry, material service in the passage of this Bill. But where are the old familiar faces on the other side? The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Southport (Mr. R. S. Hudson), true to character, made his almost weekly attack on me. I am now familiar with the language. Let me quote him just to show I am unafraid. He regards me— wait for the applause—as an inefficient Minister of Fuel and Power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1066.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1069.4", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who did\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Unfortunately for the right hon. Gentleman's argument, I did not appoint Sir Ben Smith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1069.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "—to the position of Chairman of the Port of London Authority. We appointed the right hon. Gentleman the Senior Member for the Scottish Universities (Sir J. Anderson). Is that the kind of \"stooge\" we appoint?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who appointed Sir Ben Smith?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "—to the position of Chairman of the Port of London Authority. We appointed the right hon. Gentleman the Senior Member for the Scottish Universities (Sir J. Anderson). Is that the kind of \"stooge\" we appoint? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"] Let hon. Gentlemen answer that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Get back to the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "rising out of contractual obligations imposed on the National Coal Board and who are doing very well out of it. They were not appointed by me. They were appointed by the coalowners of the past and, until their contracts expire, they are doing very well indeed. Perhaps the less said by hon. Members opposite the better, although one of these days there may have to be full disclosures on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"Why surprise?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "s of the past and, until their contracts expire, they are doing very well indeed. Perhaps the less said by hon. Members opposite the better, although one of these days there may have to be full disclosures on this matter. [HON. MEMBERS: Get back to the Bill.\"] All in good time. Then to my surprise hon. Members opposite raised the question of the unfairness of our treatment of the local authorities", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": ", are enthusiastically supporting this Bill. The right hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for the Scottish Universities (Lieut.-Colonel Elliot), who wound up the Debate from the other side was troubled—and this seems to be the only argument he raised that was not irrelevant—because he thought the kind of units that we were envisaging were much too large. We sought to embrace in the area boards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Coal?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ral Authority and all the area boards in respect of the financial activities and the general policy. Something has been said about prices, and I have been challenged. I have been told that there is nothing in the Bill which indicates whether the price levels will be reduced as a result of the provisions in this Bill. It is quite impossible to tell, and I will tell hon. Members why. Costs may rise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1081.4", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WESTERN HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS (TRANSPORT AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Barnes)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Barnes)", "preceding_text": "ifficulties and new circumstances arising, which influenced me to look with considerable care before any long-term arrangement was made in this direction. This is the only company carrying out services of this description which has enjoyed a permanent subsidy from the State. That, as I have said, is because of the peculiar circumstances of the area which they serve. The subsidy dates back to 1891—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1081.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WESTERN HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS (TRANSPORT AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Major McCallum", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major McCallum", "preceding_text": "want something to carry passengers, mails and livestock from the Islands to the mainland. A boat sailing from Tobermory to Mingary has been promised for months past. I was in the Mingary area the other day. I then understood that we are as far off as ever we were from seeing that boat. What is required is an all-the-year-round service—a service operating in all weathers to maintain communications—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WESTERN HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS (TRANSPORT AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Major McCallum", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major McCallum", "preceding_text": " Islands to the mainland. A boat sailing from Tobermory to Mingary has been promised for months past. I was in the Mingary area the other day. I then understood that we are as far off as ever we were from seeing that boat. What is required is an all-the-year-round service—a service operating in all weathers to maintain communications— [ Interruption. ]—Hon. Members may think all this very amusing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1104.3", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHISKY EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "rs' Association. The next thing was that I was handed a memorandum by the Scotch Distillers' Association. Perhaps I may mention that only five per cent. of the spirit drunk in the U.S. last year was Scotch. I suggest here—my right hon. Friend may correct me—that the demand is probably an inelastic one. The memorandum is rather long, and I will, with permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHISKY EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We might start on our own.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "—and the distributors' margin is 18s. 2d. and 12s. 6d. That comes to a price of about 30s., though it varies with different brands. Hon. Members may say that the distributors' margin is too wide. That may be true, and many distributors' margins in many countries are too wide; but I doubt whether there is anything we can do to start reforming the distributive system of the United States of America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-06-30", "file": "debates1947-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "83363ca402aad619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1112.0", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHISKY EXPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Eighteen months ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "we are all indebted to the Minister of Food for the frank confession he has made. As one of those who accept most fully the Socialist planning thesis, he admits that at an earlier stage he would have told the distillers they ought to have charged a higher price, and had the hon. Member for Nuneaton (Mr. Bowles) brought this matter up six months ago, the tone of his reply would have been different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-06-30a.1112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-01", "file": "debates1947-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "2cb400409f72e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-01a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "These are people who are able to attend canteens and restaurants, and the children who get free milk. But the great majority of people who were not in the lowest income class before the war— and the lowest income class was a small one relatively—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-01a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-01", "file": "debates1947-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "2cb400409f72e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-01a.1205.1", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Lady Grant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about milk?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Grant", "preceding_text": "ike to quote what was said in another place by Viscount Addison, who gave figures to prove that we are now consuming a lesser quantity of vital foods than we were before the war. He said we are consuming 9 per cent. less meat; 26 per cent. less fat; 26 per cent. less sugar; and 14 per cent. fewer eggs. We are consuming 28 per cent. more fish; 10 percent. more bread, and 64 per cent. more potatoes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-01a.1205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-01", "file": "debates1947-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "2cb400409f72e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-01a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Hare", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Hare", "preceding_text": ", and then went on to suggest to the Minister of Food that it would be a good thing if we could get a little more rice. He went on to say that he was alarmed at the rumours about the allocation of whale oil. At any rate, he broke the chain of speeches to which we have listened today from the opposite benches where hon. Members got up one after another saying how excellent is the state of our food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-01a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-01", "file": "debates1947-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "2cb400409f72e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-01a.1217.3", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, she did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "I do not think the hon. Lady can have listened to the speeches from this side of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-01a.1217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-01", "file": "debates1947-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "2cb400409f72e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-01a.1235.3", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "preceding_text": "by wholesalers, and, although they are ashamed of it, they have to put up with it. Recently, as the result of our experiences throughout the war and afterwards, and as a result of world shortages, we have been consuming more liquid milk, and the quality of our fats is very much better because the vitaminisation of margarine gives very great protective value, and is better than normal butter today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-01a.1235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-01", "file": "debates1947-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "2cb400409f72e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-01a.1263.1", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Very wise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "st six hon. Members discussing it. I thank the hon. Member for Devonport (Mr. Foot) for raising the whole question of nutrition. He was followed by the hon. Member for North Hendon (Mrs. Ayrton Gould), the hon. Member for North Islington and the hon. Member for Hanley. Most of them said very seriously that they would not discuss this question of calories, of which they were getting a little tired.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-01a.1263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-01", "file": "debates1947-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "2cb400409f72e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-01a.1263.1", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1946?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "t—and, I hope to kill the calorie controversy once and for all— I shall now quote the latest report, which was published seven weeks ago. This is what was said by Sir Wilson Jameson, who has no axe to grind, who has no political affiliation, who has been known never to pull his punches, and never to play up to any Minister. This is the Ministry of Health Report for the year ended 31st March, 1946.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-01a.1263.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-01", "file": "debates1947-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "2cb400409f72e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-01a.1279.0", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "CASEIN GOODS ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is the public interest?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": "I doubt whether that naivety is deliberate or assumed. I can assure hon. Members that these price controls are maintained because it is essential in the public interest that they be maintained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-01a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-02", "file": "debates1947-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "24013708ec4e35a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1303.0", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Anti-Labour?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the policy has changed very greatly during June, and that on several Fridays in that month, particularly on the second Friday, we had six speakers of whom two were Tories, one anti-Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-02", "file": "debates1947-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "24013708ec4e35a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1311.6", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "This is a Scottish battle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1311.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-02", "file": "debates1947-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "24013708ec4e35a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1329.1", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimston", "preceding_text": "n this instance. There are many extraneous and historical reasons why we think the Post Office must remain a nationalised institution. In that connection I would remind the Committee that it was orginally Charles I who enjoined one Thomas Withering to organise a State service for the conveyance of private letters from London to Holyhead and thence to Ireland, and to bring back answers in six days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-02", "file": "debates1947-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "24013708ec4e35a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1360.1", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": "Like the hon. Member for Twickenham (Mr. Keeling), I am sure the Committee will want to congratulate my right hon. Friend very warmly on the very excellent statement he made to us this afternoon. We on this side of the Committee regard the subject of his statement as the shop window of nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-02", "file": "debates1947-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "24013708ec4e35a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1360.1", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was a Liberal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Randall", "preceding_text": "ce charges to the uneconomic, so far as the staff and their conditions are concerned. Hon. Members opposite were responsible for many of the uneconomic conditions of the staff, and I think today they would be prepared to reduce postal charges to an extent which would impose uneconomic conditions upon the staff. Let us remember that it was a Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1930, Sir John Simon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-02", "file": "debates1947-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "24013708ec4e35a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1376.1", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "one exchange. In the country and in the small towns it is different. There you get the public and the staff knowing each other as they are drawn from the same community. There is more kind liness, courtesy and good humour. In London, except perhaps in this House, there is a great deal to be desired, and I should like to point out to the right hon. Gentleman when he has finished reading his letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-02", "file": "debates1947-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "24013708ec4e35a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1376.1", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "he telephone service was worn out and that the internal machinery by which the messages were received and transmitted was in a bad state. That is a couple of years ago, and honestly I cannot now see very much difference. One dials \"Tol\" or \"Tru\" and then in desperation dials \"O\" and the result is just the same. Either you get the carefree voices of the young people discussing affairs of the heart—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-02", "file": "debates1947-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "24013708ec4e35a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1405.1", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "ation with the Post Office authorities, to give a good service, not in the interests of the staff, but in the interests of the public; but of course, there must be certain inducements—good conditions of work, good pay and good buildings. Have any hon. Members ever been inside some of the telephone exchanges in which these girls have to work, contending with noise and dust, and without ventilation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-02", "file": "debates1947-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "24013708ec4e35a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1410.1", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "ot one of those who are impressed. The important thing is this: experimental Measures are going through at the moment, and are in an early stage of administration, -dealing with coal, railways and the like, but here in the Post Office is a going concern, already nationalised, as we have been told, years ago—whether by Liberal or Tory, it does not matter. Surely it should be an outstanding success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-02", "file": "debates1947-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "24013708ec4e35a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1424.1", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " able to do it so quickly. In these Debates on the Post Office, we should look more or less objectively at the position. I know there is a tendency—and a very natural tendency—for all of us to pick out small things that we know best, and I think some good comes out of it. I wish we could have a Debate like this on transport. It is all to the good that these things should come here for free Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-02", "file": "debates1947-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "24013708ec4e35a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1455.2", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PURCHASE TAX ORDER (SHOOTING BRAKES, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": "rs; and the estate vehicle, or shooting brake, springs immediately to mind as one which is difficult to describe either as a passenger vehicle or a goods vehicle. Such vehicles are at present free of the tax, but I think that the Committee will agree that to ride in a shooting brake, although not technically a passenger vehicle, is to ride as comfortably as one would travel in some passenger cars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-02a.1455.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-03", "file": "debates1947-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "403262ac9bbc6c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1491.2", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "rollers at Leicester and Kettering have both recommended the release of this young man, that this young man is in medical category B 7, that he has been in the Army 28 months, that he was employed on very essential work in the manufacture of surgical boots, and that unless he is released now all the people employed in that small concern producing urgently required materials will become unemployed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1491.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-03", "file": "debates1947-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "403262ac9bbc6c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1495.9", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the refusal of information referred to in my Question did not take effect until 13th June, can the right hon. Gentleman say how he answered it on 12th June?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1495.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-03", "file": "debates1947-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "403262ac9bbc6c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1535.3", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the weather?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "It was lack of foresight. It has been practically admitted at that Box by different Ministers that they did not see it coming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1535.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-03", "file": "debates1947-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "403262ac9bbc6c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1535.3", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": " a disservice. It was not due to the weather. The weather aggravated it, but there would have been a crisis in any case. It would not have come when it did, but later. I believe that the Government were gambling on getting through. The people of the country believe that the system has failed, when in fact it was the men working the system who failed. I am not trying to score a party point on this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1535.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-03", "file": "debates1947-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "403262ac9bbc6c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1536.1", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What action?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "t I do not think I can. The point I am trying to make is that it was clear in the fuel crisis that electricity and gas consumption was going up rapidly, and that coal was not being produced fast enough to meet it, and that therefore there would be a crisis some time. Let the Government be men and admit they did not take the necessary action in time, and that there is nothing wrong with the system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-03", "file": "debates1947-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "403262ac9bbc6c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1540.7", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": " be proved over a reasonable period that a five-day week produces more coal, or more anything, than five-and-a-half days, by all means let us have it, but the opposite is also true. If it does not, we must have the courage to put on the extra hours as soon as we realise that the scheme is not going to work. If we have the courage to do that, in the trade unions, in the Government and in the works—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1540.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-03", "file": "debates1947-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "403262ac9bbc6c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1571.3", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "artisan spirit and say that we are not going down but will get through. The spirit of the workers would improve, and if they were given leadership from both sides, I am quite certain that there must be ways and means of developing industry in this country. As I have said, coal is the root of most of our difficulties; let us have Mr. Horner properly instructed as to the seriousness of the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1571.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-03", "file": "debates1947-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "403262ac9bbc6c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1593.1", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "n who were watching a Lancashire v- Yorkshire cricket match. After watching the grim struggle for about 20 minutes they saw a batsman make a beautiful late cut to the boundary. One of the men clapped heartily. He was asked, \"Are you from Lancashire?\" and he said, \"No.\" Then he was asked, \"Are you from Yorkshire?\" and he said \"No,\" whereupon his questioner said, \"Then mind your own bloody business\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-03", "file": "debates1947-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "403262ac9bbc6c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1606.1", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "preceding_text": "oung men, obviously ex-Service men, were wheeling around a trolley on which they were packing dirty dishes to take into the kitchen. On the other side of the social scale we get pictures in the \"Tatler\" of various friends of hon. Gentlemen opposite visiting Ascot and other places, and we read about ladies and gentlemen going to the Riviera and spending hundreds and thousands of pounds on holidays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-03", "file": "debates1947-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "403262ac9bbc6c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1608.3", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "preceding_text": "re would be for the \"bosses\" and suggesting that they should not work so hard. I agree that it was so, and that what the Minister of Food said was right. In the past, the harder the worker worked, the more profit went to the employer, and that is still so to a certain extent. We on this side of the Committee must look forward, now that we are in power and likely to remain in power for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1608.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-03", "file": "debates1947-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "403262ac9bbc6c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1613.1", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-upon-Thames)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-upon-Thames)", "preceding_text": "and with the whole standard of life of every man, woman and child in the country precariously supported for six months, and no more, on that American Loan, we are entitled to know. It is the question of all questions in our public life today. What is being done to increase that output, which alone can in time replace the support of the American loan? Our standard of life today, miserable as it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-03", "file": "debates1947-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "403262ac9bbc6c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1613.1", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-upon-Thames)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is different\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-upon-Thames)", "preceding_text": " six months, and no more, on that American Loan, we are entitled to know. It is the question of all questions in our public life today. What is being done to increase that output, which alone can in time replace the support of the American loan? Our standard of life today, miserable as it is—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"]—may I put it this way, desirable as it is to improve it, and to improve it enormously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-03", "file": "debates1947-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "403262ac9bbc6c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1621.1", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Isaacs)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With the same production?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Isaacs)", "preceding_text": "ials, problems and tribulations, but I am sure there is no calamity. The right hon. and learned Gentleman asked me for information about working hours. I have been able to get the figures. In 1946, 2,000,000 workers had their hours reduced on an average by 2¾ hours a week. Between January and May, 1947, 3,370,000 other workers had their hours reduced on an average by 3½ hours a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-03", "file": "debates1947-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "403262ac9bbc6c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1647.1", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "CAPITAL ISSUES AND BORROWING CONTROL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": "ouse will expect me tonight, at this late hour, to follow the two hon. Gentlemen into the by-paths that they have thought fit to enter. For example, we have had quite recently, on the Finance Bill, more than one long discussion on the question of bonus issues, and I hope I may not be expected tonight to answer the hon. Baronet on all the pertinent points, from his point of view, which he has made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-03", "file": "debates1947-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "403262ac9bbc6c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1660.1", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "CAPITAL ISSUES AND BORROWING CONTROL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": ". He has not made the slightest effort to prove it. I asked him at the end of his fairly long speech to tell us why he had not even altered the list of priorities since 1945 and all he said was that he thought the 1945 list of priorities was still relevant today. Is there any hon. Member opposite or on this side of the House who believes that the list of priorities of 1945 is still relevant today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-03", "file": "debates1947-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "403262ac9bbc6c4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1668.1", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "CIVIL AIR ACCIDENTS (INQUIRIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Cooper", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Or the Corporations.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Cooper", "preceding_text": "e will appreciate the action of the hon. and gallant Member in having raised this matter. Otherwise, if such matters were not threshed out and remedies sought we should discourage people from using the civil air services. It seems that the system which applies to investigations is not liked by anyone— with the possible exception of the Ministry —either by the public, the pilots or the passengers.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-03a.1668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-04", "file": "debates1947-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "64ce47c89054178c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-04a.1684.1", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CROWN PROCEEDINGS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " I can only add this: In view of the intervention of the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman), it must not be assumed that these matters have been dealt with or will be dealt with by Departments as merely matters of routine. It is for the Minister personally to consider and decide whether or not it is essential in the public interest to refuse the disclosure of particular documents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-04a.1684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-07", "file": "debates1947-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c48f25c9b1640ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-07a.1779.5", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "This decision is primarily one for the German people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-07a.1779.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-07", "file": "debates1947-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c48f25c9b1640ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-07a.1822.1", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Part II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why did not the Government do it before the war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "ne and the same time, condemn capitalism, as the Government and their supporters are doing, and take away from these people the only way in which they can justify their existence and improve social conditions. I condemn as readily as any hon. Member opposite any landlord who declines or fails to improve his cottages. It Is his duty to improve his cottages if he is allowed, but now he cannot do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-07a.1822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-07", "file": "debates1947-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c48f25c9b1640ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-07a.1873.1", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(The Central Land Board.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "wyer looks at all the published regulations and advises him that there is nothing in them to cause the Board to come to that decision. The man goes to law. But is it then disclosed that the Board is working under the secret direction? Apparently not. Is that justice? Are we to hold in this country that Ministers are to act on secret powers which not even a court can discover? It is rank Hitlerism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-07a.1873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-07", "file": "debates1947-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c48f25c9b1640ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-07a.1877.1", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Surveys of planning districts and preparation of development plans.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "[Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "I have consulted the powers that be on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-07a.1877.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-07", "file": "debates1947-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c48f25c9b1640ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-07a.1915.7", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "CLAUSE 14.—(Applications to determine whether planning permission required.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker, you have allowed the right hon. and learned Gentleman to make an observation. I have not denied the right of hon. Members to discuss the Amendment. I have nothing to do with it. The implication is that, in some way or another, we on this side are preventing discussion. That suggestion I refute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-07a.1915.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-07", "file": "debates1947-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c48f25c9b1640ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-07a.1950.7", "colnum": "1950", "heading": "CLAUSE 47.—(Temporary provisions for eliminating special value attributable to vacant possession.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the owner-occupier?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "Take the position of the farmer. The moment we granted it to him, the nurserymen would want it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-07a.1950.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-07", "file": "debates1947-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c48f25c9b1640ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-07a.1951.6", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "CLAUSE 47.—(Temporary provisions for eliminating special value attributable to vacant possession.)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "You are not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "At least the hon. and gallant Member is alleged to have been born a gentleman, and to have had some schooling which I never had, and he should pay tribute to that education, which I was unfortunately denied. At least I never had his upbringing, and if I could not conduct myself better than he is doing I would leave it alone. We are being just and fair, and are paying full market value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-07a.1951.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-07", "file": "debates1947-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c48f25c9b1640ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-07a.1960.3", "colnum": "1960", "heading": "CLAUSE 52.—(Payments for depreciation of land values.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "o far as we are concerned, we admit the right of the country to know, and indeed, we are prepared and anxious for the country to know the facts. The nation is taking over development values. It is said by some Members on this side—and I do not deny it—that we are rather mild in only taking over development value. They say we ought to take over the land itself, but being a very moderate Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-07a.1960.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-07", "file": "debates1947-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "c48f25c9b1640ade", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-07a.1984.1", "colnum": "1984", "heading": "CLAUSE 105.—(Assumptions as to planning permission.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Better Scottish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to detain the House, but I must say that 1 wish the Government would not use this word \"curtilage.\" It is not good Scots law. I know that there are occasions when it was slipped in by mistake, but I hope the Government will find some word which is better English—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-07a.1984.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2018.6", "colnum": "2018", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRISONERS OF WAR", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "Does the part of the Minister's reply about placing no obstacle in the way of this marriage mean that the couple may marry in prison or out of prison? Where?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2018.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2018.8", "colnum": "2018", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRISONERS OF WAR", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington-Lodge", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Owing to the fact that the Minister's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2018.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2042.1", "colnum": "2042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Housewives' League.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " that point, There is no need whatever for the housewives or the people of this country to feel that they will find it difficult or impossible, as is sometimes suggested, to obtain, partly from at home and partly from abroad, the food which they need.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT. 1st July, 1947; Vol 439, c. 1187.] Judging from the volume of one's letters, some housewives are finding it pretty difficult now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2049.1", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you think that they are justified?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "men already report growing competition in price and quality in overseas markets. The problem of our level of costs, our level of prices, is of supreme importance. The index of wholesale prices in this country has been rising steadily since this Government took office. There can be no doubt that recent wage increases, which may well be justified in themselves—they may be, I do not deny that at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2056.1", "colnum": "2056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "million tons or not. I only say that it will want a very great effort to get the 220 million tons, and, quite certainly, it will want a very great deal of effort even to get the 200 million tons. It is of the most vital importance that we should do that. We must not get it out of our heads that without it we will be quite unable to get through next winter without the inconveniences of last winter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2056.1", "colnum": "2056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": " good men to pull together. But, if I may say so, I think it is unreasonable of the right hon. Gentleman to carry that argument—when there is no party conflict over a good deal of the sphere of economic activity—to the point of saying that the only way in which all good men can pull together is for some good men, that is, us, to drop legislation which we do not introduce for party reasons as such.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2056.1", "colnum": "2056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT PROGRAMME", "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": "nvolve partisan or party political considerations, then the Government ought to pay the price for that support, and that it should be a condition of that support that we should not bring in legislation with which the Opposition disagrees. Either that line of argument leads to a Coalition, which, with all sincerity, I do not believe and never did believe would be in the interests of the nation, or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2065.1", "colnum": "2065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "are staking our whole future on the creation of a sane economic system. We cannot, and will not, believe, after all the sacrifices made by all the peoples for a better world, that anyone who hopes to build democracy in peace will again let loose on the world the demons of trade restriction, unemployment, and famine. Our progress, since what was called victory, takes us from one crisis to another —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2089.1", "colnum": "2089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "n. Member for North-West Hull (Mr. Mackay) spoke as if we were bound to decline, however competent or incompetent the present Government might be. I do not think that that is quite the same policy which he and others put to the electorate at the last Election. That is a very great change which I have noticed in this House in the two months I have been away. If hon. Members would go to the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2090.0", "colnum": "2090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "n Agreement. Under that Agreement, the Government really made this policy inescapable, unless they had taken greater steps to turn over from manufacture to agriculture. What happened under that Loan Agreement? We were borrowing large sums in the hope of borrowing time It was thought to repay in dollars in 1951. I presume that the Government hoped and expected that they would be no longer in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2090.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2093.3", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "I have already had one interruption from the hon. Member for Oldham (Mr. Hale) and shall be delighted if he will make a contribution when I have finished my argument. I will allow him to interrupt if he still wishes to do so. Surely we should encourage the buying of maize from the Argentine for British poultry? What is stopping the imports coming?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2093.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2094.1", "colnum": "2094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not on the price.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "n we did, and there have been in the Argentine these statements about Britain cutting her demands for maize which have certainly done this country a great deal of harm in South America. If the Government had announced early in March that they would take one million tons or 1½ million tons of maize, it would have had a tremendous effect on the Argentine Government and on our poultry farmers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2096.3", "colnum": "2096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And prices.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "I have listened with great care to the speeches of hon. and right hon. Members opposite, and apparently they are agreed upon three things: first, that the Government are responsible for the position in which we find ourselves; second, that the nation will not co-operate unless we accept a Conservative policy; third, that there must be an increase in agricultural production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2096.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2098.0", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": " cotton goods are concerned, but I have never in my life seen this country better clad than at the present time. We have a large market abroad for British woollen goods. I go so far as to say that if we made allowance for juveniles, and for suits worn out by hard manual work, we could put an end to the selling of men's cloths for the next two years, and create no hardship whatever to the consumer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2098.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2098.0", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or less than that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "ould put an end to the selling of men's cloths for the next two years, and create no hardship whatever to the consumer— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] We should be shabby, possibly we are shabby now, but, quite frankly, I would rather go about with my elbows out than go hungry. Some hon. Members do not seem to realise that what we are now discussing is—are we, or are we not, going hungry in 18 months time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2098.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2124.1", "colnum": "2124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hobson", "preceding_text": " and prevent the development of the export of textiles. I think that there should be an examination more particularly by the Board of Trade of the imports of certain minerals from the hard currency areas, especially in connection with lead, chrome and manganese. I think that they could be obtained on more advantageous terms from soft currency areas. I have particularly in mind Spain and Australia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2152.1", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " a reduction of £30 million on £70 million, which is cutting it by nearly half, and I will explain to the House how we are doing that. On the basis of a cut in smoking in this country of 25 per cent. we get a reduction in purchases of 40 per cent. because we shall deliberately run down stocks. If there is less smoking going on a given stock will last longer. There is need for less in the pipeline—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2152.1", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "among a number of other items, we are able to save in respect of tobacco alone £30 million a year. I pass on from that point because I claim that it is better to have £30 million worth of credit than of tobacco and to be able to build up stocks of food that have run down very low. I pass on from that to consider what it is that we should do. The right hon. Gentleman asked what we were going to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2156.1", "colnum": "2156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ployed in this country, and if we had made our plans for a state of affairs in which we had none of the recent improvements in the social services, then indeed our task would not seem so difficult—it would be just as difficult, but it would not seem to be so difficult—because, our people not having the money to buy, as they have now, we should not have been conscious of the shortages in the shops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2159.2", "colnum": "2159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY CINEMATOGRAPH ENTERTAINMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lang", "preceding_text": "hat we resorted to upstairs in order to do that. There was a very competent chairman to see that there was nothing improper, but every advantage was taken of what we were allowed to do. I ask my right hon. Friend whether he does not feel that in all the circumstances, in view of the great dissatisfaction that has been caused—and as a neighbour of Manchester I am zealous for Manchester's good name—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2159.2", "colnum": "2159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY CINEMATOGRAPH ENTERTAINMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Lang", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lang", "preceding_text": "tent chairman to see that there was nothing improper, but every advantage was taken of what we were allowed to do. I ask my right hon. Friend whether he does not feel that in all the circumstances, in view of the great dissatisfaction that has been caused—and as a neighbour of Manchester I am zealous for Manchester's good name—[ Interruption ]—these things would never have happened in Stalybridge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-08", "file": "debates1947-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "2105b7d4762b34ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2177.1", "colnum": "2177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE REPAIRS, BIRMINGHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You do not know what you are talking about.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "he number on repair work represents a higher proportion in Birmingham than anywhere else in the Midland region. Taking the figures I have given for licences and for the head of labour, I would suggest that the volume of repair work now proceeding in Birmingham is at as high a level as is consistent with the present limitations, and is certainly not lagging behind in comparison with anywhere else.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-08a.2177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-09", "file": "debates1947-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9cb81ddad9a2ac94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2203.3", "colnum": "2203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALAYA AND SINGAPORE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What steps?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "—and consequently have taken appropriate steps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-09", "file": "debates1947-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9cb81ddad9a2ac94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2217.2", "colnum": "2217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "it he deals with some of the objections which have been made. He says: The effect, it is complained, will be to reduce to a dangerous degree the saleability of such cars on the home market. That is the whole issue with regard to Purchase Tax. We are most anxious to sustain the export drive, particularly in regard to these cars, which would raise, by reason of their price, a large foreign exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2217.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-09", "file": "debates1947-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9cb81ddad9a2ac94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2218.1", "colnum": "2218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Take it away.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Major Milner. Is it out of Order for me to leave a case on the bench for the convenience of another hon. Member who wishes to make reference to certain notes for the Debate? I have brought his bag into the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2218.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-09", "file": "debates1947-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9cb81ddad9a2ac94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2218.6", "colnum": "2218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Take it away.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Frankly, I was not aware what the hon. Member for West Salford (Mr. Royle) had brought into the Chamber. It is perfectly in Order for Ministers to bring in despatch boxes, but it is quite out of Order to bring in receptacles of a different character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2218.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-09", "file": "debates1947-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9cb81ddad9a2ac94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2244.0", "colnum": "2244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": "me hon. Members seemed to suggest, a malicious or spiteful tax. It is one designed to raise revenue, and if it did not raise revenue, the Chancellor would take it off. I think that in this controversy, however, we are all losing sight of what is, after all, the background of the whole matter. Surely, the original, much abused, horse-power tax was imposed 20 or 25 years ago as a form of luxury tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-09", "file": "debates1947-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9cb81ddad9a2ac94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2281.3", "colnum": "2281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Yesterday's discussion made it very clear to everyone in the House, and I hope in the country, that what we were suffering from is the stranglehold of the American dollar. That is correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2281.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-09", "file": "debates1947-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9cb81ddad9a2ac94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2299.1", "colnum": "2299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"SO we should.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "x will not be put on unless he is sure that it fits in with all the other various changes and modifications that will Have to be made in our import programme from the United States. Finally, I would like to see discrimination between French and North American films. I suppose that is impossible, and that under our agreement with the Americans, if we tax American films, we must tax all other kinds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-09", "file": "debates1947-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9cb81ddad9a2ac94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2332.0", "colnum": "2332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOURTH SCHEDULE.—(Amendments of Purchase Tax enactments.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Arnold Gridley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Arnold Gridley", "preceding_text": "I should like to put a point to the Committee which has not been put before, and in which I think there is some substance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-09", "file": "debates1947-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9cb81ddad9a2ac94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2332.1", "colnum": "2332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOURTH SCHEDULE.—(Amendments of Purchase Tax enactments.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "I support the point that my hon. Friend has just put, and press that we may have an answer to it. I did not expect the Government to give an answer to my question but I think we ought to have the courtesy of an answer to the question of my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-09", "file": "debates1947-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9cb81ddad9a2ac94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2341.1", "colnum": "2341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Relief for pensioners in respect of increase in tobacco duty.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "least, it is not suggested, I see, on the Front Bench where the responsible gentlemen sit. 10.15 p.m. Then there may have been, and probably were, certain cases where that privilege was abused. There will probably be certain cases where this may be abused by the old age pensioners, but I am saying that, by and large, this concession will be respected in the same way as was the Services concession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-09", "file": "debates1947-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9cb81ddad9a2ac94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2396.2", "colnum": "2396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Supplementary provisions as to retirement or other benefits and application to unincorporated societies, etc.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That further consideration of the Bill, as amended, be adjourned.\" I think this. would be a convenient time to ask the Government their intentions. We have made considerable progress —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-09a.2396.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-10", "file": "debates1947-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "10cceac51a41f008", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-10a.2427.6", "colnum": "2427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "May 1 first congratulate the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-10a.2427.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-10", "file": "debates1947-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "10cceac51a41f008", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-10a.2528.1", "colnum": "2528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: What has the hon. Gentleman been arguing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "these that, in going out we have done, and have made it plain that we have done, everything that could be done for them. If that has not been clearly demonstrated to the House, then I think the Government have not come up to their duty, and the Government have no right to demand the passage of this Bill, or at least its Second Reading. I am not arguing at the moment that it ought not to be passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-10a.2528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-11", "file": "debates1947-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e0a054cc2091c674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-11a.2629.1", "colnum": "2629", "heading": "CROWN PROCEEDINGS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I shall not enter into an argument with the hon. Member on the subject of \"black market\" transactions, because I cannot match his knowledge on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-11a.2629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-11", "file": "debates1947-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e0a054cc2091c674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-11a.2658.3", "colnum": "2658", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (UNIVERSITY STUDENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Low", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Low", "preceding_text": "examine the position. Men in Group 62 will be released, under the clause in the release scheme, before the end of 1947 if they are in the Navy, so that those who are in the Navy are not covered. In the Army or Air Force they would be released—I think one may make a reasonable forecast—in January or early February of next year. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour shrugs his head —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-11a.2658.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-14", "file": "debates1947-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bf8fb2e45af26d5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-14a.19.5", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the release from control of soft fruits is entirely due to my influence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-14a.19.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-14", "file": "debates1947-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bf8fb2e45af26d5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-14a.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Telling the truth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "In view of the right hon. Gentleman's reply, does he consider that it is advisable in a Government-run establishment to exhibit posters saying, \"How right is Bevin?\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-14a.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-14", "file": "debates1947-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bf8fb2e45af26d5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-14a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, it was only made a few days ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-14a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-14", "file": "debates1947-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bf8fb2e45af26d5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-14a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in almost every instance 5 per cent. is charged? Is he further aware that it is impossible to increase production when so many farmers are living on permanent bank overdrafts at 5 per cent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-14a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-14", "file": "debates1947-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bf8fb2e45af26d5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-14a.159.8", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "n. We could not be anything less, as it is expressed in the first Subsection, but I will take advantage of the opportunity to say that it raises a rather interesting point. It will be easier, through the medium of Questions and speeches in the House to question Ministers on the subject of the Army than it is today. Questions in respect of the British Army in India are answered by the India Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-14a.159.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-15", "file": "debates1947-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "70a50208e2fa578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.210.2", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "Yes, but they cannot be used by civilian authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.210.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-15", "file": "debates1947-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "70a50208e2fa578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "to be a fundamental point: The preservation of the complete independence and freedom of action of Members of Parliament. The agreement may be open to criticisms in various respects, and Members are entitled to have their views about it; but, in so far as this particular agreement is concerned, it is a matter between the hon. Member for Rugby and the Association, and is not a matter for this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-15", "file": "debates1947-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "70a50208e2fa578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": " suggested that I could have avoided the occasion of privilege by resigning the Parliamentary secretaryship. I certainly could. But why should I, who, by common consent, has carried out his part of the agreement faithfully, resign at the behest of the executive which had broken their part and which I regarded and still regard, as being wholly unrepresentative of the membership of the organisation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-15", "file": "debates1947-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "70a50208e2fa578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.297.3", "colnum": "297", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ist pressure when it comes, as I did. The second point is that, in my opinion, the most dangerous and insidious arrangements are not the public arrangements proclaimed to the world, but the secret arrangements of which the House and the world know nothing. I would make it obligatory upon Members to disclose the nature of any such financial arrangements both to their constituents and to this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.297.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-15", "file": "debates1947-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "70a50208e2fa578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have read the Report.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "en which—towards the end of the Report. That the Committee was bound to consider this point can be shown by a very long string of quotations from the proceedings. I will not weary the House with them, although indeed to be honest however wearied the House might be, if I had the time, I should, because this thing cannot be discussed fully and fairly without reference to the questions in particular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-15", "file": "debates1947-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "70a50208e2fa578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "f the Association were. If the Attorney-General looks at the objects of the Association he will see that they are to promote the interests of its members, to regulate the conditions of their employment, benefits after death, etc., and in pursuance of those objects to co-operate with other societies. None of these things were affected in the least by the things objected to against the hon. Member —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.308.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-15", "file": "debates1947-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "70a50208e2fa578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What comes next?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "ld be a breach of Parliamentary Privilege? The answer—in reply to the hon. Member for Swindon (Mr. T. Reid)—was: Yes. It never occurred to us as an Executive as being a question which required us to examine our position. References were made to Privilege but our attitude to it was that of noting the observation but not regarding it as being of sufficient weight to cause us to examine our position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.320.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-15", "file": "debates1947-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "70a50208e2fa578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.322.5", "colnum": "322", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "Really, I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.322.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-15", "file": "debates1947-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "70a50208e2fa578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.322.7", "colnum": "322", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "rvention was the suggestion that I was not going to read the questions. Of course I will read them. The only reason I have not read out more is, that I thought the more convenient thing would be to indicate them, and then, if the right hon. and learned Gentleman thought fit to do so, he could instruct his right hon. Friend in the matter when he replied. I do hope there is not going to be anything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.322.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-15", "file": "debates1947-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "70a50208e2fa578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.322.7", "colnum": "322", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "ge or not. They may be tested in court, or by the Committee of Privileges, but that does not justify pressure being brought to bear on an hon. Member to influence his conduct in the House. The very fact that the contract itself is vague does not mean that any method of pressure can be used to bring that contract to an end. There is one other matter which I must bring to the attention of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.322.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-15", "file": "debates1947-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "70a50208e2fa578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.325.3", "colnum": "325", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "r who has had a job before he got here, and carries it on, and the Member who, once he has got here, sells himself to an organisation, which is something we should all deplore. Inevitably, there is bound to be influence exerted on a Member, particularly if he has been an employee of an organisation or company, because he is only here for a short time perhaps. We all know the fortunes of Elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-15", "file": "debates1947-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "70a50208e2fa578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.336.2", "colnum": "336", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker. As the hon. Member is speaking to this Motion, would he agree to tell the House whether he has in fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.336.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-15", "file": "debates1947-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "70a50208e2fa578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.336.4", "colnum": "336", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "preceding_text": "I would like to ask whether he would inform the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.336.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-15", "file": "debates1947-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "70a50208e2fa578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.337.0", "colnum": "337", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"As a representative.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Member saying that no trade union in this country specifies that one of their delegates shall vote a particular way on special legislation—one whom they assist to come into this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-15", "file": "debates1947-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "70a50208e2fa578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "preceding_text": " I say that we should support the Government Motion, but I want to have a clear understanding that this does not mean an interference with the established rights of trade unions or any other bodies to continue their political work. I consider that this Report says one vital thing. No hon. Member of this House shall be under a contractual obligation to carry out the instructions of an outside body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-15", "file": "debates1947-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "70a50208e2fa578f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "PRIVILEGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Well, I was not there, so I am not in a position to say anything about that. There was, however, another question by the right hon. Member for Woodford, and to this one, I think he got an answer. I will not be dead certain, but I have read the report very carefully, and I think that this was the only time that there was an answer on this very point when put to the hon. Member for Rugby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-15a.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-16", "file": "debates1947-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "672fca8027502ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-16a.394.10", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Member I have never failed yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-16a.394.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-16", "file": "debates1947-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "672fca8027502ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-16a.396.2", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Yes. We are having experiments in our kitchens now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-16a.396.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-16", "file": "debates1947-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "672fca8027502ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-16a.437.0", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "tively—I am now on the retrospective proposal—that there is very little in this. I cannot imagine that the cautious person who reads his HANSARD, or the parent who does so, will fail to know that this is in the wind. There will have been very few of them between Budget Day and now—half a dozen in one profession and perhaps three or four in another. I regard it as what the lawyers call de minintis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-16a.437.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-16", "file": "debates1947-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "672fca8027502ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-16a.504.2", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "n of a bonus issue is, first of all, the payment out of a cash bonus by the company, and then the taking of action under the company's articles to prevent the actual payment of the cash and, instead, to issue shares of the company to be paid for out of that cash. In other words, the creation of bonus shares is a restriction on the right of the shareholders and not anything in the nature of a gift.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-16a.504.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-16", "file": "debates1947-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "672fca8027502ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-16a.540.0", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax—Intermediate rate.)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Low", "preceding_text": "ype of heater, so I am instructed, have declined by about 75 per cent, since Budget Day. There can be no doubt that to put a Purchase Tax on such articles as these has had a definite effect. This type of heater, with which many hon. Members will be familiar—though perhaps the Chancellor will not be familiar with it—is, I am told, installed in common form in practically every local authority house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-16a.540.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-16", "file": "debates1947-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "672fca8027502ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-16a.540.0", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax—Intermediate rate.)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Low", "preceding_text": "d a definite effect. This type of heater, with which many hon. Members will be familiar—though perhaps the Chancellor will not be familiar with it—is, I am told, installed in common form in practically every local authority house. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Hon. Members dissent. Obviously there will be cases in which that is not so, but in general I think it is commonly found in local authority houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-16a.540.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-16", "file": "debates1947-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "672fca8027502ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-16a.540.0", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax—Intermediate rate.)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Low", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Low", "preceding_text": ", so he can correct me if I am wrong—that in a family unit of four, in order to heat 150 gallons of water per week there is a saving of 45 lbs. of coal per week over the amount of coal which would be required to heat that amount of water per week for that sized family. The saving over a five months' period—which is that covered by the fuel economy period—amounts to a total of 440,000 tons of coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-16a.540.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-16", "file": "debates1947-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "672fca8027502ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-16a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax—Intermediate rate.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ll be raised if the water heaters are still placed in the new house, and the total rent will be raised. The result would be that while the Government, on one hand, are doing their best to reduce the rents of the new houses by a subsidy, at great expense to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the other, they are whittling away that benefit by the proposal that is now made. While it is too late now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-16a.546.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.584.10", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "With oil.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Fraser", "preceding_text": "In cases where persons have neither gas nor electricity, how can they cook otherwise than by coal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.584.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.592.0", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LABOUR (STAFF)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Isaacs)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Isaacs)", "preceding_text": "My Department has today greatly increased duties and responsibilities as compared with 1939. In addition to being much more concerned with trying to ensure that workers are placed in suitable employment and that those vacancies which are most important in the national interest are filled, it now administers the Factory Acts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.592.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.597.8", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "That is a good Socialist sentiment, and we will keep it in mind, but may I remind the hon. Member that he also is a servant of the State as a Member of this House, and that he does not help coal production by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.597.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.599.4", "colnum": "599", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "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": "Perhaps the House will permit me, before I announce the Business for next week, to say how very glad we all are to see the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition back in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.599.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not necessarily.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ought that there were faults on the one side or the other. They may have thought, like many of us did, that there were faults on both sides. But whatever their views, the one thing they were certain of was getting ample supplies of coal at a reasonably cheap price. That position has now been completely changed. From now onwards these coal debates will take the form of the miners versus the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.615.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.616.2", "colnum": "616", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about 19261?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "er they were in peace, they were not the vested interests of the miners. If anyone doubts what I am saying, let me spend a few minutes in rehearsing the history of wages and output over the last few years. I do not wish to criticise, but merely to state the facts. Members and the public at large will be entitled to draw what conclusions they like. What are the facts? In 1939 the overall wage rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "and I think that it was in November that, for the first time, the output of deep-mined coal—and the figures I am giving throughout are purely deep-mined coal—rose to 3¾ million tons per week. One would have expected that if there was anything in nationalisation that trend would have continued. It should have continued beyond 1st January with all the advantages of nationalisation, so called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.663.5", "colnum": "663", "heading": "NEWSPRINT IMPORT RESTRICTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "w, 177 per cent. Why is it only newsprint which has been selected for this killing cut down to 25 per cent? Why this undue discrimination against this industry? It is impossible for newspapers to fulfil their proper functions if they are reduced to four pages. The Press is the raw material of democracy. It has to cater for the general interest, and not merely for politics, whether home or foreign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.663.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "NEWSPRINT IMPORT RESTRICTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ertising, because advertisements like this are appearing week by week, and one must assume that they are genuine, or action would have been taken before now to stop them. That is one way in which we might save dollars to buy newsprint. Then there is the question of the type of books which are imported into this country. They involve paper and dollars. I will not mention things like football pools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "NEWSPRINT IMPORT RESTRICTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "reat praise of the Press. He said: After all, none of us can disregard the totality of the newspaper Press\"— I do not know what \"totality\" means but it sounds well— Press agencies and the periodical Press, we cannot underestimate the nature of that great institution, the powerful part that they play in our national life, and the even greater part which they perhaps could play in our national life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.677.3", "colnum": "677", "heading": "NEWSPRINT IMPORT RESTRICTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "osters. Perhaps it ought not to have occurred to me that the Government are connected with them. I apologise if that point was unduly partisan. I was simply looking for ways of saving paper and I referred to the posters on the hoardings. I thought some hon. Gentlemen opposite did not like that particular poster. I thought that the more discerning among them said that the poster ought to come down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.677.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "NEWSPRINT IMPORT RESTRICTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "ures possible to save dollars on films. I told the right hon. Gentleman, in answer to a Question—and I am sorry if he thought I was discourteous, because I did not intend to be—that it was really no good cutting films because all it means is, as film receipts are based upon the receipts of the cinemas, for half the entertainment value one must pay twice the price, and the dollars go just the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.687.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.695.5", "colnum": "695", "heading": "NEWSPRINT IMPORT RESTRICTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.695.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.697.6", "colnum": "697", "heading": "NEWSPRINT IMPORT RESTRICTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Medland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Medland", "preceding_text": "You have been, you mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.697.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "NEWSPRINT IMPORT RESTRICTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "l, put aside the newsprint until we are ready to say we will take it. I say that the right hon. and learned Gentleman, in his capacity of President of the Board of Trade, should know that there is not even the storage capacity over there for such a bulk of newsprint; there is not storage capacity in Canada for 50,000 tons. There is another thing too. The Canadians will not accept this proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "NEWSPRINT IMPORT RESTRICTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alan Herbert", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alan Herbert", "preceding_text": "t a thing to be laughed at at all. It should be treated more seriously. This is a fundamental, and, in principle, a shocking thing. The hon. Member for Cambridge University (Mr. Wilson Harris) recalled that in 1850 or so, the taxes on knowledge were swept away after a great campaign. It was one of the great achievements of this country. Now we are in every respect going back to that situation now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "NEWSPRINT IMPORT RESTRICTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alan Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alan Herbert", "preceding_text": "er for Cambridge University (Mr. Wilson Harris) recalled that in 1850 or so, the taxes on knowledge were swept away after a great campaign. It was one of the great achievements of this country. Now we are in every respect going back to that situation now. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"] For God's sake, do not say \"rubbish.\" It hon. Members cannot listen to a serious argument without saying \"rubbish\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "NEWSPRINT IMPORT RESTRICTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Herbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Herbert", "preceding_text": "y enough has not been developed. I will now come back by saying that taxes upon knowledge were abolished and that was a great thing. I was interrupted when I said that we were now getting back to the same state of affairs. I was not talking only about newspapers. I say that in every department that appeals to the mind we have the same thing. We have a savage tax upon theatres, and music and films.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "NEWSPRINT IMPORT RESTRICTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Herbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Herbert", "preceding_text": "s a great thing. I was interrupted when I said that we were now getting back to the same state of affairs. I was not talking only about newspapers. I say that in every department that appeals to the mind we have the same thing. We have a savage tax upon theatres, and music and films. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] We have a tax upon plays, upon music and upon films. Books are held up in every possible way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "NEWSPRINT IMPORT RESTRICTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Herbert", "preceding_text": " a terrible thing. After all, in a civilised State, which we think we are, food for the mind is just as important as food for the body. To say \"Cut out books and have beer,\" or \"Cut out films and have food,\" or \"Cut out poems and have potatoes,\" is all very well if you are on a desert island. But we are not on a desert island yet—though before certain people have done with us, we may very well be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "NEWSPRINT IMPORT RESTRICTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have not the courage.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": "ources and labour it is prepared to be equally tough. For 18 months in this House I have, I know, made myself something of a bore on the subject of football pools because I regarded and still regard the attitude of the Government towards football pools as being symbolical of whether or not they were prepared to take steps to deal with obvious, clear and undeniable waste of the worst possible kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "NEWSPRINT IMPORT RESTRICTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "preceding_text": " appalling effects described—intellectual starvation, spiritual degeneracy, the exclusion of young writers from the opportunity of using their creative talents—and all those horrible consequences that have been described, including unemployment, though I must confess that when hon. Members opposite raise their hands with horror at unemployment I find it very difficult to listen to them seriously.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "NEWSPRINT IMPORT RESTRICTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It would be out of Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " next three or four months, as everyone knows, we shall have to adopt measures that will be unpleasant to different sections of the community. My right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer explained, when this cut was announced to the House that not only is newsprint being cut, but that there are other cuts as well, although no one has mentioned them in the course of the Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "NEWSPRINT IMPORT RESTRICTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ebate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It would be out of Order.\"] If I am out of Order, the whole Debate has been out of Order because over and over again hon. Members have made reference to alternative cuts. There has been reference after reference to what might be termed an alternative to the cut. We are, in fact, at the moment, having to cut foodstuffs in order to conserve dollar resources, and I say at once—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "NEWSPRINT IMPORT RESTRICTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "e after reference to what might be termed an alternative to the cut. We are, in fact, at the moment, having to cut foodstuffs in order to conserve dollar resources, and I say at once—[ Interruption. ] I will read out the actual words: While, therefore, we shall not be able to afford all the imports of foodstuffs for which we had hoped …\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 30th June, 1947; Vol. 439, c. 961.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-17", "file": "debates1947-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f6036033206fd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.715.3", "colnum": "715", "heading": "NEWSPRINT IMPORT RESTRICTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " that I agree with what my hon. Friend the Member for South Nottingham (Mr. N. Smith) said. It is really a very serious thing for the morale of this country if, when we come forward at a serious time like this, and propose a reduction in our dollar payments, we should have special pleadings from various sections of the community, and, of course, exploitation of the difficulties for party purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-17a.715.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-18", "file": "debates1947-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a98c5fec69b52590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-18a.734.3", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "chievement which we are now recording. I shall be interested to hear what ingenious arguments can be produced to prove that this is what the Opposition would have done had they had the power. I think it is on the whole a very happy state of things, and though I do not prophesy what will happen over the rest of the 'financial year—it would be rash to do so—we have certainly had a very happy start.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-18a.734.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-18", "file": "debates1947-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a98c5fec69b52590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-18a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ly advised on these matters if there are such substantial changes as were effected in the original provisions in this Bill. Although I shall be accused of making a party point, I say that the original proposals had all the marks of the hasty work, poor craftmanship and bad finish which the country is beginning to regard as the hallmarks of Socialist legislation. Having been somewhat controversial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-18a.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-18", "file": "debates1947-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a98c5fec69b52590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-18a.789.5", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "There is a second reason why I deplore the fact that the Purchase Tax on these brushes has not been removed. I have been a language-teacher and the teeth are almost as important for speaking a language properly as is the tongue, and that is more so with the English language than with any other language in existence, except Japanese.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-18a.789.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-18", "file": "debates1947-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a98c5fec69b52590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-18a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have an hour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": "We have had about a dozen speeches from various sides of the House and it would be impossible for me in the time which I should allot myself to cover everything that has been said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-18a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-18", "file": "debates1947-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a98c5fec69b52590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-18a.816.7", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "That is getting away from my point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-18a.816.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-18", "file": "debates1947-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a98c5fec69b52590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-18a.818.6", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "I think the chance of this country competing successfully in America on a wide range of manufactured goods is pretty remote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-18a.818.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-21", "file": "debates1947-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "a5ee13eae8a16484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-21a.851.8", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "I should hope that this is a very rare and exceptional case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-21a.851.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-21", "file": "debates1947-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "a5ee13eae8a16484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-21a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "t hon. Friend specially convey to the Burmese people the real and deep sorrow which is felt by Members on this side of the House who learned to respect U Aung San and his comrades, and will he bear in mind that the moral guilt of the assassination attaches less, perhaps, to the brutal gunmen in Rangoon than to the comfortable Conservative gentlemen here who incited U Saw to treachery and sabotage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-21a.867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-21", "file": "debates1947-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "a5ee13eae8a16484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-21a.884.5", "colnum": "884", "heading": "ARMED FORCES, EUROPE (CURRENCY LOSSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "n starved of the bare necessities of life for a long time. In those circumstances, it was not entirely for wrong motives that our troops, and not only our troops but others, took the opportunity of engaging in the sale of food and other commodities which they acquired from the canteens. It may interest the House to know that first contacts in Germany between our troops and the people were hostile—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-21a.884.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-21", "file": "debates1947-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "a5ee13eae8a16484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-21a.884.5", "colnum": "884", "heading": "ARMED FORCES, EUROPE (CURRENCY LOSSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "ism, but that was the state of things when our troops first entered Germany. The hostility may not have been entirely between the different sexes, but nevertheless, definite hostility was shown towards our troops. I am not talking of cases where fighting troops were meeting fighting troops. I am talking of where they had met the civilian population who had become by that time very peaceful indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-21a.884.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-21", "file": "debates1947-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "a5ee13eae8a16484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-21a.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "ARMED FORCES, EUROPE (CURRENCY LOSSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1944.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "I think the whole House will agree with the hon. and gallant Member for Dudley (Colonel Wigg) that this particular instance of the trouble which we are discussing today arose in the middle of 1945, and that the individual responsible is some high official at the War Office", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-21a.906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-21", "file": "debates1947-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "a5ee13eae8a16484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-21a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "ARMED FORCES, EUROPE (CURRENCY LOSSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Kingston-upon-Thames (Mr. Boyd-Carpenter) has been as heavy-footed as usual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-21a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-21", "file": "debates1947-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "a5ee13eae8a16484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-21a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "ARMED FORCES, EUROPE (CURRENCY LOSSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read the Supplementary Estimates.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "asy to say, \"I would like the House to know, in respect of the question asked by the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne, that there are very large sums which are on the way.\" I do not believe he intended to mislead, but he did not disclose, and by that particular answer which he gave to the hon. Member for Westbury (Mr. Grimston), it unfortunately did look as though this huge thing was not possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-21a.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-21", "file": "debates1947-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "a5ee13eae8a16484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-21a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "ARMED FORCES, EUROPE (CURRENCY LOSSES)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for War (Mr. John Freeman)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for War (Mr. John Freeman)", "preceding_text": ", and we are glad to see them when they do take part. We should be glad to see the noble Lord the Member for Horsham (Earl Winterton) with us tonight. I wonder whether the House would like to consider why the noble Lord, who normally leads for the Opposition on these occasions and is a very persuasive speaker on Army affairs, has not thought fit that he should come down and present his case to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-21a.930.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-21", "file": "debates1947-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "a5ee13eae8a16484", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-21a.932.2", "colnum": "932", "heading": "ARMED FORCES, EUROPE (CURRENCY LOSSES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "He used the words I have just repeated, and I say to you, Sir, that those words are offensive to the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-21a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-22", "file": "debates1947-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "4c268e7228e716d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-22a.1077.3", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I do not think I could begin to do that—if I did so I would continue for another hour.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-22a.1077.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-22", "file": "debates1947-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "4c268e7228e716d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-22a.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "Surely, the hon. and gallant Member could give us something?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-22a.1078.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-22", "file": "debates1947-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "4c268e7228e716d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-22a.1078.2", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "preceding_text": "For the sake of the time of the Committee, I cannot do so. I could do so if the Committee were prepared to listen to me for another hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-22a.1078.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1224.1", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE (M.P.s' BROADCAST APPEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Apologise.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "preceding_text": " senior Burgess for Cambridge University (Mr. Pickthorn), and more in accordance with Parliamentary traditions, if he had advised the two Members for Coventry of his intention to raise this matter? Would he not have served more effectively the cause of saving the lives of these two soldiers, to save whom was the sole purpose of sending this message, if he had not sought to disparage the broadcast?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1224.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1224.3", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE (M.P.s' BROADCAST APPEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Apologise.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "Since that question has been put, Mr. Speaker, may I say that the hon. Gentleman has no right to suggest that I sought to disparage the broadcast, whatever that may mean? I did consider telling the two hon. Members I was putting the Question down. It then occurred to me that, by the putting of the Question down, the Question itself would reach them as quickly as a note from me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1224.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1238.3", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have sent this to us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "It seems unfortunate if we are going to spend time in discussing Amendments which the House of Lords have not sent to us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1266.1", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "I shall endeavour not to go beyond your Ruling, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. At the same time, I must say this about patronage, because the subject was brought up before us, and I think we must discuss it. What we are doing here is to try to protect the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1268.3", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman's case he made it quite clear that what he desired was patronage. That was why he welcomed this Clause. That was why he was so loudly cheered in getting up to move disagreement with the Lords Amendment before he had even addressed a word to the House. It is frankly welcomed on the benches opposite, not in spite of making patronage possible, but precisely because it makes it possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1268.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1271.7", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "What I want to put directly to the hon. and learned Member is that he should submit evidence of that, or else withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1271.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1272.0", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallaeher", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. The hon. and learned Member has made a definite statement that it is an open secret that the Minister has already appointed members of the Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1271.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1272.8", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "I have taken particular care to avoid this situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1272.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1273.0", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has combined two demands. On one, of course, I at once defer. If the right hon. Gentleman says there is no foundation for the statement that the right hon. Gentleman to whom I have referred is going to be a member of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1273.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1273.3", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "deavour to behave itself. I have no particular eagerness to withdraw these things. I am going to withdraw, but I am also going to make quite clear what I am withdrawing and what I am not withdrawing. And, in case that can be used either for or against me, I wish to be clear. I say that until the right hon. Gentleman assures the House that he has no intention of appointing this right hon Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1273.6", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is it in Order for the hon. and learned Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1273.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I confess, I do not remember the exact terms the Minister used, but I intend to make clear the nature of my withdrawal, what it is I withdraw and what it is I do not withdraw. Whatever attacks may be made, it is much better for them to made on accurate knowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1274.6", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I really cannot allow this to go on any longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1274.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1275.0", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has withdrawn.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "May I put a point to the hon. and learned Member? My right hon. Friend did not hear the end of the statement which the hon. and learned Member made, and I directed the attention of my right hon. Friend to it. What I want from the hon. and learned Member is either a substantiation or a withdrawal of the original statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1275.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1275.4", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for making clear what his point was. The OFFICIAL REPORT will, as he says, make clear what were the exact words, and I shall take the precaution of not going up and making any amendment to my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1275.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1276.6", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I am making no apology of any kind. I am not under the illusion that I am making a speech which is popular with hon. Members opposite. I am making—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1276.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1277.0", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I am stating, on the first Amendment when it has been possible, what I believe to be a public issue of the very first importance. In these Bills, and especially—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1277.3", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I can assure you, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, that my desire to conclude my speech is no less than that of any other Member in the House, but I mean to go on until this point is absolutely clear, and every characteristic attempt from hon. Members opposite to try to prevent me from saying what I believe it is my duty to my constituents to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1277.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1287.3", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneyeroft", "preceding_text": " patronage, and he that we on this side of the House were very thin-skinned. I must say that I think the Government are being a little thin-skinned. We have spent a lot of time talking about what was said to be a fearful allegation that had been made against the party opposite. That allegation was that some approach had been made to Lord Latham with the possibility of his serving on the executive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1287.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneyeroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneyeroft", "preceding_text": "I am ready to accept your Ruling, Sir. I was en-deavouring to introduce a soothing note into the Debate. I think a great deal of heat has been generated about very little. It did not seem to me that the suggestion that Lord Latham was going to be invited to be a member of the executive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1290.0", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "men of all classes appointed to the Executives, and I am sure that everybody would like to see that, but why should not the Commission appoint to those bodies men from all walks of life: Surely, the test of whether a man is suit able for the Executives is whether he knows about transport, and not whether he went to Eton or somewhere else:", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1298.1", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Tory paper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "That was from the \"Sunday Times.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1304.3", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Hutchison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Hutchison", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the hon. Member goes to the Library afterwards and looks up the definition of the word \"competition.\" We claim that there is another advantage in the question of speed of decision. I want to give an illustration of what has happened in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1305.5", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Hutchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Hutchison", "preceding_text": "uld say that if we are to take examples from the past of what advisory and consultative committees have done for Scotland then those in this Bill will not get us anywhere near where we want to be. I again quote the Scottish T.U.C., who have said that this proposal which the Government have put into the Bill, and the Bill as it stands now, will not adequately meet the wishes of the Scottish people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1305.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1317.4", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "ortance of all local authorities in Scotland. They are deliberately doing that; they have done it time and again; and I am not surprised at that attitude, for the very simple reason that local authorities—be they Unionist, Socialist, or non-political—are Scotsmen first, whereas hon. Members opposite are showing by their conduct that they are not only Socialists first, but English Socialists first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1317.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1321.0", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "I will not mention his name again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1331.2", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was looking at you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "Not only did the Minister of Transport say that the Scottish transport system had to be closely integrated with that of England but he went on to refer in what I regarded as rather an offensive phrase, to the peculiar physical handicaps of Scotland. What did he mean by that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1331.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1333.0", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "We are, of course, only at an early stage of this Debate, and, therefore, I apologise for intervening so soon, but we are determined to have an answer from a Scottish Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1336.1", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": ", explain why an executive in Edinburgh should be regarded as damaging to the prospects of this Bill? It still is subject to the overriding authority of the Commission. The hon. Member for Dumbarton (Mr. McKinlay) said that, as long as the executive power remained in the Commission, and as long as the clammy hand of the Treasury remained, this Amendment would really not be of any great importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1352.1", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Strauss", "preceding_text": " would he so exceedingly small that it would be quite impossible for the Commission to have the resources with which to carry on long-distance road haulage work and which it is essential for it to have for the integration purposes defined in Clause 3. I say quite definitely, and I think it is generally accepted outside this House in responsible circles, that this is, in fact, a wrecking Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1359.0", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not always.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "ght to examine the case as it really is. The Parliamentary Secretary's case is not a sound one. He gave some arguments, but the arguments he put forward would cause me to vote for this Amendment. I would say at once that I agree that no figure can be correct. Any figure must be an arbitrary figure although we would prefer to see road haulage free of nationalisation. We have always made that clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1359.0", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "ment from widening this radius is the fact that they fear competition from road haulage concerns against the nationalised undertakings. Quite frankly, I think that is a fantastic way in which to go into public ownership. We on these Benches are supporters of a limited amount of public ownership. Hon. Members opposite cannot complain. We have supported them on a number of nationalisation Measures.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1360.4", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member says he does not believe in private enterprise in this industry.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1360.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1363.2", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": " speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Oswestry (Mr. Poole) he would have learnt that we are wholly unsatisfied with the Parliamentary Secretary's reasons for rejecting this Lords Amendment. The Parliamentary Secretary's main case, I would remind the Minister, was that if the Lords Amendment were accepted, he would not be able to take over a sufficient number of vehicles. That was his main case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1363.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1392.0", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wadsworth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wadsworth", "preceding_text": "stance of chocolate firms, which require a special type of van and also a specialised type of driver—could not be served by pool vehicles. In many cases the drivers have to collect cash, to return empties, to give receipts and credit notes, and have to build up at the same time the goodwill of the firm for which they carry. All these services could not be done by a nationalised transport service.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1392.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1393.4", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "By leave of the House, then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1393.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1399.1", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "ll be the personal touch. This matter requires personal knowledge and experience in many cases. Those who are engaged in the collection and delivery of milk are farmers or ex-farmers, and they make a point of knowing all the various circumstances. One day milk may be required to be collected at a certain time. The flow of milk changes and arrangements have to be made to meet special circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1408.0", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "guished position in the Socialist Party in regard to agriculture, should tell the House what he thinks of the Minister's proposal to take away from the Milk Marketing Board and the Ministry of Food the question of allocating milk supplies, for that is what it boils down to. It is true to say that in certain areas school children are not going to get supplies of milk sufficient to meet their needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1408.0", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "er's proposal to take away from the Milk Marketing Board and the Ministry of Food the question of allocating milk supplies, for that is what it boils down to. It is true to say that in certain areas school children are not going to get supplies of milk sufficient to meet their needs. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] It means that in certain parts the hospitals are going to have their supply of milk delayed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1408.3", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "rew attention to the fact that the carriage of milk was not a specialised carriage and that the vehicles could be used for the carriage of other commodities. That is against the regulations of the Milk Marketing Board and the Ministries of Food and Health. That is why, if there is a system of having milk sent with other loads by the Transport Commission it will jeopardise its safety for hospitals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1408.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1412.0", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Co-ordinated.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "approximately r8 per cent. of milk supplies at the outside are affected by this Amendment. I also gather that there is practically complete unanimity, among those who have asked me to reconsider the position, that the Milk Marketing Board are doing a good job on this occasion. The Milk Marketing Board are a statutory body and they are working on the lines of centralised control of the milk supply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1412.0", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not centrally.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "de are affected by this Amendment. I also gather that there is practically complete unanimity, among those who have asked me to reconsider the position, that the Milk Marketing Board are doing a good job on this occasion. The Milk Marketing Board are a statutory body and they are working on the lines of centralised control of the milk supply—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Co-ordinated.\"]—Centrally co-ordinated.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1415.4", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is being done with coal\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "I am certainly not clear about this matter, although I have listened to at least the last sir speeches, and I was on the Standing Committee; and I am quite sure that other hon. Members on this side are as uncertain. Hon. Members opposite think that every question can be answered merely by saying that the Commission can give just as good, or better, service than the private people are giving today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1415.4", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": " can, first, break the law, secondly, he can get a permit, or, thirdly, he can transfer the milk to one of the Commission's lorries. Of course, what will happen, if the haulier is keen to get the milk to the right place at the right time, is that he will break the law. Is it suggested that one can get a permit to divert a lorry over 25 miles within two or three hours? I ask the Minister, can one?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1415.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1438.1", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We saw it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chater", "preceding_text": "Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1443.0", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "Has the Parliamentary Secretary any plan for dealing with those customers who are cut off? I hope somebody will answer these points, also, about the coast towns, raised by the hon. Member for West Dorset (Mr. Di£by). It is time some answer was forthcoming. There is a strong and substantial point in this matter, for there are hundreds of thousands of these operators around the sea coast of Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1443.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "s he not allow him to travel 40 miles? Why does the Parliamentary Secretary make the conditions even harder for the man who is left to operate? There is no possible justification for that. The conditions should be at least as generous on the operating side as in determining whether the distance be long or short. I think some explanation is clearly indicated upon that matter. I am going to sit down", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "he conditions even harder for the man who is left to operate? There is no possible justification for that. The conditions should be at least as generous on the operating side as in determining whether the distance be long or short. I think some explanation is clearly indicated upon that matter. I am going to sit down [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I shall not if hon. Members would rather I did not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1450.0", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I do think we should have some answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1454.1", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I trust that I have the leave of the House.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1454.3", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I hope and I trust that that leave will be granted.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1454.10", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about bacon?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "ession about particular traffics; but in that Amendment they merely deal with certain localities. I would like to get a ruling from the learned Solicitor-General on the question whether, having drafted that Amendment to refer merely to particular localities, it is not really limiting this question so that the Commission cannot take into consideration special loads, such as milk in churns, or eggs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1454.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1461.0", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "ch the Parliament- ary Secretary made, because rarely has the House been given a better example of what Socialism will lead this country into than in those remarks. There is a poem which read something like this: Before the Romans came to Rye, of to the Severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. Today there are right hon. Gentlemen sitting on that Front Bench drunk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1462.1", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "If right hon. arid hon. Gentlemen opposite had only given me time to finish my sentence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1462.9", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "I really cannot be responsible for the hon. Gentleman seeing double and mistaking who I am—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1462.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1463.5", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "ntleman, the Parliamentary Secretary, came down and openly boasted that the Commission set up under this Bill is to have a monopoly and, what is more, that it is to have a monopoly which is deliberately to be shielded from any form of competition whatsoever. It seems to me that the hon. Gentleman has failed to distinguish between a monopoly run by the State and a monopoly under private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1463.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1465.0", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "I hope that someone on the Government Front Bench will respond to the invitation which has been extended, and say something on the points raised regarding Scotland", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1465.0", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "ny arms and legs in my constituency, and one may say that it has two exposures, south and west. I will give an instance of how road hauliers on the sea-board facing west will suffer, and will take the ancient burgh of Stranraer. Members will readily recall that great prominence attained by Stranraer during the war, and the great part it played in bringing the war effort to a successful conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1465.0", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "ll that great prominence attained by Stranraer during the war, and the great part it played in bringing the war effort to a successful conclusion. [ Interruption. ] Six million members of the Armed Forces passed through Stranraer during the war years. Road hauliers there will be seriously affected, because there are two promontories to north and south. The road hauliers will be completely bottled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "This cannot, in the nature of things, be an important province or field of this Commission's enterprises. Would it be possible for the right hon. Gentleman to give some consideration to this matter if suppose this Amendment to be rejected, an alternative Amendment were suggested in another place? If it were possible for him to meet us it might well facilitate our discussion tonight.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1493.2", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"It will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "and there will be no body such as in England and Wales. The Commission will have a much more difficult task there in taking into consideration the special conditions which would obtain within a locality than it would in England and Wales. That is why I join with my right hon. and gallant Friend the Member for the Scottish Universities (Lt.-Colonel Elliot). If this Measure reaches the Statute Book—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1522.3", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "I only rise to give the Government some opportunity of collecting their reinforcements and clarifying this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1530.3", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": " am bound to say, speaking for right hon. and hon. Members on this side of the House, that we are not at all satisfied with the situation as it is left. I was very surprised to find the learned Lord Advocate coming down here to make this case for the Minister. Though we are very glad to have with us the Lord Advocate, who has had the advantage of having a good night's rest, as some of us have not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1530.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1541.0", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "ent. We have objected, time after time, in previous Parliaments, to Ministers appointing their own officers to conduct inquiries. We have also objected, in like manner, to the results of such inquiries not being made public. I would refer the Parliamentary Secretary to the fact that there has not been a Conservative Administration in this country since 1929, and that under the National Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1545.0", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "I have felt, both in listening to the Debates in another place, and in digesting the views put forward this morning, that this subject is being unduly laboured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1545.0", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "ent than real. On the public inquiry point, I am meeting the Amendment fully. Let me read to the House the Clause as it was, as it would be if the Amendment from another place were accepted, and as it would stand if the Amendment in lieu of the Amendment from another place were embodied in the Clause. In the Clause as it left this House, the Minister was only obliged to cause inquiries to be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1557.1", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "MID-WEEK DOG RACING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": " the question of greyhound racing vanishes completely so far as I am concerned. When it is possible to get out on a Saturday afternoon, I think that is enough. Greyhound racing is a ramp of money-getting and plucking the public. I have only seen one meeting, but I notice any number, which take the money away from the fools who go there. Recreation is the greatest game of bluff on the boards today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-23", "file": "debates1947-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "740ecbeb0052136a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1561.1", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "MID-WEEK DOG RACING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " the other day with a deputation of greyhound racing people so that he should hear my case before he presented his views to the House. The question of speedway racing was mentioned by one member of that deputation, and I said that the report made to me was that the speedway racing crowd was a very different one from the crowd that goes to the other sports which have been mentioned, and is in fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-23a.1561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-24", "file": "debates1947-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "7f3e00c0806b60dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-24a.1586.5", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WAR DEAD (MEMORIAL SCROLL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "We are bringing this matter to a head—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-24a.1586.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-24", "file": "debates1947-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "7f3e00c0806b60dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-24a.1605.3", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "If the hon. and gallant Gentleman would think a little more of the nation and a little less about party politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-24a.1605.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-24", "file": "debates1947-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "7f3e00c0806b60dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-24a.1608.8", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "asons these should have migrated long ago to the Board of Trade, which is the central Ministry dealing with trade, whereas the Ministry of Supply has to deal with only a section of it. But still worse is to come. The one thing which ought not to be put on the Minister, with his charge of the development, for instance, of modem aircraft, is preoccupation about lavatory seats and housing components—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-24a.1608.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-24", "file": "debates1947-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "7f3e00c0806b60dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-24a.1659.1", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "stened to his speech. The practice of throwing paper pellets across the Chamber at the Minister at a time like this is not a particularly happy one, and the two Parliamentary Secretaries now sitting on the Front Bench are always so charming, genial, courteous and helpful that I, personally, would like to flatter them very much. With great reluctance, I find today that I cannot be wholly adulatory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-24a.1659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-24", "file": "debates1947-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "7f3e00c0806b60dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-24a.1670.0", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, we are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "I certainly do not want to misrepresent what the Minister said, but I made a note of it at the time and I think he will find that he said that in research we were in the van of progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-24a.1670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-24", "file": "debates1947-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "7f3e00c0806b60dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-24a.1685.1", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Edward Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Edward Davies", "preceding_text": "that there are strategic reasons in this matter, and that prodsc- tion is spread right throughout the country on the grounds of security, and I agree that there is much to be said for it, but I am wondering whether we can afford this luxury, and whether we should go on for an indefinite period preparing against an undefined enemy, whoever it is going to be, in maintaining this great war potential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-24a.1685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-24", "file": "debates1947-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "7f3e00c0806b60dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-24a.1706.1", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "perates the so-called Metal Control, which governs exports, imports, distribution and prices. It has so many functions that I really cannot weary the Committee by listing them all. I ask this question; Does any sensible person believe that a Ministry engaged in such multifarious activities can give proper attention to the design and development of complicated new weapons required by the Services?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-24a.1706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-25", "file": "debates1947-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "a54fc2dc854e7cd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-25a.1769.1", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WELLINGTON MUSEUM BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A charge.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "rous offer to impose a very hard bargain on the Duke and is a matter which this Committee should look at. The Attorney-General sought to compare the behaviour of the Opposition on this with their behaviour on some other Bill that may come later today, but there is a difference between the Duke's position and that of the Post Office, which registers its parcels and extracts a fine from the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-25a.1769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-25", "file": "debates1947-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "a54fc2dc854e7cd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-25a.1830.1", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES' BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "Most people would understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-25a.1830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-25", "file": "debates1947-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "a54fc2dc854e7cd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-25a.1832.4", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES' BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": " with the question of the appointment and powers of inspectors to investigate the ownership of a company. My point is not concerned quite with the ownership of a company. It is a question of the control and appointment of shareholders for particular purposes. It is a question not of ownership, but of which person or persons have the right to appoint shareholders in order to keep the company going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-25a.1832.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-25", "file": "debates1947-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "a54fc2dc854e7cd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-25a.1849.2", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES' BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "I do not want to argue with the noble Lord whose sober charm and kindness we have known for the last 43 years. The noble Lord has been here so long that he is unaware what other hon. Members think about him I am very serious about this and I am perfectly certain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-25a.1849.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.11.12", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "preceding_text": "Royal Ordnance Factories were developed during the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.11.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.45.8", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "or ordinary people like myself to see the difference. It appears that in the right hon. Gentleman's peculiar and highly individual use of language a programme is a target which he knows he will not hit. Here, then, is failure. The Minister excuses himself. First, there is his plea that he has done better than Lord Addison. I deprecate this Agincourt technique, this ploughing the sands of the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.45.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.45.8", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "e whether the Government can escape responsibility. First is the question of materials. As I have said before, there are two aspects of this question, the aspect of initial production of materials, and the aspect of the most effective distribution of such materials as we have. It would not, of course, be fair to fasten on to the Minister the sole responsibility for the basic shortage of materials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.45.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I am given to understand that the London County Council, for example, a great Socialist authority, has never been held up for any single item of materials, unlike other local authorities. This suggests to the mind that they are holding a reserve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "There will be elaborations, in the local sense, of these arguments. Let me add that there might not be anything morally wrong in having hoards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.55.3", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under the Liberal Party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "preceding_text": " houses. How shall we get new workers on the land in conditions and in villages of that kind? I agree that that village is probably admittedly the worst, but there are many that come bad seconds and bad thirds in my constituency. How many more are there in how many other villages in every part of Great Britain? I agree with the Minister that this is the result, not of 20 years, but of generations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.55.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.73.1", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": "Surely, the hon. Member must realise that there is no question of unemployment in this country at the moment. If hon. Members opposite use the excuse that there is a shortage of labour, then, I maintain, there must be incentives to further production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.73.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "I am sorry it my voice got mixed up with others. It is a little difficult if one is not allowed to make one's speech in one's own way. After all, the Minister of Health did not take any particular trouble not to be controversial, and we listened to him quietly with one exception.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.94.3", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ave not been published and, therefore, we have to deal with figures up to 31st May only, which is a year and 11 months instead of the full two years. That is the sole reason why we have waited until now. We have seen and heard the right hon. Gentleman and his friends going up and down the country saying that 400,000 homes provided means that he has virtually broken the back of the present problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.94.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes, yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "No, no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "is increasing with every month that passes. It is sheer nonsense, in the face of figures like that, for the Minister to get up and talk about the restoration of the balance of the industry. I say that as a result of the ill balance and of his administrative incompetence the people of this country have at least 60,000 new permanent houses fewer than would have been the case if we had been in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.101.3", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "It was made on 23rd March, 1945.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.101.4", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I must draw attention to the fact that the right hon. Gentleman was so dishonest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.101.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.102.0", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So he was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I heard the hon. Lady say these words, \"The right hon. Gentleman was so dishonest.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.102.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.102.2", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "I rather thought the temper of the Committee was rising. I think it is unfortunate that the word was used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.102.5", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "I said that I thought it was unfortunate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.102.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.102.11", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did not say so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "I was quoting from a Debate which took place in March, 1945.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.102.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ar, and that if the output of the men engaged in the industry was at prewar level, having regard to existing bottlenecks and shortages of raw material, particularly timber, large numbers of men would be unemployed. That is proved by the words of the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Works' own Under-Secretary, speaking in the House only a short while ago when he said—I have his exact word here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So we have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "gland. They thought houses would be built, houses that people would be proud of, and that the work was regarded as so essential that, in the words of the Minister of Works, it was to be regarded as a war operation. The words of the right hon. Gentleman in his election address were that we were to build houses as we built Spitfires during the war. Above all, the country was told, \"We have a plan\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Another headline.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "I see I carry the Committee with me. Today we are discussing two years' results. There are not only no houses, there certainly is not a plan. Two years ago the right hon. Gentleman and his friends blamed the Tories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "oric but, believe me, the people of this country want houses and not, to use his own words, empty rhetoric. If I may sum up, our charges in this Debate are these: First, the right hon. Gentleman and his friends are trying to pull wool over the eyes of the public by understating the size of the real problem and by consequently claiming virtually to have made some substantial progress in meeting it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.106.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Mr. Beaumont, that is an extremely serious charge. If it were true, the Privilege of the House of Commons would not have protected me during the war. The right hon Gentleman is reading out what he says; it is not a thing said in heated debate, but a prepared, malicious, statement for the \"Daily Express\" headlines tomorrow—I ask him to withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I really must ask your protection, Mr. Beaumont—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": " they were kept in power only through the help of the Labour Party, who do not seem to have exerted much pressure in this matter. If I am asked what my party has done, I turn to my city of Birmingham. Between the wars we were able to overtake the arrears to such an extent that, according to the impartial testimony of the city engineer, there was no housing shortage. According to the city engineer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does that figure include requisitioned houses?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "preceding_text": " are not only seeing houses going up, but that, in fact, as a result of the activities of all the local authorities in London, with very little help from private enterprise, there are, as the statistics show, 76,000 families now in homes which did not exist when the war ended. If that is failure, I hope that the Minister of Health will have a few more failures of that kind in the next year or two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.145.5", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "adequate and said that they wanted something like 20 different designs. In those circumstances, the right hon. Gentleman cannot blame the industry for not getting started. The suggestion which I am about to make will make me very unpopular with employers, of whom I am one, and even more unpopular with employees. If there is one industry which needs a complete overhaul, it is the building industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.145.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "How could we start five weeks earlier on another site when the contract was not signed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.148.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.152.3", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "This is a very important point. May I ask——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.152.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "I have answered the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.153.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " specifically referred to the Minister of Health as being responsible for the coordination of the various Departments concerned with housing. We were asked a number of questions on what we were doing to see to it that the material had reached the sites, and 50 per cent. of the speeches which were made by hon. Members opposite had no meaning unless they referred to the arrival of materials in time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.155.5", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "nts made by the right hon. Gentleman for Southport (Mr. R. S. Hudson), who intervened so disastrously in the. Debate. I was amazed at the statistical aberrations of the right hon. Gentleman. If ever there was a person who was \"a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles,\" it is the right hon. Gentleman. He combines, in his massive self, most extraordinary qualities. He has the manners of Worzel Gummidge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.155.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I maintain that it is better to have no legislation at all than to have half-baked legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-28", "file": "debates1947-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "c029cf3aa6a4ade4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.172.2", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " the Act that it is an offence and that anyone who commits it will be punished accordingly. Leave it to those who are interested in a particular business to watch out, and if they find anyone committing a particular offence, be it a bank, in connection with a forgery, or a man at whose house there has been a burglary, let it be reported to the Director of Public Prosecutions or the Board of Trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-28a.172.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-29", "file": "debates1947-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "42d67f0291436b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-29a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "preceding_text": "nce in Delhi this year; it would be English, because English has become an international language. I think that we could at such a conference discuss methods, not of introducing industrial revolution by slow stages, but of avoiding industrial revolution. There is no reason why any colonial people should go through the horrors that have devastated Lancashire and Yorkshire in order to create wealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-29a.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-29", "file": "debates1947-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "42d67f0291436b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-29a.337.4", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the newspaper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "ony's senior medical officer. They show that for the last 10 years the incidence of all the diseases specially endemic in the Colony has steadily fallen. Yet the journalist to whom I have referred, circulated in a journal the statement that this is a dying colony. I cannot imagine that a migrating journalist should sink so low into the \"sewage\" of journalism as to publish information of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-29a.337.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-29", "file": "debates1947-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "42d67f0291436b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-29a.383.0", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "ows the noble service that town clerks have rendered to local government in Scotland. I say nothing about the county clerks, because they would be outwith the scope of the Amendment. The right hon. Gentleman knows a good deal about them also. Simply on the question of the position of town clerks, I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman, by his demeanour tonight, rejected the proposal put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-29a.383.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-29", "file": "debates1947-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "42d67f0291436b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-29a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL BOARD AREAS, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Niall Macpherson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What have you against Inverness?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Niall Macpherson", "preceding_text": "t treated from three points of view and it is interesting to see that from two hon. Members, the representations made to the Secretary of State have been for adjusting, as it were, county boundaries for the purpose of hospital services on the grounds of custom and communications and I for my part will fully endorse what the hon. Member for the Western Isles (Mr. M. MacMillan) said on that subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-29a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-30", "file": "debates1947-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "97d53cbad4584851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GRANTHAM FACTORIES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I really think that there is nothing that I have said that could possibly have suggested anything but complete confidence in the integrity of the hon. Member for Stoke.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-30", "file": "debates1947-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "97d53cbad4584851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.552.4", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GRANTHAM FACTORIES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has contradicted something which I said. I said that he stated himself in the newspaper which he controls that the Cotton syndicate was the same as the Kendall group and I will had him the newspaper now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.552.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-30", "file": "debates1947-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "97d53cbad4584851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.552.4", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GRANTHAM FACTORIES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has contradicted something which I said. I said that he stated himself in the newspaper which he controls that the Cotton syndicate was the same as the Kendall group and I will had him the newspaper now. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"] I will put it on the Table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.552.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-30", "file": "debates1947-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "97d53cbad4584851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.552.4", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GRANTHAM FACTORIES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " syndicate was the same as the Kendall group and I will had him the newspaper now. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"] I will put it on the Table. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"] The heading is, \"Assets Acquired by the Kendall Group.\" I will not go further, but this paper is printed and published by Grantham Publications of which the hon. Member and one other gentleman are directors. I will put it on the Table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.552.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-30", "file": "debates1947-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "97d53cbad4584851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.553.0", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GRANTHAM FACTORIES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kendall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kendall", "preceding_text": "I must correct the right hon. Gentleman, because I am sure that it does not say that. I do not know the particulars of the article to which he refers but I am sure that it cannot say that because it is totally untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-30", "file": "debates1947-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "97d53cbad4584851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GRANTHAM FACTORIES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members want me to read it of course I will. I will read as far as is necessary—further if hon. Members like. This paper is called the \"Grantham Guardian.\" It is printed and published by Grantham Publications Limited, of which the directors are the hon. Member for Grantham (Mr. Kendall) and another gentleman called Mr. Emmanuel. The main heading of the article—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-30", "file": "debates1947-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "97d53cbad4584851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GRANTHAM FACTORIES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read, the article.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "will read as far as is necessary—further if hon. Members like. This paper is called the \"Grantham Guardian.\" It is printed and published by Grantham Publications Limited, of which the directors are the hon. Member for Grantham (Mr. Kendall) and another gentleman called Mr. Emmanuel. The main heading of the article—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"] This is the paper which is controlled by the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-30", "file": "debates1947-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "97d53cbad4584851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GRANTHAM FACTORIES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "the hon. Member for Grantham (Mr. Kendall) and another gentleman called Mr. Emmanuel. The main heading of the article—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"] This is the paper which is controlled by the hon. Member—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Read, the article.\"] It says: Assets acquired by Kendall Group. It was upon that that I said that the hon. Member's own newspaper said that the assets had been acquired by his Group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.553.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-30", "file": "debates1947-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "97d53cbad4584851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.554.0", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GRANTHAM FACTORIES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Go on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "ions, Limited. A substantial deposit accompanied the offer. The necessary financial support for the firm's continuation is thus assured, and engineers, on behalf of Mr. F. Sidney Cotton, of Seamore Place, London, have been busy at Springfield Road this week making an inspection in the event of the new company obtaining the lease. The name of the company will be Grantham Productions (1947) Limited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.553.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-30", "file": "debates1947-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "97d53cbad4584851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GRANTHAM FACTORIES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " work will start in a few weeks' time, and the output is expected to be 50 a week at first. Also dependent on the engineers' reports is the number of men who will be employed by the company, but it is anticipated that the figure will be in the region of several hundreds. At Wednesday evening's meeting of Grantham Borough Council, Coun. H. Cant asked if the Chairman of the Town Planning Committee\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-30", "file": "debates1947-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "97d53cbad4584851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.554.2", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GRANTHAM FACTORIES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Financial\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. The right hon. Member said or implied that the hon. Member for Grantham (Mr. Kendall) had a controlling interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.554.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-30", "file": "debates1947-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "97d53cbad4584851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.554.3", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GRANTHAM FACTORIES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman (Mr. Butcher)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\" and \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman (Mr. Butcher)", "preceding_text": "It might be as well if the hon. Member for Grantham (Mr. Kendall) were now allowed to continue his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.554.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-30", "file": "debates1947-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "97d53cbad4584851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GRANTHAM FACTORIES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "This matter has been called into question. I have read now, at the request of the Committee, the statement out of this paper. It begins. Assets acquired by Kendall Group. If hon. Members require any proof that the \"Grantham Guardian\" was in fact controlled by the hon Member——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.554.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-30", "file": "debates1947-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "97d53cbad4584851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.555.2", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GRANTHAM FACTORIES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kendall", "preceding_text": "Mr. Kendall rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.555.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-30", "file": "debates1947-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "97d53cbad4584851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.555.6", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GRANTHAM FACTORIES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kendall", "preceding_text": "I still wish to complete what I was saying when I was interrupted. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Aldershot stated that I was supposed to be controlling the Cotton group. I tell him once again that I have no financial interest in any way, shape or form in the Cotton group and never have had under any circumstances. That statement from the right hon. Gentleman is totally untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.555.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-30", "file": "debates1947-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "97d53cbad4584851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.555.7", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GRANTHAM FACTORIES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On a headline.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "I made my statement upon the information in this newspaper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.555.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-30", "file": "debates1947-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "97d53cbad4584851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.575.1", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GRANTHAM FACTORIES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": "I rather hoped that the right hon. Gentleman would ask me that question, because I did not say anything of the kind. I am merely telling him what the bank told us, and the bank told us what was subsequently proved to be wrong, but he cannot blame the President of the Board of Trade if the bank makes a mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-30", "file": "debates1947-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "97d53cbad4584851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GRANTHAM FACTORIES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including finance?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": "ht hon. and learned Friend in the House about 10 days ago that we had in fact withdrawn the allocation. The situation now is that it is competent for any firm which is interested in these factories at Grantham to make an application for their use. In making the allocation we shall be guided by the nature of the proposed production and by all the other relevant factors which are taken into account—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-30", "file": "debates1947-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "97d53cbad4584851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANPOWER AND PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Marquand)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And on the Opposition side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Marquand)", "preceding_text": "is own willingness to help in giving that lead, for it cannot be given by the Government only; it must be given also by Members like himself who have had wide experience in trade union matters. We welcome the assistance all hon. Members on this side can give in this matter, and confidently rely on the support of all men of good will in trying to increase the productivity of the working population—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-30a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-31", "file": "debates1947-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "941b394994a99abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.629.2", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I should have thought with regard to the Motions to which the noble Lord referred that we might be able to take them into account in the general Debate which takes place, but I cannot presume on the Rulings of the Chair. With regard to the medical certificate, I understand that the hon. Member for Gravesend did have a letter from his doctor which advised him that he ought to go away.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.629.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-31", "file": "debates1947-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "941b394994a99abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.631.2", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, the Member\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "If I make independent approaches to the editor concerned with a view to persuading him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.631.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-07-31", "file": "debates1947-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "941b394994a99abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.640.2", "colnum": "640", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Certainly discussions can proceed through the usual channels. We will see what can be done to agree. But I am bound to say that my own instinctive reaction—it is only an instinctive reaction—is that I am not sure that a Debate would be useful at this particular time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-31", "file": "debates1947-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "941b394994a99abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Professor Gruffydd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Gruffydd", "preceding_text": "Of course he can, but he has not been trained as an original thinker. That is the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-31", "file": "debates1947-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "941b394994a99abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "preceding_text": "opportunities there are in the history of our own country to produce educational films not entirely of the dramatic type of \"Henry V\" but, for instance, the Roman Wall and the life of a Roman legion, which could be turned into an exciting film in which the young children in these large Saturday morning audiences would simply revel, and in the course of which they would learn their English history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-31", "file": "debates1947-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "941b394994a99abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.730.2", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Eton and Rugby.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "preceding_text": "I will tell the hon. Member why. First, it is entirely unreal. It is unreal because the sites are not there, and are unlikely to be there, and it is extremely unlikely that in the next 20 years it will be possible to put up those gigantic places. The education is bad because a school of that kind can never be a community of its own with an organic relationship to the area in which it exists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.730.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-31", "file": "debates1947-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "941b394994a99abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "his threefold classification? Status does not come with the attaching of a name or by a wave of the administrative wand, and the discussion to date has left the position of the modern school neither defined nor secure. What is the policy of the Ministry towards the modern school? Is it going to give children in the modern school the same amenities and opportunities as apply to the grammar schools?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-31", "file": "debates1947-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "941b394994a99abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.758.2", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGULATION OF PAYMENTS (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You raised it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "The last thing I would wish to do in this Debate is to try to raise a question such as the Financial Secretary has raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.758.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-31", "file": "debates1947-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "941b394994a99abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.758.2", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGULATION OF PAYMENTS (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You were not talking about them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "ate is to try to raise a question such as the Financial Secretary has raised. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You raised it.\"] If I have given rise to any Member of the House believing that I was talking about the question that the Financial Secretary has raised, then let me be the first to apologise. What I would say is that if we talk of Uruguay driving out the \"Graf Spey,\" what do we think of the Norwegians?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.758.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-31", "file": "debates1947-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "941b394994a99abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.758.2", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGULATION OF PAYMENTS (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "f the Norwegians? [An HON. MEMBER: \"You were not talking about them.\"] That was the point I was trying to make. If any hon. Member of this House, on that side or this, likes to make in his own mind a balance between the war efforts of the two countries concerned, then he is so entitled. I tried to make one, and the Financial Secretary objected to it. I now come to a rather more important question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.758.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-31", "file": "debates1947-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "941b394994a99abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGULATION OF PAYMENTS (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": "e Orders and these monetary agreements I begin to feel that I must be an expert, because the thing is inclined to become more and more complicated and more difficult than ever to understand. This subject, however, does permit the prophet to come into his own and we have not only tonight, but on previous occasions had prophets of woe who have said that the most terrible things were going to happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-31", "file": "debates1947-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "941b394994a99abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGULATION OF PAYMENTS (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You wait.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": "t be an expert, because the thing is inclined to become more and more complicated and more difficult than ever to understand. This subject, however, does permit the prophet to come into his own and we have not only tonight, but on previous occasions had prophets of woe who have said that the most terrible things were going to happen—[HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"] Fortunately, up to now they have not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-31", "file": "debates1947-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "941b394994a99abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.783.4", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGULATION OF PAYMENTS (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "rther negotiation six months hence. All other large sterling balances are awaiting negotiation. How can the Financial Secretary deal with sterling balance settlements on arrangements which deal with current payments? It is fantastic for the Opposition to expect that he should. The purpose of this Debate has been to make an attack upon the American Loan which hon. Members opposite have never liked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.783.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-31", "file": "debates1947-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "941b394994a99abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.783.4", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGULATION OF PAYMENTS (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "h current payments? It is fantastic for the Opposition to expect that he should. The purpose of this Debate has been to make an attack upon the American Loan which hon. Members opposite have never liked. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Oh, yes it is. The American Loan, and the restrictions of that loan, have been put forward by practically every speaker as one of the main causes of our present difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.783.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-31", "file": "debates1947-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "941b394994a99abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.785.3", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGULATION OF PAYMENTS (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman made no limitation of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.785.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-07-31", "file": "debates1947-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "941b394994a99abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.793.0", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRISONERS OF WAR (EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "tary workers into the undermanned industries of this country. To throw into that pool of agitation—to add to that source of contention—the further problem of employment of German prisoners of war, is to make the last position much worse than the first. If our trade unions and employers resist the employment of Poles who have been our allies, will they readily agree to the employment of ex-enemies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-07-31a.793.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-01", "file": "debates1947-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "7e65f544ddb1a727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-01a.809.2", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman may not know the difference between cattlemen and cattle, but in spite of his interruption, I will continue my sentence. I gave way quite readily to him because he was labouring under one of his many delusions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-01a.809.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-01", "file": "debates1947-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "7e65f544ddb1a727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-01a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "d as the method by which these development charges could be discussed, regulated and agreed. He said that these things should be left to the higgling of the market, and it is a new doctrine that the new Socialism prefers the higgling of the market to the principles of natural equity. Even though in ordinary transactions one might feel there is a good deal to be said for the higgling of the market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-01a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-04", "file": "debates1947-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "b27a3111c1b1d4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.967.2", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Segal", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Segal", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the hot air in this Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.967.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-04", "file": "debates1947-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "b27a3111c1b1d4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND AUSTRIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I think I referred to the penalising of the relatives of prisoners as well as of the prisoners themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-04", "file": "debates1947-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "b27a3111c1b1d4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND AUSTRIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "preceding_text": "I think the territory that Russia has acquired as a result of the war is by agreement with the Allies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-04", "file": "debates1947-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "b27a3111c1b1d4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND AUSTRIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the six months' strike?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member says \"Give it time.\" But I would ask him to cast his mind back to the same time after the first world war, to the twenties, and he will find that after the release of the mines from Government control there was a tremendous spurt in the production of coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-04", "file": "debates1947-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "b27a3111c1b1d4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I said nothing of the kind. If it is a wholly grass farm and the tenancy was agreed in the depressed years and it was a farm ranched and not farmed, and direction was given to plough up one field it would be changing the character of the holding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-04", "file": "debates1947-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "b27a3111c1b1d4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "preceding_text": "enure at all. Both of them to my knowledge are two of the best farmers in Gloucestershire. I have told them that when this great Agricultural Bill, this great charter for the industry, became law, then none of these things would happen and that they would be perfectly secure in their holdings. If this Amendment is accepted I shall have to tell them another story and that the Minister has conceded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-04", "file": "debates1947-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "b27a3111c1b1d4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1153.5", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "cide what this comparatively vague wording means, I think that we ought to be very clear about this. I appeal to the Minister as an agriculturist, and with no desire whatever to hurt smallholdings of this type; but I do say that we ought to be very sure that the local authority will not use this power in an arbitrary way. I am not at all happy in my mind that they are really the people to do this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1153.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-04", "file": "debates1947-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "b27a3111c1b1d4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1166.0", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "I earnestly appeal to the Minister. This battle for transport has gone on for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-04", "file": "debates1947-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "b27a3111c1b1d4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1175.0", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Byers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fifteen miles.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Byers", "preceding_text": "I cannot understand the attitude of the Minister in this matter because surely it is the right of the House of Commons to have these figures? What is the difference between 25 miles and 40 miles radius?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-04", "file": "debates1947-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "b27a3111c1b1d4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1176.2", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Debate be now adjourned.\" I am reluctant to intervene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1176.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-04", "file": "debates1947-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "b27a3111c1b1d4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1176.2", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Debate be now adjourned.\" I am reluctant to intervene—[ Interruption .] I have listened to this discussion quietly from a little further down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1176.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-04", "file": "debates1947-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "b27a3111c1b1d4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1176.2", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " has already been given. I have had some years of Parliamentary experience, and I have known Ministers think it wise to give information more than once if need be. If the only reason why the right hon. Gentleman does not want to give the information now is because he has given it already, I suggest that it would be a good thing for him to give it again, and save himself and the House some trouble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1176.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-04", "file": "debates1947-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "b27a3111c1b1d4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1179.0", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "sible argument. But suddenly the Government have thought of a new argument. It may be that it was a cogent argument which has bubbled up in their minds, although they have no figures in support of it. The House is being treated in a flippant and frivolous way and in a manner not in keeping with its dignity. Secondly, the Minister has not been man enough to admit that he has made a fool of himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-04", "file": "debates1947-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "b27a3111c1b1d4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1180.0", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "rticularly concerned with this matter, for in the part of the country that I have the honour to represent there will be complete confusion of mind unless some more precise information is available, for this reason: there is proposed, and, I understand, sanctioned, approved and blessed even by the Minister himself, the project of the building of the Severn Bridge. Now if the Severn Bridge is built—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-04", "file": "debates1947-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "b27a3111c1b1d4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1180.0", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "rn Bridge is built—[ Interruption .] Perhaps hon. Members opposite do not realise the fact that its construction means the making of a roadway? I am delighted if hon. Members do realise that. The Minister will realise the implication of that. Instead of road transport having to go across the ferry he would have to build across the river. I would ask for the Adjournment so that I can clear my mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-04", "file": "debates1947-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "b27a3111c1b1d4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1216.5", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ught was an extraordinary argument. He said there was no conceivable connection between these two classes. What does this argument mean? It means you put people into a particular category because they do a particular thing, but having put them there, you do not allow them to do the very thing you put them there for. It is as if I was looking for a team of sprinters and said, \"I want only men who\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1216.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-04", "file": "debates1947-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "b27a3111c1b1d4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1216.5", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "fairs to have a contradiction as flat as that in any Bill. I would ask the Minister to consider, apart from the extraordinarily contradictory nature and the unfairness of it, the effect on the road haulier. Just think of the man who normally has been carrying on business beyond 25 miles. That is the very thing the hon. Member for South Edinburgh (Sir W. Darling) spoke on in a very eloquent speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1216.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-04", "file": "debates1947-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "b27a3111c1b1d4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1226.5", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": "e a wrong opinion. Nevertheless, if they are of opinion that those facts are established, it is then-duty to give notice to take over the business. The next Clause provides for objections to the taking over to be considered by the tribunal, and it is clearly recognised that the opinion which may have been held may be a wrong opinion. I desire very much to understand what the Government's case is.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1226.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-04", "file": "debates1947-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "b27a3111c1b1d4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1244.2", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was under private enterprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "was asked a question by my hon. Friend as to whether a complaint could be made against surplus vehicles as well as charges. The Under-Secretary said that that was entirely irrelevant. Unless the charges are cut, mere superfluity of vehicles would not make any difference. Would it not? Has the Minister never heard of the practice in many places of nursing a vehicle which one desires to squeeze out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-04a.1244.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-05", "file": "debates1947-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "48565086ef3ff23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-05a.1289.1", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "That will depend upon when you are kind enough, Mr. Speaker, to allow me to speak, but the answer which I have given is the formally correct answer. I hope that influences may be brought to bear to enable you, Sir, to catch my eye—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-05a.1289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-05", "file": "debates1947-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "48565086ef3ff23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-05a.1297.0", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sensible ones.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I thought there was a general impression on the part of the Opposition, and the newspapers that support the Opposition, that there were certain serious economic and financial circumstances with which we are faced, and that they would be the last people who would deny to the Government any necessary powers to deal with them.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-05a.1297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-05", "file": "debates1947-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "48565086ef3ff23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-05a.1337.1", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "p some time at his discretion. We are asked to give powers under which he and he alone can decide the matter and Parliament will have absolutely nothing to do with the set-up of this body. That is going on in Bill after Bill, and I say quite frankly, without any desire to quarrel with the Minister or to interfere with his new advance towards the consumer, because in that I desire to encourage him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-05a.1337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-05", "file": "debates1947-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "48565086ef3ff23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-05a.1337.1", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "inary Socialist back bencher. The support which I have received from hon. Members opposite bears out how very right I am in saying that I would like this Amendment in the Bill, because it would safeguard the consumers, and I do not think that any Minister in any circumstances ought to be trusted with the type of powers which the right hon. Gentleman asks for. It is completely and absolutely wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-05a.1337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-05", "file": "debates1947-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "48565086ef3ff23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-05a.1359.1", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not on points of law.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "I confess I do not follow that, but I have myself conducted an appeal in such cases, and the hon. Gentleman is no doubt aware that we have a Scottish lawyer presiding in a Scottish land court, and, if they go wrong on a point of law, there is an appeal to the Court of Session. I am afraid the hon. Gentleman does not know the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-05a.1359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-05", "file": "debates1947-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "48565086ef3ff23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-05a.1365.0", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "I am amazed at the hon. and gallant Gentleman's impudence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-05a.1365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-05", "file": "debates1947-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "48565086ef3ff23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-05a.1387.2", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FATS, CHEESE AND TEA (RATIONING) ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "prolong the proceedings upon this Motion. I hoped that it might be possible to get from one of those Ministers an answer to a simple question which, if satisfactorily answered, would restrict the length of the Debate, a result which I apprehend would not be unwelcome to the House. In the absence of those Ministers, for whatever reason it may be, I am not unhopeful of obtaining from the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-05a.1387.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-05", "file": "debates1947-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "48565086ef3ff23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-05a.1397.3", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FATS, CHEESE AND TEA (RATIONING) ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " us are dealing with the matter light-heartedly, no housewife in the country is dealing with it lightheartedly. Everybody is remembering, in regard to these proposals, that two years and one month ago, almost to the day, we were exhorted by her colleague, the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Transport, to vote Labour, and to prevent any lowering of the standard of life through reduced rations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-05a.1397.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-05", "file": "debates1947-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "48565086ef3ff23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-05a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL EMPIRE (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "deration. We are told that the country is short of manpower and that we are short of men in the Army. We may be told before many weeks are past that this country has to reduce its commitments throughout the world. I know that there are many hon. Members opposite who like to think today that we are no longer a first-class Power; in fact, who rejoice to think that we have become a third-class Power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-05a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-05", "file": "debates1947-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "48565086ef3ff23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-05a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL EMPIRE (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "en in the Army. We may be told before many weeks are past that this country has to reduce its commitments throughout the world. I know that there are many hon. Members opposite who like to think today that we are no longer a first-class Power; in fact, who rejoice to think that we have become a third-class Power. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"] It is all very well for an hon. Member to say \"Rubbish\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-05a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-06", "file": "debates1947-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a5fc8f492d06e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1473.3", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is not being moved.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I see there is a Notice of Motion to suspend the Rule, in the name of the Prime Minister——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1473.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-06", "file": "debates1947-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a5fc8f492d06e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1473.8", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "sides of the House. It would, indeed, have been quite impossible for us to adjourn, whether for a short or a long time, without such a Debate taking place. I am sure that this opportunity is welcomed by none more warmly than it is by the Prime Minister, who will have this chance of letting the country into the secrets which, as rumour at any rate has it, hon. Members opposite have already enjoyed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1473.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-06", "file": "debates1947-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a5fc8f492d06e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1473.8", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two years ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "t; the Government back benchers, second; the Government, third—won easily; a bad third.\" We are assured, then, that we are going to get today a different answer from that which we got three weeks ago; but we must point out to the Government now that whatever the Prime Minister says this afternoon it will be right for us to do in the national interest, would have been equally right three weeks ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1473.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-06", "file": "debates1947-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a5fc8f492d06e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1473.8", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "he Front Bench opposite to find an alibi. I am afraid that this time some of their old friends have failed them. The weather—I am afraid that old and tried friend of the Minister of Fuel and Power will be no good to them this time. The bankers' ramp—in view of the self-congratulatory statements of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, they cannot use that. Even the Tory legacy is getting a little thin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1473.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-06", "file": "debates1947-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a5fc8f492d06e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1486.1", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "preceding_text": "would be wrong for me to follow that sort of speech today. I would say only one thing in that respect. I think there were some unfortunate remarks which will have repercussions elsewhere where it might do harm, which I am sure the right hon. Gentleman would not wish, to this country. I would allude to one in particular, in which the suggestion was made that we had frittered away the American Loan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-06", "file": "debates1947-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a5fc8f492d06e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1486.1", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "preceding_text": "course of the Debate. I want today to give the House and the country as full and fair a description of our position as I can. I want to trace briefly the course of events, because it is always tempting to \"job\" backwards. I thought even the right hon. Gentleman did so, to some extent, in assuming that the position in which we find ourselves today could necessarily have been foreseen some time ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-06", "file": "debates1947-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a5fc8f492d06e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And leadership.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ng our Colonies to help us by restricting to essentials their claims on our foreign exchange resources, which are of course also theirs. But I am speaking first of all today to our own people. I am appealing to all the people of this country to co-operate whole heartedly with the Government just as they did in the war. To win through we require the same qualities displayed during those long years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-06", "file": "debates1947-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a5fc8f492d06e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1518.1", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairhurst", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"First-class?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairhurst", "preceding_text": "hat time, and I never witnessed any anxiety on those benches about the condition the country was in then. The point that struck me was that there was a gleeful anticipation that something had happened which gave them a chance to bring down this Government. The Economic Survey issued in March this year was, in my opinion, a first-class survey, but I regret that it was negative rather than positive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-06", "file": "debates1947-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a5fc8f492d06e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1520.2", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairhurst", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairhurst", "preceding_text": "Useless and unjustifiable business, using much labour that could be used in essential production, has been going on for quite a long time in this country, and when the people who are doing a useful job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1520.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-06", "file": "debates1947-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a5fc8f492d06e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1525.1", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We shall see.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "er. That is, that workers who fall out of one job will be—I think the euphemistic phrase is—assisted or guided into some other work. That means that a young man who has sufficient independence in savings or otherwise to be able to avoid the employment exchange, will not be liable for direction. It will be those who are compelled to earn their daily bread who will bear the brunt of this \"guidance.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-06", "file": "debates1947-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a5fc8f492d06e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1526.1", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "e confidence of the miner. Every man has one friend, even if it is only his dog. I doubt whether the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Fuel and Power has widespread support amongst any section of the community. There are two other Ministers who ought to go. The Minister of Food ought to go and the Minister responsible for housing ought to go. Nevertheless, I do not wish to be entirely critical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-06", "file": "debates1947-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a5fc8f492d06e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1536.1", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bower", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did the hon. Member report it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bower", "preceding_text": "Let me say at once that I was not intending to cast any reflection upon any Members of this House. I did not specify by whom they were sold OI by whom they were bought; and I most definitely do say now that, as a matter of fact, no Members were concerned in the transactions to which I was referring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1536.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-06", "file": "debates1947-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a5fc8f492d06e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1552.0", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The policy of the country, of course, is one thing, and to refer to an individual is another. If the hon. Gentleman said that it was a secondhand administration——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1551.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-06", "file": "debates1947-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a5fc8f492d06e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1552.4", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I wondered too. The noble Lord said \"anybody of his character\" but it might be a very good character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1552.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-06", "file": "debates1947-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a5fc8f492d06e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1552.6", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "If I am taking up too much of the House's time, it really is not my fault.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1552.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-06", "file": "debates1947-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a5fc8f492d06e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "Better than that anyway. Then we come to the report of the International Economic Policy Sub-Committee of the House of representatives, which first of all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-06", "file": "debates1947-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a5fc8f492d06e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1564.3", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I thought the hon. Gentleman had something useful to contribute to the Debate. The fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1564.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-06", "file": "debates1947-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a5fc8f492d06e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1566.3", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ly hope to win in a life time We are told there is a shortage of labour, but there are available for work in this country far more men and women than there have ever been. We are told there is a shortage of dollars, but there are far more dollars in the world than ever before. There never have been so many dollars in the world. It is only that our great Socialist Government cannot get the dollars—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1566.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-06", "file": "debates1947-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a5fc8f492d06e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1568.1", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman was not in the last Parliament or he would have known something about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-06", "file": "debates1947-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a5fc8f492d06e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackay", "preceding_text": "icism of the Government. The problem with which we are confronted today would have had to be faced by any Government. We are not in this crisis because of the war, although the Bill with which we shall have to deal in the next few days says that we are. The war merely accentuated the situation. If there had been no war, we would have had a crisis of this kind, though of not such a large dimension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-06", "file": "debates1947-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a5fc8f492d06e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1587.1", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady for North Ilford (Mrs. Ridealgh) is certainly a believer in equal misery, but when she says that the workers of this country cannot be expected to put forward their best unless the Royal wedding is an austerity one I think she is both wrong and insulting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-06a.1587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1611.6", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "e Secretary answer the second part of the Question, and say what was the necessity for maintaining this number of police? Is he further aware that within a few days of this meeting being held there was another meeting, convened by the Association of Jewish Ex-Service men, held on about the same spot, which was stopped by the police, who said that they feared a breach of privilege would take place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1611.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1630.5", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stoddart-Scott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stoddart-Scott", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that in America there is a school of thought which thinks that malnutrition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1630.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1648.0", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the Supplies and Services (Transitional Powers) Bill confers on the Executive unprecedented dictatorial powers in time of peace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1648.1", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I agree that it is an important Bill but it is a short Bill. I thought if we had the Second Reading Debate tomorrow, when the principles of the Bill can be debated amply, and then had the Committee stage and the remaining stages on Monday, that is giving an adequate consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1654.4", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "ys when history is being written, and when the eyes of the world are upon us in this little island of ours, as we face a very grave national emergency, and as we debate the action to be taken. We here are the elected representatives of the unconquerable British people, and we must not fail in our trust. We have run into a great storm, and this storm has sprung up very swiftly, as I shall indicate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1654.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1654.4", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "d States line of credit; that is the measure. It has sprung up very swiftly, but it has been brewing for a long time—long before most hon. Members opposite were elected to this House. One of the most notable speeches yesterday was made by my hon. Friend the Member for North-West Hull (Mr. R. Mackay), who showed how, away back in 1932, the late Mr. Neville Chamberlain was also faced with a problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1654.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1654.4", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "here are many reasons, but the reason which sticks out a mile is that both the continent of Europe, ourselves—this island outpost of Europe—and large parts of the continent of Asia, have been war-wounded, ravaged, bombed, invaded, and occupied by the common enemy whom, with such tremendous effort, we defeated; and their recovery of productivity has been much slower than we and the Americans hoped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1654.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1663.1", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " afraid that at this stage I must deploy some figures, at the request of the other side of the House. No doubt my hon. Friends behind me will also wish to have them. It has been alleged that the loan has been squandered. I do not know whether or not that is believed in this House. I have commented upon the quiet tone of the House, and the lack of cheers, but I thought I might have drawn one there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1663.1", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "st deploy some figures, at the request of the other side of the House. No doubt my hon. Friends behind me will also wish to have them. It has been alleged that the loan has been squandered. I do not know whether or not that is believed in this House. I have commented upon the quiet tone of the House, and the lack of cheers, but I thought I might have drawn one there. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak up.\"]—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1674.1", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. Gentleman, on reflection, would agree that it would be most undesirable to begin putting labels on our holdings. Let him think what that does. I am quite friendly about this, and I am anxious to co-operate. I should like, however, to speak a cautionary word on this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1678.10", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "en to be proud before we go on further to be critical. It is a remarkable achievement to have released 830,000 uniformed personnel of the Forces in this period with no serious disorders or disquiets. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said yesterday: I do not pretend that the Government can contemplate with equanimity the retention in the Armed Forces of so large a proportion of our manpower.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1678.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1682.1", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": ". There are some things on which non-party efforts are legitimate and proper on any view of these matters. In the light of the position in which we are now I appeal to all good citizens of whatever party to do their utmost to stimulate the Savings Movement, and give full support to Sir Harold Mackintosh and others who are carrying on with it. I will do my part, and I hope everybody else will join.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1687.3", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Maximum agreement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "That is another matter, and I want to keep this on the minimum of agreement between us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1687.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1687.3", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And pray.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "That is another matter, and I want to keep this on the minimum of agreement between us—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Maximum agreement.\"] I remember very rapid ups and downs on the Stock Exchange in the past, and as with regard to an autumn Budget, so with regard to this, we had better watch and see what happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1687.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1687.3", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " I do not know whether they have decided it or not. They are entitled to do whatever they please, of course, and I would not wish to influence them one way or the other. But what I do say is that we, on this side of the House, jointly with them, have gone through a very strenuous Session in which we consider—I do not ask them to agree with this—that we have gathered a great harvest of legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1687.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1691.4", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Overmuch?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "ome upon us in the end with such startling suddenness, but of which we had long warning, for the clouds have been gathering for a long time? One of the first steps the Government took on coming into office was to bring into operation a system of family allowances, and almost simultaneously greatly to improve the old age pensions of the people of this country. I do not blame them overmuch for that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1691.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1696.1", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "I was thinking of fruits, luxury goods and that sort of thing—things that we could have done without. I put the question: I make no assertion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1704.1", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And greater difficulties.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "age and determination, and great ready willingness, but we must know in great detail what is required. Therefore, we want not only guidance but decision. Hitherto, both vision and decision have been sadly lacking. No Government, I think, at any time in the long history of this country—certainly not within recent memory—started their career with greater hopes and opportunities than this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1708.1", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "est, the drive and the energy of the men who go to work willingly. What is more, direction of labour offends against the sacred right of every man; and, in particular, it offends against all trade unionism. The fundamental of the trade unionist was the right not only to sell his labour, but to withhold his labour in the same way. Apparently, that doctrine is now going; apparently it is going into—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not be too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Member for South Bradford (Mr. Titterington) that I have no sartorial ambitions of any sort or kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1730.3", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Low", "preceding_text": "t the Armed Forces which would enable us to decide whether there are too many or too few. That is the position in which the House finds itself at a time when it is responsible for supporting the Government in the field of manpower. I support the Front Bench opposite when they say that they are not prepared to cut commitments, but what are 700,000 or 800,000 men at home doing, in all those numbers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1730.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1732.1", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Low", "preceding_text": "mmonwealth economy. My last point is to ask the Government to remember that in the long run it is the spirit of the country which will govern the immediate efforts which the country makes. It is the. spirit of the country which has been wounded by the disunity which has come over us since 1945. It is the spirit of the country which has been wounded by the Socialist propaganda of the last 30 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1733.4", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hubbard (Kircaldy)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hubbard (Kircaldy)", "preceding_text": "said to the effect that people could probably be taken from the non-essential to the more essential industries. First of all, however, I would like to see those who make no contribution at all put into some industry or another. Wth regard to another method of rationing, I would suggest that one way out of this crisis would be to issue ration books only on proved employment of some kind or another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1733.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1737.5", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Mr. Gallacher rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1737.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1737.10", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order. Name him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "He was very offensive. You can tell him that; I will tell him myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1737.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1738.1", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "Marshall's speech will lead to further American help towards the recovery of the Old World, and that we shall share in this help. But we cannot and will not base our plans on that assumption.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 6th August. 1947: Vol. 441 c. 1501.] In other words, the only assumption on which the Lord President on 8th July bases his plan, is repudiated by the Prime Minister less than a month later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1745.1", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": ". With regard to livestock production, we have been retarded in that sphere by want of feedingstuffs. The Prime Minister said that the Government had been doing their utmost to get feedingstuffs. No doubt they have, but hon. Members will readily understand that it is not much good doing one's utmost if one comes last in the race. Certainly we have been infinitely less successful than anybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1745.1", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "infinitely less successful than anybody else. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] If we have not been less successful, will hon. Members please explain to me how it is that countries like Holland, Denmark and other European countries are now in a position to export to us pig and poultry produce? Does not that mean that they have been able to get feedingstuffs over and above the requirements of their own people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "or of the Exchequer today did not seem to understand it—with all its insistence upon Socialism, destroys completely the Dunkirk parallel. It is quite true that after Dunkirk this nation made an unprecedented effort, but it made that effort as a united nation. We did not attempt, although we were a majority in Parliament at that time, and had an overwhelming majority, to pass any party legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"You kept things as they were.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "l. It is quite true that after Dunkirk this nation made an unprecedented effort, but it made that effort as a united nation. We did not attempt, although we were a majority in Parliament at that time, and had an overwhelming majority, to pass any party legislation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If any hon. Member can point to a single party measure we introduced after 1940, I should be glad to know of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "and had an overwhelming majority, to pass any party legislation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If any hon. Member can point to a single party measure we introduced after 1940, I should be glad to know of it. [An Hon. Member: \"You kept things as they were.\"] Our supreme crime apparently was to keep things as they were, but we also had another job, which was to keep Hitler out of this land, and we did both.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Coalition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "as to keep things as they were, but we also had another job, which was to keep Hitler out of this land, and we did both. [ Interruption .] I am not claiming that I did it personally. The hon. Member need not be so impatient. I never suggested that I kept the Germans out of Britain. What I was pointing out was that the war Coalition leadership made a certain contribution to the defeat of the enemy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1751.1", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "interpreted the Dunkirk spirit in the sense that we brought in no legislation which represented our party point of view. We could easily have done so, with our large majority. It is now impossible for the Government to appeal for a Dunkirk spirit and, at the same time, announce that they intend to bring in the most violent partisan legislation. I will give one example, the iron and steel industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1753.1", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATE OF THE NATION", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "preceding_text": " which I would like to reply before coming to my main argument. First, he mentioned foodstuffs and gave the figure of 40 per cent as the cut. I think that he is under a complete misapprehension there. It is about 40 per cent. of the hard currency purchases, but that is less than one-sixth of the total. The question he put was how, with a cut of so much as 40 per cent., we could make up the ration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1772.3", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "wo things said by the Leader of the House which leave me not quite understanding what is happening. He appealed to the precedents of the Bills in 1939 and 1940. Does he thereby mean to communicate to the House that the urgency is now the same as it was then, and that the proportionate relation of this Bill to the urgency is as great as the proportionate relation of those Bills to that urgency was?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1772.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1776.1", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I only want to say that in his last observations the right hon. Gentleman is absolutely and completely wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1776.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1779.1", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": " could legitimately be quoted, though the conditions were somewhat different from those of the present emergency. The hon. Member was right when he said that without this Motion three days might have been required for the Bill instead of two. But the primary purpose is not that. Quite frankly, when we brought in the Bill We thought that the Opposition would probably be pleased that we had done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-07", "file": "debates1947-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6214e41bb00d675", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1779.1", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Planning!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ition. But having assumed, in the first place, that the House would wish to pass the Bill through its first stages with reasonable rapidity, we did not have it printed in the usual form required for the financial procedure. Now, if this Motion is rejected and we have to reprint the Bill, we shall have to start the whole process of presentation and introduction again. We shall have to start afresh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-07a.1779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1793.7", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "cessary or expedient for the purposes specified in subsection (1) of section one of the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939. So the Act of 1945 enabled the existing Regulations, subject to such amendment as might be made within their meaning, to be used for the purposes which I have read out from Section 1(1). As is clear from the Preamble to the Bill. the Second Reading of which I am now moving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1793.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1795.1", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e con- vinced the Government that the right course is to ask Parliament to extend the purposes of the Act of 1945. It would not be right that we should be involved in a situation which entails any doubt as to the validity or legality of Government action. It could have been argued, when we brought in the Act of 1945, that it was not at that time necessary. I forget whether it was so argued or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1796.1", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "During recent weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1796.1", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ght it right to introduce in time of peace, and the same will be true of this Measure. Similarly orders made under the regulations will be open to Parliamentary challenge. That is the meaning of the Bill, and these are the reasons the Government are asking Parliament for the Bill. We have no preconceived notions as to precisely how we propose to utilise it. What we need is the power to utilise it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1798.1", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "t out in that Act. That was for a period of five years, with power to renew annually by Resolution of each House of Parliament, and it will run side by side with this one. Therefore, this Bill will last as long, and no longer than, the Act of 1945. I hope the House will give the Bill a Second Reading. I am sorry to see the Opposition have put down a Motion of rejection. I think the Liberal Motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1800.1", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Belgium and Holland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "o of which are at present over. Does anyone pretend that the transition from war to peace is over? How can that be contended? Of course, we all know that Socialism involves the privations and squalors of war prolonged indefinitely in time of peace, the more painful to endure because they have to be borne without the excitement, stimulus and glory of defending home and freedom from the foreign foe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1800.1", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "r is not a new transcendent emergency? That is not a legal matter; it is a political matter. There are all kinds of emergencies which arise from time to time. I believe that all this story about fear of the courts depriving the Government of the powers of the 1945 Act on the grounds that the transition period is over is moonshine and humbug. That is what makes the Conservative and Liberal Parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1800.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1805.0", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "his Bill makes no appreciable change in the law, that it merely revives with indisputable validity the Act of 1945. On the other hand, they demand our assent to terms as wide as those in Clause 1 (1, c ). I must read those words: generally for ensuring that the whole resources of the community are available for use, and are used, in a manner best calculated to serve the interests of the community;", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1804.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1806.0", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is a long time ago.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "hind, in the President of the Board of Trade. No one has ever doubted the sincere fanaticism of the President of the Board of Trade. We all know how he would deal with Parliament, from his speeches and writings of former times. In this connection, and especially in connection with Subsection (1, c ), I must read some of the views which he has expressed. In 1934, at the Socialist Party Conference——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1805.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1807.2", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The right hon. Gentleman said that before.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I must return to the President of the Board of Trade: The devising of the detailed administrative methods for the working out of the (Socialist) Plan are not matters with which the House of Commons need concern itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1807.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1808.1", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "So I did. I have been so much interrupted. But I have got another one: I cannot imagine the Labour Party coming into power without a first rate financial crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "preceding_text": "Do they not think that action is required on a scale not previously required? Such an idea would be absurd. We require to do things now on a scale and with the energy not previously exercised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1813.1", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Under the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "preceding_text": "he United States is something which this House would never tolerate, and which the nation would never tolerate. At the present time we are suffering from some of the clauses of the Loan Agreement, and we must get out of that difficulty. It seems to me that the most important thing we shall be able to do under this Bill is to get the economy of Europe integrated, and to create production in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1813.1", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "preceding_text": "to the Soviet Union. We must have the cooperation of those areas which produce the agricultural supplies—Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and so on. It is essential to have those countries united with us. Therefore, I ask the Government: are they prepared to stress and to press for the integration of those Eastern countries; and will they also press for the integration of the Soviet Union?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1814.1", "colnum": "1814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": " the right hon. Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill)—that faith which has been held by my party. The Liberal Party is small in numbers today, but heaven alone can tell what this country and this House—both sides—the world and democracy in general owe to those who have held my faith, At a time when democracy itself is being threatened, it ill becomes anyone to sneer at the liberty of the individual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1815.2", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A propaganda speech for the Liberal Party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I remind hon. Members opposite that Hitler himself, and even Mussolini, claimed to hold the Socialist doctrine long before turning to other methods. These matters are so fundamental—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1815.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1819.1", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I think that many of us on this side of the House welcome the belligerency of the Leader of the Opposition and the melancholy liturgy of the leader of the Liberal Party. This Bill, whatever its legal significance has for us an immense symbolic significance", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1820.1", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "use they said, as another Government said before the last war, \"We cannot go into this divided, and if we push it at the pace which is wanted by some of our back benchers we shall get divisions among the people who have to carry it out.\" For who are to make the sacrifices? The organised workers of this country, and the Front Bench wisely said to itself, \"We have to wait until the crisis develops—\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1830.3", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I believe it is better to put the pros and cons bluntly on both sides. The policy which was outlined by my right hon. Friend is the policy of the Conservative Party—indeed, of the Liberals also—and has been dealt with in the Industrial Charter.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1830.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1830.3", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "hen we are telling them to tighten their belts and to cut down their capital construction? I believe the Government underestimate the advantages of the power of leadership and example in these matters. Suppose they stopped building the new House of Commons. It would not save so much in materials and so forth, but it would show the world that Britain was facing up to the realities of the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1830.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1830.3", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I hope I shall get as much agreement for my next suggestion. Suppose that, instead of lecturing the trade unions that they must not ask for increased wages, or lecturing directors of firms and saying that they must not distribute profits, we in this House of Commons set an example and cut our salaries by 10 per cent. Suppose Ministers cut their salaries by 10 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1830.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1833.0", "colnum": "1833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quiet, we do not want to hear you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "What does the hon. Member mean by \"squandered?\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1839.1", "colnum": "1839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ng with the hon. Gentleman who spoke from below the Gangway, who is a doctor, though not, I gather, a doctor of law, and then the hon. Gentleman the Member for East Coventry (Mr. Grossman) and the hon. Gentleman who last addressed us, they have indicated an entirely different legal and technical point of view on this Bill from the point of view indicated to us by the Lord President of the Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1839.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1843.5", "colnum": "1843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "We have heard that several times before.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hobson", "preceding_text": "Tell me the old, old story.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1843.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1868.3", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": " regulations are varied they are varied, and the courts of law have to accept them. As I see it, under this Bill and this Subsection, the Government can do anything they like to any person in this nation except throw him into prison. If I am wrong I shall be glad to be told so, but I have very little doubt about it. Next, we will be told that it is a temporary Measure and only for this emergency —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1868.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1876.1", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "preceding_text": " Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) cast doubts on whether what he called the enduring validity of the 1945 Act had been in any way jeopardised; and my answer is that we are advised by the lawyers—and I did not notice that the right hon. and learned Member for West Derby (Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe) controverted the statement—that the powers we seek under this Bill are not all contained in the 1945 Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1879.0", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "veral constituencies, I can say that the burden of our argument on Tyneside and in County Durham, where the effect of recent years of economic stress was only too well known to the voters we were addressing, was always that every step must be taken—I put this in my election address—to prevent us going back to the situation that existed in the period between the two wars. We were facing the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1879.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1879.5", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nationalisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "fore I have finished, but those most in need of cheering up should be dealt with first. In my view there have been only two periods in our history comparable with today. The first was the economic crisis which arose because of the ecclesiastical and trade policy of the Tudors, which resulted in the troubles that came about after the dissolution of the monasteries and the suppression of the Guilds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1879.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1881.6", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman, who is Chief Whip of the Liberal Party, had been here throughout the day he might have had less reason to make that interruption. It is significant that there were no cheers from Members above the Gangway when the hon Gentleman said that the objects were accepted. Now I am asked to accept the Chief Whip of the Liberal Party and his three supporters as the voice of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1881.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1882.3", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When it is sitting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that is an accurate description of this Bill or of any of the preceding Bills with which it has been associated. Any regulation made under the Bill is subject to Parliament. Any general order made under the Bill is also subject to Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1882.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1882.3", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "t to Parliament. [An HON. MEMBER: \"When it is sitting.\"] As right hon. and hon. Gentlemen know, if Parliament is not sitting at the time when an order is promulgated or if, after an order has been promulgated, Parliament adjourns for more than four days, the period during which Parliament is not sitting does not count towards the period over which Parliament has appropriate control of the Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1882.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1882.3", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " an individual expresses doubt as to the validity of a Minister's action. There was the case of Stevenage. Doubt was expressed—it was legitimate doubt, I admit, and one judge was found to agree with the people who expressed doubt—as to the powers of the Minister and the action he had taken. It took nine months to get that issue settled. Serious as that was in the case of the new town of Stevenage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1882.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-08", "file": "debates1947-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "6f5a515bb36da576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1884.1", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I am assured there may be cases where that is not so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-08a.1884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1906.3", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a fact.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "It is not a confession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1906.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1919.3", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED STATES FILMS (TAX)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is the Minister?", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton (by Private Notice)", "preceding_text": "asked the President of the Board of Trade if he has any statement to make upon the effects of the retaliation by the United States Film Industry against the new tax on United States films entering this country as being a violation of the Loan Agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1919.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1919.6", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED STATES FILMS (TAX)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "May I say that I am exceedingly sorry? My right hon. and learned Friend the President of the Board of Trade is on holiday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1919.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1919.7", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED STATES FILMS (TAX)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is a long one.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "May I say that I am exceedingly sorry? My right hon. and learned Friend the President of the Board of Trade is on holiday. [ Interruption .] Even Ministers are entitled to a holiday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1919.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1938.1", "colnum": "1938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Certainly we were told that there was doubt, and I have certainly every reason to believe that the doubt operated in respect of the word \"existing\" regulations, and that no new regulations could be made under this Bill apart from those which have already been made under the 1945 Act. After all, there is the Lord President of the Council. I have a great deal of confidence in his sense of fair play.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1944.0", "colnum": "1944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "ans that there is a statutory construction put upon the Section as from the beginning. That comes to exactly the same thing as: shall be deemed always to have included. There is no difference whatever. It strikes me that the whole argument upon this Amendment is really the greatest waste of time, because the two things mean just the same thing. This is an enabling Bill. It is a Bill that empowers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1947.4", "colnum": "1947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "—and I should have thought the Committee could come to a conclusion now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1947.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1947.4", "colnum": "1947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ose things, they might not be ultra vires . That is the purpose of Clause 1 (1), and it does it in perfectly honest and straightforward language. I am bound to say that on grounds of constitutional doctrine and respectability—if Socialists dare to plead respectability, and I do not see why we should not, because, in these constitutional matters, we are just as respectable as hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1947.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1957.0", "colnum": "1957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Foster", "preceding_text": "asy debating speech, is on record as saying that in no circumstances must the Opposition help the Government, and that if the Government are in a mess they must stay in it, and do not want to profit by our advice. I think that is very ungenerous, and also very unconstitutional, because one of the great lessons of English democracy is that the Opposition acts as a kind of partner to the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1957.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1974.4", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " be the subject of challenge, and sometimes of frivolous challenge, in the courts. We want wide powers because the grave necessities of the existing situation require wide powers sometimes to be exercised. One could forgive more readily the indignation of the right hon. Gentleman and the attempts of himself and his followers to delay and impede the Government in the implementation of their policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1974.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1974.4", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "lous challenge, in the courts. We want wide powers because the grave necessities of the existing situation require wide powers sometimes to be exercised. One could forgive more readily the indignation of the right hon. Gentleman and the attempts of himself and his followers to delay and impede the Government in the implementation of their policy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"] One could understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1974.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1979.0", "colnum": "1979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I can appreciate that, in some people's minds, the first point which the right hon. Gentleman put to me is decisive of this issue, and I am coming to that in a moment, but I am amazed to hear the right hon. Gentleman put forward the second point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1979.0", "colnum": "1979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I can appreciate that, in some people's minds, the first point which the right hon. Gentleman put to me is decisive of this issue, and I am coming to that in a moment, but I am amazed to hear the right hon. Gentleman put forward the second point. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] What conceivable difference can it make how many parties are represented?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1980.1", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "So now we have reached, at last, the principle which I advanced at the beginning, that there is nothing wrong with paragraph ( c ) in principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1980.1", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "So now we have reached, at last, the principle which I advanced at the beginning, that there is nothing wrong with paragraph ( c ) in principle. [ Interruption .] But the right hon. Member has just said so. He has said that what makes the powers wrong is not the principle of the paragraph—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1981.3", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I will come to it in a moment, if the hon. Member wants the exact date. It was some time in 1940.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1981.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1982.1", "colnum": "1982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member says, \"Rubbish.\" He has himself made speeches in the country making the same point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1983.0", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "rs are due to different causes. Although we may differ about the causes, we will agree that they are different. But that is not what he said at Blenheim, and that is not what I said he said. Let us come to the difference in causes. The cause today is just as much due to the world situation as it was then. The United States has been directly responsible for the situation in which we find ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1983.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1985.0", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame. Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "s could have been persuaded to take the view which we on this side unanimously held, namely, that what was required for the purposes of war would necessarily be required for a number of years for the reconstruction of peace, and had continued Lend-Lease for a couple of years afterwards, the world as a whole would be out of its distress; but instead they preferred to act like shabby money-lenders——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1984.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1985.4", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "In my opinion the remark was very undesirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1985.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1995.3", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept that Motion. The Government are perfectly competent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1995.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1998.3", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Mr. Silverman rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1998.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1998.4", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " only from the hon. Members sitting behind him, but even from the Front Bench, quite obviously the attitude now of the Government plus the bulk of their supporters is in favour of the statement made by the hon. Gentleman. It is perfectly obvious that what they have in mind is that this is a moment when these full powers possessed by the House should be surrendered into the hands of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.1998.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2011.1", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "moment was opportune at which such powers could reasonably be given, or whether the Government which demanded these powers was a Government worthy of our confidence. It must be material, when considering whether certain powers are to be given, to consider to whom they are to be given. I submit that we must not be unduly confined in this matter. We must look at it in all its relevant repercussions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2014.5", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "he remarks made about the loan by the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman). I am very well-known in the United States as a lively opponent of the loan in this country, and, if any words of mine carry across the Atlantic, I would like to say that I do not believe that there is one man in a million in this country who shares the views expressed by the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2014.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2029.4", "colnum": "2029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "preceding_text": "I am leaving it to the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2029.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2031.1", "colnum": "2031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "preceding_text": "I will say no more, Mr. Beaumont.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2034.0", "colnum": "2034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "des of the Committee. Let me say at once how much I agreed with the opening of his speech. I associate myself with what he said, and he certainly followed his own doctrine, and gave us a good concrete speech in relation to the Amendment. The real point he raised was, first, \"What are you going to do with this provision?\" My answer is the same answer as I gave on Second Reading, that is, no answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2034.0", "colnum": "2034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "h what he said, and he certainly followed his own doctrine, and gave us a good concrete speech in relation to the Amendment. The real point he raised was, first, \"What are you going to do with this provision?\" My answer is the same answer as I gave on Second Reading, that is, no answer. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] All I have got to show is that there is a prima facie case for this paragraph in the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2034.6", "colnum": "2034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Government was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "espectable, moderate-minded, public-spirited British citizen conceivably quarrel with those sentiments? If the Opposition quarrel with them, I can only feel that they are putting section and class interests before the interest of the community. At any rate, the essence of these words were in the Act of 1940. The Bill was introduced by the Government of which I was a Member—none the worse for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2034.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2036.1", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "s Prime Minister, then he is a Hitler, a dictator, a tyrant and Heaven knows what. We are always getting it and I am getting to the point when I thought perhaps it would be legitimate for me to draw attention to it. The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition says \"Ah, but you are a party Government.\" Mind you, he says a lot of other things about us too. He does not like this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2036.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2036.2", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " getting it and I am getting to the point when I thought perhaps it would be legitimate for me to draw attention to it. The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition says \"Ah, but you are a party Government.\" Mind you, he says a lot of other things about us too. He does not like this Government—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] That is all right. We do not like you, come to that. We all feel——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2036.4", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ey may be amended within the purposes of the Act of 1945—not 1940, but 1945—and this Bill. Consequently, we are legislating within a narrow and defined field, and the dangers of revolution and upset about which the Opposition are trying to scare the country are really all nonsense. The right hon. Gentleman who began the Debate was really working himself up into a state for which there was no need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2036.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2038.0", "colnum": "2038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "he matter are contained in the Act of 1945, and all that this Bill is doing is bringing it up to date and adapting it for additional purposes to meet the present emergency and the present difficulties. The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition is trying to make out that this means red ruin and revolution, and that it enables us to pick people up and dump them down in some terrible way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2038.0", "colnum": "2038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e being of so many of the dearly valued liberties and rights. In these last few days the House of Commons has been voting dozens of Bills which hand over to the executive our most dearly valued traditional liberties. We are sure that these liberties will be in hands which will not abuse them, which will use them for no class or Party interests, which will cherish and guard them … and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2038.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2040.0", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " Shettleston (Mr. McGovern), which fact, I have no doubt, will cheer him up. The right hon. Gentleman continued: and we look forward to the day, surely and confidently we look forward to the day when our liberties and rights will be restored to us, and when we shall be able to share them with the peoples to whom such blessings are unknown.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 3rd September, 1939; Vol. 351, c. 295.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2038.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2040.2", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I am very much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for the quotation which he has read. Will he not complete his services by telling us that his whole party voted for all these Measures at the time, and that they passed, as all great Measures should pass, with an overwhelming measure of public unanimity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2040.3", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There was a war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "One sees how partisan the right hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends are. When I read out those words, namely that the right hon. Gentleman was content to hand these exceptional powers over to men whom he trusted, there were loud cheers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2040.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2042.2", "colnum": "2042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ah.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " is the Defence Regulation under which, applied by that paragraph, we need not produce a Budget and can do without a Finance Bill. He cannot tell me, because there is not any such Defence Regulation. He should not talk this loose, silly stuff. As to the frequency of meetings of Parliament, this Bill will make no difference whatever. Parliament will meet as frequently as is desirable and necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2042.4", "colnum": "2042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "This is a democratic Parliament, and it will have its own will. It is really nonsense to talk like that. We have had a long Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2042.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2046.0", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": ".] The Minister of Health has fought many battles for freedom, among them being the battle against Regulation IAA. He was not prepared to have this regulation in time of war, and I am sorry that he is not here tonight to hear his own words coming back to him. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill), not speaking for the Tory Party, but for liberal-minded people in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2053.2", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "se, Major Milner, but I put it to you that this paragraph is still more substituting centralised action and control for what Otto Kahn called \"the centralised will of the British people.\" Facing this crisis, the Government, it seems to me, would have done very much better to call upon people of every class and condition for a great voluntary effort rather than to direct everything from the centre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2053.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2053.2", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": " State or the community, as paragraph ( c ) would make it, if it were misused. We meet in this Committee tonight as freely elected Members of Parliament not only because of what the workers did in the war but, first, because of what the young pilots did in the war, who came not from the families of the workers or from the families of the aristocrats but from the suburban homes of the middle class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2053.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2054.3", "colnum": "2054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "ver, who is the great auditor and monitor of the times in the United States, will tell us that this is wrong and that the Government is crooked, which it is not, but he will say so. He will say that the local administration is crooked. He will make his case, perhaps in an exaggerated form, but then he will say, \"But this is a fine country.\" They have the sense in America that they own the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2054.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2055.2", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "ered round the globe rather like a goldfish, may I just say that I predict that when the misuse of this Clause begins—the misuse will come as surely as night follows day—the people of this country will rise up. I believe that this House will set the movement alight and that the people will rise up, and that there will be a cry to the Socialist party, \"What have you done with Churchill's Britain?\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2055.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2055.3", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "as so facile at coining vicious phrases to hurl at those he happened to dislike. I am certain that any term, however vile it may be, if it were in use against revolutionaries would be quite acceptable to the right hon. Gentleman. The hon. Member for Wood Green (Mr. Baxter) is against direction of labour in this Bill, because, if there is direction of labour it will fall very heavily on the Tories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2055.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2095.8", "colnum": "2095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"One party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "hlet and book for the purpose of attacking him, and I found it such excellent material that I would regard it as a great tragedy if articles were suppressed. The more books and articles that are written from the other side, the greater the quarry will be for those of us who wish to compile polemical litera- ture which we hope will annihilate the Conservative and Liberal Parties once and. for all.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2095.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2103.2", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "May I say that I am perfectly willing to do so. The hon. Member used a very offensive expression about me, and in the heat of the moment——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2103.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2103.2", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "May I say that I am perfectly willing to do so. The hon. Member used a very offensive expression about me, and in the heat of the moment—— [ Interruption .] The hon. Member has admitted it. If it had not been admitted that the expression was used about me I would have had nothing to say. I understand that it has been admitted that the expression was used about me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2103.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2103.10", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: He has admitted it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "It does arise. I understand that you have ruled as out of Order a sotto voce remark made by an hon. Member while seated and not making a speech, and not directed to any hon. Member of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2103.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2104.10", "colnum": "2104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is optimism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "ctly we are going to do with the powers when we get them.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 8th August, 1947; Vol. 441, c. 1806.] We shall get direction of labour piecemeal, little bits, little regulations, one here, one there; you pray against this one, do not pray against that. I want to see this Government going forward with a properly co-ordinated plan, so that we shall know exactly what is being undertaken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2104.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2112.2", "colnum": "2112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "country. I may be guilty, Major Milner, of repetition, but I must emphasise that throughout the whole of his calm speech we heard no word from the hon. Member as to why there should not be such a Resolution. Those who have put forward this Amendment have presented a case which is unanswerable and positive. They have drawn the attention of the Committee to the singular want of relationship between—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2112.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2116.0", "colnum": "2116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is a \"spiv\"?", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " That is not the purpose of these regulations. What the Amendment would seek to do, and what no doubt the hon. Member for Oxford and his friends on the Front Bench opposite, who support him with such enthusiasm, would desire, is to make it necessary to have a debate in Parliament before an individual direction was given to an individual \"spiv\" that he was to engage in work useful to the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2119.2", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cross over.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "labour, dragooning of workmen, of sufficient importance to be prepared to go to the bother of putting it in an Act of Parliament? Does the Labour Party care for the working man or not? I have been absolutely astounded that here, at six minutes past two in the morning, the Attorney-General has behaved in a totalitarian fashion and has shown himself utterly unworthy of holding his position tonight.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2119.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2138.3", "colnum": "2138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Gestapo.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "rties striving to be Socialist parties, with the intention to govern for a certain class but when they have come into power, instead of having Parliamentary control, they have decided to rule by diktat and by executive action. That was the origin of the National Socialist Party in Germany. I think that the Government and the party opposite are in very grave danger of following in their footsteps.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2144.0", "colnum": "2144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Philips Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Philips Price", "preceding_text": "ers in Council, by administrative order, does not get too great. But anyone who has read, as I read some time ago, Pollard's \"Evolution of Parliament\" will know—it left a great impression on my mind—that the greater the complexity of a society, the tendency is for an increase in delegated legislation. I agree that it is, therefore, all the more necessary that there should be measures of safeguard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2144.0", "colnum": "2144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Philips Price", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Philips Price", "preceding_text": "e who has read, as I read some time ago, Pollard's \"Evolution of Parliament\" will know—it left a great impression on my mind—that the greater the complexity of a society, the tendency is for an increase in delegated legislation. I agree that it is, therefore, all the more necessary that there should be measures of safeguard. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they\"?] Well, there is the negative Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2144.0", "colnum": "2144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Philips Price", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Had he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Philips Price", "preceding_text": "or war production on a big scale which we were not getting. After considerable debates we had appointed a Minister of Production for the purpose of co-ordinating the work between the Departments. It was felt that it was not going as it should. I remember, as a member of the Select Committee on National Expenditure, looking into the question whether the Minister of Production had justified himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2145.1", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": " deal with agriculture. The Prime Minister has told us that agriculture must produce another £100 million worth of produce by 1950. All I can say is we shall not get that. We might even get less if certain things are not done. I listened to the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Mr. Turton) when he was saying that the Government had no need of these powers, and that all they needed was foodstuffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2150.0", "colnum": "2150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Roberts", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"YOU venture wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Roberts", "preceding_text": "I venture to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2150.7", "colnum": "2150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He said symbolic significance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "culty we have felt in deciding whether this is a big Clause or not. If I am asked to withdraw, I will, but there is this difficulty, it has been said on many occasions by the right hon. Gentleman that this is a small matter, but the hon. Member for East Coventry (Mr. Crossman) says that it is a wonderful piece of symbolic Socialism. I would add that I am surprised he did not say, at the same time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2150.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2170.0", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": " these explanations, after bringing forth this ridiculous mouse, the least we can do is to indicate that we are willing to accept his explanation; but I will say it is a very great come-down from some of the things said in a previous stage of this Debate, and if that is what the hon. Member for East Coventry (Mr. Crossman) meant when he said this was the developing and unfolding of great policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2171.0", "colnum": "2171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel J. R. H. Hutchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The gas industry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel J. R. H. Hutchison", "preceding_text": "ery on the fact that iron and steel was chosen in regard to this new Clause. There was no mystery whatsoever. Hon. Members should cast their minds back to a document in which they have great pride—\"Let Us Face the Future\"—and remember what industries they said they would bring under public control. Iron and steel is the only one not yet attempted. If they were honest to their mandate and opinions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2171.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2172.2", "colnum": "2172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Shawcross", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Question be now put.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2174.0", "colnum": "2174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the Committee for speaking at such a late hour but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2174.0", "colnum": "2174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the Committee for speaking at such a late hour but—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"]—I have waited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2174.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2179.6", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Two million.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "No, because they did work harder in those days. Will anyone deny that? The hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that there was only a very small proportion of the working people of this country who were unemployed for any long period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2179.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2180.0", "colnum": "2180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Two million.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "Let us get the facts right. During almost the whole time when Conservative and National Governments were in office the unemployed ranged round about the million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2179.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2182.0", "colnum": "2182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllister", "preceding_text": " recognise that this crisis is a national crisis, a community crisis, and they are prepared to back the Government in implementing everything the Government requires to be done in order to get the nation out of a grave and difficult situation. They believe in the Government and recognise that this is a community crisis and not the kind of artificial crisis hon. Gentlemen opposite produced in 1931—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2183.4", "colnum": "2183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "passed into law, they do not want to have petty contentions in the Preamble. I have never known in my experience of Parliament a Government of any party having brought in a Bill that opened with a Preamble like this one. Take the shortage of coal. My constituents are going to be cold this winter. Is that due to the war or to the dislocation of trade? No. Surely, it is not. It is the five hour day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2183.4", "colnum": "2183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "he Minister of Health. I do not really see why the Government do not take the wiser course of saying, \"We will cut these words out, and have no more argument on this subject,\" because they are very vulnerable, and I believe that some of their own supporters, apart from the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne, have other ideas as to what are the causes of the present crisis. What about eggs and bacon?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2184.4", "colnum": "2184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Five-hour day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Mr. Turton) has shown certain signs of fatigue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2184.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2186.3", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Now, now, the County of London is much less touchy than Kingston-upon-Thames. I thought that the words were relevant and appropriate and ought to stay. There has been a lot of discussion, blaming everything on the Government. I thought that was rather extreme as applied to the whole situation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2193.8", "colnum": "2193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "re asking Parliament to do in this Bill—to make it quite clear that the existing powers, not new ones, contained under the 1945 Act, shall be available for the wide purposes to which the present situation may necessitate they may be directed. Hon. Members opposite, who have sought to exploit every difficulty in which the country has found itself during the course of the past two years, have sought", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2193.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2206.4", "colnum": "2206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were wrong examples.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "I was only giving examples—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2206.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-11", "file": "debates1947-08-11a.xml", "sha256": "8daaf7c1b1aac7ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2223.4", "colnum": "2223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (STRENGTH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "At this early hour.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "Even at this late hour——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-11a.2223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-12", "file": "debates1947-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bb216a612d950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2267.3", "colnum": "2267", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (SPECIAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "those cases have not been tabled for discussion? I hope that in so doing, it will be in Order to ask, Mr. Speaker, and in Order for the right hon. Gentleman to answer, this question: What is the position of those two cases? Is the hon. Member for Gravesend still ill? He has given interviews to the Press, and an hon. Member opposite announced—I do not know if it is true—that he was in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-12", "file": "debates1947-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bb216a612d950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2267.3", "colnum": "2267", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (SPECIAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": " lesser case of Mr. Schofield and to leave the major case of the hon. Members who have been convicted of a breach of Privilege by, at any rate, a majority of the Committee of Privileges. I would only in conclusion say that, surely, the right hon. Gentleman and the House do not want to give the impression that they are willing to strike at a Tory journalist but afraid to wound their own supporters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-12", "file": "debates1947-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bb216a612d950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2267.3", "colnum": "2267", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (SPECIAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "House do not want to give the impression that they are willing to strike at a Tory journalist but afraid to wound their own supporters. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"] There is no reason for supposing that that would be their attitude; I am sure it is not. But on the face of it, it would give that impression. At any rate, we ought to have an explanation. Those are the questions to which I want an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-12", "file": "debates1947-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bb216a612d950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2273.2", "colnum": "2273", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (SPECIAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "Is not the issue before the House a simple one, namely, whether or not the Committee of Privileges have power to request individuals to answer questions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-12", "file": "debates1947-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bb216a612d950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2274.3", "colnum": "2274", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (SPECIAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. There are one or two questions I wish to ask, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2274.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-12", "file": "debates1947-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bb216a612d950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2274.3", "colnum": "2274", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (SPECIAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "e put to you, Mr. Speaker, or to the Leader of the House—I am certainly endeavouring to be uncontroversial. I think the House should be advised in advance of what procedure is going to be followed. Are questions to be addressed by you, Mr. Speaker, to the two gentlemen, both of whom are persons of high repute, apart from whatever offence they may have committed here, and are they to be addressed—?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2274.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-12", "file": "debates1947-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bb216a612d950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2289.1", "colnum": "2289", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (SPECIAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Reid", "preceding_text": "y seemed to think they owed. They did not act contumaciously in any way, and I am certain that they did not think they were committing contempt in not answering the question. In fact, as the evidence shows, they were told that all the Committee would do would be to refer the matter to this House. Therefore, I heartily support the Motion which has been moved to take no further action in the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-12", "file": "debates1947-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bb216a612d950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2302.3", "colnum": "2302", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (SPECIAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "I agree. I want to ask the Attorney-General to clarify one point which I think he left rather obscure when he spoke just now. I imagine one limitation which is implicit in this Motion is that, the question, a refusal to answer which constitutes a contempt, must be relevant to the matter referred by the House to the Select Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-12", "file": "debates1947-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bb216a612d950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2314.1", "colnum": "2314", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Creech Jones)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why notorious?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Creech Jones)", "preceding_text": ", and I think we owe a great debt to the Administration for the difficulties they have faced, the dangers through which they have passed, and the magnificent way in which the difficult problems of maintaining civil life have been tackled. In this period 1,500 Jews a month have been admitted into Palestine, nearly 400 a week; 30,000 over and beyond the 75,000 laid down in the notorious White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-12", "file": "debates1947-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bb216a612d950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2351.3", "colnum": "2351", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "re the property of the Central Council of Soviet Trades Unions. These men undergo political training, and training in diversionary activities, according to my information, in this place which I have mentioned; and in a place not far away—a few hundred kilometres away—they undergo six week's weapon training and field training, I have no means of checking whether or not this information is accurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-12", "file": "debates1947-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bb216a612d950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2381.4", "colnum": "2381", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "No, it is not a hypothetical question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2381.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-12", "file": "debates1947-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bb216a612d950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2392.2", "colnum": "2392", "heading": "ASSOCIATION OF EX-SERVICE CIVIL SERVANTS (RECOGNITION)", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": "e war. This time everyone, civilians and those in uniform alike, felt the impact of the war. Men who served in the National Fire Service or in some other form of national service, equally served their country and, indeed, sometimes at greater risk than many men who went into uniform. Therefore this time there has not been the comradeship there was among ex-Service men after the 1914–18 war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-12", "file": "debates1947-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bb216a612d950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2392.2", "colnum": "2392", "heading": "ASSOCIATION OF EX-SERVICE CIVIL SERVANTS (RECOGNITION)", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": "ervice men after the 1914–18 war. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am simply stating facts. The ending of this war did not see the influx one might have expected into an association of this sort by ex-Service men who came back from the war. Apparently they have preferred in fairly large numbers to go into one of the other trade unions or associations which cater for their grade of the Civil Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-12", "file": "debates1947-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bb216a612d950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2396.5", "colnum": "2396", "heading": "ASSOCIATION OF EX-SERVICE CIVIL SERVANTS (RECOGNITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are four unions in the Alliance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "ce Civil Servants. As a result, an inspection was held, which was I believe agreed to quite freely by all the bodies concerned; I had nothing to do with it. As a result the membership was shown to be, in the case of the Alliance, 93,954, practically 94,000, whilst the A.E.C.S. could only show a membership of 8,568. In other words, there were 10 times more in the Alliance than in the smaller union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2396.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-12", "file": "debates1947-08-12a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bb216a612d950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2396.5", "colnum": "2396", "heading": "ASSOCIATION OF EX-SERVICE CIVIL SERVANTS (RECOGNITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "ere are four unions in the Alliance.\"] The number of temporary clerks is 170,000. If the House will remember that figure, they will see that 50 per cent. were in the Alliance and less than 5 per cent. were in the A.E.C.S. On those figures, the Treasury had no alternative but to withdraw formal recognition, so far as temporary clerks were concerned, from the Asociation of ex-Service Civil Servants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-12a.2396.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2399.6", "colnum": "2399", "heading": "FRENCH PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ation in Paris when we may, in our turn, be able to give a welcome to those of our British colleagues who would care to visit the French Parliament May we offer you, Mr. Speaker, our warmest appreciation for your welcome and assure you of our gratitude and deep respect. That is signed by M. G. Monnerville, President of the Council of the Republic and M. Herriot, President of the National Assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2399.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2423.6", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "It is the same Government, or it ought to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2423.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2427.0", "colnum": "2427", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. The hon. Gentleman is completely misinformed. The rise in prices has been going on for the last two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2428.0", "colnum": "2428", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I am not in any way criticising the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2430.1", "colnum": "2430", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"Did you know about that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "the House that on 7th May, 1940, the Government of that day proposed to adjourn, with the consent of all sides at that time, and I then had to move an Amendment that the House should not adjourn because of the seriousness of the situation. It turned out that I was right, because the very day after the House adjourned Holland and Belgium were put completely and absolutely under the heel of Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2434.3", "colnum": "2434", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "I will come back to the point at issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2438.3", "colnum": "2438", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I will leave the Leader of the Liberal Party, who is certainly creating the danger of making me excited as well. The hon. and gallant Member for Ayr Burghs (Sir T. Moore) was quoting what some hon. Members had been saying on this side of the House. The hon. and gallant Member, who is remembered of course for his remarkable article in the \"Daily Mail\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2438.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2439.2", "colnum": "2439", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2439.2", "colnum": "2439", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. [ Laughter .] Is it funny?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2439.4", "colnum": "2439", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "It is awfully funny, I know, but my point of Order is this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2439.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2440.0", "colnum": "2440", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I listened to the right hon. Gentleman, and he said that the hon. Member was more in Order than I was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2440.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2440.4", "colnum": "2440", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I have only one further comment to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2440.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2441.1", "colnum": "2441", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "In the pub, that's where you will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2441.2", "colnum": "2441", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2441.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2441.14", "colnum": "2441", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of Order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. You may be aware that in Wales there is a very strong feeling on the subject of public houses.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2441.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2441.14", "colnum": "2441", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of Order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. You may be aware that in Wales there is a very strong feeling on the subject of public houses.—[ Interruption .] The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Bromley (Mr. H. Macmillan) may sneer. Perhaps he does not agree.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2441.14"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2442.6", "colnum": "2442", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I submit that the hon. Member is so well known in Wales that if it were said, it would be known to be untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2442.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2442.10", "colnum": "2442", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member asks for my protection, which is accorded to him immediately, but I think that at the moment we are making a tremendous lot out of a very small—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2442.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2443.5", "colnum": "2443", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have appealed to the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2443.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2444.0", "colnum": "2444", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "I was saying that in that way it is possible for Members of Parliament to obtain the closest possible contact with their constituents. I suggest that if the hon. Member for Central Cardiff (Mr. G. Thomas) carried out that procedure he would learn from his constituents their feelings towards this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2444.1", "colnum": "2444", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I really must appeal to the House. It is not for me to determine the accuracy of any charge, if a charge were made, and I am not convinced that any such charge was made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2445.1", "colnum": "2445", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "And in mine, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2446.1", "colnum": "2446", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "untry is entitled to know whether the Government are looking after the dollars which we have left as well as they should be? I say that they have not been looking after them very properly. I say that there is some money missing from the till; it is public money, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer is in charge of that till. I am not suggesting that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has dollar bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2450.3", "colnum": "2450", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I do not desire to say anything at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2456.4", "colnum": "2456", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": " everything, but who have not succeeded in winning a by-election for months, and who now say that the country is in such a state of crisis that the Government cannot be trusted to go away for a few weeks' holiday. I think it would be very interesting to have a by-election to see whether the Government are still enjoying the almost undiminished support of the country. My impression is that it docs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2456.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2461.4", "colnum": "2461", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not three months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "Nevertheless, I find it very difficult today to justify going away for three months at this time of crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2461.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2462.0", "colnum": "2462", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "think that the hon. Member for Central Cardiff, or anyone else, is going to have a holiday all the time. Some people can have a holiday in their own constituency. As far as I am concerned I made plans a couple of months ago and, what is more, I went away last week. But I saw such glaring headlines in the Press relating to the economic situation that I was alarmed, and I have come all the way back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2462.0", "colnum": "2462", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "e just as serious a sense of responsibility of my duties in this House as hon. Members opposite. Having come back, I was amazed to find confronting me an emergency Bill which had to be rushed through in 48 hours, giving the Government a complete blank cheque to do what they like in order to meet the economic situation, and, having got that Bill through, they are going to disperse for three months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2468.1", "colnum": "2468", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"Why 'even'\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I appeal with confidence to all hon. Members, certainly to those of my party, and also to those of the Liberal Party to support us in this matter. There are even some independent Members in this House of Commons who are Members of the Labour Party.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2470.3", "colnum": "2470", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " House is happy or pleased; but I sometimes think hon. Members opposite are happy and pleased about it. I sometimes feel that they think that the more the country is in trouble, the better politically it is for them. The fact that a whole series of speakers have gone out of their way today, after this week of pretty acid and controversial Debate about a Bill which need not have been controversial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2470.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2471.5", "colnum": "2471", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I know, but have there not been references from Conservative people about the nation being in pawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2471.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2471.6", "colnum": "2471", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stand up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2471.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2472.3", "colnum": "2472", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "But the Opposition constantly say that the Government have no ideas. After having listened to the detailed speech of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2472.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2475.1", "colnum": "2475", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ally on the opposite side in the last few weeks, and that hon. Members, particularly hon. Members opposite, would be all the better for a break. Members of Parliament are entitled to a holiday. I am glad that it has been said that so are Ministers of the Crown, who, I hope, are going to have one—I am going to have one—because it is good for us to have a holiday, otherwise we shall be a ragged lot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2500.2", "colnum": "2500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN-BORN WIVES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS : \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "I am not interested on such a point as this, in whether a man is a British subject or not. I am trying to get this unhappy matter into proportion by showing that, in truth and in fact, the British Government, which I support, have in fact treated far more than 15 people with at least equal severity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2500.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2500.6", "colnum": "2500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN-BORN WIVES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"Do they want to go back?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "So long as I have the venomous hatred of the hon. Member for Shettleston (Mr. McGovern) I am satisfied that I am on the right path. We are complaining, quite rightly, that we would like to see the 15 Soviet girls come and join their husbands in this country. But there are many more than 15 Soviet citizens in the British zone in Germany, whom the Soviet Government would like to go back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2500.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2500.6", "colnum": "2500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN-BORN WIVES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "We are complaining, quite rightly, that we would like to see the 15 Soviet girls come and join their husbands in this country. But there are many more than 15 Soviet citizens in the British zone in Germany, whom the Soviet Government would like to go back. [An HON. MEMBERS: \"Do they want to go back?\"] Some of them want to go back, and some of them ought to go back just because they do not want to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2500.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2500.6", "colnum": "2500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN-BORN WIVES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": " the 15 Soviet girls come and join their husbands in this country. But there are many more than 15 Soviet citizens in the British zone in Germany, whom the Soviet Government would like to go back. [An HON. MEMBERS: \"Do they want to go back?\"] Some of them want to go back, and some of them ought to go back just because they do not want to. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Certainly. We in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2500.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2501.1", "colnum": "2501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN-BORN WIVES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "g to a few British traitors in Germany and a few traitors in the Soviet zone of Germany, I was referring to the young women in Soviet Russia, for whom I have expressed sympathy already, should he not see a doctor? One of the inevitable tragedies of a discussion like this is that feelings are aroused amongst various Members of the House, almost all of whom are entirely ignorant of the Soviet Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-08-13", "file": "debates1947-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "807cf1a5ac218e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2504.0", "colnum": "2504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIAN-BORN WIVES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "That, I think, does come singularly oddly from an individual who poured out the filthiest abuse on the Soviet Union last night or the night before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-08-13a.2504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-21", "file": "debates1947-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "aef97a0476ff1baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.27.3", "colnum": "27", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ubject. This, however, I must say at once. On the face of it there would seem to be neither justification for such an amendment nor an electoral mandate for it. The matter was dealt with, as hon. Members opposite will no doubt recall, in \"Let Us Face The Future\" in these words: And in stating it, we give clear notice that we will not tolerate obstruction of the people's will by the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.27.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-21", "file": "debates1947-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "aef97a0476ff1baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.27.3", "colnum": "27", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "alf of the Government, by the Government spokesman in another place. I am, unfortunately, precluded by our rules from quoting the actual words used, but I commend them to the study of hon. Members on that side of the House. I can only say that the First Lord of the Admiralty made it plain that, in the Government's judgment, the Opposition majority had been used in a moderate and statesmanlike way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.27.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-21", "file": "debates1947-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "aef97a0476ff1baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "preceding_text": "he matter of the Gracious Speech itself and the remarks of the right hon. Gentleman opposite, as usual there are several matters of Business that fall to be dealt with. The announcement of the engagment of Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth has been greeted with great satisfaction throughout the whole country—and I believe that the House would like the opportunity of recording its feelings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-21", "file": "debates1947-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "aef97a0476ff1baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "preceding_text": "e for the Debate, and the proposed arrangements will be announced in the usual way. I hope, however, that the Debate might be concluded next week. I regret to say that it will be necessary for the Government to ask again for the whole time of the House for Government Business and to provide for the presentation of Government Bills only and to stop the ballot for Private Members' Bills and Motions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-21", "file": "debates1947-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "aef97a0476ff1baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only during war,\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "preceding_text": "t it will be necessary for the Government to ask again for the whole time of the House for Government Business and to provide for the presentation of Government Bills only and to stop the ballot for Private Members' Bills and Motions. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"] The necessary Motion will appear on the Paper and will be moved tomorrow. I have heard this Motion very many times by very many Governments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-21", "file": "debates1947-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "aef97a0476ff1baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are grateful for that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "preceding_text": "de this impossible. The House will see from the Gracious Speech that our legislative programme, though not as extensive as that of last Session, is bound to take up a good deal of time. We shall, of course, as was done last Session, endeavour to provide opportunities for Debate on matters of general interest, and we propose in the interest of Private Members to safeguard the half-hour Adjournment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-21", "file": "debates1947-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "aef97a0476ff1baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "preceding_text": "also intending to complete the process of bringing under public ownership the fuel and power industries by the nationalisation of the gas industry. The House is, of course, aware that this industry is very largely already in public hands and publicly controlled, and in view of the report of the Heyworth Committee, I can really see no reason—apart from what we sometimes call ideological prejudices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-21", "file": "debates1947-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "aef97a0476ff1baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "conomic resources of this country. We have considered it right to examine the question of any possible reductions, not only in the remainder of this financial year, but also in the period of 18 months ending 31st March, 1949, and against the background of the needs of our long-term defence policy in so far as they can be foreseen at this time. It is difficult to foresee things at the present time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-21", "file": "debates1947-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "aef97a0476ff1baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.38.5", "colnum": "38", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nt to be raised in Debate. The short point is that any temporary immobility will be during the re-sorting out of the ships and personnel—a purely temporary manning. The suggestion that this is a sudden reduction of the entire Fleet to a kind of care and maintenance basis is quite wrong. My right hon. Friend the Minister of Defence is perfectly willing to give the facts in the course of the Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.38.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-21", "file": "debates1947-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "aef97a0476ff1baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are much higher today.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "culty in finding out what profits the coalowners were making and what were the salaries of the managing directors under private capitalism. The information that I would like to obtain is how the salaries of the Coal Board, under nationalisation, compare with the salaries of the managing directors of the Bairds, Dalmellingtons and big combines which controlled the industry under private capitalism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-21", "file": "debates1947-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "aef97a0476ff1baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "lliery which achieved the record output. The chair was taken by the colliery manager who, I believe, was a very efficient manager because he had the confidence of the men. He opened the meeting of the consultative committee by saying, \"We will take the minutes of the last meeting, gentlemen.\" He refered to the miners who were selected democratically by the men to attend the meeting as \"gentlemen.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-21", "file": "debates1947-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "aef97a0476ff1baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "very efficient manager because he had the confidence of the men. He opened the meeting of the consultative committee by saying, \"We will take the minutes of the last meeting, gentlemen.\" He refered to the miners who were selected democratically by the men to attend the meeting as \"gentlemen.\" [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"] Why not, indeed! But were they described in that way under private ownership?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-21a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-22", "file": "debates1947-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "de9bd008b832642f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.92.2", "colnum": "92", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But did not take it all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "During that Debate, in which, as far as I can see, the primary case for the Motion was the Bill which became the Parliament Act of 1911, the Government proposed to put a limit on the amount of Private Members' time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.92.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-22", "file": "debates1947-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "de9bd008b832642f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.92.2", "colnum": "92", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "During that Debate, in which, as far as I can see, the primary case for the Motion was the Bill which became the Parliament Act of 1911, the Government proposed to put a limit on the amount of Private Members' time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"But did not take it all.\"] No, they did not take all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.92.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-22", "file": "debates1947-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "de9bd008b832642f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cecil Poole", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are more of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cecil Poole", "preceding_text": " there are so many Members in this House who do not know the value of Private Members' time. A very right and proper point was put by the right hon. and gallant Member for Gainsborough (Captain Crookshank) when he said that Private Members' time was not merely a matter for the Opposition Members of Parliament, but was a more important and fundamental matter for the people who sit on these benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-22", "file": "debates1947-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "de9bd008b832642f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "th, the colour and the interest of a free House of Commons, willingly assisting the warders in clamping the shackles on their traditional liberties. I can only suggest that they are still so bemused by the outmoded document, \"Let Us Face the Future,\" that they can think only of the future and can learn nothing from the past. Quite a lot could be learnt from the past, as they themselves will learn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-22", "file": "debates1947-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "de9bd008b832642f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sour grapes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "eel very grieved for them that they have not the opportunity which Private Members' time gives of showing their mettle and incidentally of contributing to the general welfare and good of the country. Indeed, from the Government's point of view those Motions provided a far more important weather vane of public opinion than the well selected by-elections on which the Government so consistently rely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-22", "file": "debates1947-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "de9bd008b832642f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I am not saying anything of the kind, and anybody who said that would be quite wrong. The interesting thing is that, without there being any compulsion, nine-tenths of them did it. It is a strange commentary that, without any compulsion, nine-tenths of them did it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-22", "file": "debates1947-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "de9bd008b832642f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Page 284.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "tee of Imperial Defence—who told us quite clearly that he had not got the haziest idea of the position of the Home Fleet. It is a monstrous suggestion that such people should have the time which is taken away from Private Members. I see the Lord President smiling. That reminds me that he made a speech on this subject earlier in the day. He said that he had read Erskine May up to page 200, I think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-22", "file": "debates1947-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "de9bd008b832642f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "ent performed on the Floor of the House are performed elsewhere. I suggest to the Lord President that he should give very serious consideration to the recommendations made by a great Socialist, a great Scotsman and a former Secretary of State for Scotland, in the Gilmour Report of 1937. In that Report recommendations were made whereby the Scottish Grand Committee could have its functions extended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-22", "file": "debates1947-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "de9bd008b832642f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Senior Burgess.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "Do give me time to come to them all. The hon. Burgess for Oxford University—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-22", "file": "debates1947-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "de9bd008b832642f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.156.3", "colnum": "156", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "n Lawrence, as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, violently opposed. We had three Divisions before we could get that Bill on that Friday afternoon. When we went to a Division on it I managed to carry the Bill against the Government, but so far as I know that fact made no difference to the Government. I regret to say that not sufficient time was found for the Bill to go any further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-22", "file": "debates1947-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "de9bd008b832642f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I am not surprised.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "ve nothing about them that smacks of a fair judicial trial. I know that I have spoken with some feeling. The reason is that I have seen what has happened to comrades in Greece. Almost every person who gave me any hospitality or who had any dealings with me in Greece has suffered. Within a month of my departure from that country, they were away in exile or fleeing from the hands of the gendarmerie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-22", "file": "debates1947-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "de9bd008b832642f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Leah Mannin{", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Leah Mannin{", "preceding_text": "as we had expected from the Marshall plan. I want to ask the Government what picture of our assets have they drawn to the Government of America? What bargaining power does America think we possess? Are they allowing America to think that we are a down-at-heel nation, on the way out? Nothing could be further from the truth. We are not a nation that stands alone. We are part of a great Commonwealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-22", "file": "debates1947-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "de9bd008b832642f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.220.1", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are dead.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": "s. The second reason was that it coincided with the ratification of the peace treaty in Bulgaria, and that it would have been a strategical time and a psychological time to show clemency. The third was that Bulgaria had, on 9th September, their great national day of liberation, released thousands of their political prisoners, and in point of fact very few prisoners in Bulgaria are today in prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-22", "file": "debates1947-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "de9bd008b832642f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.222.1", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": "I will not give way because I am fighting against time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-22", "file": "debates1947-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "de9bd008b832642f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.222.5", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": "tish National Anthem was played and at times the chorus was played six times over and on all sides one could hear voices—\"Long Live the Democratic British Workers\" and on 9th September, in Sofia half a million voices saying, \"We want friendship with Great Britain.\" There is no man who dared deny that Reports, I think, had been sent to the Foreign Office confirming it through representatives there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.222.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-10-22", "file": "debates1947-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "de9bd008b832642f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BASIC PETROL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Pomegranates?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. and learned Gentleman not agree when he talks about the sheer necessities that dollars might just as well be saved by not buying grapes as by not buying petrol? Does he not think we could save money with less hardship to the country by not buying these surplus things that we do not really want?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-22", "file": "debates1947-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "de9bd008b832642f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BASIC PETROL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You were.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "I thought I was being accused of talking out the Adjournment Motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-22a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-23", "file": "debates1947-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "58ba8f832f0e7d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-23a.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "ROYAL NAVY (STRENGTH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "I am not sure how long I am entitled to speak, but the statement which I have put in is in courtesy to the House and in response to questions. May I say on the first point as to what appeared in the Press and why it was not immediately corrected, it was because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-23a.249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-23", "file": "debates1947-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "58ba8f832f0e7d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-23a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should blame private enterprise which makes ploughshares. The allocations of steel have been very much increased this quarter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-23a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-23", "file": "debates1947-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "58ba8f832f0e7d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-23a.298.6", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "n of goods which are vitally needed at the present time. What folly it is to think of these things purely in fiscal terms. Economists are always talking about drawing off the purchasing power of the people as if the British people were cattle to be milked and as if State finance was the only thing that mattered. The people need incentives to produce the goods to absorb the money they already have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-23a.298.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-23", "file": "debates1947-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "58ba8f832f0e7d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-23a.299.0", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. The noble Lord the Member for Horsham (Earl Winterton) has made a statement telling me to \"go back to the land of my birth.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-23a.299.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-23", "file": "debates1947-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "58ba8f832f0e7d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-23a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Private enterprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "rstood that there might be some legal consequences, but I was told that was precisely wht they had a solicitor for. I believe the Government ought to consider that when 250 or 300 men are losing work week after week, are finding themselves unemployed, when goods are not being produced, some more urgent administrative action is wanted. We want to get a system by which these things can be put right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-23a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-23", "file": "debates1947-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "58ba8f832f0e7d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-23a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "e miners about 10 weeks ago and said, \"I want you to work an extra half hour a day. It will solve our problems and it will save Europe from Communism. Please, comrades, do an extra half hour, if not for the sake of your country, for the sake of your Socialist Government.\" As far as I know, they are still thinking about it. It is true he has put the facts before them, but what is the response? Nil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-23a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-23", "file": "debates1947-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "58ba8f832f0e7d72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-23a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Opposition benches.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ft Charter, which forbids any increase of existing preferences or extension of any new ones without approval of the International Trade Organisation. We shall hope for an early statement on that matter. But I must warn the right hon. and learned Gentleman in advance that there will be the greatest possible opposition from the Government benches to any serious whittling down of Imperial Preference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-23a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-24", "file": "debates1947-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "39c5c05133a35681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.384.6", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "n the Government? Moreover, one's confidence is not restored when, turning to the Gracious Speech, we find that, having called attention in the first few paragraphs to our economic position in the mildest possible language, it then goes on to deal with legislation, and the first thing suggested is that the position of the House of Peers should be dealt with. I hold no brief for the House of Peers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.384.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-24", "file": "debates1947-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "39c5c05133a35681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.384.6", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": " As a result of those two Elections the Act of 1911 was passed. At that time there was reality in the cry of \"People versus the Peers.\" They were standing in the way of the will of the people. But what has happened since? Since then we have been practically a single Chamber. For 36 years the Peers have not ventured or dared to interfere with a major Bill—certainly not with its principle or policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.384.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-24", "file": "debates1947-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "39c5c05133a35681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.384.6", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There has been no need to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": " what might have happened if her successors had exercised that right, but no one ever dared to exercise it, and every constitutional lawyer today recognises that the right of veto has disappeared—gone completely. What has happened under the Act of 1911? Since 1911, for 36 years, the Members of another place have not dared to throw out a single major Bill proposed by this House and sent up to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.384.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-24", "file": "debates1947-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "39c5c05133a35681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That they will not come back.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "\"carry over\" even with a General Election intervening. Does he realise that, if another place throws out a Bill next year, even under the present Act, and a General Election takes place, assuming his party comes back and passes that Bill again, it will become law, although there has been a General Election. That was provided for in the Act of 1911. Of what, therefore, is the hon. Gentleman afraid?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-24", "file": "debates1947-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "39c5c05133a35681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "se. They will be giving a right to another place which has been dormant for so long that might, in a few years time, have been regarded as dead. Therefore, I can neither be exhilarated with what has been proposed nor can I ask myself to be indignant with regard to it. What appals me is that at a time like this, with the grim situation as described by, the right hon. and learned Gentleman yesterday", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-24", "file": "debates1947-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "39c5c05133a35681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "Address, a large number of different topics. I am sure he will not expect me to pick up all those today. I am tempted to say something about the House of Lords, but it can wait a bit. I am tempted also by some of the observations towards the end of his speech in which, it seemed to me, he was making a gross confusion between what we British people, with the full light of democracy shining upon us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-24", "file": "debates1947-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "39c5c05133a35681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Such as Professor Robbins?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "give the House as clear a statement as possible on these matters. It is right that it should go on the record, and I shall welcome any comments that may be made from any quarter on what I shall say. I hope I shall be able to dispose of some of the old wives' tales which have been circulating, sometimes above the signatures of academic persons who are not completely well informed on these matters.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-24", "file": "debates1947-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "39c5c05133a35681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Unemployment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": "interference. The Commandments say: \"Thou shalt not steal\" and \"Thou shalt not covet,\" but this Government is threatening to steal and is coveting all the time. Where the carcase is, there will the jackals be gathered together. But they can only eat the carcase once! The Government should remove all controls inside three months, and allow the law of supply and demand to operate. That would create—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.434.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-10-24", "file": "debates1947-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "39c5c05133a35681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It was the hon. Member's Government.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": "rvation. If hon. Members think I am over-stating this case, let me remind them of what was said by Commissioner Lamb, of the Salvation Army, and he is not a politician but he does know something about the poor. He said: The country has during the last decade spent over £1,000 million on the relief of able-bodied men and women, and has got nothing for it but a heritage of misery and demoralisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-24", "file": "debates1947-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "39c5c05133a35681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "ough Greece and Turkey are thousands of miles away we will support the independence of Greece and stop Communist activities there.\" Plan \"B\" is to come westward and, thank God, we have had a reaction in the recent elections in France against Communist activity. Plan \"B\" was for the Russians to come through France on to the Channel ports. I am glad the Minister for Economic Warfare is in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-24", "file": "debates1947-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "39c5c05133a35681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.454.4", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": " we were only offering our co-operation on that basis. I wish most emphatically to repudiate that suggestion. What we feel is that the test of legislation is: does it fulfil its purpose and what probable effect will it have on the improvement of the economic situation of the country? We will consider all legislation with the greatest sympathy and be prepared to examine it in that attitude of mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.454.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-24", "file": "debates1947-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "39c5c05133a35681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.454.4", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "sympathy and be prepared to examine it in that attitude of mind. [ Interruption .] If the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman) will wait I shall be obliged. He might allow me to develop my point. When we get legislation such as the Transport Act and the Electricity Act, which admittedly are not going to do anything to assist or benefit us in dealing with the short-term problem then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.454.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-24", "file": "debates1947-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "39c5c05133a35681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "preceding_text": "l pools are run, but, if the Government taxed the pools, no money would be paid out unless the tax had been paid on that particular pool coupon, and we should be assuring the people that the pools were run rather more fairly than is the case at the present time. This seems to me to be a very good thing for the Government to bring in at the present time in order to combat this problem of inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-24a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-27", "file": "debates1947-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbe2937fc6a0ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.501.3", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "I have very great sympathy with my hon. Friend's suggestion. As a matter of fact a good many shopkeepers give this privilege to women who have just had a child, but it is very difficult to extend the actual queue priority document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.501.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-10-27", "file": "debates1947-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbe2937fc6a0ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.502.5", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "But not meat.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "They get the extra cheese and extra bread ration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.502.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-27", "file": "debates1947-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbe2937fc6a0ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.552.2", "colnum": "552", "heading": "GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "If I misinterpreted the hon. Gentleman, I apologise. I think the real opposition put up to the Nazis was that put up by the poor old Conservatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.552.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-27", "file": "debates1947-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbe2937fc6a0ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.555.2", "colnum": "555", "heading": "GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "lish Government, for which they paid no compensation, naturally. They did it when the territory was seized under the Agreement. I saw an example of the kind of culture which is going on. If we were to take some of our bigger mansions which various earls and dukes find they cannot sell at a reasonable price and use them, as Himley Hall may be used, for holiday places for the miners of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.555.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-27", "file": "debates1947-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbe2937fc6a0ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "aise matters of policy, naturally he could refer only to what were his directives—that he had to carry out the policy of Potsdam. At long last, we now have a Cabinet decision which modifies the level of industry plan of March, 1946, and I think the House and the country are indebted to the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Liberal National Party for his correspondence with the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-27", "file": "debates1947-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbe2937fc6a0ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.593.0", "colnum": "593", "heading": "GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Jeremiah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "American zone. Until that time it had been possible to argue that no sufficient breach had taken place to warrant us building up a Western Germany independent of Eastern Germany. It might be argued, as it has been argued by the right hon. Gentleman, whom I compared, last time I spoke on this subject, to Job, that he would go on waiting until there was a change of heart on the part of the Russians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-27", "file": "debates1947-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbe2937fc6a0ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "ed came upon us, and it went back. Up to yesterday it has now been brought up to 256,000 tons a day. That is a great contribution to Europe. Now I acknowledge that we have not been able to do much with currency. We have to get four-Power agreement on currency. Here again, Russia and ourselves nearly agreed. The difficulty there was the question of where the notes should be printed, and the control", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-27", "file": "debates1947-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbe2937fc6a0ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "e whole world, Nikolai Petkov, recently died for freedom, and from which we must all pray that M. Mikolajczyk has now escaped. These Cominform or Comintern murderers have attempted to proclaim to the world that our Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary are traitors to Britain. The hon. Member for Hornchurch (Mr. Bing), who will no doubt be speaking later, and who is a personal friend of Mr. Stalin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-27", "file": "debates1947-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbe2937fc6a0ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have neither.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "up their minds where the cuts are to be. They have opposed the cut in petrol, in food and in timber, and now they are saying that there ought to be no reduction as far as the Armed Forces are concerned. Quite frankly, it seems to me that as a nation we are faced today with exactly the same choice as Hitler presented to the German people. We can either have guns or butter, but we cannot have both.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-27", "file": "debates1947-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbe2937fc6a0ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": " of Defence will have to press that button for a mighty long time before he gets any answer. It is all very amusing, but it is all very tragic. We have not got the ships; we cannot train the Navy. If we let the training of the officers and men go down it will take a very long time before the efficiency of the Navy can be brought up again. There is one other point I should like to make. It is this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-27", "file": "debates1947-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbe2937fc6a0ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "r the period of the next year or two they will have to reach a peace-time figure of about 147,000, it is better for them to take the whole cut and go in for immediate reorganisation. This is proposed so that they may reach peace-time organisation and efficiency of the Fleet at the earliest possible moment. Now it is said that this is practically destroying the Home Fleet, but that is quite untrue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-27", "file": "debates1947-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "c3bbe2937fc6a0ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At sea?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": " turret was in order, or something of that kind. As a matter of fact, in the sphere of battleships, aircraft carriers, destroyers, frigates and submarines there are a large number of ships today which are being continuously used in the training of men, and the Fleet is up to a better state of efficiency than certainly I remember it in peace at any time when I was in charge of naval administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-27a.644.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.678.9", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which way?", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman look into this matter again? According to my information, all the three courses of lectures mentioned have been given at one time or another with great political bias.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.678.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.682.6", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "As my highly esteemed right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.682.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.695.6", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "No, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.695.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.699.9", "colnum": "699", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "and feed its disproportionate population, who were all brought into existence here upon the tides of freedom, and will all be left stranded and gasping by the Socialist ebb. Only in this way will an active, independent, property-owning democracy be established. I repeat, therefore, that our policy is an adequate basic standard, and above that, within just and well-known laws, let the best man win—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.699.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "an, and he is willing to give them on a very large scale to the cause of rebuilding our broken world. In many cases he gives them without much prospect of repayment. Shabby moneylenders! For the purposes of my argument this afternoon, I wish to refer chiefly to the economic policy of the United States. Their high tariff and buoyant internal production make it difficult for them to receive imports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.705.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.706.2", "colnum": "706", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "re projects now cut short by the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Minister for Economic Affairs. He told us the other day that the housing target for 1949, in the fifth year after the war was over, is to be no more than 140,000 houses. If, on the other hand, the Government would only set the building trade free and give it a fair chance, we should find tens of thousands of cottages growing up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.706.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.706.2", "colnum": "706", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ar was over, is to be no more than 140,000 houses. If, on the other hand, the Government would only set the building trade free and give it a fair chance, we should find tens of thousands of cottages growing up—[ Interruption .] Try it and see. We should find tens of thousands of cottages going up all over the country additional to the local authority programme and without requiring any materials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.706.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.706.2", "colnum": "706", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "irits amid their grievous responsibilities and the unpleasant exposure which it is my duty to make of them. One hundred and forty thousand houses in 1949, in spite of our bitter need, under the Socialist Government. That compares with 350,000 houses built in the year before the war—and now laugh—by private enterprise under a Tory Government and without any agitation and with half the present need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.706.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.714.3", "colnum": "714", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What an incredible muddle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "act that the Government now wish to shorten the term of the suspensory powers of the second Chamber proves conclusively that they fear they would be defeated at a General Election. What they are, therefore, trying to do is not to give effect to the will of the people, but to carry through their party legislation irrespective of the will of the people. This is not democracy. It is authoritarianism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "why was it that the right hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington said in a speech at Blackpool, according to \"The Times\" of 3rd October: We are not the party of unbridled, brutal capitalism, and never have been. Although we believe in personal responsibility and personal initiative in business, we are not the political children of the laissez-faire school. We have opposed them decade after decade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.723.0", "colnum": "723", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "It is not a bit like me:", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.723.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.723.5", "colnum": "723", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about 18B?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "he finger of scorn at my right hon. and learned Friend for truthfully painting the picture about the situation? The truth is that the right hon. Gentleman is one man when he is Prime Minister and a very different man when he is Leader of the Opposition. He is the great champion of the cause of freedom when he is Leader of the Opposition, but not so keen about it when he is a Minister of the Crown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.723.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.723.5", "colnum": "723", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " \"What about 18B?\"] As a matter of fact that was not mine. It belonged originally to the right hon. Gentleman and his Friend, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for the Scottish Universities (Sir J. Anderson). I am not proposing to exchange Cabinet reminiscences with the right hon. Gentleman, because we might get ourselves into trouble. In the Labour broadcasts, we were frank, honest and upright.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.723.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.724.5", "colnum": "724", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I can only say that when some of my hon. Friends tried to help the right hon. Gentleman get some fire into his speech, there was great indignation. The Conservatives cannot take it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.724.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I should not have thought so. Now I come to housing, and my answer on that is very short; indeed, it is to compare the houses completed in the first two years after this war with the houses completed in the first two years after the first world war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Lord Addison?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I should not have thought so. Now I come to housing, and my answer on that is very short; indeed, it is to compare the houses completed in the first two years after this war with the houses completed in the first two years after the first world war. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Is it not a fair comparison? There is now a Labour Government, and there was then a Coalition Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Homes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ttention to the great housing problem, and even the Conservatives were beginning to learn about it. As for the Socialists, they had been grumbling about it for years and years. But the right hon. Gentleman says that it was not a great issue at the Election. Has he already forgotten the slogan of Mr. Lloyd George, at the time, when he said, \"We are going to build houses fit for heroes to live in?\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There Was a treaty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "That will not do either, because when my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary came to the provisional agreement, which did not eventuate, with Egypt, he strongly condemned him, alleging that we were skedaddling out of Egypt. Egypt was not even a mandated territory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not say so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ngle-chamber government when there is a Conservative majority in this House, or else to get a Conservative veto in the last two or three Sessions of Parliament, when there is a Labour or Liberal majority in the House of Commons. The right hon. Gentleman says that if the Conservative Party had been returned, the Labour Party would have organised general strikes to upset them. That really is unfair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.759.1", "colnum": "759", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman has no culture.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "preceding_text": "n emergency measure in this time of crisis. There is another class of things for which there is a ready market in America-works of art. In England today, not only in our art galleries, but in country houses, there are tremendous numbers of works of art lying idle. Could we not make a levy on such things by way of a small contribution to the export drive? We could sell them to our American friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.759.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.774.2", "colnum": "774", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Shawcross", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Shawcross", "preceding_text": "e proposal we discussed is in effect what has been mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for North-West Hull in his speech this afternoon, that is to say, that there should be formed some federation of those countries in Western Europe which are still under a democratic form of Government. Whether it should be called the United Socialist States of Europe or the United Democratic States of Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.774.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shawcross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shawcross", "preceding_text": "t be better demonstrated than by the result of the French elections last week. There we see the Socialist Party has been slightly strengthened. But another Party has grown up which, if it ever came into power, would not be regarded by anyone on any side of the House as representing a democracy. We see there the imminent danger of Fascism in modern dress, may be with velvet gloves for a short time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Edwards", "preceding_text": "on on this side if we face certain facts, and if there are answers, let us give them. What are we to gain from nationalising such industries as steel? I have heard it said very frequently that we are going to take out some of the profits. I say without fear of contradiction that if we nationalise the steel industry, we shall increase costs, and prices will rise. It has been so in the case of coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.786.2", "colnum": "786", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "I do not think there is any evidence to support that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.786.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "the lowest and the highest cost, which happened to be that of my friend, divided the total and announced the price. I explained that that would put this concern out of business, as it was much lower than their costs. The official said, \"What fairer thing could I do? I took the highest and lowest costs and divided them.\" Would it be believed that was said by an official in a responsible department?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.800.1", "colnum": "800", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "ead rationing, little more than a year ago, when the Minister of Food, on behalf of the Government—and as I believe to the eternal honour of this Government—said that we had entered into arrangements with other nations whereby we might send assistance to India in her plight. But at that time not one voice was raised on the other side of the House to support that action of His Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.808.5", "colnum": "808", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is yours?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "That is really the policy that he wants to follow, and that is the philosophy which comes from the opposite side of the House—the philosophy that we can read in all their newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.808.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-28", "file": "debates1947-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "1d622675251c0bed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "so, and it is our duty in this House to see that he does. Otherwise, we shall fall down on this job of getting the extra food produced. British agriculture can and will serve the country to its fullest capacity. We have no strikes and no malingering in our industry. But wherever I go now, I find that the spirit of endeavour has been dimmed by frustration resulting from incompetence in high places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-28a.816.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.852.2", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Walk.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Although petrol may be available to tow the gliders into the air, how can the people who want to glide get to the aerodrome without the petrol?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.852.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.858.5", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "Might I ask the Minister—and in so doing take the opportunity of congratulating him—whether the enormous profit that has been made out of this highly nutritional foodstuff, greatly desired in starving Europe, is not a source of great embarrassment to the Government when they complain about the high cost of food in the dollar and other areas?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.858.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.877.10", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "d, never have a Government started a Parliament with such a fund of good will. Apart from the convinced Socialists whose suffrages they had obtained, they had with them a large part of the middle classes as well as the general body of organised labour. They had a substantial support from that most important body of the electorate which has little or no party affiliations They had a friendly Press—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.877.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.877.10", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Give the figures.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": " in the very throes of war. The Leader of the House did not tell us that. He did not tell us of the plans made by that Government, of which he and some of us on this side of the House were Members—plans to build up the labour force to a very high figure, and that force has, in fact, been available to Ministers. At the same time, plans were made to manufacture various types of prefabricated houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.877.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.890.5", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "Of course, if the right hon. Gentleman withdraws them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.890.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.890.7", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I understand that in the quotation of a speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.890.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.890.7", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I understand that in the quotation of a speech—[HON. MEMBERS:\" Withdraw.\"] The right hon. Gentleman was reported in the Press", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.890.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.894.1", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "e House. It might have been thought, six or eight months ago, that one of the most hotly contested and bitterly fought Bills would have been a Bill about India. Thank God that Bill is no longer necessary. The India Act was passed in the second Session, and if there is honesty of purpose and real patriotism on the other side of the House, then the Burma and Ceylon Bills will follow the same course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.894.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "preceding_text": " difficulties they are meeting. They may be successful in securing orders but their actual shipments are limited to a fragment of those orders because they are unable to obtain import licences. I have an instance here of an engineering firm, and there are many other instances, where their orders are halved, for this reason. We hope that the Government will press on with multilateral and bilateral—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is intended to do it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "eople, this sudden abolition of the same amount for all classes through the food subsidy. It must be remembered that there are many industries in this country where the average wage is less than £6 a week. There are some where it is less than £5, but I do not want to take extreme cases. It is a very serious matter to cut off 10s., 12s., or 15s. a week from a family income of that size in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.913.1", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "preceding_text": "y the orders of their leaders in the unions? Those are the kind of questions we ask and it would be nice if the hon. Member who has had such an interesting visit with his happy little group of comrades, had been able to answer them. Today I have the opportunity, as a representative of Scotland, to express the views of the great majority of the Scottish people on this Amendment we have put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "prises me even more is why, if the hon. and gallant Gentleman has all this ability and prescience, of which he so freely boasts, he and his party did not do something about the gap in our overseas trade in the years before the war. If these business people are able to tackle these things in such a splendid fashion, how is it that even before the war this country was heading rapidly for bankruptcy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.941.5", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "elivered, there started an uncontrolled rise in American prices that invalidated the whole of the negotiations. So the amount of money we had, instead of purchasing on the American market the amount of goods agreed to be necessary for four years, bought only the amount on the same basis, measured by the same yardstick, necessary for two-and-a-half years. That is why we came to the end of the Loan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.941.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We cannot get it at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " course, the prices rose, and that when one takes off controls, of course, prices will rise. The right hon. Gentleman has got that far in his economic education. They did rise. I have just returned from America and the rise is not 60 per cent. so far as the basic things are concerned, but no or 120 per cent. in 12 months. Meat is 5s. a lb; butter 5s. a lb. They can only get it if they have the 5s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.943.3", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "rkers will be discharged and the old bitter struggle will go on quicker and quicker, as it did in 1920, 1930 and 1931. Unless these controls in America are re-imposed in time, America is heading for the biggest and most sensational economic disaster in all history, and I hope to God that when it comes they will not start throwing their atom bombs about the world in an endeavour to, hide the cause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.943.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.949.4", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "al. It is very curious that none of those gentlemen had any private army behind him to keep him in office. I believe that this Government is not fully in the hands of the Leader of the party opposite. The position is that certain appointments have to be made whether the Prime Minister likes it or not, and I regard that as a very serious defect in the leadership of this country at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.949.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are getting them done.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "I am not going to harass the House with the cries of \"Labour will get you that house,\" \"Labour will get things done \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.957.5", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "Parliament Act, 1911, since even the Archbishop of Canterbury has stated that it will split the country if they pursue that Measure. Next, they must withdraw all those pamphlets such as the \"A.B.C. of the Crisis,\" which is a deliberate attempt to pass the blame for all our affairs on to the wicked Tories, who incidentally have not been in office for 18 years but of course hon. Members forget that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.957.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "ic. Then came the final panic of the Prime Minister himself about six weeks ago, when he realised that the patience of the country was exhausted, and he began his panic shuffling of his incompetent team. Leopards retain then-spots whether they stay in the same lair or not, and the incompetence of the Ministers of the present Government remains constant. I am now going to draw to an untimely close—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "be solved. I am all for paying the miner well. It is a hard and isolated task. But what I have said applies to all industries. Give the people good salaries, wages and amenities, so far as we can afford, but make sure that those benefits are denied to them when they strike or refuse their labour without negotiation and without proper reason. I believe that there is still a chance for this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.973.2", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "efed moments is very fond of running. Yet what an irony it is that these very men should, largely by their own follies, have compelled themselves to impose economics of scarcity of such severity that it is difficult today to remember that there were ever times of plenty. Another irony is that the Socialist Government proclaim that they are believers in fair shares for all. So am I, to some extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.973.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "list is desirable, and urgent—they are. But I say that any man of sense knows that they cannot be carried out at once after two of the most exhausting wars in history. So if hon. Members who are seekers after knowledge, like the hon. Member below the Gangway, want to know what positive measures we advocate, I will tell them that the first is to curtail Government expenditure in the capital Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.976.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.980.2", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.981.4", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "The reason I did not give way is because the hon. Member made a most mischievous speech this afternoon in which he tried to make the damage which he has already done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.981.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.985.5", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Quite; we are all agreed. When an Opposition challenges a Government on the Address, they, of course, offer themselves as an alternative Government, and I imagine that they would offer an alternative policy. The country is entitled to know where they stand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.985.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.987.0", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " circumstances. As I understand it from reading his speech, he considers that if we could set everything free from controls we should soon get over our difficulties. But I want to get down to concrete points. He believes in the free play of competition, prices finding their own level and the rest. Would he do away with food rationing now? We want to know, because he talked about it rather vaguely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.987.2", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The note is 'dud'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This note of the right hon. Gentleman's which he gives to the nation is the statement, \"You should be free, but not just now.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.987.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think people were left in that difficulty. I am sure that the Chancellor will be very glad to explain any points to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.988.6", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says we have to take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.988.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman. The right hon. Member for Bromley tried to maintain that the speech of my right hon. and learned Friend the Minister for Economic Affairs was an indictment of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e British Government, which is an insular outlook. I can remember the same thing being done in 1931, when all the ills which afflicted the whole world were put down to the fact that we had what was called a \"wicked Labour Government\" at that time. The right hon. Gentleman suggested that there was a very serious falling away in the support for this Government. I do not find that in the countryside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.1006.3", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Mellor", "preceding_text": "time, he has under-assessed the value of pleasure itself in the life of the nation. Apparently the Government seem to think that if everybody cannot have something there is no need for anybody to have it at all. I think that is why they are losing incentive in the country. You must give people something to work for, otherwise they will not get results. Imposing unreasonable restrictions on people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.1006.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.1010.5", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "This is a very subtle kind of political step to which we must—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.1010.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.1015.2", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"£32 million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "May I ask the hon. Member to say what is the cost of expenditure on Government Departments at home and abroad? I challenge him to tell me where I can find those figures. May I put this to the Minister? Is it not true that over £20 million are being spent on petrol for the Armed Forces after this cut has been made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.1015.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.1015.2", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "irty-two millions? Unless we get these figures I cannot see how any responsible Member of Parliament can make a decision in this matter. I will not now go into details of the hardship inflicted on various sections of the community, but I will say that I do dislike the whoop of joy with which this abolition of basic petrol was announced, because it appeared to be aimed purely at the middle classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.1015.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Gaitskell)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Gaitskell)", "preceding_text": "The decision to abolish the basic petrol was, of course, taken as an essential step in the battle of the balance of payments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.1030.5", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "I do not know what is so funny about that: 110,000 fewer houses does not strike me as particularly funny. Take another possibility—eggs. We could cut them by 14 or 15 per head a year and save £7,500,000. Do hon. Members opposite want that to be done? Is that their view as to how the money should be found? Let us consider cotton; here you find that the total saving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.1030.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.1030.5", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not pleasure motoring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "otton, £7,500,000 means 42,000 tons of raw cotton which happens to be equivalent to the whole of the clothing ration in cotton. That does not seem a sensible step to take. If it is a fact that the Government could save dollars in all these and other ways, and we have been discussing this for the past five or six days, why, there are many other priorities which come in advance of pleasure motoring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.1030.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.1030.5", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He gets none now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ative, it is desirable to leave it simply to a question of whether people can afford it or not. Sometimes there is no alternative, and a high tax is the only way possible. But we have an alternative. We have a rationing system—it is not perfect, but it is adequate—and it would have been quite wrong to have left it simply to the income of the individual to decide whether he would get petrol or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.1030.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.1033.0", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "l business purposes—everybody knows that—but also for certain essential domestic purposes when public transport was impracticable and many cases I have heard hon. Members mention fall within that category. Some of the cases were, for instance, petrol to get to shops in rural districts, to get to church, or to get to school, or to get to the station. Petrol is granted freely for all these purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.1033.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-29", "file": "debates1947-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "7c633155fedfe91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.1033.2", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-29a.1033.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1059.9", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dumpleton", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister impress on his colleagues in the Cabinet that there should be no curtailment of the housing programme whatever else may happen, because it would cause widespread resentment and injury?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1059.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1078.8", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "I am not quite sure whether the running of petrol garages is a part of our industrial economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1078.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1108.4", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "It does not look like it from this extract—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1109.3", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Oh, yes, Sir. There is no doubt that the right hon. Member is quite right on that point. Perhaps I can quote, quite shortly, two other cases which confirm the view I had expressed, and which he also has expressed. There was the case of Sir J. Bennett in 1621–", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1109.3", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "w I had expressed, and which he also has expressed. There was the case of Sir J. Bennett in 1621–[ Laughter .]—Do not let hon. Members laugh about these dates. These are the periods from which the great vigour of Parliament came, and they are all relevant. Sir J. Bennett was charged with bribery. Charge framed by Committee of Whole House That is the way they used to do things in those days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": " Government's decision to leave these matters to a free vote of the House, and I recognise, too. that the function of the Law Officers of the Crown is to advise not so much the House of Commons as the Government. Nevertheless, the Attorney-General at any rate was a Member of the Committee of Privileges, and unless I have misread the account of its proceedings he took rather an active part in them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1131.3", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Reid", "preceding_text": "y it is dealt with in the Government Motion. I wish to point out to hon. Members, and I am inclined to agree with the hon. Member for West Fife (Mr. Gallacher) to some extent, that if this Motion is rejected, in my humble opinion, the hon. Member for Doncaster (Mr. Walkden) gets off scot-free. If this Motion is passed, it is practically endorsing the decision against the hon. Member for Doncaster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1131.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "I am glad to have that assurance. My submission to the House is that, whether hon. Members like it or not, this Motion does, in fact, include in its terms, and does enshrine, the principle of which the majority of the Committee were in favour and to which my hon. Friend behind me and myself showed strong opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1144.3", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "re Fascist or Communist Member, who brings in a speaker from outside who makes a speech of the greatest violence, which would be the subject of seditious libel outside—it might be a violently anti-Semitic or anti-British speech—if a Member got up at that meeting and said, \"I am going away from this meeting to tell this to the Press,\" he would be guilty, under this Motion, of a breach of Privilege.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1144.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1151.6", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "This is a most important point. I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. The person of whom he is speaking is not there under a pledge of secrecy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1151.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "I know through the evidence that came before the Committee. In fact, he is entitled to put in his Press what occurred at the meeting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1152.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1152.4", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cecil Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cecil Poole", "preceding_text": " Opposition. Those who know me will be aware that I have a great affection and a deep regard for the traditions of this House. I would do everything I could to maintain those traditions. To me it is very regrettable that when the suggested punishment which has been moved by the Leader of the House is before this House, there should be what I can only characterise as some element of vindictiveness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cecil Poole", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cecil Poole", "preceding_text": "ggested punishment which has been moved by the Leader of the House is before this House, there should be what I can only characterise as some element of vindictiveness. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Well, we are all entitled to our own opinions. I would go further. There is not only vindictiveness; there is also, at any rate in the attitude of one hon. Member of this House, something of sheer opportunism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1172.3", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker, I have not made any accusation against the hon. Gentleman the Member for Oxford. (Mr. Hogg). I was not referring to him when I spoke of opportunism. I said that generally in the Debate so far, I had seen evidence of vindictiveness. It is not an unparliamentary charge to charge hon. Members with being vindictive, and there is nothing unparliamentary about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1173.5", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "ishment which shall be accorded to him for an offence, not against the party, but against this House. I urge hon. Members of my party on this side of the House not to confuse the revulsion of feeling which arises from the action of a comrade who has disclosed party secrets in the House, which this House has not ruled as even a breach of Privilege, with the offence of the hon. Member to this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "Most certainly I am not, but I am suggesting that hon. Members with a due sense of party loyalty may be inclined to get things out of proportion. That is all I am suggesting", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He could resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "gesting [An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"] An hon. Member says, \"Rubbish.\" He is entitled to his opinion, as I am entitled to mine. It is suggested that it is very little punishment to the hon. Member for Gravesend to fine him £500, banish him from this House to his constituency for six months, and let him come back here an outcast among all hon. Members and have to work his passage again in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He need never come back.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "uld resign.\"] Certainly he could resign. If I were in his place, I would have resigned a long time ago. But this man has a very hard road to travel if he is to bring himself back into the esteem of this House. It is punishment enough that he has to walk the corridors of the House, meet the men to whom he has been disloyal and come into the House to which he has been disloyal, if he dares to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1174.3", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There was a war on then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "I should be taking undue time if I gave way. That is a grave and serious punishment for this man to undergo. I am amazed at the regard of the Leader of the Opposition for the constituency of Gravesend. The Leader of the Opposition was responsible for certain appointments in other days when he led the Government of the day which disfranchised constituencies for two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attewell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attewell", "preceding_text": "I want to confine my remarks to the central point that this House should take it upon itself to disfranchise a constituency. I interrupted when the name of Bradlaugh was mentioned because at that moment my mind was activated by the Bradlaugh incident—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1188.2", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braddock", "preceding_text": "so to my own political party, and, whatever the crime may have been of the Member for Gravesend (Mr. Allighan) against this House, as a strong party member I view his crime against his own party as being, at least, equally strong. If I vote for the Government's Motion tonight it seems to me that I shall be obliged to countenance his continuance as a Member of the political party to which I belong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1190.2", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is suicide\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ies of Resolutions we have passed is what he and the Leader of the Opposition have pointed their fingers to. I am going to argue that justice is somewhat bigger than logic; there are other things to take into account besides carrying to a perfectly logical conclusion an abstract trend of thought. What have we done today? Do not make any mistake about it. We have sentenced a man to political death.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "hat are so represented. I apologise for my momentary lapse. I do not feel in that mood at all, because this is a tremendously serious thing for all of us and for the individuals concerned. I hope that I shall not be tempted to assassinate anyone else. Do not make any mistake about it. What we have done today is to sentence a man to death. What I ask myself is: \"Do I want to dance over the corpse?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1202.0", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "r for Doncaster (Mr. Walkden) guilty of dishonourable conduct, I cannot see how this House, without stultifying itself, can reach a different conclusion on the Motion which will be proposed later. I think that probably most hon. Members would agree with me that, discreditable as the conduct of the hon. Member for Doncaster may have been, it really does not compare with the conduct of Mr. Allighan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1210.3", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "re us tonight—it is to be treated as a breach of Parliamentary Privilege, then there ought to be a prior declaration by this House of Commons that that conduct is a breach of Parliamentary Privilege. Up till now it has not been. I beg the House to consider this. We are meeting here as the High Court of Parliament to consider whether there has been a breach of the laws of Privilege which govern us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1210.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1211.0", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " ought to be a prior declaration by this House of Commons that that conduct is a breach of Parliamentary Privilege. Up till now it has not been. I beg the House to consider this. We are meeting here as the High Court of Parliament to consider whether there has been a breach of the laws of Privilege which govern us. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] This arises out of the Report of the Committee of Privileges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1210.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1211.2", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If we are not discussing the Report of the Committee of Privileges, then I want to know what we are discussing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1211.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1211.2", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " are not discussing the Report of the Committee of Privileges and Motions arising therefrom, I should like to know what will be the effect at the end of the Debate of the Report our Committee have presented to us. The Report is before us. The first Motion was: That the Report from the Committee of Privileges be now considered. If that does not bring in the Report, then I ask Mr. Speaker what does?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1211.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1214.7", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "We have passed on, Sir, of course, from the Motion that the Report be considered now, but we are still upon the consideration of the Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1214.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1215.0", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We all agree.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "the earlier Resolution, and I agree with that eminently just and judicial man, the Home Secretary, in saying that automatic punishment of the same kind does not follow. But at any rate, we shall deliver ourselves into the hands of those who argue that the same punishment automatically does follow if we are not careful. The real offence of both of these men was not that they betrayed party secrets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1215.0", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " of these men was not that they betrayed party secrets. [An HON. MEMBER: \"We all agree.\"] If hon. Members opposite would only be as enthusiastic in their assent as they are in their interruptions, how harmonious this Chamber would be! The real gravamen of the charge against the Member we have disposed of was not that he betrayed party secrets, but that he covered himself by smearing everyone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1215.0", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ink of the conduct of this Member, it is not in the same category of conduct as the Member whose case we have dealt with. If we pass the same Resolution, we may find ourselves logically compelled to pass the same penalty. I do not say that we would. The performance of many hon. Members opposite on the last Resolution gives me no reason to hope that their performance on this one will be any better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1221.3", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ng with this case. The view of my right hon. Friend and myself is that this case is not nearly as aggravated on the one count on which the hon. Member has been found guilty as was the case of Mr. Allighan. In addition Mr. Allighan was found guilty of two other charges. In our view it is essential that the House should mark by its \"punishment some sense of the difference between the two offenders.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1221.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1224.4", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "preceding_text": "to your appeal for brevity, Mr. Speaker, I only desire to ask the right hon. Gentleman one question. He has alluded to this Motion as being in accordance with the dignity of this House. Do I properly understand the case to be this: That having successfully asked this House to hold the Member for Doncaster dishonourable tonight he is now asking the House to hold that he will be honourable tomorrow?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1224.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Captain Marsden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reprimand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Marsden", "preceding_text": "For the first time since I have been a Member of this House I find myself in some accord with the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman). There is too great a disparity between these two sentences. I think the Home Secretary misled the House. He said there is nothing between suspension and expulsion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES REPORT", "cue_speaker": "Captain Marsden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, reprimand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Marsden", "preceding_text": "For the first time since I have been a Member of this House I find myself in some accord with the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman). There is too great a disparity between these two sentences. I think the Home Secretary misled the House. He said there is nothing between suspension and expulsion. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reprimand.\"] Reprimand, suspension and expulsion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-30", "file": "debates1947-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "40d70bb078c4cc03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1238.1", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION (DISCLOSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should you ask\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson Harris", "preceding_text": "I ask the Leader of the House whether the Whips are on or whether it is a free vote of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-30a.1238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-31", "file": "debates1947-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b695f4f3db343054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-31a.1282.0", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "SURPLUS GOVERNMENT PROPERTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "f one degree or another. I think that matter ought to be investigated. To substantiate what I say perhaps I might give three examples. The first is from Barkston Heath again. I found a large pile of iron coal boxes. They were terribly rusty. I put my hand into one of them, and I said to the fellow who was taking me round, \"These have been out here for a long time full of rust.\" He said, \"We sold\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-31a.1282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-10-31", "file": "debates1947-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b695f4f3db343054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-31a.1304.3", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "IMPERIAL INTEGRATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like Canada.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "d become rich and prosperous, and was now like a big fat worm waiting to be gobbled up. That is the state of the foreign markets throughout Europe. None of them could be called certain or reliable. The only ones upon which we can look with any certainty as being reliable are those which were, very largely, built up throughout the Dominions and the Empire generally, by emigration from this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-10-31a.1304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Member that this is the first complaint we have had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1339.1", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "The only restrictions on the keeping of poultry of which I am aware are those imposed by the shortage of feedingstuffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The answer is that the whole question of priority is under review at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1343.2", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "is offended when he is ordered about as if he were one of a flock of sheep. The \"Bevin boy\" experiment ought to be enough to convince the Government that compulsion will not avail them. That experiment, surely, was a failure. Although the people of this country submit to compulsion for the purposes of war, when there is an enemy at the gate, they do not submit so easily to compulsion in peacetime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1343.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "preceding_text": "nsurance scheme dealt with people who were unemployed, and it offered not alternative employment but some employment—lucrative employment, which meant bread for men who had no work to go to. But this order is an entirely different thing. This does not wait until a man goes to an employment exchange to look for work. This says to a man already in employment, \"You are not wanted in this employment.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1358.5", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1358.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1358.5", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "No. [ Interruption .] There are so many hon. Members trying to answer. Perhaps I may be allowed to have a try. A man in the mining industry cannot leave the industry, but he can leave his pit and go into another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1358.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1363.0", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "I have these questions all before me. I said that the main thing a man is concerned about is how much money he gets at the end of the week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1364.1", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": " a question of men walking into the exchange, saying, \"I am out of work,\" and being told, \"Pack up, you are going to this job straight away.\" I should like to make this further point clear—we offer these men or women four jobs and we will say to them, \"You must take one of them or we will direct you.\" If a man or a woman says, \"I will voluntarily take one of these jobs,\" he or she is not directed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1365.2", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "t and from mine to mine, and he only chucked up the job when he found that he would have to work up to his knees in water. Lots of people have to do it, but we do not want to have a man working under conditions which are liable to be injurious to his health. Therefore, we take the power to have a medical examination. Let me recite to the House—I hope I am not wearying the House with these details—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1365.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1367.4", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "That is quite true, but on the other hand, other people are driving a coach or having a hand on it. It might be more suitable for a man to take a job there and fulfil the conditions of the employment, than perhaps have an alternative job which might not be so pleasant for him in other circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1367.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1367.4", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "tioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Gower (Mr. Grenfell). There is no provision in this order for removing from their employment and transferring to essential work those who are already employed in work which makes no contribution to the national effort. If a man is in a job, there is no intention under this order of lifting him out that job and saying, \"You must leave that job and take this.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1367.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "Just exactly what that question has to do with my statement on the control of labour, I do not know. The hon. Gentleman asks me what made the Government change their mind. I might ask the hon. Gentleman himself a similar question. He has changed his mind. I am sorry if I am taking up too much time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1389.0", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "opposite now going to accept direction of labour, which means that they will retain the bad conditions in the mill? Why did they go in for military conscription? To get an Army on the cheap. They are doing a disservice to the people working in the textile industries by accepting those conditions and using the cowardly method of directing the people because they will not improve the bad conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1389.0", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "idle rich, but, as for the idle rich whom I have seen, I do not think there are any whom I would employ. Hon. Members should go round some of these hotels and see them there. Are they the sort of people we want to send into our factories? I hope the trade union movement, which has created a really fine atmosphere in industry, will not destroy that atmosphere by introducing these unwilling workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "preceding_text": "orce could be filled. I have a strong recollection that that was not the argument employed when military conscription was before the House. If that argument has real point and substance in this situation, then, equally, it has the same force when applied to the question of military conscription. To me, this Prayer, coming from my own Benches, seems to savour too much of political irresponsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1394.0", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member realises, does he not, that unless there is unemployment there will be no one to direct? This order presupposes unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "I left out that point, because I wanted to be brief, but the obvious answer is that labour for the coalmines would be got by removing from the list of essential jobs any competing industry in the coal areas. This would divert a flow of labour into the coal industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1419.1", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glanville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glanville", "preceding_text": "such as this, and I say now that when we are trying to build up a Socialist State we must have a social contribution from every able-bodied man in the country. We cannot afford to carry passengers in the ship of State which we are trying to steer successfully through troubled waters. We cannot afford to carry hangers-on. We must try to increase the standard of living of every man, woman and child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1419.3", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glanville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glanville", "preceding_text": "If they had been in power I would have been sorry for the people who had put them there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1424.0", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Byers", "preceding_text": "Does not the hon. Member realise that all he is doing now is to make a grave reflection, possibly unintentionally, upon the employment exchanges?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1424.0", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Byers", "preceding_text": "Does not the hon. Member realise that all he is doing now is to make a grave reflection, possibly unintentionally, upon the employment exchanges? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Could it have been solved by direction?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1425.3", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "on of planning in normal times and that is the point at which it infringes on personal liberty as opposed to economic freedom. Per- sonal freedom means the right of the individual to do what he likes with himself, to work for whom, for what, when, and where he chooses. Is there any hon. Member sitting in this House who can believe in that and still support the order he is asked to support tonight?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1425.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "the Exchequer—does he desire a little more unemployment? Perhaps we shall get an answer in due course, or at least back benchers opposite will stop trying to accuse Lord Woolton of something of which they could more rightly accuse their own Cabinet, something which was the declared policy of their own Government two months before Lord Woolton spoke. I come to one or two points on the order itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carson", "preceding_text": "ssurance at all that will mitigate the harshness of this Order. But, to do him justice, I do not think that he has the smallest idea as to what he is doing in this order, or what are the powers which he is putting into the hands of his officials throughout the country. For instance, he has given us no assurance that married men will not be directed very far from their homes. I hoped that he would.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1436.1", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": " order as I have, and who would not bring it forward unless he was sincerely convinced of its necessity. At the same time, I want to ask the Parliamentary Secretary for one or two assurances. The first is this: The Minister has talked about hardship tribunals, appeals and rights. Let me quote one example. I was persuaded very reluctantly to vote for conscription for the Armed Forces in peace time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1447.1", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "ere are some people who will not accept guidance. We must put ourselves, although we do not do it in this order, in a position to see that people who readily accept guidance are not put in a worse position than those who refuse to accept it. I come to the next point that the hon. and learned Member raised. He said that everybody leaving school would have to register. Of course, he was quite wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1447.3", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Its equivalent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "m concerned about is that we should put it right so that the nation and the House shall understand the position. The hon. and learned Member wound up by saying that he was opposed to the order because the power of direction is there. That is what he said, but the power of direction is not there. Would he now withdraw his opposition? The power of direction is not in the Control of Engagement Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1447.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "I thought the challenge from the other side was, \"Let the men have freedom to decide their own destiny.\" Now I am being told to interfere with the freedom of a body of men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1451.4", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Another Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "e men into the mines, more men into the textile industries, more women into agriculture and the other basic industries. Unless we can do that, we are finished. I have listened very carefully to what is being said from the other side of the House. There has not been a single alternative which can be put into operation by this Government. Not a single alternative suggestion. What has been suggested?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1451.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1453.7", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I asked the hon. Gentleman, whether, in the course of his speech, he would make a few observations on the system inaugurated by His Majesty's Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1453.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1456.1", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Work or Want.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1471.4", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS (IMPORT DUTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": "fidence in this Government, but may I ask them to give a definite assurance upon another point? Do they intend by the introduction of this order to reduce the film industry of Britain to a state of bankruptcy, to buy it up cheap and then to nationalise the film industry of Britain? Will they also tell me if, in the event of nationalisation, it is proposed to appoint a gentleman called Mr. Giudice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1471.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1473.1", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS (IMPORT DUTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "ld have been able to give the Government a complete answer to its dollar problem, but the Government have thrown a spanner into the works and created a terrific problem for our industry, probably a problem that is now above solution. I am not a playwright, I am a trade union official and a member of Parliament dealing with a certain industry. No doubt my hon. Friend the Member for Eton and Harrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1473.1", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS (IMPORT DUTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Agriculture.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "soon be held, and I am prevented from saying many things that I would otherwise say in the responsible knowledge that there is a conference soon to be held between the British and American film interests and the Treasury. I would urge the Financial Secretary and the Board of Trade to remember that the British film industry in the years before the war was the Cinderella of industry in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1473.1", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS (IMPORT DUTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "e. The Financial Secretary, the Treasury, and the Board of Trade pay lip service, but why do they not encourage British films? Having decided on their policy as set out in the order and in other orders, they have not lifted one finger to assist the British film industry, either on the production or the exhibition side. They have left the British film industry to feather is own nest in its own way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1477.1", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS (IMPORT DUTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "extremely important. I want to know, too, what the Government are doing towards helping onward that production of British films because, at the present time, if my information is correct—and if it is not I am quite sure I shall be corrected by the hon. Member for West Nottingham—my information is that British films are slowing down production when they should be making the utmost drive to produce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-03", "file": "debates1947-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dbab3cd1e4678c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1500.3", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "FOOD DISTRIBUTION INEQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "s, large numbers are being slaughtered illicitly and that people are being denied their bacon. I will give some figures. These are the figures for August and September: 6,641 pigs slaughtered under the self-supplier arrangement and 85,742 going into the bacon factories, compared with 7,711 and 146,179 during the same period in 1946. So that, I think, is the answer to the hon. Gentleman's argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-03a.1500.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1513.3", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of what? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "If by Central Europe my hon. Friend means Germany, the figures in the first quarter of the present year were 36.4, and, for the second quarter, 34.8.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1513.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1526.2", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC POLICY (CONSULTATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "In the existing economic situation, I do not think that a Member of the Opposition ought to talk too much about sabotage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1526.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1526.6", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC POLICY (CONSULTATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Now we know where we are.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I was giving the hon. Member some advice. I think that the advice is perfectly appropriate and right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1526.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "PROCEDURE (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "an Amendment down by the Opposition to approve the report of the Select Committee instead of approving the statement made by the Lord Privy Seal. I should have thought that we must have some discussion about it. Another new provision in the proposed Standing Order No. 19 is for two Guillotines before 31st March. This is necessary so that the Government may obtain all the Supply which they require—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1559.1", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "PROCEDURE (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I was going to say that while I submit that it would be in Order to discuss the use of Private Members' Time which may be given in the future, and although it would not be in Order to discuss whether it should be reinstituted this Session, I think that discussion might wait until nearer the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1559.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1583.3", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "PROCEDURE (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1583.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1584.5", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "PROCEDURE (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "tting back dejectedly in their seats. I do not know whether they feel as I feel after six or seven hours of trying to catch Mr. Speaker's eye. After that time I feel like a wet rag, exhausted and frustrated and, if I were not a teetotaller, I would think that it was the morning after the night before. I would make particular exceptions for the Government Front Bench and the Opposition Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1584.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1603.1", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "PROCEDURE (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ent in future than it appears to have been in recent years. I think that Members who merely rely on statistical tables, without having regard to the circumstances of the years to which the various lines in the tables relate, forget that the use of Standing Order No. 8 was one of the great weapons of obstruction in the hands of the Irish Nationalist Members in the 8o's and 90's of the last century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1612.1", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "PROCEDURE (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is on pages 45 and 54.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": " which I cannot explain, occupants of the Chair became much more rigid in their attitude from 1920 onwards than was the case before. I can show that from figures in the Report. If hon. Members will forgive me for a moment I will find the page. Unfortunately, my right hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Gainsborough having borrowed my book, I am now unable at the moment to find the place I want,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1641.2", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "PROCEDURE (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We finished at 11 p.m.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " of a Sessional Order into a Standing Order as, otherwise, it would have to be moved again next Session, and it is a Motion which is debatable. I remember the good old days—and they are not so very long ago—when the hours of sitting were from 2.45 p.m. to 11 p.m., and let me say, as some of my hon. Friends know, that, on this matter, I am a bit of a Conservative myself. I rather liked those hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1641.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1644.2", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "PROCEDURE (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": " think that if the Leader of the Opposi- tion has said a thing, it must be right. I will not controvert him on that subject. Although that was his best reason, he could have given two other reasons, one of which would have been stronger and the other more accurate. The real reason he wants the time to be 10 o'clock is that he wants to get the House to bed and shut up as quickly as he possibly can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1644.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1670.1", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "PROCEDURE (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "that the wishes of the Select Committee on Procedure should be complied with. As my right hon. and gallant Friend very properly pointed out, the granting of Supply is one of the oldest prerogatives—if I may so express it—which the Private Member on either side of the House has in his or her jurisdiction and control. Outside, when hon. Members opposite go into the Lobby, they will see two pictures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1705.3", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "PROCEDURE (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "Normally I am quite willing to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1705.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1706.2", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "PROCEDURE (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": " Member for Holderness (Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite) has said, in order to protect minorities—not even Mr. James Maxton's minority. It was instituted in order to protect this House from the King, and I think that the House will agree with me when I say that the circumstances which existed then were different. Things then could be put through with some speed. That position no longer obtains today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1706.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1706.2", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "PROCEDURE (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "the fourth time on the individual Clause in the Committee on the Bill. One can make it again on the Report stage, and yet again for the sixth time on the Third Reading. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he had been dealing with this matter tonight, could have told the House that he has, in fact, made the same speech six times in the course of the passage of the Finance Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1706.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1713.1", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "PROCEDURE (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "preceding_text": "I thought that the speech of the hon. Member for Nelson and Come (Mr. S. Silverman) had all the tortuous irrelevance typical of the provincial solicitor worth seven and sixpence a time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1713.1", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "PROCEDURE (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "preceding_text": "I thought that the speech of the hon. Member for Nelson and Come (Mr. S. Silverman) had all the tortuous irrelevance typical of the provincial solicitor worth seven and sixpence a time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap!\"] It may be that hon. Members think that the hon. Member may be cheap at seven and sixpence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1713.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1713.4", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "PROCEDURE (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Byers", "preceding_text": "It is absolutely shocking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1713.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1714.4", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "PROCEDURE (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "I accused the hon. Member of tortuous irrelevance, and I think that is perfectly in Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1714.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1743.2", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "PROCEDURE (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. MacAndrew", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. MacAndrew", "preceding_text": "at is a really foolish suggestion. This proposal will give more responsibility to the Chairman. One does not mind that. If one takes on the duties of a chairman one has to accept that. There is much talk about obstruction in the House of Commons. My experience is that there is very little. Very often indeed I have seen obstruction by people one would have thought were trying to get a Bill through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1760.5", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "PROCEDURE (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "The versatility of the Home Secretary has been universally admired throughout his career in this House, but I want to point out to him that one of the functions which he has never fulfilled is that of Chairman, either on the Floor of the House or in Committee. Neither has the Lord President done so. Arrayed against him is a great crowd of formidable witnesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1760.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1778.2", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "STANDING COMMITTEES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I should not have spoken on this Motion were it not for the argument used by the right hon. Gentleman. Does the right hon. Gentleman want to say something more? I do not know how many of the hon. Gentlemen who make a practice of interrupting speeches of Members on this side who have been sitting here all day and who have tried very hard to understand this difficult technical question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1778.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1778.2", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "STANDING COMMITTEES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "echnical question—[ Interruption .] I have not been out of the Chamber for more than 40 minutes today, and I have not spoken for more than 20 minutes, and if I wish to speak now, I will go on doing so. What brought me to my feet was the argument of the right hon. Gentleman about alleged inconsistencies from this side of the House. He said that we were sometimes complaining of something being done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1778.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1796.1", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "UNITED NATIONS (BRITISH POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": " to suck up to the Soviet Union, and who represent themselves as Socialists when really they are Communists, like the hon. Member for Gateshead and his friends. It seems to me absolutely disgraceful that when M. Petkov was under sentence of death for being a friend of Britain and America and standing up for the democracies for which we have stood in this House of Commons for century after century—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1797.2", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "UNITED NATIONS (BRITISH POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "With great respect, Mr. Speaker, Captain Ramsay has never been tried and nothing has ever been proved against him.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1797.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-04", "file": "debates1947-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f15bbc481a5ac2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1798.2", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "UNITED NATIONS (BRITISH POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Totalitarian.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "I do not consider this is the sort of case the Government ought to reply to at all. I believe that this is an occasion utterly unworthy of the House of Commons. It may be occurring at 4.30 in the morning, but that means nothing to me. I am glad at any rate that I prevented an answer being given to anyone who can put up a bogus crypto-Communist case in this House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-04a.1798.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-05", "file": "debates1947-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "df8ddeca898e888c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1813.8", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Export drive.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that at Prestwick workers are employed making a luxury aircraft for the Crown Prince of Belgium, including a cocktail bar, and will he see that these men are otherwise engaged?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1813.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-05", "file": "debates1947-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "df8ddeca898e888c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1855.1", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BURMA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "r that reason—and only because of the inexperience of the Civil Service—it will be a problem which must be considered by the Burmese people before they press too hard for extensive nationalisation. I hope that the more extreme Socialists and the Communists in Burma will not seek to overthrow their present leadership because they do not hasten on as fast as they would wish with Socialistic schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-05", "file": "debates1947-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "df8ddeca898e888c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1861.1", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BURMA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And by the right hon. Member for Woodford.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "oint out that there was a time in Italy when large numbers of Italian people began to defy Mussolini. I suppose from one standpoint they could be called, technically, traitors to their country; but we welcomed that traitorous act, we encouraged it, and in the long run those very people, called traitors technically by some of the Italians, were recognised by us as being the finest Italian patriots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-05", "file": "debates1947-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "df8ddeca898e888c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1864.1", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BURMA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "ese interests. I repeat, they may have been defended, but the main fact was that it suited our purpose to defend Burma against the Japanese when they invaded that part of the world. I notice a very minor factor which will certainly hearten all the women Members of the House. It is laid down in the new Constitution that in future all women in Burma who do the same job as men must receive equal pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-05", "file": "debates1947-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "df8ddeca898e888c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1887.1", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BURMA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "ion of Liverpool (Mr. Logan) is right when he says that the whole conception of the Empire is changing. It is changing when we honour men who fought against us and grow cold towards those who fought by our side. Then, indeed, the conception of Empire is changing very rapidly. The truth is that the party opposite, sometimes secretly, but mostly openly, has always been ashamed of the British Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-05", "file": "debates1947-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "df8ddeca898e888c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1929.5", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BURMA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "ce that was made to set Burma free. I would remind the right hon. and learned Gentleman who is to reply, once again, of the promise made by the Prime Minister. I ask him most earnestly, even at this late hour, to send a cable tonight—and I will give him the address privately; I do not want to give it publicly because if the name and address are made known those concerned will probably be murdered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1929.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-05", "file": "debates1947-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "df8ddeca898e888c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1932.5", "colnum": "1932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BURMA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has gone now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "good enough to sit down and listen to what I have to say, he will see what I mean. I have not interrupted any hon. Member and I am putting a reasonable point of view. I hope I shall be allowed to develop my argument, and if I am, I will try to convince the hon. Member for Dumbarton Burghs (Mr. Kirkwood). The hon. Member for Orpington made what I think the House will agree was a very moving appeal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1932.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-05", "file": "debates1947-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "df8ddeca898e888c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1932.5", "colnum": "1932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BURMA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "point of view. I hope I shall be allowed to develop my argument, and if I am, I will try to convince the hon. Member for Dumbarton Burghs (Mr. Kirkwood). The hon. Member for Orpington made what I think the House will agree was a very moving appeal. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He has gone now.\"] I know the hon. Member for Orpington has gone, and he apologised to me before he went. He has gone to get some food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1932.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-05", "file": "debates1947-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "df8ddeca898e888c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1935.5", "colnum": "1935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BURMA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"As a result of the war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "e finance. The 1946–47 budget shows an estimated revenue of £20 million, and expenditure of £30 million. By comparison, in the wicked days of the British—so disliked by Members opposite; they think it terrible that the British actually governed another country successfully—there was a balanced budget of £13 million. Now there is a deficit of £10 million. Burma owes us a great deal of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1935.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-05", "file": "debates1947-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "df8ddeca898e888c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1935.5", "colnum": "1935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BURMA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "ow there is a deficit of £10 million. Burma owes us a great deal of money. [An HON. MEMBER: \"As a result of the war.\"] Yes, of course, but because of that, is it not an act almost of criminal negligence on the part of His Majesty's Government to leave that country, just when we might be in a position to help the Burmans not only to help themselves, but to pay back some of the money they owe to us?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1935.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-05", "file": "debates1947-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "df8ddeca898e888c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1935.5", "colnum": "1935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BURMA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "not matter to them. But we have some regard for the finances of this country, and I should have thought that it was a very serious thing to become entirely irresponsible about the financial position of Burma when she needs our aid so much, and owes us so much. In speech after speech Members opposite have said that my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford has made a wholly irresponsible speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1935.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-05", "file": "debates1947-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "df8ddeca898e888c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1937.1", "colnum": "1937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BURMA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "it of personal hostility, but because it shows the great difference between the philosophy of those sitting opposite and most of us on this side of the House. We do not think that mere self-government is a substitute for good government, unless that self-government can give to the people what that good government was able to give them. And with all our faults—and goodness knows they were numerous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-05", "file": "debates1947-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "df8ddeca898e888c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1946.3", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BURMA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"America.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Gentleman tonight. Can he tell us whether there are any conditions in Burma giving even a vague guarantee of democratic self-government in the sense-in which I have ventured to expound it tonight, without any opposition from hon. Gentlemen opposite? Can he give any guarantee that that is so? Secondly, can he tell us whether there is any real racial homogeneity in what we call Burma?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1946.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-05", "file": "debates1947-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "df8ddeca898e888c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1953.2", "colnum": "1953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BURMA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I really must cavil at this comparison between U Aung San and Marshal Badoglio. Marshal Badoglio was an Italian who fought for his country when war was declared by the Government of the country, and at a certain stage, when the tyranny of Mussolini was overthrown, in which he took a part, he came over to our side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-05a.1953.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.1985.4", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I should like to know where we are, Sir. Imputations have been made against former Presidents of the Board of Trade. I do not know whether they apply to this side of the House or to that side, but they have not been withdrawn. I have no doubt of the sincerity of the hon. Member who made them, but there are only two choices—either the imputations must be investigated or they must be withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.1985.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.1985.6", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "There must be a case.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I have already said that this matter has been fully debated, and, if I remember rightly, there was a Division, though my memory may be at fault. Certainly, I do not consider there is any case for further inquiry at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.1985.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.1994.4", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON, MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "As far as I know, it is not the custom of His Majesty's Government to reveal their consultations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.1994.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2000.4", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS (MINISTERS' RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that his reply will in no way allay the concern in the country at the ever growing political nepotism indulged in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2000.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2000.6", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS (MINISTERS' RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Just a moment. May I say two things? There is no such apprehension in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2000.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2001.1", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS (MINISTERS' RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Do it.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "preceding_text": "May I say, first of all, that I did not use the word \"corruption\"? In answer to the right hon. Gentleman, I and many other Members on this side of the House would welcome an opportunity of substantiating our representation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2001.6", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS (MINISTERS' RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Surely, the meaning of the word \"nepotism\" is that people are appointed to offices not by reason of their merits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2001.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2002.0", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS (MINISTERS' RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Surely, that may be true of the word \"nepotism,\" but my hon. and gallant Friend used the words \"political nepotism.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2002.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2002.11", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS (MINISTERS' RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I would suggest now—I have said a certain amount—that we are engendering a good deal of heat, despite the fog, and that, perhaps, now we might get on with our Business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2002.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2003.0", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS (MINISTERS' RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The answer is: \"No, Sir\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2003.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2003.1", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS (MINISTERS' RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The answer is: \"No, Sir\"—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"]—unless the people who are circulating slanders against Ministers will put their charges into writing and establish a prima facie case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2003.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2003.4", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS (MINISTERS' RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We want a withdrawal.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The trouble is that I did not apply that statement to the Leader of the House. I said that the statement was not a speech, and that he was entitled to make it. I think that the hon. Member is barking up the wrong tree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2003.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2003.7", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS (MINISTERS' RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Not only do I not wish to withdraw, I certainly will not with draw. May I ask the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2003.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2004.3", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS (MINISTERS' RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I gave way before because I thought the hon. and gallant Gentleman was going to ask a question of you, but if he is merely going to ask a question of my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House arising out of the offensive lie which he has just told—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2004.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2004.11", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS (MINISTERS' RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that these are questions of opinion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2004.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2005.0", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS (MINISTERS' RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I understood you to say a little while ago, Mr. Speaker, when my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke (Mr. Ellis Smith) incurred your displeasure, that unless he was prepared to put down a substantive Motion on the Order Paper you would require him to withdraw what he had said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2005.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2005.1", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS (MINISTERS' RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is prepared to.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "Then the hon. Member—who is an hon. Member in more than the formal sense of the word—withdrew his remark, because clearly he was not prepared to put down a substantive Motion. Does not the same apply and should not the same criterion apply, to the hon. and gallant Member for East Renfrew (Major Lloyd), namely, he should be ordered to withdraw if he is not prepared to put down a substantive Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2005.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2006.2", "colnum": "2006", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS (MINISTERS' RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "With great respect, Sir —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2006.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2006.2", "colnum": "2006", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS (MINISTERS' RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "With great respect, Sir —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"]—I rise to a point of Order. Having listened to your Rulings, I understood that you directed the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman) to withdraw the words which he had uttered applying to the hon. and gallant Member for East Renfrew (Major Lloyd)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2006.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2007.1", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS (MINISTERS' RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "and I heard him very becomingly defer to your Ruling. What I submit to you, Mr. Speaker, is that my hon, and gallant Friend the Member for East Renfrew did not rest his case on the use of an offensive expression but upon a charge. Therefore, I ask you if you would discriminate in your Ruling between the duty of hon. Members to withdraw offensive expressions which they use, and to withdraw charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2008.1", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS (MINISTERS' RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I thought that the hon. and gallant Member started by saying that if I thought the expression had any offensive implication he would willingly withdraw it, but that if there was no offensive implication he would not withdraw. I do say that I think the way it was received—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2009.1", "colnum": "2009", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS (MINISTERS' RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "preceding_text": "If, in your considered judgment, Mr. Speaker, the expression \"political nepotism\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2060.3", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "OVERSEAS RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "g so, was once the verbal prerogative of the Conservative Party. Despite what he said rather good humouredly in relation to the criticism of Lord Beaverbrook, and despite the gibes he made at Socialist propagandists, I still assert that this is the first Government that has really demonstrated to the Colonial peoples that it wishes to do something practical in the field of Colonial administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2060.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2119.4", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "OVERSEAS RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "preceding_text": "hall watch the interests of the Colonial people. We have their interests in mind every moment of the day. They know that they can rely upon the Colonial Office. They sometimes complain a bit about us, but they know in their hearts, as may be seen from the Colonial Press, which we study, that we are their friends. With regard to the corporations, I think, we on these benches dislike large salaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2119.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-06", "file": "debates1947-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "35c193e26d1b8c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2119.4", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "OVERSEAS RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a surprise for them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "preceding_text": " the corporations, I think, we on these benches dislike large salaries. [ Interruption .] Oh, yes we do. May I say that some of the people who are helping us on these boards have come on to them at much reduced salaries. I will give the salary of the chairman now. I see no reason why the other salaries should not also be given when the appointments are made. The chairman's salary is £5,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-06a.2119.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-07", "file": "debates1947-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "0326e0be931dcf04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-07a.2200.1", "colnum": "2200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "n their jobs for a great number of years, and the result is that these young men, who have families to maintain, have decided to leave the industry and to get rid of their frustration in other directions. The British Transport Commission commences its work on 1st January next year. I hope the Parliamentary Secretary will still be in the Transport Ministry on 1st January—one never knows these days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-07a.2200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-10", "file": "debates1947-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "9d47169c66103c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.30.4", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Medlicott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Medlicott", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that he and his colleagues who have made this decision with regard to basic petrol live and work in London where there is an amplitude of transport of all kinds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.30.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-10", "file": "debates1947-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "9d47169c66103c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.30.4", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Medlicott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Medlicott", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that he and his colleagues who have made this decision with regard to basic petrol live and work in London where there is an amplitude of transport of all kinds—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"]—in comparison with that in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.30.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-10", "file": "debates1947-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "9d47169c66103c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.32.7", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Until we see what effect the abolition of the basic ration will have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.32.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-10", "file": "debates1947-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "9d47169c66103c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.36.7", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " tragic bias in favour of not doing things—letting evils rip, as there is plenty of experience and history behind us to show, in the name of a fictitious and unreal freedom. That conception of freedom means especial freedom for the interests behind the Conservative party. A Government should have presented its programme of legislation to the electorate, as we did, and if the Government are honest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.36.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-10", "file": "debates1947-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "9d47169c66103c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rationing Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "preciate that some of my hon. Friends would probably like to terminate another place forthwith. There is no harm in going on hoping and agitating to that effect. If we had proposed to abolish the House of Lords, I could have understood the complaint that we were embarking on big constitutional changes in the middle of an economic crisis. But this Bill is the rational Bill of a rational Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-10", "file": "debates1947-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "9d47169c66103c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "n of having powers equivalent to those of the Government of the country—in fact, of having powers superior to the Government of the country. That, of course, endowed a minority in this House with the veto powers of a majority. I am not sure that it was not worse than the Security Council. It represents an impossible and indefensible situation to which we as a Government are not prepared to submit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-10", "file": "debates1947-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "9d47169c66103c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "House of Lords will continue in the path which they have so far followed in this Parliament, no doubt against their personal inclination, but in accordance with the conventions of the Constitution? The answer is that there is no guarantee at all; none whatever. I think that in this connection we ought to bear in mind that their Lordships insisted on resuming their sittings after the Summer Recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-10", "file": "debates1947-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "9d47169c66103c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Of great importance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "er .] This lighthearted indifference to what was a serious action is an indication of the fact that the Tory minority in this House believe that the Lords are always right. I have noticed that laughter on the slightest provocation is a sure indication of the hysterical condition of the Opposition. This treating of the action of the Lords on that occasion as a matter of no moment and no importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-10", "file": "debates1947-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "9d47169c66103c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ment should sit. It is quite true that owing to the firm line taken by the Government, no great harm resulted in this case, but there is no doubt that the House of Lords' insistence on resuming their sittings in the Summer Recess at a materially earlier date than the Commons was an attempt to elevate their Lordships' House as if it were the whole Parliamentary institution. They did not stop there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-10", "file": "debates1947-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "9d47169c66103c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.49.4", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Do you? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " of the Government and of the Parliament of the day to take such steps for the reform of the House of Lords. Perhaps the spokesman of the Opposition will tell us why they have not done it. They have had plenty of time; they have had great Conservative majorities and they have been predominant in Coalitions. Why did they not reform the House of Lords? The truth is that they did not know what to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.49.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-10", "file": "debates1947-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "9d47169c66103c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.49.4", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ey have been predominant in Coalitions. Why did they not reform the House of Lords? The truth is that they did not know what to do. [AN HON. MEMBER: \"Do you? \"] Well, this is a free country. I am not bursting to do anything about it. What I am bursting to do is to limit the power for mischief of this institution, with which we have to live. The Government have an open mind about all these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.49.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-10", "file": "debates1947-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "9d47169c66103c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.49.4", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " the House. If the House is then satisfied that they have demolished the arguments, let the House reject the Bill, but if the House is satisfied that the arguments stand up and survive the criticisms of the Opposition, in the name of the freedom of our Parliamentary institutions, the liberties of this land, and the great Parliamentary democracy of which we are the outstanding example to the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.49.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-10", "file": "debates1947-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "9d47169c66103c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.70.3", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "preceding_text": " being brought forward, and the controversy it is likely to arouse in the country at a moment when we all ought to be united, and when the Prime Minister and other Ministers keep exhorting us to stand together in the national interest. What is troubling me is that this policy of the Government seems to be the beginning of an attempt to establish a form of single-Chamber government in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.70.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-10", "file": "debates1947-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "9d47169c66103c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "it. The possession of a hereditary title at the present time is a grave handicap in life, to which no man should be subjected. To deal with the House of Lords, as it is dealt with in this Bill, without tackling the vital defect in its composition—the hereditary principle—is ultimately an evil and immoral thing. It is really true that now that the old system of property holding has been swept away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.78.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-10", "file": "debates1947-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "9d47169c66103c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.103.2", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "West Derby.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "y, I want to emphasise this point: it seems to me to be utterly disingenuous to maintain that this Bill raises any major constitutional issue of principle. It amends constitutional practice in one detail but leaves the present constitutional principles unaffected for the time being. Indeed, \"The Times\" and many hon. Gentlemen here tonight, including the right hon. and learned Member for West Fife—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-10", "file": "debates1947-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "9d47169c66103c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "preceding_text": "n legislation, if it can be dignified by such a name, is out of date and entirely at variance with the democratic spirit of our age. I was surprised to hear the hon. Member for Oxford (Mr. Hogg) advocating its abolition. As my hon. Friend said, it was a courageous speech, but I noticed that his reference to that was received with con spicuous silence by hon. Members on the other side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-10", "file": "debates1947-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "9d47169c66103c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.133.2", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member says, \"its veto only,\" but the power of delaying action is an inherent and necessary concomitant in the revising and suspending power which Bagehot characterised as the fundamental duties of a Second Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-10", "file": "debates1947-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "9d47169c66103c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " Bill is whether the steel Bill is to be passed by this Government or not, and I should like very much to know whether that is the view of the Treasury Bench. Is that the reality? The hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Llandaff and Barry from below the Gangway told us that the steel Bill was the reality of this Bill. I should very much like to know whether the Treasury Bench take that view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-10", "file": "debates1947-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "9d47169c66103c0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "Oh, yes, quite short notice. It is all very well for the Lord President to shake his head. The Lord President has nothing else to do but politics, and he has a great many other people to help him do it. It is quite simple for the Lord President to come down here and speak for an hour or an hour and a half. Somebody else writes the stuff and he comes down and gabbles it out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-10a.147.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.179.7", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which side?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "In my opinion, it does not show any lack of determination or drive; it shows a lack of assistance from the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.179.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.190.9", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "The two things have not much connection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.190.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.203.4", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " and the determination, with special reference to the gods, or to destiny, or, as it was adapted, to the desire of the mass, the inward desire of the mass of the people. This implied, that there should be frequent recurrence, direct or indirect, to the popular will, and that the wish—the —should prevail. That is what the party opposite is afraid of, and that is what this Act is devised to prevent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.203.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.203.4", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two million unemployed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ly regulated by the brake, that the steady progress of the nation and of society is maintained, and tens of millions of humble people are given steady conditions in which they can live their lives and make all their plans for their homes, their families and for bringing up their children, and have a chance of bettering themselves, and, at the same time, forwarding the cause of the whole community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.203.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.203.4", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " and make all their plans for their homes, their families and for bringing up their children, and have a chance of bettering themselves, and, at the same time, forwarding the cause of the whole community. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Two million unemployed.\"] Two million unemployed under a Socialist Government. Never has that figure of two million unemployed occurred under any but a Socialist Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.203.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Myth?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " 1931 that reduced the unemployed from the figure of nearly three million to just above one million, and it was the right hon. Gentleman, even in these days of full employment and shortage of labour, who managed to raise unemployment to over two million at the beginning of the present year by gross mismanagement of the fuel problem. All this myth about the tragedy of unemployment between the wars—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.211.5", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " Cabinet intrigues. Lots of people have tried to break the British nation and make it do things it did not want to do. Some were British and some were foreign. They all came a cropper. Do not imagine, I say to right hon. Gentlemen opposite, that you have got this country in pawn. The British are a proud people and, more than any other country in Europe, they have known how to control their rulers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.211.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.218.3", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "That really does not quite do justice to Mr. Chamberlain, because the reason why he resigned was not because of any defeat in the House of Commons or that he could not gather support to continue, but because he felt that nothing short of a National Government could save the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.218.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has no right to demand a Dissolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the same thing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has no right to demand a Dissolution—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and the right hon. Gentleman in his great position must not be inaccurate. He can submit to the Crown a request for a Dissolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.219.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.219.7", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "That is all rubbish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.219.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donovan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donovan", "preceding_text": "ime when passions were inflamed by some actual conflict with the other House. Then, it is said—and this is a point which was developed with much force and eloquence by the hon. Member for Oxford (Mr. Hogg)—that we ought not to embark on reform piecemeal, but that, if we are going to do anything at all, we should reform the House of Lords root and branch; in other words, we should go the whole hog.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "All I can say in reply to the hon. Gentleman, who has just allowed himself another little slice of prejudice, is that we are getting production of coal today in such proportions as we have never had before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that I am not quite as naive as that. First of all, the House of Lords only introduces Bills which are absolutely non-controversial, and therefore the point does not arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Roberts", "preceding_text": "nt Measure. I am not addicted to historical research, and my knowledge of history of the Middle Ages is very limited, but I was provoked to look up the Divisions on the First and Third Readings of the Parliament Bill of 1911, and I found that those valiant heroes, who were so keen in support of a single Chamber, all trooped into the Division Lobby in support of their paymasters, the Liberal Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "11 have a worthy progeny now, who will speak in the most violent manner against Government Measures, but can be relied upon always to troop into the Division Lobby in support of retention of their posts in this House. The most extreme thing they will do is melt away, and be no more seen if they apprehend serious public resentment. The Measure of 1911 was a settlement which has worked for 36 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": " reasons for changing it require to be sought very seriously, especially at this time in our affairs. The provisions of the Bill before us are, in terms, retrospective, and I say so for this reason: the argument throughout is that the will of the people must prevail, that the will of the people must not be thwarted. The will of the people, presumably, is to be expressed through this elected House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "hrough this elected House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am glad to carry the Government Benches with me point by point. I make my next point: That the retrospective Clause has this effect, that it is not merely general legislation designed to enable one House to deal with another, but it contains the proposition that the will of the people is adequately represented through the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "of His Majesty. If they will refer to it, they will find that legislation is promised this Session to implement the report of the Boundary Commission, which is proposing to make extensive alterations in the constituencies of this country. If this House is thoroughly and perfectly representative of the voice of the people, what is the need of the Boundary Commission, what is the need for this Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "eing correct, but it is significant that the Home Secretary did not give an explicit denial to it. What he said was that Bills other than iron and steel might be affected. A Member on the opposite side of the House, who was trying to enforce good manners on us yesterday, and saying that we ought to avoid extreme speeches, referred to the behaviour of Conservatives as selfish, narrow, and partisan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.252.2", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We cannot hear them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the fact that our remarks are unacceptable to hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.252.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "smart under that treatment for life. The late Mr. Arthur Henderson, who was a real Labour leader, moved in 1907 that the other place represented interests that were opposed to the general well being, that it was a hindrance to national progress, and that it ought to be abolished. This was moved 40 years ago, and here we are playing about and tinkering with this thing by means of a two Clause Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "t reform more difficult of achievement. That applies to the Bill. All that the Bill is doing is, so to speak, to pull out two teeth. After generations of trouble, decay and degeneration, a modern, scientific, surgical operation is required, and not the drawing of two teeth. If that operation is not carried out by this Parliament it will be performed some day when we have another Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.262.2", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Naylor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Naylor", "preceding_text": "opkin Morris) and my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke (Mr. Ellis Smith). While I am in agreement with the main contention of those speeches, I do not consider the time opportune for further discussion of the question of the reform of the House of Lords as a Second Chamber. We ought more particularly to direct our attention to the Bill and the purpose of the Bill, which is a very simple one indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.262.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": " us today that because we are not prepared to bring in a Bill fundamentally to reorganise the House of Lords they are not prepared to support us. If they cannot get it all, they will not take a bit, so they are going to vote against the Government on this important Bill, which they initiated in 1911. I listened also with a great deal of interest to the speech made by the Member for the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": " bring in a Bill fundamentally to reorganise the House of Lords they are not prepared to support us. If they cannot get it all, they will not take a bit, so they are going to vote against the Government on this important Bill, which they initiated in 1911. I listened also with a great deal of interest to the speech made by the Member for the Opposition. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is that?\"] The champion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": "l of interest to the speech made by the Member for the Opposition. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is that?\"] The champion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"]. The Leader of the Opposition, the one who championed the Parliament Act and the cry in 1911 of \"End or Mend the House of Lords.\" I will make a quotation in a moment from one of his speeches. As I listened to his speech I thought I had heard that voice before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": "The figures are available for the hon. and gallant Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": "hear it said that all the House of Lords wish to do is to ascertain the true will of the people, do not be deceived by that. You will find, I expect, nothing they will like less, they do not wish to ascertain the true will of the people. That was said by the right hon. Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) in 1909. We have been discussing the hereditary peerage. I am not so much concerned with that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " of Lords have used their powers in the last two years? We know perfectly well that there is none at all. I have here a quotation, not from a Tory newspaper, because I would never quote that in this House, but from a newspaper which, in the early days of the life of this Government, gave it the most ardent support—more ardent, indeed, than the great \"Daily Herald.\" I refer to the \"News Chronicle\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " Bill, that at the last Election I think his party secured about 11 million votes. Anybody can make their own estimate, but I would say that not a score of those who voted for the Government thought that they were going to introduce legislation to curtail the powers of the House of Lords. I do not believe that it was an issue in any of the speeches or election addresses of hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "pposition, one has more time to do this than when in office, and I have myself addressed meetings and have been asked hundreds of questions about all sorts of things. I have been asked about food, and, no doubt, I shall be asked about potatoes. Those are not the only things about which I have been asked. I have been asked about houses, where they were and why the Government were not building them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ked about houses, where they were and why the Government were not building them. [ Interruption .] Oh, yes, I have. I have been asked about clothes, I have been asked about the basic petrol ration, and so have all hon. Members in all parts of the House been asked scores of questions about all sorts of things. I have never had one question about the House of Lords. Has any Minister been asked that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I will put it a little more politely, and I will give two reasons why we did not do it. The first was that, so far as I am concerned—and I speak for myself—that particular problem never seemed to me a desperately urgent one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.303.3", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "solutely convinced that the House of Lords as the Second Chamber would adapt itself to whatever the political situation of this Chamber happened to be. That is why. Was I not right? What is the right hon. Gentleman complaining about? The House of Lords have not taken action in respect of this Government different from that which they have taken in respect of the Government of which I was a Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.310.3", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For 36 years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "versy, all they have got to say is that this is a very simple little amendment, and they accept it. The fact of the matter is that they have not made up their minds what to do. This is only an example of up-to-date wisdom of dealing with matters. We do not wait today for a disease to break out, but try to cure it in advance. I know that hon. Members say \"Ah, you have had no trouble for two years.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.310.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.310.3", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) was very eloquent in his defence of the will of the people. He talked of our system of constitutional checks and balances as a safeguard against arbitrary power, and put forward the existence of the House of Lords' veto as a great safeguard to ensure that the popular will prevails. The right hon. Gentleman spoke on this subject in 1909.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.310.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s, however constituted, as necessarily the right interpretation of the people's will. The right hon. Gentleman also said: Counter checks on a democratic assembly there may be. I believe there ought to be. But these counter checks should be in the nature of delay and not in the nature of arrest. They should operate equally and evenly against both political parties, and not against only one of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.310.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.314.3", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tolerate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ave something more of the temper of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford, then it will be very useful that their powers should be restricted. Whatever may be the case for a reform of the House of Lords, we did not suggest a reform of the House of Lords when we went to the electors. What we did say was that we should take powers to prevent obstruction. That is exactly what we have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.314.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.330.3", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SERVICE VEHICLES (SPEED LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": " vehicles as are imposed on similar classes of civilian vehicles. If a large, solid tyred transport vehicle carrying a load of 30 or 40 tons must be kept down to a speed of 15 or 20 miles an hour on the main roads of this country, surely a Churchill tank, which is of about the same weight should be similarly restricted. This is particularly necessary as the Churchill tank has only slippery tracks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SERVICE VEHICLES (SPEED LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The figures are valueless.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-11", "file": "debates1947-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "95fdcafc331d736b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SERVICE VEHICLES (SPEED LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "From the speed limits outside built-up areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-11a.340.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-12", "file": "debates1947-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "1891fd20bcbaec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.387.3", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady will agree that we must give these cases very serious consideration, because, where there is a question of revocation of a licence, it might mean depriving a man of his livelihood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.387.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-12", "file": "debates1947-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "1891fd20bcbaec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.388.2", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I think the hon. and gallant Member is under a misapprehension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.388.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-12", "file": "debates1947-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "1891fd20bcbaec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ith the evident approval, as I remember, of hon. Members opposite, said this about the food subsidies: Our national economy will never be on a satisfactory basis until they have been reduced to negligible proportions.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th April, 1947; Vol. 436, c. 202.] That is still the view of hon. Members opposite. That is the official Conservative opinion. I gather that is the general view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-12", "file": "debates1947-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "1891fd20bcbaec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.402.0", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PURCHASE TAX", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And wigs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "tbins and buckets, typewriters and other office machinery—the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. I. J. Pitman) was very keen on that and we agreed to it—fuel economisers—I was anxious to help the Minister of Fuel and Power—wireless sets for the blind, equipment for children's playgrounds, and many other items which had been requested from different parts of the Committee and different Departments of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-12", "file": "debates1947-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "1891fd20bcbaec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING DUTY (DOG TOTES AND FOOTBALL POOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may take the thing in my own order. I do not propose to levy a duty of this kind on the horse totes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-12", "file": "debates1947-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "1891fd20bcbaec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.413.3", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING DUTY (DOG TOTES AND FOOTBALL POOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "e surplus, and this I am sure you will be able to feel is a sign that we have been managing our financial affairs very well. It is one up to the Labour Government, do you not think? Do hon. Members really think that his performance today is one up to the Labour Government? If this is the best the Socialist Government can do, the people would like some other administration of the national finances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.413.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-12", "file": "debates1947-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "1891fd20bcbaec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING DUTY (DOG TOTES AND FOOTBALL POOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " to have more Government advertising, because it is the gloomiest and the worst advertising in the world. I think that the worst of the advertisements perhaps is \"Work or Want.\" I do not know whether \"Keep Death off the Road\" had any effect on the right hon. Gentleman's driving, but it nearly caused me to have more than one accident glancing at the lady and her gloomy face. As to the Betting Duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-12", "file": "debates1947-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "1891fd20bcbaec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING DUTY (DOG TOTES AND FOOTBALL POOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Stanley Holmes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Stanley Holmes", "preceding_text": "dal policy, the Minister for Economic Affairs should have made—as I have just said—his recent speeches at the beginning of 1946, and the Chancellor in his Budget of April, 1946, should have given him his aid. If at that time such a policy had been adopted, the American loan would not have been frittered away. If at the beginning of 1946, we had adopted the austerity conditions now imposed upon us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-12", "file": "debates1947-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "1891fd20bcbaec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.423.2", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING DUTY (DOG TOTES AND FOOTBALL POOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Smith", "preceding_text": "nd then lent it to the Government at interest. In World War One bank deposits went up from £1,000 million to £2,000 million. In World War Two they went up from £2,800 million to £5,500 million, approximately. As the late Reginald McKenna used to say, \"every bank loan creates a deposit\"; and every time the bank manager gives a client a loan he brings into existence money which did not exist before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-12", "file": "debates1947-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "1891fd20bcbaec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.431.2", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING DUTY (DOG TOTES AND FOOTBALL POOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "g steady in present circumstances is still, in the judgment of His Majesty's Government, wise. But we cannot go on doing this indefinitely, regardless of cost. We shall have to reconsider this matter next year. We might even have to do so earlier.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT. 9th April, 1946; Vol. 421, c. 1811.] I think the Chancellor will agree that that was a promise that these subsidies would be reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.431.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-12", "file": "debates1947-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "1891fd20bcbaec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.431.2", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING DUTY (DOG TOTES AND FOOTBALL POOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "subsidies was getting so heavy that we could no longer bear it. However, instead of the amount being reduced it has been increased by another £100 million. Therefore, I cite the Chancellor against himself, and say that the food subsidies one and a half years ago at £300 million were too high, and that, therefore, they ought to have been cut down. I charge the Chancellor with lack of moral courage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.431.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-12", "file": "debates1947-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "1891fd20bcbaec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING DUTY (DOG TOTES AND FOOTBALL POOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "8th November, 1947: The present level of earnings in April was 103s. 6d., nearly double that of October, 1938, when it was 53s. 3d. The highest groups found in this lot are the printing and engineering groups, with 134s. 8d. and 134s. 6d. respectively for men. Furthermore, the highest paid group of all are the dockers with an average of 152s. 11d. a week in the three months ended 10th April, 1947.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-12", "file": "debates1947-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "1891fd20bcbaec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING DUTY (DOG TOTES AND FOOTBALL POOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "It is a similar intention from that side of the House at all times—it is an attack on capital in any shape. Whatever measure is introduced reducing capital appreciation, it is never enough for hon Members opposite because they want to see capital disappear altogether from the hands of the present holders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-12", "file": "debates1947-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "1891fd20bcbaec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING DUTY (DOG TOTES AND FOOTBALL POOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or punishment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "preceding_text": "egulated properly, they would not be fleeced as they are fleeced today by pools and bookies. I hope the Chancellor will have second thoughts about horse-racing totes, which should be dealt with in the same way as the dog totes. I would not care if no beer or spirits were ever brewed again, but I think those who drink beer are as much entitled to it as to any other form of amusement or nourishment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-12", "file": "debates1947-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "1891fd20bcbaec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING DUTY (DOG TOTES AND FOOTBALL POOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under a Socialist Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "at he had offered to sell her a bed with Purchase Tax put on, but that she wished to wait her turn for a utility bed. It is obvious that if she had bought the bed it would have cost her four or five times more than a utility bed, which she could not afford. I ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer seriously to go into this question, because after six years of war and two years hardship after the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-12", "file": "debates1947-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "1891fd20bcbaec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING DUTY (DOG TOTES AND FOOTBALL POOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Because he is a sinner.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "sed up like a dish of fish, with a big gold albert across his chest, master of all he surveys. He hands out a little cash of whisky, and exploits the steel worker to the tune of 2s. The Government take steps to control the butcher. They tell him to charge so much for his meat, and no more. They take steps to control the baker. Why should the publican be free to rob the people of anything he likes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-12", "file": "debates1947-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "1891fd20bcbaec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVER-FISHING (NORTH SEA AND WEST COAST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "The agreement in respect of plaice was 25 metres—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-12a.502.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-13", "file": "debates1947-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d07c3efc58861f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.531.4", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You said that last week.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend see whether the almost psychopathic obsession of hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-13", "file": "debates1947-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d07c3efc58861f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.553.0", "colnum": "553", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I think that this order is in a different category from the Control of Engagement Order which we recognised raised substantial and debatable issues. I do not think this one is quite in that category.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-13", "file": "debates1947-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d07c3efc58861f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.554.6", "colnum": "554", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Spivs and drones.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am not making any aspersions on anybody. I only say that the primary purpose of this order is to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.554.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-13", "file": "debates1947-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d07c3efc58861f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.557.9", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "entleman has boasted that he has not controlled but has prodded; that he did not try to restrain but to urge on. Certainly, as at every stage, he tried to pinch what he could of the credit, so today he cannot object to taking a large share of the blame. The second point is the question of the cheap money policy. We have debated this on many occasions. I do not want today to go over the old ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.557.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-13", "file": "debates1947-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d07c3efc58861f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "greyhound racing tracks and one is tempted to ask, \"If dogs, why not horses? And when you are at the dogs, why only the tote and not the bookmakers?\" Is that fair? Is that justice? Certainly there was one man who did not think it fair or just. That was the Chancellor of the Exchequer last April. This is what he said about it then: But we stand, and most of all the Labour Party stands, for justice;", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-13", "file": "debates1947-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d07c3efc58861f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "receipts will exceed or fall short of the reduction in expenses. Yet, without that knowledge, it is quite impossible to form any real opinion as to whether the inflationary gap is really being closed by the proposals the Chancellor is putting forward. We did not get much guidance from the right hon. Gentleman's speech yesterday, but I happen to have here a copy of the broadcast he made last night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-13", "file": "debates1947-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d07c3efc58861f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.567.3", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "ng of him too great a sacrifice. The subject on which the right hon. Gentleman was vaguest of all was the subject of the food subsidies. It is true he told us that during this year the cost of subsidies would not be increased. Hon. Members cheered him. I wonder whether they noted that he gave no promise that in future they are going to be maintained? Does any hon. Member say that he promised that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.567.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-13", "file": "debates1947-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d07c3efc58861f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.567.6", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Next year's Budget.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "I am very much obliged to the hon. Gentleman. He has put quite excellently what I had already said. The Chancellor had given an assurance that he would maintain the cost of the subsidies this year. I was pointing out that he has given no pledge whatever as to the cost of the subsidies next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.567.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-13", "file": "debates1947-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d07c3efc58861f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is usual.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "Did the hon. Gentleman say he will not be there? Everything is to be left, like so much else, to next April. Frankly, I cannot see the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-13", "file": "debates1947-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d07c3efc58861f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.569.1", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "That depends on negotiations. I am talking now about matters under the control of the Government. Let us make no mistake. Just the same thing applies here as in the case of the social services. We are accused of being anxious to cut the social services. Why should we be? We were just as much responsible as hon. Members opposite for introducing family allowances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-13", "file": "debates1947-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d07c3efc58861f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.570.4", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "We have to ration everything now. Perhaps we had better ration interruptions. We are faced today with problems that have never before faced this country. This problem of inflation—this terrible problem of inflation—is to us a deadly novelty, and because of its novelty it is difficult for us to realise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.570.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-13", "file": "debates1947-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d07c3efc58861f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Major Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Bruce", "preceding_text": "posite. I venture to think that the time is coming when right hon. and hon. Members opposite are going to be rumbled. For that is not what the Conservative Party say in private. I have here a monthly market letter of a firm of stockbrokers who support the cause of the party opposite. They send the letter to their various clients in the City of Portsmouth. The letter is dated—no, it has not a date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-13", "file": "debates1947-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d07c3efc58861f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.603.0", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "llor is now proposing. If we are to encourage, as I want to see us encourage, a diversion of effort away from the inessentials towards the essentials, we must bring a greater sense of urgency to bear on the position of our basic industries and recognise the tremendous straggle we are having to lift them out of the rut of depression in which they were handed over to us from hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-13", "file": "debates1947-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d07c3efc58861f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "preceding_text": " and making use of markets and prices. The fact that the present mixture of ineffective controls and very little price mechanism has not been a success, does not mean that there must be no mixture at all, but rather that the blend should be different. The fact that a man who is given a whiskey and soda does not like the proportions he is given, does not mean that he wants pure water, or pure soda—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-13", "file": "debates1947-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d07c3efc58861f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " to turn their money into goods while the money can still buy something, and every time they do that, a further impetus is added to the inflationary flow until it becomes uncontained, and we get the kind of thing which we saw in Europe at the end of the first world war. I do not want to go for the Government on this. The situation is too grave for us to try to score mere debating points out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-13", "file": "debates1947-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d07c3efc58861f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.670.3", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sitting pretty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "ovement has been non-political. Until the middle of 1945, we have never had in this country a Labour Government with a majority. The National Savings Movement has been going on since the last war. Throughout the whole of that period the Labour movement has, on a non-political basis, supported the National Savings Movement. It has been left to this hour, when the country is in a critical situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.670.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-13", "file": "debates1947-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d07c3efc58861f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.672.0", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not for the first time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I, of course, withdraw. If I used a phrase which I should not have done, and which at the moment I cannot substantiate, I withdraw wholeheartedly and completely. What I will say is that hon. Gentlemen opposite have in their speeches yesterday afternoon and today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-13", "file": "debates1947-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d07c3efc58861f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.672.0", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Your fault.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "their speeches yesterday afternoon and today—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Not for the first time.\"]—indicated that in their view this movement should not be supported. May I say in the few minutes that are left, as I think the right hon. Member for West Bristol said earlier, that if the proposals made by the Government in this Budget and elsewhere fail and this country goes down, then we all go down with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-13a.672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-14", "file": "debates1947-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "eb2bc8d2bce0fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-14a.748.1", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BURMA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "risdiction of the divorce court. We have a quite simple point here which seems to me to raise a good deal of argument. What is the nationality of a man who was born in Burma, whose grandfather was born in Burma, but whose father was born in Australia? That may have a tremendously important effect when you have to deal with the question of domicile and jurisdiction brought before the divorce court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-14a.748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-14", "file": "debates1947-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "eb2bc8d2bce0fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-14a.751.2", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BURMA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to the hon. Member for Wood Green (Mr. Baxter), because I feel that my speech would fall at least within his definition. The hon. Gentleman and I once took part in a brains trust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-14a.751.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-14", "file": "debates1947-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "eb2bc8d2bce0fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-14a.751.2", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BURMA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "Gentleman and I once took part in a brains trust. [ Interruption .] I am afraid I have perhaps been distracted from the point I was making on Clause 2 of this Bill. I was in some difficulty, as I informed the House, about the case of a man, himself born in Burma, whose grandfather was also born in Burma, but whose father was born in Australia. That is the sort of case which will arise in practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-14a.751.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.822.4", "colnum": "822", "heading": "BUDGET DISCLOSURE (MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is down.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I understand that such a Motion is debatable and I should like to consider it when it is definitely put down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.822.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.823.2", "colnum": "823", "heading": "BUDGET DISCLOSURE (MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "I would suggest that it is really in the very best interests of the right hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton) that there should be an inquiry, as he may be subject to all kinds of rumours and slanders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.823.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.823.2", "colnum": "823", "heading": "BUDGET DISCLOSURE (MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "I would suggest that it is really in the very best interests of the right hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton) that there should be an inquiry, as he may be subject to all kinds of rumours and slanders—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"]—and is so now, as a matter of fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.823.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.823.7", "colnum": "823", "heading": "BUDGET DISCLOSURE (MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister if he is aware that newspapers in the United States and in Canada have been sending cables to many of us asking for the inside story of what has happened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.823.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "It was suggested in the course of the Budget Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": " like to have some details. A Budget which includes a provision of no less than £1,900 million for current expenses, apart altogether from Defence and the service of the National Debt, should offer great scope for reduction by pruning. The Chancellor himself admitted that there was great scope. If hon. Members look at the details of the Estimates they will see many pro visions that invite inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "e service of the National Debt, should offer great scope for reduction by pruning. The Chancellor himself admitted that there was great scope. If hon. Members look at the details of the Estimates they will see many pro visions that invite inquiry. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"] In my view— and this may be what underlies the question, \"Where?\"—no one need or should contemplate a cut in social services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "g. The Chancellor himself admitted that there was great scope. If hon. Members look at the details of the Estimates they will see many pro visions that invite inquiry. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"] In my view— and this may be what underlies the question, \"Where?\"—no one need or should contemplate a cut in social services. [ Laughter .] I expected that. I have never suggested a cut in social services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell us why.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "te inquiry. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"] In my view— and this may be what underlies the question, \"Where?\"—no one need or should contemplate a cut in social services. [ Laughter .] I expected that. I have never suggested a cut in social services. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I have been grossly misrepresented—I had been pre pared to believe, unwittingly misrepresented, but I am beginning to be not so sure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "Yes, to old age pensions, too. A great many people became entitled to old age pensions who did not need them, but never mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "hers). In fact it is not so long since I said in this House, sitting opposite, when I was challenged by the hon. Member for Orpington as to whether we could afford the increases in social services provided for in Bills prepared let me point out, by the Coalition Government that I had come to the conclusion as Chancellor of the Exchequer that we could not afford not to give them. That is on record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "hen I was challenged by the hon. Member for Orpington as to whether we could afford the increases in social services provided for in Bills prepared let me point out, by the Coalition Government that I had come to the conclusion as Chancellor of the Exchequer that we could not afford not to give them. That is on record. [An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"] Just before V.E. Day. I do not want to dwell on this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": " Member for Orpington as to whether we could afford the increases in social services provided for in Bills prepared let me point out, by the Coalition Government that I had come to the conclusion as Chancellor of the Exchequer that we could not afford not to give them. That is on record. [An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"] Just before V.E. Day. I do not want to dwell on this—[HON. MEMBERS: \"We do.\"] Do you?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Change of front.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "r we could afford the increases in social services provided for in Bills prepared let me point out, by the Coalition Government that I had come to the conclusion as Chancellor of the Exchequer that we could not afford not to give them. That is on record. [An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"] Just before V.E. Day. I do not want to dwell on this—[HON. MEMBERS: \"We do.\"] Do you? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Very well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.832.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.838.3", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Mr. Wyatt rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.838.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.838.6", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is the case?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members want to interrupt, but I want to make my case clear and I am prevented from doing so by constant interruption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.838.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.838.11", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What action?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged. I do not believe a perpetual dole for everybody will have any place in the life of this sturdy community. I believe effective action in this matter will do as much as-anything to impress our friends abroad' with our determination to put things; right, and to stop further inflation. It will have that effect, because action, as is quite clear, will be unpopular and difficult", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.838.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "No, it is not my business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "preceding_text": "dies granted on, them. My point, in this particular aspect, is that there is nothing inherently unsound, in the organisation of our economy, in food subsidies. I hope, therefore, that we shall not regard food, subsidies as unsound, and argue that we must get rid of them. I see no reason why they should not remain a permanent part of our economy until we are properly organised on a Socialist basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawley", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawley", "preceding_text": "r quarry, and they selected the Chancellor probably because his invective was the next most stinging. What I want to suggest is that the Chancellor, far from being the man who could do most to get us out of our difficulties at this time, is probably more limited in what he can do than any Chancellor of the Exchequer has ever been in our history. On either side of him he has two almost deadweights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the petrol?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawley", "preceding_text": "g today is presented in an extremely negative fashion. I have read the weekly pamphlet of the National Savings Movement, and although it is an admirable document in many ways it presents no dramatic picture of what people are saving for. Again, there is great difficulty, I know, in being able to promise people that if they save for five years they will be able to get a car at the end of that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.860.3", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "dly on the small papers. It is simple to say that advertising is an extravagance, but advertising is the very incentive and stimulus of trade. At the present time, the Government are concerned with the saving of manpower and materials, and yet they are now saying to the merchants, \"We are going to stop you spending money in advertising, but you will be able to employ more men to serve your goods.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.860.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "depends upon two things; the first is the goods that we produce per head of our population, and the second is our credit overseas. There will not be enough goods if there are no raw materials to be worked or if the men are in the wrong places making the wrong things. There will not be any credit overseas if we are living beyond our means both home and abroad. I want to say frankly what my view is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What thing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "s last year, and it was known that we had lost £200 million of goods, we would be better off than we are now. If we had tackled it even last July, when the realities of this crisis first began to dawn upon the Government, we would still be better off. But I will not criticise the past. My complaint is that we have not started even now to tackle the real problem. If we delay this thing much longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.874.3", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "een the amount of goods we are producing and the amount of money we are trying to spend; to make some sort of assessment of the degree of inflationary pressure existing. And it certainly should not be impossible for the Government to come forward and say first, whether they intend to deal with it—they have not even said that yet; secondly, what steps they propose to adopt. Now I come to the steps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.874.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was put on again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": " to another, that if we are to deal with inflation, we have got to mop up the purchasing power at the point where the people are going to buy anyway. They are going to buy electrical equipment in any event. They are going to buy it because they have no coal. Is it really right that a lot of this electrical equipment should be free of Purchase Tax at the present time? It was taken off some time ago", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "en (Mr. Boothby). One thousand five hundred million pounds are spent on alcohol, tobacco and entertainment, and £500 million on potatoes, cereals and sugar. Yet, on the latter figure, £132 million are paid out in subsidies. It is awfully difficult to justify. Another difficulty is, why should a coal-face worker be paying out of his wage packet in order that I may buy a loaf of bread for ninepence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ol, tobacco and entertainment, and £500 million on potatoes, cereals and sugar. Yet, on the latter figure, £132 million are paid out in subsidies. It is awfully difficult to justify. Another difficulty is, why should a coal-face worker be paying out of his wage packet in order that I may buy a loaf of bread for ninepence—[ Laughter .] That is what is happening now. That makes nonsense of economy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "em. I would raise the price of petrol, by indirect taxation, to 5s. or 6s. a gallon, and I would make a great deal more readily available. This is what would happen. The coal face worker would get more money in his pocket to spend in his own way, and if he worked his extra shift, he would have something to buy. He could buy two gallons of petrol to take his girl out on the back of his motor cycle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.876.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.886.4", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "ich I ought to withdraw, I will gladly do so, but until you direct me to do so, I will content myself by saying what I was trying to point out, when I was interrupted, that, by and large, the Conservative Party and hon. Members opposite who sit as Conservative Members of Parliament do, in large measure, speak on behalf of certain financial interests which we on this side do not claim to represent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.886.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.896.0", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Canning?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ich would normally go to the totalisator. The reason given for the discrimination between horse racing and dog racing totalisators is that the Betting Control Board have to allow a certain sum of money to be used for the purpose of horse breeding. That argument does not really apply, because I am told that the Greyhound Racing Association have arranged to finance a £70,000 canine research station.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.895.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "x dodger? The right hon. Gentleman knows very well that there axe hundreds of thousands of pounds of loose money bumping about in the country at the present time. In October, 1945, and again last April—and I want to reiterate it again tonight—I said that there was no more effective weapon for dealing with the tax dodger than calling in existing currency notes. If the Chancellor, after 1st January—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "er than calling in existing currency notes. If the Chancellor, after 1st January—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"]—or 1st December, if the Committee prefers it, said that the existing note issue was no longer to be legal tender, I believe that the result would be not so much a disclosure of what has been going on, but that the Government would reap a rich harvest as vast sums would never be surrendered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: 'Overmuch?'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Elliot", "preceding_text": "d like to draw attention concerning family allowances and old age pension to which the right hon. Gentleman made reference on the same day: One of the first steps the Government took on coming into office was to bring into operation a system of family allowances, and almost simultaneously greatly to improve the old age pensions of the people of this country. I do not blame them over much for that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-17", "file": "debates1947-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "3fd519b7424016bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "ch they are affected by the hon. Member for South Nottingham I cannot say, but the fact is that the fall in savings is due to the intelligent assessment by the public of the policy and action of His Majesty's Government in the light of actual experience. During the past two years it has become increasingly difficult for honest men conscientiously to recommend savings as the best spending of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-17a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-18", "file": "debates1947-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1357cc1f9502281e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-18a.986.4", "colnum": "986", "heading": "MR. SPEAKER (VISIT TO FRANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have a short statement to make to the House. I wish to inform the House that I have received a cordial invitation from Monsieur Herriot, the President of the French National Assembly, to pay him a return visit to Paris from 26th to 30th November. I hope that right hon. and hon. Members will agree that I should accept this invitation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-18a.986.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-18", "file": "debates1947-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1357cc1f9502281e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-18a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"1889.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "preceding_text": "e incidental matters are important and intriguing, I hope we shall apply a self-denying ordinance to ourselves and keep our minds fixed all the while on the main principles. From time to time the House of Commons is asked to consider the apportionment of financial relationships between local government and the central Government, because ever since the establishment of the county councils in 1885—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-18a.988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-18", "file": "debates1947-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1357cc1f9502281e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-18a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It makes no difference.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I said, and I repeat, and surely the right hon. Gentleman will admit, the financial papers concerned were completed only on Saturday morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-18a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-18", "file": "debates1947-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "1357cc1f9502281e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-18a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "preceding_text": "tuation. I have been a member of a city council for 27 years. In the early days, fortunately, I was a member of the Civil Service where my pay was only stopped in the difference between the maximum and the minimum of my grade. Unfortunately, having been sent to prison by my friends on the opposite side, in an attempt to break me in Birmingham, I had to resort to other employment, and for 18 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-18a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1117.4", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH MILITARY ATTACHE, MOSCOW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "In view of the unfortunate incident which occurred in Moscow in connection with this officer, will my hon. Friend consider withdrawing him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1117.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1132.8", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guesses? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "Really, Sir, I am not going to be led into making guesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1132.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1145.3", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "preceding_text": "The Minister will agree that he has just admitted that there are ample supplies of these commodities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1145.8", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask the Chancellor.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, but nobody minds that. That is not the limiting factor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1145.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1146.1", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "As I said, it has been decided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1146.4", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "As I understand it, the sugar has been purchased or will be purchased under existing contracts. What is the advantage in not now distributing the sugar? So far as I can understand what the right hon. Gentleman has said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1146.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1162.0", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is it in Order for the Secretary of State for Scotland to read the whole of his speech?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1178.3", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": "a considerably lower rent, the fellow who moves to the better environment for the sake of his children is promptly taxed up to the hilt for doing so. I wish to focus some attention on this problem, because it hits every section of the community. I understand that a part of the Conservative Party platform is to give every person a stake in the country, and to let them become their own householders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1178.3", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": "axed up to the hilt for doing so. I wish to focus some attention on this problem, because it hits every section of the community. I understand that a part of the Conservative Party platform is to give every person a stake in the country, and to let them become their own householders. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I agree; I think it is a very desirable thing that people should own their own homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1184.1", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "preceding_text": ": What have we lost, and what have we gained? I ask myself what this Bill is taking away, and I find that we lose three things. Under the 1929 Act, we had compensation for derating. I do not agree with the disparaging remarks made by the hon. Member for Dumbartonshire about that Act. It was not for shipbuilding, but for the community who conducted shipbuilding. They had the advantages of derating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1184.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1208.1", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "With all respect, the hon. Member should be careful in his selection of language. He talked about \"scrutinised by the officials.\" That can only have one significance which is that the officials got at HANSARD and checked the speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1208.2", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I did not catch the last words of the right hon. Gentleman. I am sorry to have to say this in regard to a Minister, but if the right hon. Gentleman would listen to the whole of the speeches which are made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1208.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1211.0", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I sympathise with the hon. Gentleman in trying to deal with Scottish affairs of which, I am afraid, he is woefully ignorant. He really should read his brief from his permanent officials a little better than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1239.0", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "The Committee, the House and the country are getting thoroughly sick and tired of these idle, irresponsible and mischievous speeches that are made on this subject by right hon. and hon Gentlemen opposite. They do not mean it; they know they do not mean it; and they are deliberately misleading the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1239.0", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "The Committee, the House and the country are getting thoroughly sick and tired of these idle, irresponsible and mischievous speeches that are made on this subject by right hon. and hon Gentlemen opposite. They do not mean it; they know they do not mean it; and they are deliberately misleading the country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] I am not talking about hon. Members on the Liberal Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1242.3", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was brought in during peacetime.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "r for North Dorset (Mr. Byers) draws a distinction between peace and war in military conscription, but even that distinction is abandoned by the Conservative Party, so far as military service is concerned\". They say, \"We will support this during war because it is necessary during war, but not after the war, whether it is necessary or not.\" Did they apply that argument to the Military Service Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1243.1", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Certainly, by a Bill. There is a Bill before the House now. This is a Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1243.1", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Certainly, by a Bill. There is a Bill before the House now. This is a Bill. [ Interruption .] It is no use hon. Members saying that it will not do. It is true that during the war this law was enacted by decree and by regulation. In this case that is not being done: In this case we have a Bill before the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1243.4", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "It would be possible to put an Amendment down. It does not necessarily need an Amendment of this kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1243.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1243.4", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "It would be possible to put an Amendment down. It does not necessarily need an Amendment of this kind—[ Interruption .] All right, I am wrong about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1243.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1249.0", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "spiv\" is that it means nothing, whereas \"niggers\" refers, although perhaps impolitely, to an obvious physiological fact. The argument is that the spivs are so contrary that they will not work unless they are made to work. I do not like the habit of referring to a number of people whom one intends to enslave by an opprobrious epithet as an excuse for turning them into slaves. Frankly, I dislike it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does the hon. Gentleman know about that? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "t they are selling their birthright for a mess of pottage. I cannot help it if the hon. Gentleman makes that choice. I believe it to be true that, if the price mechanism were allowed to return in our present economic situation, the hon. Gentleman would not suffer the experiences of 1929. I am bound to say that, if it was not so, I would prefer freedom to slavery, even if it were freedom to starve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1255.7", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "h some of the points which have been made this afternoon. I would ask, with all respect and sincerity, whether it is necessary to repeat the statement that was made in justification of our asking the Committee to give us the order which we got a few weeks ago. We gave a full explanation of it. This afternoon there has been an attempt to prevent this order being effective, and we are wondering why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1255.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1255.9", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "Amendment before us relates to the regulation and not to the order. I hope, having got it straight up to that point, we can keep it straight for a bit further. I am sorry the right hon. and learned Member for West Derby (Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe), who moved the Amendment, is not here because, once again, I had the feeling that he was working himself up into a passion and he did not really feel like it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1255.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1255.9", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "really understand him. That is my impression and I am entitled to express it. Some hon. Members may not agree with me, but I am entitled to express my opinion and I have done so. The right hon. and learned Gentleman said that we are embarking upon the path leading to the slave State. We shall be a slave State unless the workers can save us from it, and only the workers of this country can save us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1255.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1257.6", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "ive to this and took no action to redress it. Did they not keep the Control of Engagement Order on the miners and keep them tied to their jobs? Did they not keep the control on the agricultural workers and keep them tied to their jobs? Did they not keep the control on the building trade workers and keep them in that industry? I never heard any righteous appeals in this House to set those men free.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1257.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1260.0", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "e will' offer a man a job in the industry in which he has been actively employed. If not, we shall find an industry in which that class of labour can be usefully employed. It is not until a man has turned down the offer of the four jobs, for which he is suited in the opinion of the officer, that he is told to take one. If a man who is offered a job accepts it, he goes there without being directed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1267.3", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "I should like to do so and I hope I shall be called on another occasion when I can deal with it, but I am afraid it would be out of Order on this occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1267.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughte .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " which is congenial to him. And because we do that, and do not direct him, unless he rejects the particular appointments offered, we are not in fact directing labour.\" That is rather like a highwayman on the Great North Road presenting a gun at the traveller, and saying, \"Deliver, or I fire,\" receiving the jewellery, and subsequently pleading in a court of law that he had not exercised compulsion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1274.5", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1274.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1278.0", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is misinterpreting what I said. I do not intend to run away from what I said but I should like to make it clear that I remarked that I hoped people with conscientious objections to this Measure will give effect to them by refusing to obey it, but I was not seeking to incite people to disobey the law in any general sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1284.5", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I have some doubt as to the right of this Government to introduce military conscription. I voted for it because, as a Member of the House of Commons, it is my duty to vote for a Measure that I think right, whether or not I think that the Government that introduces it has any moral right to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1284.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1284.5", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "f Commons, it is my duty to vote for a Measure that I think right, whether or not I think that the Government that introduces it has any moral right to do so. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Are hon. Members opposite suggesting that it is the duty of an hon. Member to vote against a Measure which he thinks right simply because he does not think that the people who are introducing it have any right to do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1284.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-19", "file": "debates1947-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "d0349af651232858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1287.0", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not come over here?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "preceding_text": "o most of this Debate, and I confess at the outset that I dislike and hate this regulation with all the power and feeling I have. I know very well that it is left to me as a Member to go into either Division Lobby, or to refrain from voting. Having heard the speeches to which I have beep compelled to listen from hon. Members opposite, I have found it absolutely impossible to stick to my seat here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-19a.1287.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-20", "file": "debates1947-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "d03689e72e0e8ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1341.4", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "That is not the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-20", "file": "debates1947-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "d03689e72e0e8ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1342.0", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "That is my recollection of the conversation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1342.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-20", "file": "debates1947-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "d03689e72e0e8ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1344.3", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "There cannot be.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "That was a very recent decision of the Courts, and I do not know whether there may be an appeal. I do not think I ought to say anything when it is such a recent decision of the Court, and when I cannot be sure whether there may not be an appeal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1344.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-20", "file": "debates1947-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "d03689e72e0e8ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1388.1", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman would be a little patient I was coming to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-20", "file": "debates1947-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "d03689e72e0e8ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1445.0", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "e need to accommodate 2,500 evacuee orphans. Is it beyond the capacity of the Minister and his Department to arrange for the accommodation of 2,500 children without taking billeting powers over the whole United Kingdom? Is there any more undesirable method of accommodating children than by compulsory billeting? If the Minister had any idea of the resentment which is caused by compulsory billeting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-20", "file": "debates1947-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "d03689e72e0e8ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1446.4", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "may change, or change their policies. The result is that Ministerial assurances have no permanent validity. The least I can ask the right hon. Gentleman to do, therefore, is to promise this Committee that he will not remain a Member of any Government which uses this regulation for any new class of billeting. If he will do that, he will have done all he can do, short of withdrawing this regulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1446.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-20", "file": "debates1947-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "d03689e72e0e8ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1451.10", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "m entitled to say that my own view about billeting and about the obnoxious character of unnecessary billeting, can surely be demonstrated by the fact that, even in the worst period immediately after the end of the war, when men and women were being demobilised people all over the country to take them in hundreds of thousands, in millions, from the Forces, we did not use these powers for billeting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1451.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-20", "file": "debates1947-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "d03689e72e0e8ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1452.3", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite rightly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is becoming obsessed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1452.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-20", "file": "debates1947-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "d03689e72e0e8ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1452.3", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is part of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is becoming obsessed—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite rightly.\"] We are not dealing at the moment with industrial conscription.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1452.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-20", "file": "debates1947-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "d03689e72e0e8ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1452.3", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " many are put out into homes as foster children. Why did we have the Curtis Report? We had it because we found that it was impossible to provide sufficient trained inspectors to see how the children were being used. The reason why I am angry is that hon. Members opposite, anxious to make political capital, would sacrifice the welfare of these war orphans merely in order to score a political point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1452.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-20", "file": "debates1947-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "d03689e72e0e8ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1456.2", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I think I am entitled to suggest that the arrogant way in which the Minister of Health has treated the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-20", "file": "debates1947-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "d03689e72e0e8ab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1461.0", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "inges on the liberty of the subject that it is desirable that the House should have the opportunity, before permanent legislation is enacted, or this matter is continued much longer, to have a chance of having the matter before it fully and in detail. The same thing applies to the Gaming Acts. They badly need consolidation. I would not undertake to attempt to do it in Committee of the whole House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-20a.1461.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-24", "file": "debates1947-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9f3183627faff18f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1581.3", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "I am not aware that the facts are as stated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1581.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-24", "file": "debates1947-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9f3183627faff18f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1591.1", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIANS, SOUTH AFRICA (UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "But if I understood the Minister's reply, is it not the fact that the resolution to which the British representative agreed is precisely the kind of resolution agreed upon in December, 1946, and that what the original Motion at the United Nations organisation asked for was that they should now pursue the original resolution to its conclusion, and all that this resolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-24", "file": "debates1947-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9f3183627faff18f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1613.1", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "s on such a day if we omitted the names of any of those who have been the pioneers and architects of the schemes on which, as the Minister himself said, he is now placing a coping stone. Of course, the problem of relief has been a problem in this country for many centuries. It has always been the glory of this country that it was never willing to omit consideration of the weaker or poorer classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-24", "file": "debates1947-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9f3183627faff18f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1613.1", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "try and almost every Asiatic country would give its eyes. Let right hon. and hon. Members who attack us on every occasion, telling us not to run down our own country, also live up to their own words. The record of this country in the humane and friendly treatment of its citizens is one of which this country may well be proud. It is quite true that the difficulties during the industrial revolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-24", "file": "debates1947-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9f3183627faff18f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1613.1", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "mented by the benefactions of various monastic and other organisations, and this combination of a nation-wide organisation and the work of local authorities and voluntary organisations is inherent in our social traditions. The right hon. Gentleman's tribute to that co-operation, not merely in the Bill but also in his speech, is among the reasons why we on this side are glad to see this Bill today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-24", "file": "debates1947-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9f3183627faff18f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1617.2", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": " go to the Unemployment Assistance Board rather than to the public assistance committee, but because the public assistance committee consists of elected persons who have to account to the electors for what they do. That is why you take it from them.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 11th March, 1940; Vol. 358, c. 948–9] The hon. Member will find on reading the Debate on the Bill that that is what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1617.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-24", "file": "debates1947-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9f3183627faff18f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1618.1", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Nelson and Colne totally fails to understand the point. The hon. Member was then arguing that the local authority should have the power to give money for relief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-24", "file": "debates1947-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9f3183627faff18f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1619.1", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "for the Minister of National Insurance to say a little more about that when he winds up the Debate tonight. As the Minister has said, the coping stone rests upon a number of previous provisions, some of which have been supplied by the present Government, and some of which have been supplied by previous Governments. But that is a matter for the past, for we have now to look forward into the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1619.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-24", "file": "debates1947-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9f3183627faff18f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1670.1", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is looking backwards now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": "ction not long ago as being people not without their qualities, whom he would be very sorry to see disappear from the London Embankment. I leave that small difficulty to be settled internally in the Cabinet. The Conservative Party have always been concerned with social reform, and we can say with truth that the name of Disraeli will always be associated with the social reforms of the last century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-24", "file": "debates1947-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9f3183627faff18f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1703.1", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sing it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "I accept the hon. Lady's correction. For all that, I think she is wrong. I would remind the hon. Lady of a Negro spiritual, with which she may be familiar, called, \"All God's chillun got shoes.\" In that simple little song there occurs this line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-24", "file": "debates1947-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9f3183627faff18f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1703.1", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "e Labour Government. That seems to me to reflect a very odd state of affairs, because it has been the stock-in-trade of hon. Members opposite for a long time—and now it is about the only stock in trade left to them—to create a superstition—for it is nothing more than that—that the Governments between the two wars constituted a period of unremitting and relentless grinding of the faces of the poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1703.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-24", "file": "debates1947-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9f3183627faff18f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1724.3", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POTATO RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": " The Foreign Secretary said two days later—and now I quote from the \"Daily Herald,\" which, I trust, provides an accurate quotation— 'We are considering how to distribute our available potatoes,' the Foreign Secretary told a meeting of the Wandsworth housewives yesterday. 'I do not know whether we shall have to ration, but I would rather do that than let one section of the community have them all.'", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-24", "file": "debates1947-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9f3183627faff18f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1725.0", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POTATO RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": ". allowance right up to the time when the new crop of British earlies comes on to the market in sufficient quantities to supply the public demand—at least to the extent of 3 lb. But such information as one can get begins to throw a certain amount of doubt about that. I am not going to express my own opinion; I am going to quote a sentence from an impartial and well-informed weekly, the \"Economist\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-24", "file": "debates1947-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9f3183627faff18f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1734.1", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POTATO RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"5 lb.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": "I want to submit at the outset that the proper basis for an allocation or ration scheme for potatoes ought to be in subdivisions of one stone. I make that submission because retailers' maximum prices for potatoes are fixed by the Ministry on a basis of 7 lb. and because the housewife is used to buying her potatoes in stones, half stones and quarter stones, and not on the basis of 3 lb.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-24", "file": "debates1947-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9f3183627faff18f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1737.1", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POTATO RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Mr. Strachey)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Retreat from what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Mr. Strachey)", "preceding_text": " but feel that the Opposition tonight is, in the words of the poet: Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike. That is a position which I am not surprised to see them take up, for, of course, much as I am sure they might like to represent themselves as standing in the position of telling the country that they were against potato rationing, they do realise that, and their retreat tonight shows it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-24", "file": "debates1947-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9f3183627faff18f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1737.3", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POTATO RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "arge of exposing the country to the exhaustion of its potato supplies, which would indeed be the most reckless thing we could do today. So we come back to the position they have put to us on several occasions in this House already: that potato rationing-is ( a ) wrong; ( b ) brought in too late; ( c ) the scale of allocation is too high; ( d ) that it is too small. All these charges have been made", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1737.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-24", "file": "debates1947-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9f3183627faff18f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1743.4", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POTATO RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. York", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. York", "preceding_text": "ribution in this country. No better example is required than the muddle which the Government have made over the whole business of producing potatoes in this country. Let me examine for one moment the Government's action in this matter. I maintain that their whole policy towards the potato production of this country is one of the causes of the present crisis. I cannot go too deeply into the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1743.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-24", "file": "debates1947-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9f3183627faff18f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1743.4", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POTATO RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. York", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"You cannot blackmail us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. York", "preceding_text": " the whole business of producing potatoes in this country. Let me examine for one moment the Government's action in this matter. I maintain that their whole policy towards the potato production of this country is one of the causes of the present crisis. I cannot go too deeply into the matter—[ Interruption ]—but I will go very much more deeply into it if there are any more interruptions like that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1743.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-24", "file": "debates1947-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9f3183627faff18f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1753.1", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC MEETINGS, HACKNEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That was said about Hitler.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": "acle of supporters of the Left Wing erecting him once more on a pedestal. It must be difficult to stand in Ridley Road and listen to the vileness of the utterances of the members of the Ex-Service Men's League. It would be much more in the interests of the Jewish community if they left this man alone, because I am convinced that if he is left to the obscurity he deserves, he will sink from notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-24", "file": "debates1947-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9f3183627faff18f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1753.1", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC MEETINGS, HACKNEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Communism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": "t Hitler, but I am not so foolish as to class Hitler with Mosley, or to class the mentality of the people of this country with the gullible mentality of the people of Germany. I feel that the Home Secretary has a duty to deal with this issue. I feel that the interests of democracy in this country, and of public order, demand that some more action should be taken against Mosley than has been taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-24a.1753.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1781.6", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRISONERS OF WAR", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Escapers.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington-Lodge", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister say to which category the bulk of these escapees belong?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1781.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1811.0", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alan Herbert", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does the hon. Gentleman know? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alan Herbert", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman tell the House how much money was spent last year, or in any other year, for the purpose of horse breeding out of the money put through the horse tote?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1811.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1830.3", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are obstacles.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "preceding_text": " April. He said: … to tax 'totes' and pools alone, and let the bookmakers go free, would be wrong, it would be unjust, it would be repudiated by all right-thinking men and women.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 15th April, 1947; Vol. 436, c. 78.] I cannot think that inside a few short months either he or the Government should change their mind so far as the rights or wrongs of this matter are concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1830.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1841.3", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Perfectly ridiculous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "preceding_text": "rect them because that reduces purchasing power but still permits an extremely high level of State expenditure. Nor will cuts in the Armed Forces, for the opposite reason. Of course, many hon. Members on this side are very much in favour of cuts in the Armed Forces. No, the only thing likely to satisfy hon. Members opposite is a cut in the social services and that, of course, is their real policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1841.3", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is at Gravesend \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "preceding_text": "present circumstances, food subsidies are an extremely important and valuable social service to the people of this country. In fact, I think hon. Members opposite are so obsessed with this idea of a cut in food subsidies that they have given up worrying about whether or not it will counter inflation effectively. For instance, the hon. Member for Monmouth, who I am sorry is not here this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1845.1", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Confidence trick.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "preceding_text": " Budget which the Chancellor of the Exchequer may have to present next April may redesign the whole of our national economy, and nothing less than that. Of course the answer lies with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is very much in his hands, but he cannot succeed without the full confidence of the nation behind him, because in all these matters, just as in 1931 the magic word is \"confidence.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1883.1", "colnum": "1883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "get was a very odd Budget. Indeed, I think it will be generally agreed that there is some wonderment in the mind of every hon. Member why the Budget was brought in at all. Second thoughts, which are invariably more sensible, come, and then one realises that this is the Budget and the Finance Bill of frightened men. Indeed, this Finance Bill is due entirely to the result of the municipal elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1908.5", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": " I hope we shall have some news from the Chancellor that will please us all. I want to end up with the last of the three points which I said I wanted to make, and that is the question of the reduction of expenditure and in particular the reduction of waste and extravagance, of which there is always a great deal in large organisations whether they are run by the Government or by private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1908.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1911.1", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "preceding_text": " not immediate savings been made in capital expenditure and Government expenditure. The answer is, of course, that they have been and are being currently made. The right hon. Gentleman was perhaps a little confused—not his fault, maybe—over what was said about the Estimates on a former occasion. What was pointed out by my right hon. Friend and also by myself was that it was impossible to quantify—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1914.1", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: Oh, yes it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "case from that common practice. The hon. Member for Rutherglen (Mr. McAllister), in a speech which in some places seemed to be slightly critical of the Finance Bill, said he did not like this tax because he believed that it discouraged management and acted against incentive. I do not understand why it should be said that this discourages management, because management is not interested in profits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1914.1", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Think again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": " seemed to be slightly critical of the Finance Bill, said he did not like this tax because he believed that it discouraged management and acted against incentive. I do not understand why it should be said that this discourages management, because management is not interested in profits—[AN HON. MEMBER: Oh, yes it is.\"] Certainly not. Management is the technician, who does not share in the profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1915.1", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER:\" What about shops?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "In that case we are dealing with owners, which is a completely different matter. There may be one man who is both manager and owner, but he is then dealt with in two capacities, one as owner, and one as manager. In the vast bulk of businesses in this country management and ownership are separate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1915.1", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "vast bulk of businesses in this country management and ownership are separate. [AN HON. MEMBER:\" What about shops?\"] In shops also. As to it being against incentive, I should have thought that if people are striving to get as large profits as possible, to distribute for themselves or otherwise, a tax of this sort would be an incentive to earn more in order to counteract the payments under the tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1916.2", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Including Government advertising?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "ost inflationary action, because it tends to make more money chase the few goods that are there, and that is in itself, obviously undesirable. Nor is it wise to use national resources, whether of manpower or materials for this purpose at this time, when they are badly wanted for productive purposes. When one realises that the expenditure on advertising amounts to something like £80 million a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1916.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1923.1", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Smiles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Smiles", "preceding_text": "hancellor of the Exchequer. He said that a manager was a technician. That is news to me. I have worked as an engineer, an assistant manager, a general manager and a managing director, and when I was a manager I had chemists, engineers and chartered accountants to advise and assist me. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said that a manager was not responsible in any way for the profits of his company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1923.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1927.1", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "e is proposing this tax. But, as I mentioned to my hon. Friend the Member for Rutherglen (Mr. McAllister), there are other vices which could be treated in the same way, such as the one mentioned by the author of \"Mrs. Warren's Profession.\" I pointed out that that was also a vice which, if the principle of this argument held good, could be recognised as a suitable source of revenue for the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1931.1", "colnum": "1931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "ut they are far from being normal. The Finance Bill, and the Budget Resolutions on which it is based, are what we would expect from a Chancellor of the Exchequer who was not master in his own house. It is obvious that the late Chancellor of the Exchequer was deterred by political considerations from making a frontal attack to overcome the greatest and gravest crisis in the history of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1931.1", "colnum": "1931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "r put forward in the Budget.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 17th November, 1947; Vol. 444, c. 932.] Now we can take it that his more realistic speeches of the last few weeks are just camouflage and a smokescreen, because in reality we are out of the frying-pan into the fire. The Cripps furnace is heated seven times. Before he had the responsibility of high office, the Chancellor always advocated dictatorship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1931.1", "colnum": "1931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": " our Prime Minister as Beachy Head towers above the little lighthouse. The present situation is dangerous. It is the inevitable result of a planned economy. Every system of collectivism develops into dicatorship. It did in Germany, it did in Russia and today everyone can see the drift towards dictatorship in Britain. For that I am indebted to the brilliant columnist, Mr. Carson, of the \"Recorder.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1933.5", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "echnique and policy as the Russian Government abroad. It is making war on Capitalism, and it does not want war, but the fruits of war. Its methods are the steady infiltration of the dangerous theories and ideologies of Communism into the body politic of this country. The Finance Bill does not face up to the magnitude of the crisis. It must be known to all people that it is a victory for the T.U.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1933.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1935.5", "colnum": "1935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "icy of cheap money? Thank heaven, the mandate of this Government does not go beyond the shores of this country, for controlling the price of money in Britain, which was the financial centre of the world, is like trying to bale out the Atlantic with a teaspoon. I want to ask the Financial Secretary a question to which I know he cannot reply. The Financial Secretary has spoken once. I would be glad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1935.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-25", "file": "debates1947-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "52167f156f0fc350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1951.3", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" This is not a point of Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "was the proper occasion on which those explanations should have been given, and I feel very sorry this chance was not taken, because now we are forced to the position in which the Committee is voting public money without the full facts, and without all the information to which we are entitled. I must make this protest, without blaming the Parliamentary Secretary, that this Committee is being asked", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-25a.1951.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-26", "file": "debates1947-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "47c851d49197baaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-26a.1965.1", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "But is my. right hon. Friend aware that a joint deputation of Arabs and Jews approached the municipality of Haifa to stop this outrageous thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-26a.1965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-26", "file": "debates1947-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "47c851d49197baaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-26a.1965.6", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "But may I again appeal to my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-26a.1965.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-26", "file": "debates1947-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "47c851d49197baaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-26a.1965.6", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "But may I again appeal to my right hon. Friend—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am entitled to appeal, surely?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-26a.1965.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-26", "file": "debates1947-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "47c851d49197baaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-26a.1974.3", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-26a.1974.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-26", "file": "debates1947-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "47c851d49197baaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-26a.1979.1", "colnum": "1979", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hobson", "preceding_text": "Our usual practice is to allow an incoming tenant who requires it to have a telephone which is there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-26a.1979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-26", "file": "debates1947-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "47c851d49197baaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-26a.1980.2", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hobson", "preceding_text": "No, it takes approximately nine months to design, print, and have in circulation a postage stamp—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-26a.1980.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-26", "file": "debates1947-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "47c851d49197baaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-26a.1980.3", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington-Lodge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington-Lodge", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend consider that it is still not too late—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-26a.1980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-26", "file": "debates1947-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "47c851d49197baaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-26a.1994.2", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ST. ANDREW'S DAY MEETINGS (SPEAKERS)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "The Minister's answer has made it still more necessary that an authoritative report of the speeches at these meetings should be taken and should be laid on the Library Table. The very fact that the Minister has just said, in justifying them, that these speeches will be factual statements delivered by the speakers without notes on these very important matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-26a.1994.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-27", "file": "debates1947-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6988cd458172203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2115.0", "colnum": "2115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTORAL REGISTRATION (LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "No, I would not go as far as that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-27", "file": "debates1947-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6988cd458172203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2149.2", "colnum": "2149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the right hon. Gentleman voted for it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ything that can be adduced on the other side. The Government recognise that this is a matter on which very strong individual conscientious feelings are held, and on which the division does not follow the usual party lines. I am told—I did not have time to check it up—that last night Lord Templewood declared his belief in abolition, but in 1938 he resisted the Amendment which I have just described.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2149.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-27", "file": "debates1947-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6988cd458172203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2154.3", "colnum": "2154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "sons too comfortable, and I am quite sure that is not the intention of the right hon. Gentleman. I remember, during my experiences as Under-Secretary, how in a cold spell of weather Holloway Prison used to fill up with elderly ladies. If anybody wants advice as to how to get into a nice warm place on a cold winter's night, I can give it to them briefly. First, you have to get drunk and disorderly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-27", "file": "debates1947-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6988cd458172203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2237.1", "colnum": "2237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price-White", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price-White", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the hon. Gentleman, but nevertheless my distaste for the Clause remains. I would rather see all the citizens of this country have their fingerprints taken, so that we did not have to bother any more about these bits of card called identity cards, of which I venture to say many hon. Mem- bers in this House are not in actual physical possession at this moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2237.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-27", "file": "debates1947-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6988cd458172203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2239.3", "colnum": "2239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEALS (SOCIAL FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"—is either a little Liberal or a little Conservative.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "preceding_text": "of our host, Now for the rollicking bun, Now for the muffins and toast. Now for the gay Sally Lunn. The only line that I can think of which applies today in this lyric of W. S. Gilbert is: \"Now for the rollicking bun.\" Of course, Gilbert cannot be said to be very up to date—having passed on some years ago—because he also wrote the lines: Every boy and every girl born into this world alive,…", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-27", "file": "debates1947-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6988cd458172203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2241.1", "colnum": "2241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEALS (SOCIAL FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What letter? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Before you give your Ruling on that point, Mr. Deputy Speaker, if I may quote this letter again it says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-27", "file": "debates1947-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6988cd458172203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2243.1", "colnum": "2243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEALS (SOCIAL FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "It is very important, but it means that the Socialist Party Con- ference will be able to have a banquet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-27", "file": "debates1947-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6988cd458172203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2244.3", "colnum": "2244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEALS (SOCIAL FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "e local food office for permission to run the dinner, which would be for a number of persons in excess of 100. The request was turned down by the local food office, whereupon the secretary wrote to me and asked me if I would take it up with the Minister of Food. A few days later, after I had written to the Parliamentary Secretary, she replied to me in the courteous way for which she is well known—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2244.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-27", "file": "debates1947-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6988cd458172203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2249.1", "colnum": "2249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEALS (SOCIAL FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food (Dr. Edith Summer-skill)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You cannot get lavish banquets.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food (Dr. Edith Summer-skill)", "preceding_text": "sorts who would otherwise wish to speak. The House will remember that it was in August of this year—6th August, I believe—that the Prime Minister announced that the time had come to restrict catering establishments during the period of the economic crisis. The Government considered, quite rightly, that during this time of austerity it was not in the public interest for lavish banquets to be held.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-27", "file": "debates1947-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6988cd458172203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2250.3", "colnum": "2250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEALS (SOCIAL FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "planning for her family, and who finds these meals, often given in restaurants to large numbers of people, an added irritation. We must take that into account and I am quite sure that if hon. Members made the speeches that were heard tonight to the housewives in their constituencies—I invite the hon. Member to try it—they would find, I think, that the housewives of this country support this order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-27", "file": "debates1947-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6988cd458172203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2252.1", "colnum": "2252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEALS (SOCIAL FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member's attitude is a little curious and perhaps I misinterpreted it. Hon. Members opposite have asked why we are not more generous, why we did not permit these other organisations to hold dinners—I will not call them banquets—on a more lavish scale, Let me read out some of the people who have applied during the first month: sports clubs and associations generally throughout the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2252.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-11-27", "file": "debates1947-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6988cd458172203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2253.3", "colnum": "2253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEALS (SOCIAL FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I admit having the honour to be President of the Residential Hotels Association of Great Britain, but it is in purely an honorary capacity. I am not representing the industry in this House. I am here representing my constituency of Eastbourne. I have no financial interest in any single hotel or a single hotel share.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2253.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-27", "file": "debates1947-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6988cd458172203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2254.2", "colnum": "2254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEALS (SOCIAL FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Then if the hon. Member is proud of it, why does he expect me to withdraw? All I said was \"the industry in which he is interested\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2254.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-27", "file": "debates1947-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "d6988cd458172203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2256.3", "colnum": "2256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEALS (SOCIAL FUNCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "I must apologise to the House for not being here when I should have been here to second this Prayer, but I had to go down to my constituency at Brighton. The hon. Lady resents that there should be seaside resorts which have hotels, and I found them greatly encouraged by the vast drop in the Socialist majority at Gravesend", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-27a.2256.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-28", "file": "debates1947-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "852b4d1ffb6b4c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-28a.2272.1", "colnum": "2272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "urts who will not be called upon. They go there, and have to sit in the court, doing nothing, being away from their daily avocations, in these days of shortage of manpower, and probably their services will not be required at all. The right is not exercised, and they go away. The question is whether it is desirable in the interests of the community in these days to retain what is an obsolete right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-28a.2272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-11-28", "file": "debates1947-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "852b4d1ffb6b4c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-28a.2280.3", "colnum": "2280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": " personal capacity than as a represen- tative of this party, because I do not know what are my hon. Friends' views—that the opportunity has not been taken to consider the question of payment to jurors in certain cases. It seems very hard indeed that these men and women of every class of life, who have to earn their living, should have to do these duties for long hours without any sort of payment.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-11-28a.2280.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-12-01", "file": "debates1947-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2523833d017aaf01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-01a.4.0", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "These premises were used for the purpose of getting the Embassy to vacate other premises, which were even more important than the property they occupy. As I have said, we are only charging what we, as the Government, actually pay for the requisitioning of these premises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-01a.3.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-01", "file": "debates1947-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2523833d017aaf01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-01a.15.7", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOMBING PLANS, BAKU (WAR PERIOD)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "It is not a refusal so much as a doubt whether sufficient interest exists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-01a.15.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-01", "file": "debates1947-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2523833d017aaf01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-01a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "best will. I ask the Government to assist farmers in every possible way to achieve that objective. I believe I am right in saying that the sugar beet produced in this country now pays more in excise duty than it receives in the way of subsidies. That is a very interesting situation, because I remember that I had to fight the whole Liberal Party in the old days to keep the sugar beet subsidy going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-01a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-01", "file": "debates1947-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2523833d017aaf01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-01a.91.3", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is out of print.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "ieve that if he were it would have been a more drastic and more radical Bill. This Bill is generous towards the property vested interests of the landlords of Scotland. To whom are these rents to be paid? The previous Secretary of State for Scotland has written a little book called, \"Our Noble Families.\" It was written years ago, but the facts are historical facts that have never been contradicted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-01a.91.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-01", "file": "debates1947-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2523833d017aaf01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-01a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I do not see the relevance of that interruption, because historical facts are the same, whether the book was printed in 1906 or 1936. It deals with the proposition of the acquisition of the land of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-01a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-01", "file": "debates1947-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2523833d017aaf01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-01a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has that to do with the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "difficulties I foresee under this Bill, as indeed I foresaw difficulties under the Town and Country Planning Act, would have been avoided. I agree with much that has been said by the hon. Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Emrys Hughes). Why we should still be called upon to recognise this landowning aristocracy of ours, I cannot tell. It is quite incompatible with any ideas I possess about democracy,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-01a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-01", "file": "debates1947-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2523833d017aaf01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-01a.101.3", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "I agree with that, but hon. Members opposite wish the food subsidies to be abolished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-01a.101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-01", "file": "debates1947-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "2523833d017aaf01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-01a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "the farming of land and produce food up to the maximum extent possible. I am quite in favour of that. The burden of my quest on this occasion is to ask the Secretary of State that he shall fully realise, with regard to the provision of paragraph (i) the responsibility that rests upon him to see that this injunction is exercised with due care and foresight. I have one or two other comments to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-01a.153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-02", "file": "debates1947-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9b8275d0259ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.175.7", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I cannot give any assurance until the facts are placed before me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.175.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-02", "file": "debates1947-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9b8275d0259ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.208.9", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ainst it, we ought to make it clear that in our view, this increase is only necessary because of the bad financial and economic policy of the Government, and each time anyone drinks a glass of beer at the enhanced price he should be reminded where the responsibility lies for the increased price, always excepting those who are teetotallers who prefer water the price of which has not been increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.208.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-02", "file": "debates1947-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9b8275d0259ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.210.0", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the beer on board?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "entiful supply of beer for those engaged in heavy industries as well as agriculture. I would like to make a special appeal to the Government to see that more beer is available in our seaports, not only at great ports like Liverpool, but the smaller ones, particularly the naval ports. Often sailors come back to shore after a very long time at sea, during which they have not had any beer in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-02", "file": "debates1947-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9b8275d0259ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.217.1", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "are the working class of this country. The other day those of us who thought that the food subsidies might be looked at again were accused of making an attack on the working classes, because they represent 125. 6d. a week in a four-member family, but here this additional tax, according to the hon. Member for Mile End, will mean a cost to the working people per drinker of about 12s. to 14s. a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-02", "file": "debates1947-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9b8275d0259ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "That is a most alarming intervention by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Are we now peeping into the future? Are we to find ourselves saddled with prohibition or something like that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-02", "file": "debates1947-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9b8275d0259ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.244.0", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "le, we might easily have serious epidemics. I am sure that nobody on the Treasury Bench will attempt to deny that the vitality of the people is lowered. The fact that there were 2,500 cases of fainting in the streets of London on the day of the Royal Wedding is direct proof that the vitality of the people of this country is considerably lower than it was. 5.45 P.m. If I am right in my supposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-02", "file": "debates1947-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9b8275d0259ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. -Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are all the Opposition leaders?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. -Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "I think that on this side of the Committee it is not difficult to detect that the Chancellor's attitude to this Amendment is less austere and more sympathetic that it was to those which preceded it. I think we can see from these benches the main difficulty in which the right hon. and learned Gentleman is placed. First, he has this yawning gap in front of him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-02", "file": "debates1947-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9b8275d0259ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.305.5", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "by the Government to increase the Profits Tax has been based upon several broad reasons: to encourage the ploughing back of profits into businesses; to check inflation caused by large distributions; and on account of excessive profits being made by companies. I want to call the Chancellor's attention to a case to which these reasons can have no application whatever. It is the example of a company—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.305.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-02", "file": "debates1947-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9b8275d0259ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.313.6", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Eccles", "preceding_text": "nce, is bad enough. Will this Amendment help or hinder production? That is the test which I believe we should apply to this proposal. It is obvious enough that politics and production today are pulling in opposite directions. It never has been possible and it never will be possible, to wage war upon profits and at the same time to get the maximum output from industry which is left in private hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.313.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-02", "file": "debates1947-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9b8275d0259ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has that to do with it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "ck-in-trade today compared with prewar. It is true that the volume of profits retained by private companies today is greater than it was before the war. I will not enter into the dispute between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the economist as to which is the greater. The index figure of the latest issue of the \"Monthly Digest\" shows that basic materials prices are now 259 against 100 in 1938.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-02", "file": "debates1947-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9b8275d0259ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.321.4", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I. was about to say, when the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Pitman) interrupted me, that, if in those circumstances, we thought it proper to increase the Profits Tax on distributed profits, then the gap between distributed profits of 25 per cent, and undistributed profits of 5 per cent. was too big to leave as it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.321.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-02", "file": "debates1947-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9b8275d0259ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.321.4", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "d profits should remain at 5 per cent., whereas we have doubled it to 10 per cent. We have done so for two reasons, as has been said before, very lucidly, by my right hon. Friend. We did so because it seemed to us fair that, if the tax at one stage and in one direction, on distributed profits, is doubled, then something ought to be done on undistributed profits, and we thought we should double it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.321.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-02", "file": "debates1947-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9b8275d0259ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.323.2", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "he does not know his subject—it would not be fair if they did not do so on undistributed profits. This is not a question of fairness. It is a question of bad policy for the businesses on which all the wealth of this country depends, and on which all the hopes of the Socialist Party depend for their schemes. They do not realise that the only wealth in this land comes out of the work of the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.323.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-02", "file": "debates1947-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9b8275d0259ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.325.0", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "nment have taken in the field of industry has been to make it more competent and efficient, and to enable it to earn more profits. Once these profits have been earned, the Chancellor has pointed out ways in which they can be well used. Pressure has been all the time on trying to make businesses more and more efficient, so that they can earn more and more profits. That is what Socialism stands for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-02", "file": "debates1947-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9b8275d0259ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For replacement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "'s memory of what he said? I noted what he said and I do not wish to do him an injustice so I will read it. He said, \"Repairs, replacements and renewals.\" There is no use answering one argument by bringing in something else. These are things for which reserves are not used. He is now making an entirely different point, and the point he is making now is that these reserves are needed for expansion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-02", "file": "debates1947-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9b8275d0259ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Bennett", "preceding_text": "Members in this Committee. I find it everywhere. The error is in thinking that profits are always in money form, but nothing could be further from the truth. These reserves are needed for increased production, which we have been urged is very necessary if we are to survive as a nation. We need this money and these reserves, which are not in the form of money but are in the form of working capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-02", "file": "debates1947-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9b8275d0259ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "ntervened in this Debate had it not been for what was said by the hon. Member for Chippenham (Mr. Eccles). This Amendment has a tendency, which we all deplore, to stop the distribution of profits while maintaining a high profit level. Companies are distributing at a low profit level and building up towards reserves that ultimately, when the time is favourable will be distributable in bonus shares.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-02", "file": "debates1947-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9b8275d0259ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "he reserve would be called upon. But the position today is as different from the prewar position as night is from day, for the reason that the whole of the productive process in any industry in this country today is almost guaranteed, a thing industry never had before. The old speculative capital of the past had something to be said for it with regard to risks, but the present day capital has not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-02", "file": "debates1947-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9b8275d0259ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is business.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "t be this abatement on the maintained profits that are to be distributed. Is it not obvious that if that concession were given any far-seeing company would do what the hon. Member for Lonsdale (Sir I. Fraser) described in his perfectly sincere and honest manner? He did not see anything wrong with it. The profits made today were being ploughed back into raw materials for the next five or six years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-02", "file": "debates1947-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c9b8275d0259ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "eing bought ahead are buying. One thing that amazes me is that not a single word was said by the mover of the Amendment or any of his supporters as to why we should, instead of having 15, allow 20. Nothing was said about that, there was just the old cry about the difficulties we are having in running industry at present, yet the fact remains that you are showing higher profits than before the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-02a.330.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.361.3", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Medland", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend say whether it is not the practice that all matters affecting both chargemen and apprentices are covered on the Admiralty Joint Industrial Council at the present time, and would it not be adding extra work to what is already covered by having Members of Parliament dealing with industrial matters?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.361.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.371.3", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "In air transport, as in all other businesses, there are generally accepted prices and practices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.371.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.392.11", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend give an assurance that His Majesty's Government will co-operate loyally with the United Nations in carrying out the decision of the General Assembly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.392.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": " in any reply that I make, stick close to what is in the Clause. Quite a lot that has been said has roamed a little wide of it. This Clause does one simple thing. It doubles the tax which, up to now, has been levied on rates of profit. Many of the points about whether a Profits Tax is right or wrong, or whether it helps or hinders industry, are, in my submission, quite out of Order in this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.462.6", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "e has taken. We thank him for the infanticide which has been carried out so painlessly and with so much decision. Of course, the right hon. and learned Member had the advantage that it was not his own infant. It was just laid on his doorstep, and it is only fair to him to say that since he assumed office he has never omitted to show his aversion to this unwanted pledge of someone else's affection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.462.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Members opposite if there had been some tax directed against the working class and the Chancellor had come to the House of Commons and said, \"As a result of representations from the Trades Union Congress, I have decided to drop this tax\"? There would have been accusations from the other side of outside interference, outside influence. Yet this gang of robbers, the Federation of British Industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.479.4", "colnum": "479", "heading": "MINISTERS OF THE CROWN (TREASURY SECRETARIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "being appointed. I do not want to overstep the Rules of Order, but will you, Sir, allow me to go a little further, because I have a good example and I want to finish it? It is to show you the awful muddle that State control makes. It takes much longer to train a bricklayer than, say, a plumber or a carpenter, and the result now is that we have got thousands of houses going up all over the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.479.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.482.3", "colnum": "482", "heading": "GAS (SPECIAL ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "preceding_text": "Is not the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power, or someone who represents that Department, present?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.482.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.483.5", "colnum": "483", "heading": "REGISTRATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Byers", "preceding_text": "dence given before the Select Committee on Statutory Rules and Orders, Sir Harold Wiles, of the Ministry of Labour, said that what the Prime Minister loosely called \"spivs and drones\" were not easily definable, and that the Ministry would have to find, by trial and error, whether they were getting the people the Government were after. As a Liberal that made me shudder. The idea of trial and error—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.483.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.483.5", "colnum": "483", "heading": "REGISTRATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Byers", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Byers", "preceding_text": "the people they want to register. Hence this phase of trial and error. They will not know until this thing has been working for some considerable time and a number of people whom they do not want have registered, who it is they are trying to catch. \"Trial and error\" means indignity and suffering to some people. There is no provision made in the order for the conscientious objector to registration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.483.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.485.1", "colnum": "485", "heading": "REGISTRATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Spivs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "An hon. Member opposite says that they are not being asked to fight. I did not say that they had a conscientious objection to fighting. They have a conscientious objection to registering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.485.1", "colnum": "485", "heading": "REGISTRATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "up at every Post Office in the country?—I am not quite sure about that I cannot answer that. In other words the definition of a 'public notice' is somewhat vague?—Yes. Are we really going to allow legislation of this sort to go through? It is going to be important to the people who are called upon to register that they should know—they have a right to know—exactly what they are going to undertake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "REGISTRATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": " We do not go by counting numbers or heads; we go for quality. I want the Minister to look at the order in this light that psychologically it has now become extremely offensive, quite apart from the offence which is committed on the liberty of the people. Every person called upon to register now is, because of the Prime Minister's unfortunate speech, subject to the stigma of being a spiv or drone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.488.5", "colnum": "488", "heading": "REGISTRATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "descriptions of people.\" That is a most dangerous phrase. What is meant by \"classes and descriptions of people\"? That is an extremely wide power. It can be used to register with a view to directing any class or description of persons merely by issuing one of these public notices to which I have referred. I do not want to be accused of following the hon. Member for Orpington (Sir W. Smithers), but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.488.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.503.3", "colnum": "503", "heading": "REGISTRATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "nswer. He is not going to be given a chance to make another until he speaks. Let me give another example. Does anyone doubt that people with red hair, like the hon. Lady the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food, whom I am glad to see on the Front Bench, are persons of a description? She is a person who, perhaps, is exempt for other reasons. She may be above the age limit for all I know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.503.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.503.3", "colnum": "503", "heading": "REGISTRATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "he may be above the age limit for all I know—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] I withdraw. She is a married woman living with her husband, so we need not inquire into the other more delicate matter. The fact remains that without any further Debate in this House, and without any amendment to this order, the Minister could order all persons with red hair to register for a particular job, by giving notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.503.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.503.3", "colnum": "503", "heading": "REGISTRATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "iving notice. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It is no good saying \"No,\" or braying like asses. It is no good howling like monkeys, because that is what the order provides; and because hon. Members have not read it and do not want to read it, is no reason why they should prevent other people describing what it actually does. Under this order the Minister could order all Roman Catholics to register tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.503.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "REGISTRATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Kingston-upon-Thames (Mr. Boyd-Carpenter) pointed out that on two occasions we divided the House on that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.509.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.511.2", "colnum": "511", "heading": "REGISTRATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "bjecting. I believe that the people of this country will recognise that if we do not obtain the correct numbers and proportion of labour in those supplying industries on which the rest of industry depends, then we can never hope to get through our.present economic difficulties. I am entitled to say that the only reason why hon. Members opposite are in fact now objecting to the direction of labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.511.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.511.4", "colnum": "511", "heading": "REGISTRATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "I accuse the Liberal Party of nothing. The Liberal Party have both feet firmly planted in mid-air.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.511.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "REGISTRATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joynson-Hicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They cannot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joynson-Hicks", "preceding_text": "he point that the Socialist policy of controls could only, in its logical result, lead to direction of labour. That was denied emphatically, in my constituency, and I believe in every other constituency. I challenge any hon. or right hon. Member opposite to tell the House that he warned the electors of his constituency that the Socialist policy would lead to direction of labour in any form at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "REGISTRATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They cannot be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "f unemployment. The hon. Member mentioned conscientious objectors. He was the only hon. Member to do so. I will state exactly what is to be done about such people. I have committed to writing many of these things because, as they will be the basis of much of the working of this order, I am anxious that they shall be stated in HANSARD so that they can be brought in evidence against us if necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "REGISTRATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about forced labour?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "hall be stated in HANSARD so that they can be brought in evidence against us if necessary. [HON. MEMBERS: \"They cannot be.\"] I mean brought against us in Debate in this House. I am not a lawyer, and I am not speaking of the law. It is essential for the public to know what we have in mind. Frankly, I cannot imagine a conscientious objection to work. It has never been recognised by the State before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.521.0", "colnum": "521", "heading": "REGISTRATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sir Godfrey Ince.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "ular piece of work is done. I hope, however, that really essential jobs are the only ones to which in the long run, people are directed. There is one other thing which the hon. Member said and which I want to correct. He stated that the Permanent Secretary to my Ministry had stated, and that it had been reported in the \"Manchester Guardian,\" that it would take two civil servants to catch one spiv.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.521.2", "colnum": "521", "heading": "REGISTRATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is peace time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "ho seconded the Prayer said there could be no more onerous burden on a citizen than a demand for his personal services. I can only say, \"Well I'm blowed\"—to think that no greater burden could be placed on a citizen than to ask him to give his services to the State. I cannot accept that at all. Every citizen has a duty to his country and our citizens gave their services unstintingly during the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.521.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "REGISTRATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": " specifically raised by the Select Committee. They ask why classes or descriptions of persons required to register are to be specified by public notice and are not specified in the order itself. The main answer is that it is very difficult, within the confines of an order, to be sure that the classes or descriptions of persons or undertakings to be covered are accurately or sufficiently described.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "REGISTRATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "be covered are accurately or sufficiently described. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I look forward to getting the assistance of the House in this matter. It might be that the original registrations failed to cover the classes of criptions of persons it was desired to include. This can readily be done by further public notice and registration, whereas a series of amending orders would hardly be appropriate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-03", "file": "debates1947-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "842411ed3ab7d0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.526.2", "colnum": "526", "heading": "REGISTRATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "procedure. We called up our young men for the Services by posting notices that certain people of certain ages were to register. I recognise, however, that the House may feel that Parliament has no control over the subject matter of the notices, which are, in effect, part of the registration order. I am prepared to ensure that in every case a copy of the public notice will be placed in the Library.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-03a.526.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-04", "file": "debates1947-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "0b737861d3821eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-04a.567.7", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BURMA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "It is not a question of what is of great interest to Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-04a.567.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-04", "file": "debates1947-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "0b737861d3821eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-04a.568.3", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BURMA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ish to raise a small point. I think the Lord President of the. Council may have been inadvertent, and it may be right to ask for a correction or confirmation. In the answer he read out, he spoke of a Minister being responsible for action he has not taken. In a supplementary answer, he spoke of being responsible for action Ministers could have taken but have not. The two things are quite different—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-04a.568.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-04", "file": "debates1947-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "0b737861d3821eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-04a.569.4", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BURMA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes, we have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Poole", "preceding_text": "As we have never had a nationalised or socialised undertaking before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-04a.569.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-04", "file": "debates1947-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "0b737861d3821eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-04a.584.7", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "preceding_text": "en justified, and could only be justified, in view of the iron and steel nationalisation programme. It would be out of Order, and I would not attempt it, to argue whether nationalising iron and steel is a good thing or not and I will try to keep scrupulously away from any such argument, but I am entitled to say that it is admittedly not a Measure necessary to deal with the present economic crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-04a.584.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-04", "file": "debates1947-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "0b737861d3821eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-04a.591.5", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "May I remind the Committee that one of the provisions of the Parliament Act, 1911, was that there should be a newly elected House of Commons every five years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-04a.591.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-04", "file": "debates1947-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "0b737861d3821eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-04a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I did not say anything of the sort. I said \"had or would have been thought to have had.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-04a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-04", "file": "debates1947-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "0b737861d3821eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-04a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "g in the House about May or June, 1949. Continuing the hypothesis that my Amendment operates and that Bill is, therefore, not carried in the pocket of this Bill, we have the position that there will be a General Election by the summer of 1950. There are only two alternatives. One is that the hon. Gentleman and his party do not want this Bill to be submitted to the electorate at a General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-04a.614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-04", "file": "debates1947-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "0b737861d3821eff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-04a.614.5", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "t follow the argument out. The hon. Gentleman can make another speech, he is not restricted. It is correct constitutional practice and also common sense, that if the Government, in the belief that they are going to lose the next General Election—and that is the only explanation of this offered by the Parliament Act—seize the opportunity to pass legislation when they know the country is against it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-04a.614.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-05", "file": "debates1947-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "9a3d8928cfe5e733", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-05a.730.10", "colnum": "730", "heading": "PUBLIC WORKS LOANS [REMISSION OF DEBT]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "ecoming to his office. It would have been very awkward for the Government at this moment if we had divided on it. We have behaved very well, and all I would ask is that in future, if the right hon. Gentleman wants to get on with these things, not to provoke hon. and right hon. Gentlemen on this side of the House. It takes a lot to make me speak, and I only speak when I have something vital to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-05a.730.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-08", "file": "debates1947-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "b0505dca90cb04fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-08a.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "CLAUSE 8.—(Interest on unpaid Income tax, profits tax and excess profits tax.)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "nt within the wording of the Clause. I am quite satisfied that we can, and my reason for saying so is that if there had been an arrangement for a provisional set-off of that kind the tax debt in question cannot be said to be payable within the meaning of the words \"due and payable.\" It may be \"due\" but it has not yet become \"payable\" because there has been an arrangement for a provisional set-off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-08a.806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-09", "file": "debates1947-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "c62a7ffd2b3cc4c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-09a.906.3", "colnum": "906", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "stry in any way. There are one or two Clauses which will be of vital interest to industry but this Budget which was to do so much to help us overcome the crisis, has now faded away into a poor, weak creature in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer takes little or no interest. The only real fact which has been elucidated is that it can do a great deal of harm. I believe I once made a short speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-09a.906.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.978.10", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "Has the Postmaster-General any idea of carrying out the policy expressed in paragraph 28 of the Economic Survey for 1947, which says: Any further general increase in wages and profits must be accompanied by a corresponding increase in production?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.978.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It did.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "That conflict of interest never arises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.993.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "unding reply of my right hon. Friend, is he aware that this is a very important aspect of the problem; that these men have no difficulty in obtaining ordinary civilian ration books for as long as they evade call-up; and will he tell the House how it is, if he was prepared the other night to answer a Debate on the Adjournment, why he had not asked his own Department to get this information for him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1006.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1017.3", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And something else.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "preceding_text": "ee, this Measure has now reached the stage of a non-controversial proposal. I have to express my thanks to His Majesty's Opposition for their co-operation on the Committee stage in enabling us speedily to discharge our duties. We had five speeches from the Opposition, two by lawyers, two by hon. Members for universities and one by an hon. Member who was both a lawyer and a Member for a university.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1017.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1046.2", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": " the whole of the 1908 Session of this House. That latent power, which has been dormant for so many years, may arise a t any moment. It may arise at a critical time in the life of this Government, when they are dealing with a particular problem. We are trying to prevent that from taking place. What this Bill does is to wipe out part of the blot that has dishonoured this free and democratic people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1046.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1046.4", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": "l back on the peers to help us. We can always use the other House.\" That was described by the Home Secretary in 1911 as being of the Tory Party: … the modus operandi of the new form of political warfare.\"—[OFFICIAL. REPORT, 22nd February, 1911; Vol. 21, C. 2025.] Since then we have moved on very considerably. I feel, as I move among the working people, that we are not where we were in 1911.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1046.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1048.5", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "I am not defending it, but it is not a word which applies to that dynamic character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1048.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1050.5", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": " We on this side of the House believe that it is not the wish of the country that this Measure should be carried through. Only the other day the hon. Member for Nuneaton (Mr. Bowles) said that the members of the iron and steel industry, including the workers, are doing everything in their power by working hard to prevent the nationalisation of that industry. I have nothing further to say but this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1050.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1051.2", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "Even if you rule me out of Order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, I must point out that today we are considering a Bill to limit the power of Parliament as we know it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1051.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "us Face the Future,\" and, as I told the House in moving the Second Reading, we thought about it before the beginning of the previous Parliamentary Session, and seriously considered bringing in the Bill then. But we had so much other work on our hands in that first Parliamentary Session that we thought we could not do it then, and we left it over until now. That is really the truth, the real truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "lthough I hope to make further progress with it at Christmas. The opposition to it of the Conservative Party was to be most strenuous, and I will also have a word to say about that later on. I am obliged to my hon. Friend the Member for Walsall (Mr. W. Wells), my hon. Friend the Member for South-East Southwark (Mr. Naylor), my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Gloucester (Mr. Turner-Samuels)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1117.3", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": " are told, in a Committee room upstairs at meetings of the Labour Party? I am not saying whether he should be there or not. I have no doubt that, as it is a private meeting, the Labour Party are quite entitled to have there whoever they like; but when he is present and gets information which is not open to other Members of the House, what is his position? He is disclosing confidential information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1117.3", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "vate meeting, the Labour Party are quite entitled to have there whoever they like; but when he is present and gets information which is not open to other Members of the House, what is his position? He is disclosing confidential information. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"] The hon. Gentleman says \"Why not?\" The whole purpose of this Motion is to prevent people from disclosing confidential information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1117.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1120.0", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "observation on the hon. Gentleman's interruption. If I were making a party speech, I would advise him to tell that story to the horse marines, because I have never heard a more unconvincing reason given for putting in a privileged position a journalist of a particular party. Everybody knows that he is present in order that he may give information in his newspaper of what goes on at these meetings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " colleague of mine, who is not here tonight, receiving money for a speech he made. He sent the money back. In the letter which was sent to him with the cheque, he was asked to get in touch with another hon. Member of this House, who was very serviceable to this particular association. I know that Lobby men are ordinary, decent, working-class fellows. The general body of Lobby men are good fellows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1125.6", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He sat for Wallasey.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I cannot recall the, different instances, but I will recall one—that of the hon. Member who used to sit on the third bench below the Gangway. I am talking about the last Parliament. That hon. Member—I forget which was his constituency, but his name was Reakes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1125.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "e, and we can imagine what a terrible situation it is—and that there should be no broad censure on those who have been equally guilty in having tempted them to fall into this error. We dealt with that when you, Mr. Speaker, summoned to the Bar, admonished, and received an explanation and apology from the editor and the other person concerned, who were responsible. We have dealt with that incident—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1139.2", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did it work?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": ", in the circumstances, we may \"think fit.\" What a terrible and what a formidable weapon. Never has such anathema been launched upon a wondering people as this terrifying thing \"We will do what we think fit.\" It remindsme of the argument which my mother used when, at the last stage, none of us would do anything we were told. She said, \"I will tell your father, and he will take very strong action.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1139.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ds Parliamentary banter better than the Leader of the House. If he had heard himself earlier tonight he might have felt differently about my right hon. Friend's speech, which I felt was perfectly fair comment. Let us try for a moment or two to see where we are going in this matter. The right hon. Gentleman said that the next occasion, should it ever arise—and must we visualise it will ever arise?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1144.3", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I must remind the right. hon. Gentleman that there are two issues, and we must distinguish between them. First of all, is the House of Commons entitled to do something, and, secondly, if it is, is it prepared to do it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1145.3", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is, with respect, not entitled to ask that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-10", "file": "debates1947-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebb64279f88d894e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1145.3", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then why object?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "nd advise the House to take. Then the House would judge the issue on the merits. The right hon. Gentleman has no right to ask the House to judge an issue except on the merits of the individual case. That seems to me to be what he is trying to edge us into. If not, what is the use of this Motion, since we can do all these things without it? There is not the slightest part of it we cannot carry out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-10a.1145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-11", "file": "debates1947-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "454a2d7762074516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-11a.1202.0", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "ANGLO-SOVIET TRADE (AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheer up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "While we all wish to welcome the agreement the right hon. Gentleman has mentioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-11a.1202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-11", "file": "debates1947-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "454a2d7762074516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-11a.1203.7", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "ANGLO-SOVIET TRADE (AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "We have contracts ready; all the terms have been agreed, and it is just a question of settling the quantities and the prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-11a.1203.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-11", "file": "debates1947-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "454a2d7762074516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-11a.1205.2", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "PERSONAL EXPLANATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "hallenging any Ruling of mine. Therefore I think it may be unfair on him if it went out in this morning's Press that he had challenged the Speaker's Ruling, which he did not do. As to whether I was hasty or not, perhaps I was; anyhow, it was a difficult situation, and I think the House was really rather on edge. Perhaps, therefore, I was hasty. If so, I made a mistake, and I hope it is one of few—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-11a.1205.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-12-11", "file": "debates1947-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "454a2d7762074516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-11a.1231.0", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "West Bristol.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend must really be very ingenuous if he believes what he has said. I cannot believe that the solution has come about wholly by the force of reason. The solution itself contains many obvious defects. The right hon. Member for East Bristol—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-11a.1230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-11", "file": "debates1947-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "454a2d7762074516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-11a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": " neglected. What my hon. and gallant Friend and his colleagues should do is this: instead of adopting the dog-in-the-manger policy with regard to the Jewish State, they should encourage the freed Arab States to develop the culture and education that lie within their power. Instead of encouraging the ex-Mufti—there you have one of the biggest traitors that has ever crossed the scene and who to-day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-11a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-11", "file": "debates1947-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "454a2d7762074516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-11a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nothing of the sort.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "nger policy with regard to the Jewish State, they should encourage the freed Arab States to develop the culture and education that lie within their power. Instead of encouraging the ex-Mufti—there you have one of the biggest traitors that has ever crossed the scene and who to-day—[ Interruption. ] He is the person to whom everyone today in the Arab Higher Committee in Palestine looks for guidance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-11a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-11", "file": "debates1947-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "454a2d7762074516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-11a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ht take a more modern authority, none other than Mr. Harold Laski. In November, 1945, writing in \"Forward\" he said, on the subject of Palestine: I do not see in the Balfour Declaration, or in the terms of the Mandate itself, any plan that there shall be a Jewish majority or a Jewish state in Palestine. If Mr. Harold Laski is not a sufficient authority for my hon. Friend, I do not know who else is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-11a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-11", "file": "debates1947-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "454a2d7762074516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-11a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "n, and it would be worth double that amount today. That does not take into account gold and other minerals. There is another point which the House ought to know. The Arabs have been told—and I myself was told by one of the most prominent Arabs, King Ibn Saud—that the American Zionists' plan for the Arab peninsula is to get a foothold in Palestine and then spread and take all the surrounding areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-11a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-12", "file": "debates1947-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "907dd3be8928068c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-12a.1334.1", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"India.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I still say that Hindustan, which, after the Act of Parliament that we passed a little while ago, is not a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations, while Pakistan is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-12a.1334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-12", "file": "debates1947-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "907dd3be8928068c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-12a.1345.4", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend be good enough, in making that statement to explain why he suggests that the Zionists or the Jews in Palestine have it all their own way, when they have conceded the question of Transjordan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-12a.1345.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-12", "file": "debates1947-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "907dd3be8928068c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-12a.1346.2", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "w we have a very difficult task in withdrawing our troops from Palestine, but I maintain that we ought to do it with the utmost fairness to both sides. My hon. Friend talks about having a force ready to prevent an Arab invasion coming in from outside. I agree, but I think we ought also to have a force ready to prevent Jewish invasion by illegal immigration from outside, too. Does he agree to that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-12a.1346.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-12", "file": "debates1947-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "907dd3be8928068c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-12a.1351.6", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "bitterly the catastrophe of this decision over Palestine, and the irresponsibility of the Congress of the United States in this matter. While I hope that the Arabs will, in spite of grave provocation, do nothing desperate, I am satisfied that this whole scheme is unworkable. Has anyone in this House studied it? Villages will be separated from their cultivated lands and towns from their food areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-12a.1351.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-12", "file": "debates1947-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "907dd3be8928068c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-12a.1351.6", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are agreeing with you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": " Palestine, and the irresponsibility of the Congress of the United States in this matter. While I hope that the Arabs will, in spite of grave provocation, do nothing desperate, I am satisfied that this whole scheme is unworkable. Has anyone in this House studied it? Villages will be separated from their cultivated lands and towns from their food areas—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Yes, hear, hear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-12a.1351.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-12-12", "file": "debates1947-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "907dd3be8928068c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-12a.1366.2", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jeger", "preceding_text": "And I refuse to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-12a.1366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-12", "file": "debates1947-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "907dd3be8928068c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-12a.1400.1", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are arming the Arabs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "conflict with the Jews, and I hope the Jews will not get into conflict with His Majesty's Government, His Majesty's Navy or Army. It is a little patience that is required. There are but a few months to pass before we lay down the Mandate. As to the other point about arming, I am not conversant with the details, but I do not think it is right for us to begin arming anybody in Palestine—either side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-12a.1400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-15", "file": "debates1947-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "b0af1dbf1c6dd8eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-15a.1466.1", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "DEATH OF EARL BALDWIN OF BEWDLEY, K.G.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "preceding_text": "will, I am sure, desire to have the opportunity of paying tribute to one who served in this House for nearly 30 years and occupied three times the position of First Minister of the Crown. Lord Baldwin had been a member of another place for the last 10 years, and his active political life closed in 1937, yet many of us thought of him still as Stanley Baldwin, pre-eminently the House of Commons man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-15a.1466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-16", "file": "debates1947-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8c1bb7e9042f011d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1496.0", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that the constitution of the T.U.C. and its standing orders are such that a number of bona fide trade unions cannot affiliate with it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-16", "file": "debates1947-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8c1bb7e9042f011d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1496.8", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The ribbons.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "We are, of course, exceedingly sorry that the medals have not been issued. It is a problem of production—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1496.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-16", "file": "debates1947-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8c1bb7e9042f011d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1503.9", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "While thanking the right hon. and learned Gentleman for that answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1503.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-16", "file": "debates1947-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8c1bb7e9042f011d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1560.5", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "That is all. The suggestion has been made that instead of acquiring so much land in Wales or England, we should have gone up to Scotland and acquired more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1560.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-16", "file": "debates1947-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8c1bb7e9042f011d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1616.2", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "COAST PROTECTION (CORNWALL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " What the order does is to prevent them from taking any sand that may be deposited within the limits. A great deal of what we have heard from the other side was hyperbole. There is nothing about the Rock Bay order which prohibits them from taking sand for the land. About Harlyn Bay the proposal in the order is the compromise to which the farmers themselves agreed. I said that in my opening speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1616.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-16", "file": "debates1947-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8c1bb7e9042f011d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1636.5", "colnum": "1636", "heading": "OATMEAL (POINTS RATIONING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. P. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. P. Smith", "preceding_text": "eserves of foreign currency, since we have all the machinery and plant in this country to do the splitting. That machinery at the moment is standing idle. I do object, however, to split green peas, that is to say split peas produced from home-grown peas, being subjected to an advance of four points a pound. They are in a very different category from peas imported for splitting. They are plentiful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1636.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-16", "file": "debates1947-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8c1bb7e9042f011d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1642.1", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "OATMEAL (POINTS RATIONING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: There is no reason.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "e to the public. The natural irritation which is produced by the announcement in itself is bad enough, but the way in which the knowledge came to those who are most acutely affected by it certainly did not allay the irritation which was caused. I want to ask if it is not possible, when these adjustments have to be made, for an accompanying statement as to the reasons why to be given to the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-16", "file": "debates1947-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8c1bb7e9042f011d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "OATMEAL (POINTS RATIONING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "There is not really very much that I want to add—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-16", "file": "debates1947-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8c1bb7e9042f011d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "OATMEAL (POINTS RATIONING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is not in Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "orkers will now be allowed to go back, as I think they should if they wish, and make oatmeal once more a perquisite. I also want to echo the plea that the milling price itself should be raised. That will go a long way to remove the disparity between the amount consumed by human beings and the amount disposed of elsewhere. I want to say a word about the foreign negotiations that have been going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-16", "file": "debates1947-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8c1bb7e9042f011d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "OATMEAL (POINTS RATIONING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "ns have gone. When I was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food in 1940 our main objective was to get food from other countries. It seems to me that the main objective of the Ministry of Food today is to stop it. Every day we find some new breakdown, whether with Canada or Denmark, in negotiations for purchasing food. The Government's main objective seems not to buy food for this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-16", "file": "debates1947-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8c1bb7e9042f011d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1646.3", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "OATMEAL (POINTS RATIONING)", "cue_speaker": "Lord William Scott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord William Scott", "preceding_text": " in Scotland look upon oatmeal as something rather superior to either sago or tapioca. On this occasion oatmeal is sandwiched between prunes—I repeat, prunes—and home-made grapefruit marmalade. If we are to play about with the staple food of Scotland, we believe it should be done, at least, by a separate order—it is worthy of that—and not classified in the same sentence as dehydrated potato flour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1646.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-16", "file": "debates1947-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8c1bb7e9042f011d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1651.3", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "OATMEAL (POINTS RATIONING)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We know all that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "is grave. Hon. Members opposite have quoted figures—many figures—tonight and I am sorry to inflict figures on the House because they are a little boring, but I think that they should go on record. It would be useful if I gave them so that hon. Members can refer to them. I want to say what the present supply position is as the Ministry sees it and as the millers' representatives see it in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1651.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-16", "file": "debates1947-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8c1bb7e9042f011d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1651.5", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "OATMEAL (POINTS RATIONING)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Except the whisky\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "r other imported milling oats, the millers would require 140,000 tons in the 1947 to 1948 season, but now, owing to the light harvest, we find they need 300,000 tons. The hon. Member for East Aberdeen (Mr. Boothby) chided us for not being able to get stocks from abroad. I do not like to throw the ball back to his court, but when he was in my position he got all these things from the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1651.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-16", "file": "debates1947-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8c1bb7e9042f011d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1653.5", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "OATMEAL (POINTS RATIONING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "preceding_text": " be helped for the following reasons,\" we might have had some sympathy with her method of presenting the case. However, she comes down and tries to pretend that the only creatures who are going to suffer are the animals. She must know perfectly well that this is a misleading observation. The very idea of this being treated in the lighthearted way in which the hon. Lady has treated it this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1653.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-16", "file": "debates1947-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8c1bb7e9042f011d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1653.5", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "OATMEAL (POINTS RATIONING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "preceding_text": " suffer are the animals. She must know perfectly well that this is a misleading observation. The very idea of this being treated in the lighthearted way in which the hon. Lady has treated it this evening—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] I adhere to the words I have used. The fact that this will mean real hunger to a number of people is a sad commentary on the way in which our affairs are now conducted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-16a.1653.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-17", "file": "debates1947-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a6b1a36ca32db1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1694.4", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SARAWAK (Mr. ANTHONY BROOKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"They never satisfied us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "The reasons have been given in this House and are reasons determined by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1694.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-12-17", "file": "debates1947-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a6b1a36ca32db1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1705.7", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I think I explained in the Debate why that was so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1705.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-17", "file": "debates1947-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a6b1a36ca32db1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1718.5", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "ke up deficits on the official expenditure of His Majesty, and, in view of the rise in prices and increases in the cost of salaries and wages, it is clearly necessary that some part of them should be kept in reserve for that purpose. I wish to take this opportunity, on behalf I am sure, of all hon. Members, of expressing our gratitude to His Majesty for this generous contribution to the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1718.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-17", "file": "debates1947-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a6b1a36ca32db1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1725.3", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "l regard this problem in its true perspective as a question of maintaining the dignity of one of the Estates of the Realm; and of doing no more than that, and will think how disastrous it would be if people who are not too friendly to us abroad were scornfully to point their fingers at us and say, \"This so-called great people tried to make one of their great institutions live in enforced poverty.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1725.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-17", "file": "debates1947-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a6b1a36ca32db1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1727.3", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Chamberlain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Chamberlain", "preceding_text": "—that that would put this whole matter in the right light, not only before this Committee but before the country, which, indeed, is not viewing it in a favourable light at all. I do not want to dilate on that matter. I could refer to my constituents; I could refer to my own post. I think that probably hon. Gentlemen on all sides of the Committee could testify to the dissatisfaction in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1727.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-17", "file": "debates1947-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a6b1a36ca32db1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1740.2", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": " country, and in order to retain the reputation and affection in which Royalty is being held, we ought not to make this provision. The noble Lord the Member for Horsham (Earl Winterton) suggested that feelings against the proposals outside the House emanated simply from the Communist Party. Believe me, he could not be more wrong. This proposal is unquestionably profoundly unpopular in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1740.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-17", "file": "debates1947-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a6b1a36ca32db1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1741.1", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "s that geographically, this is the country in which Their Majesties reside and in which the Heiress Presumptive resides. She is in an exactly similar relationship to the great Dominions as to ourselves. His Majesty is now King of each of the Dominions, and she is the Heiress Presumptive to each of the Dominions. It is important that we should keep that point in our minds as we discuss this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-17", "file": "debates1947-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a6b1a36ca32db1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A united front?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "uld have made his ancestor—I do not know whether it was an ancestor—turn in his grave. We are accustomed to homilies by the Chancellor on the theme of austerity, but he came marching in today to the tune of \"Pomp and Circumstance,\" and, honestly, the things do not mix. At Question Time yesterday the Chancellor of the Exchequer was asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Orpington (Sir W. Smithers)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-17", "file": "debates1947-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a6b1a36ca32db1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1750.2", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "I am sure hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1750.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-17", "file": "debates1947-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a6b1a36ca32db1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1750.2", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But we want to hear it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "I am sure hon. Members opposite—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"] Hon. Members need not be impatient, they will probably not like what I am going to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1750.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-17", "file": "debates1947-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a6b1a36ca32db1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1753.13", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I understood we were going to have a Division on this question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1753.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-17", "file": "debates1947-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "a6b1a36ca32db1ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1766.3", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Miss Colman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Colman", "preceding_text": "I live in a working-class area and I know the opinion of the working people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-17a.1766.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1850.10", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Kilts.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "What is the difference between nether garments and trousers in Aberdeen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1850.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1872.4", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "Well, Mr. Speaker, at the Treasury we deal with finance and not with morals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1872.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1872.7", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman to make it clear when he says, \"We at the Treasury rely on law and not upon morals,\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1872.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1884.0", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "FOREIGN MINISTERS' CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "While endorsing a good deal of the Foreign Secretary's criticism of the Soviet delegation's use of this Conference for propaganda purposes, could I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he does not also attach some blame to the American delegation for the definite breakdown of this Conference?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1908.1", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "ernment speakers and spokesmen towards a note of optimism. The right hon. and learned Gentleman has been as fair as possible in concentrating his optimism largely upon two things, in order to avoid speaking with a different voice from his other colleagues. So he first of all dealt with the very heartening increase in our coal production. We all rejoice to see that increase, and we should all like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1918.1", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "r un-target-minded. He is unlike his colleague, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who absolutely revels in targets of all kinds, whether they can be reached or not. The Minister of Health does not much like targets, and I can quite understand why, because whenever he has been forced into the open, the results have been unfortunate. I will not begin with him, I will begin with the Minister of Works—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1925.1", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interrupttion.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "ree with planning. Had they been in power, we would have had chaos, probably running into anarchy, instead of the report which the right hon. and learned Gentleman has been able to make this afternoon. The Chancellor set out a number of main principles with which I am in complete agreement. For example, I like the phrase that he used when pointing out that this White Paper is not a final document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1959.1", "colnum": "1959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "art of our economists to live in ivory towers and to ignore the existence of real men and women and real social problems. They live in a world of theories, abstractions and statistics, and in their concern with arithmetical figures they forget the human figures behind them. To stop or to cut down the programme of capital expenditure in the Development Areas would have four disastrous consequences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1972.1", "colnum": "1972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkes", "preceding_text": "ove increasingly against us, as they have done. Consequently, that places us in a situation in which, as now when compared with last year, we may well be continuing to export more and more, to import less and less. I have been struck during this Debate by the fact that hon. Members on the other side of the House seem to have realised for the first time the true, grim nature of our economic crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1977.1", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. York", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. York", "preceding_text": "pansion just is not apparent today, and nobody can see it appearing in the near future. Yet we depend upon that expansion in order to eat; and all the talk that has been going on about industrial development omits entirely the real question which we should be discussing, namely, how we are to eat. I believe that it is time we returned to the traditional policy from which we departed 100 years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1977.1", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. York", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. York", "preceding_text": "h safer than we are today. I contend that our economic policy should be based on a policy of food procurement, and if this policy is adopted instead of the policy of full employment, which was the policy until today, it would be to our advantage. I am very glad that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was realist enough to admit that we have to abandon for the time being the policy of full employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1988.1", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "preceding_text": " or whether he has it down. It is our job, as responsible Members of this party, and of this House, to see that we do everything we possibly can to encourage the success of the workers in this country. There is a tremendous amount of enthusiasm in the country, in spite of what is said in America about this being a dying nation. One has only to go to football matches and greyhound races to find it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1992.1", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": " intertwined with our economic and commercial policy. If we are to survive we need vision and imagination. We need statesmen as well as accountants and lawyers. We must try to lead events and not merely follow in their wake. We are too apt, in my view, after the second world war to try to make comparisons and draw conclusions from the years after the first. I see little reality in these analogies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.1992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.2003.4", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.2003.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.2005.1", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " we are pushing them now because these markets had been partly saturated. He said, therefore, \"What is the good of trying to push these goods into those markets, because if you do so very much more, the terms of trade will move progressively against us?\" That is exactly what he said. If the right hon. Gentleman believes that the capital investment programme can be reduced and we ought not to push—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.2005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.2008.3", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ber at all. We will build in 1949, if we get the timber, more houses than are in the projected programme, and between now and 1949 we shall finish the 350,000 houses that are under construction and in contracts. Even with the limitations imposed upon housing, even with the dollar difficulties, we shall still have reached before 1950 the target set by the last Government for houses in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.2008.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.2009.5", "colnum": "2009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman that there are rural areas in this country where rural authorities have not got farm labourers on their lists at all. The real problem is an entirely different problem from that. It is to add to the total amount of housing accommodation available in the rural areas. Despite our difficulties we are building far more houses for agricultural workers in two years than was done in 50 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.2009.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.2010.1", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Because you favour them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ral workers by the actual number of agricultural workers living in houses is a false test. This is true, too, of mining. The mining areas already have a very large housing programme in progress, and one of the reasons is that in the mining areas are some of the most progressive local authorities in Great Britain. A far larger proportion of housing is going on than in any other part of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.2010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.2011.1", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Under private enterprise, says the right hon. Gentleman. We were taunted a year ago by hon. Members opposite and in the Press that the nationalisation of the mining industry would prove a complete failure. Hon. Members opposite lost no opportunity of pouring scorn upon the miners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.2011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.2011.1", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ers opposite and in the Press that the nationalisation of the mining industry would prove a complete failure. Hon. Members opposite lost no opportunity of pouring scorn upon the miners—[HON. MEMBERS \"Nonsense.\"] Editors of newspapers supporting hon. Members opposite wrote editorial after editorial as though they were trying to dig England's:grave with their pens. They poured vitriol day after day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.2011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.2011.3", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "—and although the nation did not deserve to be requited as it was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.2011.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-18", "file": "debates1947-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0929f25b8b319e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.2011.3", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Britain of Ebbw Vale.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "We are having more steel, but we need three to four million tons more than we can have from the industry, and that is largely the result of the policy carried out between the wars. We are getting ships from the shipyards which were neglected. There are two Britains. There is the Britain of Waterloo, the Britain of Trafalgar, the Britain of Blenheim, the Britain of Mons, and the Britain of Dunkirk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-18a.2011.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1947-12-19", "file": "debates1947-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b2e8120dde58f8d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-19a.2022.0", "colnum": "2022", "heading": "CEYLON PARLIAMENT (HOUSE OF COMMONS GIFT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I cannot answer the question put by the hon. Member for Hornsey (Mr. Gammans) but only that put to me by the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations. Naturally, I will gladly make this offer on behalf of the House of Commons. I assume of course that I shall have the warm approval of hon. Members on all sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1947-12-19a.2022.0"}