{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-20", "file": "debates1948-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "6d38f6a0f9a5fe49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-20a.8.1", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "While understanding the reasons behind the right hon. Gentleman's reply, can we not be assured that some rather longer-term planning is taking place in regard to a city which is slightly unbalanced —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-20a.8.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-20", "file": "debates1948-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "6d38f6a0f9a5fe49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-20a.14.5", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "That would be a dangerous procedure, because England might refuse to give us our share of machines from the South—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-20a.14.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-20", "file": "debates1948-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "6d38f6a0f9a5fe49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-20a.25.5", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRISONERS OF WAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "While welcoming very warmly the new announcement by my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-20a.25.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-20", "file": "debates1948-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "6d38f6a0f9a5fe49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-20a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "ipt of £15 2s. 2d. per week. That is a quite substantial sum from the point of view of the average wage earner—the miner, the farmworker, and the fishermen. I feel that the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer have made a mistake in attaching the Duke of Edinburgh to one of the military Ministries. The Duke of Wellington, a former Prime Minister, and an authority on military affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-20a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-20", "file": "debates1948-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "6d38f6a0f9a5fe49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-20a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "nistries. The Duke of Wellington, a former Prime Minister, and an authority on military affairs—[ Laughter. ] I am rather sur- prised that Conservative Members should laugh about the Duke of Wellington. He expressed the point of view that the military profession was a \"damnable profession\"—and he ought to have known. I wish the Duke of Edinburgh had been attached to the Ministry of Fuel and Power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-20a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-20", "file": "debates1948-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "6d38f6a0f9a5fe49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-20a.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "OVERSEAS RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is unnecessary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": " I may say so with respect, they seemed very weak. I say \"with respect\" because in the course of my hon. Friend's remarks the Minister of Food looked round at me rather sternly as if a look from him would affect my view, and when I protested, he said it was amusing. I am not accustomed to boxing the compass politically. I have been in the Labour Party all my life and have never ventured out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-20a.67.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-01-21", "file": "debates1948-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "f3335582fa45d041", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-21a.208.8", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They cannot.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I can assure my hon. Friend that it would cause more irritation if some of our late-shift workers went to the canteens and found that they could not get any bacon for their well deserved breakfasts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-21a.208.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-21", "file": "debates1948-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "f3335582fa45d041", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-21a.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": ". I have reached that conclusion after consultation with one or two professors of Sanscrit and ancient hieroglyphics. I should like the hon. Gentleman who is going to reply to the Debate to confirm whether that interpretation is correct. I turn now to the subject of the six films produced by independent producers which the big circuits are under an obligation to accept. That means 18 films in all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-21a.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-22", "file": "debates1948-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fb55a8c9a7076016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.367.4", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "No, I said that they were in the best position to advise on the needs of the area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.367.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-22", "file": "debates1948-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fb55a8c9a7076016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.393.0", "colnum": "393", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "If the Foreign Secretary will give way for one moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-22", "file": "debates1948-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fb55a8c9a7076016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.394.6", "colnum": "394", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "nything wrong in America insisting that the nations of Europe should do everything in their power to put their house in order as a condition of American aid. If we are to look for hidden political motives, then I detect them much more clearly behind the attempt to sabotage the Paris Conference than behind the great Marshall offer. I am afraid I am wearying the House, but it is a very long subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.394.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-01-22", "file": "debates1948-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fb55a8c9a7076016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.413.3", "colnum": "413", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "When my hon. Friend says that religion is being overthrown, is it his contention that there is religious persecution in Eastern Europe or the Soviet Union? If so, I will tell him that he is misinformed. I would refer him to the testimony of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.413.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-22", "file": "debates1948-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fb55a8c9a7076016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "There may be open discussion but the Turkish regime is, I think, more accurately described as a military dictatorship than a democratic republic. My hon. Friend can have it whichever way he likes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-22", "file": "debates1948-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fb55a8c9a7076016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why was he killed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "ur friends in England\"—and I told the House this when I last spoke on foreign affairs\" that if they really want to help us who are in opposition in Eastern Europe and if they really want to promote the cause of democracy and freedom in our countries, then the Western Powers should compose their quarrels with the Soviet Union and have a common policy with that country. That would be our salvation.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-22", "file": "debates1948-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fb55a8c9a7076016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "these foundations there may be erected—who knows?—in future, a mighty civilisation, differing in many respects from ours, just as the Taj Mahal differs from Westminster Abbey, but suited to its own needs, and not unworthy of mankind. My point is that these people should be allowed to work out their own salvation in their own way without any interference or any intervention from us or anybody else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-22", "file": "debates1948-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fb55a8c9a7076016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Chester-le-Street. He asked, what is it the Russians want? I will tell him. He should go to the bomb-shattered areas of the East End of London and ask the people there what they want, and what those people would tell him is what the Russians also would tell him. They want peace. Much nonsense is talked about one-party government. The logical trend of historical development is one-party government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-22", "file": "debates1948-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fb55a8c9a7076016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "f London and ask the people there what they want, and what those people would tell him is what the Russians also would tell him. They want peace. Much nonsense is talked about one-party government. The logical trend of historical development is one-party government. [ Laughter. ] All right. Do hon. Members on this side of the House who are laughing believe that Socialism is going to be successful?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-22", "file": "debates1948-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fb55a8c9a7076016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ment. When did the rift between this country and the Soviet Union begin? It began with the speech at Fulton, Missouri. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition knows that perfectly well and he knows that the Foreign Office, staffed as it is with Tories, followed consistently the line of Fulton, and from the speech at Fulton relations between this country and the Soviet Union have steadily deteriorated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-22", "file": "debates1948-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fb55a8c9a7076016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " for Cambridge University (Mr. Pickthorn); I do not think he is. However, I am sure he would agree with me that that could be called using language, not to clarify, but to confuse thought. True, ideology, economic pressure or strategic manoeuvre can be used to further imperialism, but none of these things, or all of them combined, is imperialism. Imperialism is capitalism in the stage of monopoly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-22", "file": "debates1948-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fb55a8c9a7076016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " and Iceland, Greenland, the Aleutian Islands, and a whole host of naval, military, and air bases all round the world. That is why we have the Marshall Plan, because they have masses of capital waiting to be invested in Europe and Asia; and the cry goes out, \"Down with the Communists. Open the way for the advance of American investment capital.\" Where are the representatives of the City of London?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-22", "file": "debates1948-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fb55a8c9a7076016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Shawcross", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Shawcross", "preceding_text": "on based on different ideals, achieved by different methods, and for different objects. Whether it is called a Union of Democracies, United States of Europe or any other name does not matter. What we Socialists have to decide is which comes first, the hen or the egg? Can we have Socialism in this country, or any country in Europe without a degree of economic and political union? On the other hand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-22", "file": "debates1948-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "fb55a8c9a7076016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.523.1", "colnum": "523", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "ted towards the economic and political reconstruction of Europe. To my astonishment, I find that, contrary to the view of my right hon. Friend, the Member for Warwick and Leamington, the Foreign Secretary accepted and blessed both these resolutions. In other words, the Foreign Secretary is fully committed to a purely Socialist foreign policy, which seeks to foster social democracy all over Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-22a.523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-23", "file": "debates1948-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "7ebdcaaad176c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.546.2", "colnum": "546", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Manning", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Manning", "preceding_text": "y carried out their elections. I have heard constant comment from people in this Chamber about the Polish elections. I have always been surprised at the lack of historical perspective which this House shows when it is dealing with and speaking about Eastern Europe. It has taken us six hundred years to arrive at the pitch of perfection in which we practise political democracy in this country today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.546.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-23", "file": "debates1948-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "7ebdcaaad176c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.547.1", "colnum": "547", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Manning", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"700\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Manning", "preceding_text": "I thought if I mentioned the elections it would bring the hon. Gentleman to his feet. I am not interested in whether the Government thinks them frauds or not. They may not have been carried out in exactly the way we should approve here. That is why I referred to the fact that it has taken us 600 years", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-23", "file": "debates1948-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "7ebdcaaad176c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.551.0", "colnum": "551", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Labour Party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "tried to give all possible help. In Greece, the Government have pursued exactly the same policy as that which my right hon. Friend and I flew to Athens that stormy Christmas time in order to assert; and which at the time the present Foreign Secretary so loyally and courageously defended at the Trade Union Congress with great success, and for which he achieved acceptance by that body at that time.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.551.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-23", "file": "debates1948-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "7ebdcaaad176c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "te, who I am glad to see back in his place after having acquitted himself in a buoyant and distinguished manner on the other side of the Atlantic. When I read this speech of the Lord President of the Council I thought it necessary to ask the Conservative Central Office to produce for me a list of his previous convictions. Let me reassure the House that I will not burden it by reciting all of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-23", "file": "debates1948-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "7ebdcaaad176c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.616.0", "colnum": "616", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. Gentleman leaves the question of a United Europe, I hope he will say a word about the all-Party Committee which has been formed here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-23", "file": "debates1948-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "7ebdcaaad176c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.616.0", "colnum": "616", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why should he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. Gentleman leaves the question of a United Europe, I hope he will say a word about the all-Party Committee which has been formed here—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] May I not express the hope, and may the right hon. Gentleman not gratify it or dispel it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-23", "file": "debates1948-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "7ebdcaaad176c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.616.0", "colnum": "616", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ll say a word about the all-Party Committee which has been formed here—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] May I not express the hope, and may the right hon. Gentleman not gratify it or dispel it? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why should he?\"] It is a committee which contains supporters of his own as strong as Mr. Gollancz, and others. May he not say whether a lead should be given so that people might join that committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-23", "file": "debates1948-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "7ebdcaaad176c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.617.3", "colnum": "617", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ations. Russian Communism is distinctively Russian. Communism is an old word with very respectable antecedents. This particular form of Communism is Russian Communism, an economic doctrine wedded to the policy of a backward State, which has but very slight appeal to those who have experience of Western civilisation but makes a strong appeal to backward peoples who have never known anything better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.617.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-23", "file": "debates1948-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "7ebdcaaad176c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.617.3", "colnum": "617", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "we can, and we wish to have the friendliest relations with the people of Soviet Russia. We can have the friendliest relations with the Communist State. There is no quarrel between our peoples but we are not prepared to accept Communism. We are resolutely opposed to the Communist way of life. The police State is utterly repugnant to the people of Western Europe who have enjoyed freedom for so long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.617.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-23", "file": "debates1948-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "7ebdcaaad176c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.618.3", "colnum": "618", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Perhaps some will give it up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "on, and, I believe, evolving towards Social Democracy. The Scandinavian States have many very fine achievements to their credit. We have had great experiments in our Southern Dominions, outside Europe. And even the United States of America have the remarkable example of the T.V.A. But I am not claiming that all these States are likely to go Socialist tomorrow, or even to have Socialist majorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.618.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-01-23", "file": "debates1948-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "7ebdcaaad176c843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "And the right to strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-23a.620.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-01-26", "file": "debates1948-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5859923c0d401ef9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.637.2", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "It depends whether they have an organisation of their own, and I hope they have, but, if they have not, they should get one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-26", "file": "debates1948-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5859923c0d401ef9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.656.6", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. York", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. York", "preceding_text": "What the Minister says may or may not be true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.656.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-26", "file": "debates1948-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5859923c0d401ef9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.656.6", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. York", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. York", "preceding_text": "What the Minister says may or may not be true. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] I am not saying anything derogatory. Shall I put it another way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.656.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-26", "file": "debates1948-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5859923c0d401ef9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.656.6", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. York", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. York", "preceding_text": ". Shall I put it another way? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Accepting the Minister's remarks, may I ask him whether he is aware that the difficulty in this matter is the length of time taken for the applications, in the sponsorship or any other business connected with them, to get through the various committees? Is he aware that it generally takes anything from three weeks, as a minimum, up to six weeks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.656.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-26", "file": "debates1948-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5859923c0d401ef9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.674.10", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FRENCH FRANC (DEVALUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. and learned Friend explain in simple terms to the average British working people what this really means?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.674.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-26", "file": "debates1948-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5859923c0d401ef9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FRENCH FRANC (DEVALUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "In view of the serious repercussions that will ensue as a result of this momentous decision of the French Government, does the Chancellor realise that this decision has completely wrecked the planning policy of the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-26", "file": "debates1948-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5859923c0d401ef9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They had to draw it up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "preceding_text": "By whom is it presented? There is only one name on the front of the Paper. It is presented by the Prime Minister, who is not on the Treasury Bench. I am making no complaint about his absence—far from it. There is a row of hon. and right hon. Members—and I am very glad to see them—sitting on the Treasury Bench, but not one of them has anything to do with this White Paper, as presented to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-26", "file": "debates1948-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5859923c0d401ef9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is on the last page.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "ional language ought really to be taught in the various Departments, and the Ministers should learn it, to start with. I come now to the most serious thing which affects Wales today and stirs Wales more than anything else, and that is the land taken over, or proposed to be taken over, by the War Office. I have looked through this White Paper from beginning to end and I cannot find a word about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-26", "file": "debates1948-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5859923c0d401ef9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": " of people from all parts of Wales are not drawn together merely to see a monument. Would the right hon. Gentleman convert a temple of peace in Cardiff because it happened to be a con- venient building for the headquarters of the Welsh Division? Is this purely trivial? I would not make so much complaint if the Minister were not taking twice the amount of land—and more—that he is taking in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-26", "file": "debates1948-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5859923c0d401ef9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "I hope we are not going to live with things as they were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-26", "file": "debates1948-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5859923c0d401ef9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Henry Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Henry Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": " the farms in the rural areas of my constituency. Yet until that is done, and rural housing is improved considerably, we cannot expect a great development of the production side in the Welsh rural areas. I was glad to hear my right hon. Friend the Member for Saffron Walden (Mr. R. A. Butler) speaking in this Debate. In the past the Conservative Party has not given the attention it should to Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-26", "file": "debates1948-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5859923c0d401ef9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "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": "taking place there. I thought he was using the dagger much too pointedly and digging it into the wrong back. Before this Government came into power, I heard him indulging in these attacks upon those who now sit opposite. After the change that has taken place in his own constituency during the lifetime of this Government, I did not expect so little appreciation in the speech he made this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-26", "file": "debates1948-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "5859923c0d401ef9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about the President of the Board of Trade?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "ney that had been doled out had been spent, should be compared with the position there today. I shall come back to this point later on. I should like now to deal with the speech of the right hon. Member for Saffron Walden (Mr. R. A. Butler), who opened the Debate for the Conservative Party. I thought it was rather strange that, in a Welsh Debate, the Conservative Party had to choose an Englishman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-26a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-27", "file": "debates1948-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "441f0b61097481a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-27a.842.0", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "nt of nearly £440,000. If we adopted the Amendment it would result in a greater economy. The present ceremonial could go on, but there would not be an addition to it. It must be remembered that when this Bill went to a free Vote of the House, 165 Members of the Labour Party voted against the Government, and the Government on that occasion were only saved from defeat by the votes of the Tory Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-27a.842.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-27", "file": "debates1948-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "441f0b61097481a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-27a.846.3", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S ANNUITIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth, like a Member of Parliament, renders public service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-27a.846.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-27", "file": "debates1948-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "441f0b61097481a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-27a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": "bout requisitions being held which ought to be surrendered. My fear is that if we extend these powers to 1952, the boys will lie back until 1952 approaches, before de-requisitioning the properties they have requisitioned. I think it is good for the Government that some of their supporters should let them know what is passing in their minds. In any case, we are not sent here to act like blind mice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-27a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-27", "file": "debates1948-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "441f0b61097481a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-27a.871.1", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1960.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "this year would be adequate, when they put that before us two years ago, I see no reason to suppose that they are right now when they say the period until 10th December, 1952, will be adequate. I can conceive it possible—I do not say it is certain—that in the spring of 1952 the right hon. Gentleman will make exactly the same speech that he has made today, and will ask for the year to be made 1860.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-27a.871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-27", "file": "debates1948-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "441f0b61097481a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-27a.884.2", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "It is not necessary in all cases, nor, in fact, is it done in all cases. The hon. Member for Twickenham (Mr. Keeling) endeavoured to suggest that we might find a period between 1948 and 1952. I hope that suggestion involves a recognition by hon. Members opposite that the Amendment does not really meet the needs of the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-27a.884.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-27", "file": "debates1948-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "441f0b61097481a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-27a.884.4", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "No. I was about to add that I understood the hon. Member for Twickenham to suggest some intermediate period. I expressed the hope that that involved recognition opposite that the Amendment did not meet the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-27a.884.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-27", "file": "debates1948-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "441f0b61097481a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-27a.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "y and for economic purposes. Imagine what would have happened if at the General Election we had said that in two-and-a-half years' time the Socialist Government would be asking for what they are asking here: for two-and-a-half years plus four years, that is nearly seven years, in which to requisition anything in the way of land for military purposes. They can requisition a public park or Dartmoor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-27a.885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-28", "file": "debates1948-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "bc130f4b63924a50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-28a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "This is rather important. These scales of rations have existed throughout the last two years or more while the right hon. Gentleman has been responsible. I have always thought that this high scale of rations for the Services was justifiable on account of the physical work they have to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-28a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-28", "file": "debates1948-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "bc130f4b63924a50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-28a.1020.5", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE, DARTMOUTH (ENTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "I am sure it would assist my hon. Friend if I read what is to appear in the OFFICIAL REPORT in regard to the interviewing Board. It comprises naval officers, a psychologist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-28a.1020.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-28", "file": "debates1948-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "bc130f4b63924a50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-28a.1089.1", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "n the other hand, I can well conceive cases in which the cost of making good the damage would exceed the diminution in value. That position would not be limited to land which has had opencast coal workings carried out upon it. It would include any form of property where we might find that the cost of making good would be limited by the ceiling. If hon. Members object to the existence of a ceiling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-28a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-28", "file": "debates1948-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "bc130f4b63924a50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-28a.1093.0", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This is very important.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "into two. It was, therefore, decided that if we stopped where we did last night, we should get the rest of the Bill in reasonable time this evening. At the rate of progress we are making, that undertaking will not fructify. I am sure it is not anyone's expectation or anybody's desire that we should waste time discussing things which, perhaps, are not as important as some others on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-28a.1093.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-28", "file": "debates1948-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "bc130f4b63924a50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-28a.1150.5", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POISONS (AMENDMENT) RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "placed by reason of its wholly inadequate powers to control delegated legislation. The order has a number of paragraphs, but I only desire to trouble the House by reference to one, the third, under the second part of which the right hon. Gentleman is given power to authorise other persons to authorise still other persons to obtain up to four ounces of strychnine for the purpose of poisoning seals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-28a.1150.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-29", "file": "debates1948-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "4278be929c780084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-29a.1168.2", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "When the right hon. Gentleman meets the manufacturers will he bear in mind that the shops today are simply stacked with these small, dainty, Cinderella-like shoes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-29a.1168.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-29", "file": "debates1948-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "4278be929c780084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-29a.1198.4", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman really surprises me. He has been in this House for a considerable time and surely by now he knows the difference between a humorous threat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-29a.1198.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-01-29", "file": "debates1948-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "4278be929c780084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-29a.1204.9", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "Is that the reason why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-29a.1204.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-29", "file": "debates1948-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "4278be929c780084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-29a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "GENEVA TARIFF AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Look at the figures.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackay", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the question, but I would ask the hon. and gallant Gentleman and other hon. Members to listen to the reply. It is true that trade went up after 1931, but the trade of the world went up at a higher rate. The trade of this country did not go up as a result of Ottawa at such a high rate as world trade. Therefore it cannot be argued on that fact alone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-29a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-29", "file": "debates1948-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "4278be929c780084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-29a.1303.1", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "GENEVA TARIFF AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "and for the goods those people desire. What is also happening at this moment is that the amount of food that can be spared by countries which used to be able to spare it is getting less and less, and the struggle for that food will became more and more intense. We in this country are in the position that, do what we will, under our modern system of agriculture we can only feed half our population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-29a.1303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-29", "file": "debates1948-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "4278be929c780084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-29a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "GENEVA TARIFF AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is no sterling area.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "e concrete evidence of close and really effective Commonwealth economic co-operation than in the whole of the 20 years of the inter-war period. Let us look at some of the facts. First, there was the Sterling Area Conference in which the various sterling area countries got together as a team to work out combined methods of dealing with the dollar problem because it was a problem common to them all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-29a.1326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-29", "file": "debates1948-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "4278be929c780084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-29a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "GENEVA TARIFF AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "cco trade—providing that we purchase two-thirds of Rhodesian tobacco exports on an expanded production. Before the war we were importing about 18 million lb.; this year we shall hope to get about 29 million lb.; next year, if all goes well with the production, about 37 million lb.—double the prewar rate. Let us take timber, hardwoods. The House knows our dependence on dollar sources for hardwoods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-29a.1326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-29", "file": "debates1948-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "4278be929c780084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-29a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "GENEVA TARIFF AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": ". From the Gold Coast they were 413,000 cubic feet before the war; 3¼ million cubic feet this year. Where we have not been able to get more out of the Colonies because of the deficiency in rail and port facilities, we have actually gone in and done our best to improve those facilities. I need not say what my right hon. Friend the Minister of Food is doing in food development in West Africa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-29a.1326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-01-29", "file": "debates1948-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "4278be929c780084", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-29a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "GENEVA TARIFF AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask the housewife.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " the war; 3¼ million cubic feet this year. Where we have not been able to get more out of the Colonies because of the deficiency in rail and port facilities, we have actually gone in and done our best to improve those facilities. I need not say what my right hon. Friend the Minister of Food is doing in food development in West Africa—[ Interruption. ]—more than ever the Tory Government did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-01-29a.1326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-02", "file": "debates1948-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "72b4d363cb9ccba4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-02a.1472.5", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SHIPPING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. and gallant Member will agree that those are two questions vital to an inquiry, and I think it would be wrong for me to give an expression of opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-02a.1472.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-02-02", "file": "debates1948-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "72b4d363cb9ccba4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-02a.1473.4", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SHIPPING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "Those, surely, are questions for the inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-02a.1473.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-02-02", "file": "debates1948-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "72b4d363cb9ccba4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-02a.1473.7", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SHIPPING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He has said so.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "preceding_text": "Can the hon. Gentleman assure us that no further flights in the same type of aircraft will take place until something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-02a.1473.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-02", "file": "debates1948-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "72b4d363cb9ccba4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-02a.1474.0", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SHIPPING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "A contributory cause of an accident may be insufficient crew training and it may be that the aircraft was not sufficiently tried before being put into service. Answers to such questions as the hon. and gallant Member put would give some indication of an expression of opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-02a.1474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-02", "file": "debates1948-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "72b4d363cb9ccba4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-02a.1474.0", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SHIPPING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "A contributory cause of an accident may be insufficient crew training and it may be that the aircraft was not sufficiently tried before being put into service. Answers to such questions as the hon. and gallant Member put would give some indication of an expression of opinion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—and that surely, is a matter for an inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-02a.1474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-02", "file": "debates1948-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "72b4d363cb9ccba4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-02a.1583.1", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL (PAYMENTS, U.S.S.R.)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "esident of the Board of Trade that there is not any secret, but in that case I leave it to the House to decide. The White Paper, in Article 5, states the reason for the order this evening. I quoted the article correctly, and perhaps the President of the Board of Trade, having interrupted me, will now interrupt me again and say whether this order can be related to what the White Paper said because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-02a.1583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-03", "file": "debates1948-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4bb4dcf67b67329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-03a.1665.0", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn Levy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn Levy", "preceding_text": "ndard of organisational efficiency, but there is no reason why that should not be done sooner or later. So let us not double the figure but say 110, which is about one and a half times what we did before and still considerably less than the Hollywood level. To that we have to add such available studio space as there is abroad because there is no reason why studio space should not be rented abroad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-03a.1665.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-03", "file": "debates1948-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4bb4dcf67b67329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-03a.1680.0", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I hope we can now come to a decision?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-03a.1680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-03", "file": "debates1948-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4bb4dcf67b67329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-03a.1703.1", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "e just been made by the hon. Gentleman the Member for Huddersfield (Mr. Mallalieu), because I believe that this is the best way Lo make certain that the large public has this opportunity, particularly in country localities, of seeing me best productions of British films. The figure of £100 which has been mentioned is a very interesting one, but perhaps we could be told whether it is nett or gross.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-03a.1703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-04", "file": "debates1948-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "7a8fd164e590bdb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-04a.1812.8", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMAN-SOVIET RELATIONS, 1939–41 (PUBLISHED DOCUMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Jiggerypokery.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "—by agreement, but I am not yet convinced that it was the wisest way of dealing with this problem. After all, a lot of events went on at this period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-04a.1812.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-02-04", "file": "debates1948-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "7a8fd164e590bdb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-04a.1813.0", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMAN-SOVIET RELATIONS, 1939–41 (PUBLISHED DOCUMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "—by agreement, but I am not yet convinced that it was the wisest way of dealing with this problem. After all, a lot of events went on at this period—[An HON. MEMBER: Jiggerypokery.\"] I am not suggesting jiggerypokery as the hon. Member infers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-04a.1812.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-02-04", "file": "debates1948-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "7a8fd164e590bdb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-04a.1815.1", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES (QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why a Supply day?", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "ions, though I might, perhaps, add that I have always understood a Parliamentary Question was only accepted if the Minister concerned had some responsibility in respect of the matters which were the subject of the inquiry. If it is desired to have a Debate on this subject, the necessary arrangements can no doubt be made, through the usual channels, for a Supply day to be set aside for the purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-04a.1815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-04", "file": "debates1948-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "7a8fd164e590bdb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-04a.1816.1", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES (QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ter of internal administration within the industry, or whether there is Ministerial responsibility. I am not prepared to answer questions about railways, about civil aviation, about telegraphs, about everything else that is nationalised. The only thing I can do is to go to the Minister, or telephone him, and ask him what his opinion is, and whether this is a matter for which he has responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-04a.1816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-04", "file": "debates1948-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "7a8fd164e590bdb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-04a.1818.1", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES (QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were on the Paper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "urprised at the right hon. Gentleman taking this line, because in the war the Minister of Information was absolutely responsible for everything the British Broadcasting Corporation did—everything—and, as hon. Members may remember, the then Minister of Information, now the right hon. Member for Bournemouth (Mr. Bracken), used to stand at this Box and flatly refuse to answer Question after Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-04a.1818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-04", "file": "debates1948-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "7a8fd164e590bdb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-04a.1819.1", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES (QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Was that not because he was supported by the majority of the House of Commons? Is that not the right foundation on which Ministers can rely for the endorsement of their discretionary powers as to whether or not they should answer a Question? If Parliament, by a majority, supports them, and if it is the general feeling, no one wishes to run counter to the wishes, decisions and feelings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-04a.1819.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-02-05", "file": "debates1948-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "4033525b16c115c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-05a.1881.8", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "April 1st.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman realise the effect that this statement may have upon the staggered holidays campaign? Will he say whether he will review the position in June or in May or in April, or whether he will review the position at all this year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-05a.1881.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-05", "file": "debates1948-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "4033525b16c115c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-05a.1891.1", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman say if his denial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-05a.1891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-05", "file": "debates1948-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "4033525b16c115c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-05a.1907.0", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I understand that it was realised only recently that these refills could be put into position by the individual concerned. It was thought previously that the pen had to go back to the supplier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-05a.1907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-05", "file": "debates1948-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "4033525b16c115c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-05a.1907.0", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I understand that it was realised only recently that these refills could be put into position by the individual concerned. It was thought previously that the pen had to go back to the supplier. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It does.\"] Other pens of a similar kind bear the tax, and there is no reason why this one, which is not a particularly good one, should be excepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-05a.1907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-05", "file": "debates1948-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "4033525b16c115c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-05a.1910.0", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "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": "The right hon. Gentleman is moving far too far to the Left. The Leather Order is not today; it was yesterday and was finished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-05a.1910.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-05", "file": "debates1948-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "4033525b16c115c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-05a.1978.1", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has been answered.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "I do not want to prolong the Debate, but I want to give the Financial Secretary or the Solicitor-General an opportunity of conveying to the Committee an answer, which I hope they have now ascertained from their advisers, to the question put by my hon. Friends on this side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-05a.1978.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-02-05", "file": "debates1948-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "4033525b16c115c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-05a.1990.5", "colnum": "1990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. York", "preceding_text": "Are we not to have a reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-05a.1990.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-05", "file": "debates1948-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "4033525b16c115c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-05a.2013.4", "colnum": "2013", "heading": "CLAUSE I.—(Punishment for attempted rape.)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Younger)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Younger)", "preceding_text": "ere fairly closely related to the type of offence that one is considering. On the Second Reading, I referred to one such case, namely, assault with intent to commit robbery, when the penalty is five years, though it can be greater in the case of aggravated assault or assault while armed. It was my impression that the House was in substantial agreement with the present maximum penalty of two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-05a.2013.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-05", "file": "debates1948-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "4033525b16c115c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-05a.2017.3", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "CLAUSE I.—(Punishment for attempted rape.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is only an opinion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "I am proposing to attack the seven years. The argument put forward on Second Reading was that the seven years was necessary because the judges thought so. I deny that seven years is necessary, and I deny that the opinion of the judges, which has invariably been wrong on penal matters, is evidence in favour of the seven years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-05a.2017.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-05", "file": "debates1948-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "4033525b16c115c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-05a.2017.3", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "CLAUSE I.—(Punishment for attempted rape.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Five shillings?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "bly been wrong on penal matters, is evidence in favour of the seven years. [An HON. MEMBER: \"That is only an opinion.\"] I am entitled to my opinion. If hon. Members will look at the opinion of the judges from the time when they opposed the abolition of the death penalty for theft of five shillings down to the time when they gave evidence that flogging was a valuable deterrent only a few years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-05a.2017.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-06", "file": "debates1948-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "112e70e6f921d988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-06a.2062.1", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "ARMY AND AIR FORCE (WOMEN'S SERVICE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the United States.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "ext war. What kind of activity is to be asked from these women? I join entirely with the tributes paid to the courage of the women in the war. It was very courageous—probably one of the most wonderfully courageous things done in this world—to go down on a parachute into a France occupied by Nazi troops. It would also require a very great deal of courage for a woman to parachute into Soviet Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-06a.2062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-06", "file": "debates1948-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "112e70e6f921d988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-06a.2071.1", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "ARMY AND AIR FORCE (WOMEN'S SERVICE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "that they want to see the W.R.N.S. included, they give no reasons, and I can only suppose that it comes from the rather dull sort of brigadier outlook that every one should be treated in the same way. This is not the Navy's point of view. What the Navy wants is the best every time. The fact is that it is the ambition of every woman to join the W.R.N.S. rather than either of the other two Services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-06a.2071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-06", "file": "debates1948-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "112e70e6f921d988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-06a.2081.3", "colnum": "2081", "heading": "ARMY AND AIR FORCE (WOMEN'S SERVICE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": "nt to dispute with the right hon. Gentleman his arguments against the inclusion of the W.R.N.S. in this Bill. One reason he gave why the W.R.N.S. should be excluded was that the present system has worked in the past. Surely that is a Colonel Blimp attitude—if the hon. Member for Torquay (Mr. C. Williams) desires to accuse either side in this controversy of taking the part of \"Blimpish Brigadiers.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-06a.2081.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-06", "file": "debates1948-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "112e70e6f921d988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-06a.2139.7", "colnum": "2139", "heading": "CAMPAIGN STAR (A.A. COMMAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "would point out that if this claim were granted to Ack-Ack Command, the others would have as strong a sense of grievance as has been expressed by any hon. Member opposite on behalf of Ack-Ack Command this afternoon. Indeed, a claim has already been advanced on behalf of men in the Royal Navy engaged in mine and bomb disposal work that there should be some special decoration to represent that fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-06a.2139.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.10.0", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "As is usual with people who make false statements, the hon. Member has omitted one very important word in the question. It says: Is the oven door easy to open\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.10.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.33.4", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that in urban areas the people who suffer from rats, as a rule, do not breed them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.33.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "from us, and none from the medical profession—not a single one. Indeed, one Member of the Negotiating Committee boasted that during these negotiations they had not yielded a single inch. Consider what we have done. Consider the long record of concessions we have made. First of all, in the hospital services we have accorded paid bed blocks to specialists, where they are able to charge private fees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Consider what we have done. Consider the long record of concessions we have made. First of all, in the hospital services we have accorded paid bed blocks to specialists, where they are able to charge private fees. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"] We have accorded, in addition to those fees for those beds which will have a ceiling, a limited number of beds in the hospitals where there is no ceiling at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.49.2", "colnum": "49", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that a threat?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "der this scheme. What we do take serious objection to is to organised sabotage of an Act of Parliament. We desire to know from the Opposition whether they support that. Do they support the B.M.A. organising resistance on 5th July, because I would warn them that the beginning of that road might look very pleasant but the end would be exceedingly unpleasant, not only for us but for Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.49.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " this House—for example, the Criminal Justice Bill—provisions for the payment of expenses for mental examination or treatment by doctors under the National Health Service. I have noticed similar provisions in the National Assistance Bill. Therefore, the whole stage is ready and set for this reform, and the only person so far as I can see who is unready and unset is the Minister who is responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.52.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.55.2", "colnum": "55", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "rliament. In a speech at Pontypridd the Minister referred to the will of Parliament. He said: Parliament has spoken; the country now awaits and expects the co-operation of the medical world. Does the Minister—he is a prominent dialectician—consider that the doctors are sabotaging Parliament by expressing their opinion? Why does he say deliberately that the doctors are flouting it by their actions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.55.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I gave the right hon. Gentleman a chance to explain himself, but when he comes to the Box in answer to an opportunity to interrupt and says that it is collective sabotage of Parliament, that is a much stronger term than I used. We have from the Minister his statement that the doctors are indulging in collective sabotage of the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.56.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ill withhold their work or their labour. I believe they intend to go on working, and as far as I can see with the introduction of the National Health Scheme they will either have to work for nothing or accept payment which they may find it very difficult to get in view of the extra 10d. that the public will be paying on their new stamps if the scheme is brought into being in the present imbroglio.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.56.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " and gallant Member for Pudsey and Otley (Colonel Stoddart-Scott) on the subject of free publishing, to thank him for those answers, and to say that I hope those represent his final word, namely, that under the new scheme a doctor will be able to write and publish what he likes, without any inhibition whatever, in the scientific and other journals which the doctor desires. I hope that is the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.56.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I am trying at this stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "That is so far so good. I maintain that the Minister will have to go further still if he is to allay the apprehension of the medical profession. He will have to remove the general basic element in all salaries if he is to overcome the general anxiety among doctors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Putney (Mr. Linstead) has just made what is, perhaps, the most amazing speech to which this House has listened to for some time.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What will the doctors gain by theirs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": " or that they would have made it administratively more difficult. On the contrary, by not making the concessions, it is probable that a majority of doctors will vote against the Minister and that that act of no confidence will inevitably lessen the prospect of bringing in the National Health Service smoothly and efficiently. I ask the House to consider what the Minister will gain by his obstinacy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "their patients to whom they give their working lives. This representative committee—which is after all a much wider body than just the little B.M.A. clique which is constantly being talked about; most of the leaders of the profession whom we honour are either on it or have said they agree with it—is convinced that the Health Service would be a better service if its counter proposals were accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So does everybody else's", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "payment by results—as something of great importance to the middle class. I do not think we can understand why the opposition of the doctors to the Minister has increased unless we see the Minister's recent obstinacy as one of a series of blows delivered by this Government against the middle class. Houses are not to be built for sale; the purchasing power of professional incomes goes steadily down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.133.3", "colnum": "133", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "ster this afternoon, would have come to the conclusion that it was the will of Parliament that the doctors and dentists should be compelled to enter the National Health Service. Anyone who read the speech of the Chancellor of Exchequer in Edinburgh on Saturday would come to the same conclusion—that Parliament had laid it down that doctors were under compulsion to enter the National Health Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.133.3", "colnum": "133", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "tors refused to accept service under the scheme, they are flouting the will of Parliament. I would like to discuss the attitude of the Minister on this point, because it seems to be a little ambiguous. The burden of his speech this afternoon was that the British Medical Association did not represent the doctors and were gulling and deceiving the doctors and pulling the wool over the doctors' eyes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.138.7", "colnum": "138", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "That printed circular to which he referred is simply the statement of the case put forward by the B.M.A.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.138.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.139.0", "colnum": "139", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "nister meets the B.M.A. on the basis of negotiating with them the terms on which they will come into the service, and he does not exclude from those terms the amendment of the Act. All that document was—which the Minister represented this afternoon as an ultimatum to him, a rejection of all negotiations—was a perfectly plain and, I should have thought, relatively mild statement of the B.M.A. case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.139.0", "colnum": "139", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "he onus is on the Minister. I said just now that the medical profession attach more importance to the capitation fee within the context of this Act than they did before. It would probably be fair to say that the medical profession attach more importance to every one of those things within the context of this Act than they did before, and if the Minister could give way on one of them he might find—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why accept it then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": " been muddied and blurred by a propaganda campaign initiated by the B.M.A. which has perverted the whole discussion. There are two issues with which I want to deal as calmly as I can. There has already been far too much heat and emotion engendered throughout the country on this matter. The first issue is the Opposition Amendment. Quite frankly, I think it is entirely irrelevant to this discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "ne the British Medical Association's case. The weakness of that case is proved by the necessity to import abuse, misrepresentation and misstatements to secure support for the boycott. The first and greatest abuse has been about the Minister. The Minister, as he said today, has not made any public statements about this matter at all, and, therefore, he has imported no prejudice into the discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shop stewards.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "members of my group immediately if at any time before 5th July I change my mind. Not only that; but in the document sent out to the doctors the doctors are informed that local committees are to be set up to watch that doctors do not change their minds. They say they want to advise doctors in good time if there is any change. These little groups—these security groups, although that is an ugly name—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": " direction is closely bound up with this. As my hon. Friend the Member for Barking pointed out, the doctors in their votes approved of this to the proportion of 57 per cent. to 39 per cent. against. Even the general practitioners voted 51 per cent. for and 45 per cent. against. Therefore, the Government have a majority of doctors in favour of this, in the last free ballot without any intimidation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.148.3", "colnum": "148", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "Moreover, the location of industry is not a free thing today. In London, nobody is allowed to start up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-09", "file": "debates1948-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "539a9d40435000f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Intimidation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": " the doctors that the B.M.A. have no authority and no knowledge which will justify them giving such a pledge to the doctors. I certainly cannot, on behalf of the Government, see that there is any merit or foundation in that promise they give to the doctors. The law clearly lays down that doctors who do not come in on 5th July do not share in the £66 million which is granted towards capital values.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-09a.149.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-02-10", "file": "debates1948-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd2f14b07cab6b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.214.5", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who made the law?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "The justification is the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.214.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-10", "file": "debates1948-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd2f14b07cab6b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.218.3", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Gaitskell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Gaitskell)", "preceding_text": "at since the coal and electricity industries have already been nationalised, the gas industry must be also. This is not just an aesthetic argument based on the beauties of symmetry. It is based on something much more fundamental. The question the House has to consider is, Can we really conceive of the gas industry, in its present antiquated form, being able to compete effectively with electricity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.218.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-10", "file": "debates1948-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd2f14b07cab6b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Look at the Money Resolution.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " \"confusion\" is certainly the proper word to apply to such vague proposals as those made by the Gas Council. As for difficulties, there are certainly always difficulties and great difficulties in the way of any private amalgamations. That is the lesson which the Heyworth Committee had so clearly in mind. We are told that nationalisation involves additional expenditure, but not why it should do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-10", "file": "debates1948-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd2f14b07cab6b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.229.3", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "it is nationalised. Clearly, we cannot go on with the existing schemes because the companies go out of existence altogether, and there are legal and financial reasons which make it impossible for them to go on. Nor is it possible to have a scheme which would succeed them whereby shares are issued to employees based on profits because there will not be any shares in these nationalised undertakings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.229.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-10", "file": "debates1948-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd2f14b07cab6b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "ompensation machinery in the Electricity Act will break down when applied to the gas industry. Many owners of gas stocks are inheritors of investments which are rarely quoted in Stock Exchange lists; others have never appeared in those forbidding columns; and in this respect I speak with authority, the compensation offered to local authorities is, as Alderman Leach says, a mockery of fair dealing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-10", "file": "debates1948-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd2f14b07cab6b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.282.4", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bower", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bower", "preceding_text": " of his party, and by the fact that the Government have introduced this Bill at this stage, that what they really desire is a nice big, tidy monopoly, with nothing left outside that can spoil the picture, or create an unsymmetrical effect, or constitute a source of difficulty or inconvenience in the future. I submit that is a very good reason why gas should not be nationalised at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.282.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-10", "file": "debates1948-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd2f14b07cab6b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Perrins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Perrins", "preceding_text": "e did not say that he was opposed to nationalisation but that he rather regretted, and one can understand anyone regretting this, that at this stage the great Birmingham gas undertaking was passing out of the control of Birmingham Corporation. There is a difference between that and being opposed to nationalisation. One can have regrets of that character without necessarily opposing the principle.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-10", "file": "debates1948-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd2f14b07cab6b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.323.7", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "on of compensation. As to directors, I am a director, and have been for many years, and I never knew before all the things to which I should become entitled if and when I ceased to be one. I find that directors, at any rate, have some remarkably eloquent advocates on the opposite side of the House, but there are other people than directors to be considered and those are primarily the users of gas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.323.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-10", "file": "debates1948-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd2f14b07cab6b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.323.7", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "bly eloquent advocates on the opposite side of the House, but there are other people than directors to be considered and those are primarily the users of gas. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am glad to hear that loud applause from hon. Members opposite, for that means they should be the first to recognise that the existing structure of the industry holds no or little promise of future development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.323.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-10", "file": "debates1948-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd2f14b07cab6b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.323.7", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "tead of the various regional boards? There is no substantial difference whatever. The terms of reference of this Committee were to examine the organisation and structure of the industry. They went as near as they possibly could, within their terms of reference, to say outright what would have been beyond their terms of reference, that the right thing to do with this industry was to nationalise it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.323.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-10", "file": "debates1948-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd2f14b07cab6b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BASIC PETROL RATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "I could deal with that, but it would only take up time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-10", "file": "debates1948-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd2f14b07cab6b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BASIC PETROL RATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "I could deal with that, but it would only take up time. [ Laughter. ] What are the facts which the right hon. Gentleman finds so amusing? I should have thought they were well known, especially to the right hon. Member for Bournemouth (Mr. Bracken). There is a grave shortage of dollars, and the gold reserve of this country is running out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-10", "file": "debates1948-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fd2f14b07cab6b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.343.5", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BASIC PETROL RATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "I cannot at this stage say what that statement will contain. We do not know what the economic state of the country will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-10a.343.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.383.3", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The original Question was, \"That the Bill be now read a Second time,\" since when an Amendment has been moved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.383.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.383.5", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Then all I can say is that it ought to have been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.383.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.389.10", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "I must thank the right hon. and gallant Gentleman for giving way. May I say this—if the right hon. and gallant Gentleman reads the passage again he will find that the Minister was speaking for himself. If the right hon. and gallant Gentleman reads what the other Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.389.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.390.2", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the relative population?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "try of the United States serves a population of 48 millions. I am quoting from the \"Gas World Year Book, 1948.\" The United Kingdom gas industry serves a population of 41 million. The United States industry is operated under 10,500,000 meters and United Kingdom under 11,500,000 meters, and that is for a country three times the size of ours. These figures are not per head; they are the gross figures", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.390.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.399.5", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "No, it was courtesy too. My right hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.399.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.400.3", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was there one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "e way in which we shall do it. The general tone of the speech of the right hon. Gentleman who led for the Opposition was that there ought to be larger units and integration. The issue is whether we do it by socialising the industry, or by adopting the Tory doctrinaire policy of private enterprise. What was the only constructive suggestion which the right hon. Member for Bournemouth made yesterday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.400.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "t that he could carry out this obligation and that at the same time each of these industries be under a separate Minister. My hon. Friend the Member for Burslem (Mr. Edward Davies) asked how the Area Board personnel will be chosen. They will be chosen strictly in accordance with the Bill, which says that the Minister must choose these people from among the persons appearing to him to be qualified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The profit motive\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": " chosen strictly in accordance with the Bill, which says that the Minister must choose these people from among the persons appearing to him to be qualified—[ Laughter. ] Hon. Gentlemen laugh at that and regard it as very funny. There are a number of hon. Gentlemen whom I would like to buy at the price I put upon them and sell them at their own estimation of themselves. I should make a nice profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "This again shows the confusion of mind of the Opposition in their approach to this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.407.4", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "tionalisation of gas. What is his contact which enables him to tell us what public opinion outside is? Is it based on a visit with his friends to the works of the Gas Light and Coke Company where they had an interesting and happy time, or was it obtained from the trade Press?—because the trade Press, in the main, has favoured nationalisation. If the hon. Member really wants to have public opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wadsworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wadsworth", "preceding_text": "he Opposition. The right hon. and gallant Member for the Scottish Universities (Lieut. - Colonel Elliot) said that this was rather a dull Debate and that there was not enough enthusiasm, apparently even from the Labour benches. That is because most people have accepted the nationalisation of gas as a right step at this moment. The Liberal Party—and I am speaking now on behalf of the Liberal Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wadsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wadsworth", "preceding_text": "is wrong, of course—that when the industry is nationalised there will be fewer hours of work, judging from the nationalisation of coal mines, and higher pay. I hope they are correct in that assumption, but I think it is a fallacy. Hon. Members on this side of the House have, in private conversations, agreed with me that perhaps nationalisation of the gas industry is not a bad thing if you examine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How are they now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "lions of pounds which have been lost in those industries which are already nationalised. Ministers do not answer questions, because they do not know what to say. They hedge and say it is not their responsibility. Many people are watching the situation, and they are not happy about it. The country is apprehensive. I am anxious about the future of the basic industries in the great City of Sheffield.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "that what we on these Benches have to say must be said with some force. We have had enough bluff and nonsense. At a time when, according to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, industry is striving to export at a proper price, and, bearing in mind the high cost of coal, to introduce such a Bill is as bad as giving an eviction order to a man fighting for his life on his deathbed. That is the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.460.3", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "We may then take it that the right hon. Gentleman said it. The second reason why this is brought in is the dislike of trade union officials for profit sharing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.462.0", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "rd, without taking anything new on to his plate. Let us look at what happened last year. The then Minister of Fuel and Power was engaged in piloting the Electricity Bill through the House of Commons. Before he did so he must have spent a great deal of time preparing the Bill in his Department. That took his mind off coal stocks in 1946. What was the result?—the biggest fuel blunder in our history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.462.0", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "esult of the Portal award, a tremendous rise in wages. Nobody objects to a decent wage for decent production. I must not say too much about the National Coal Board, or even you, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, with your benevolent eye, may find it necessary to intervene, but it is a fact that the administrative charges and incompetence of the National Coal Board have largely led to an increase in coal prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.462.0", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "s are to be paid back their net outstanding loan, whatever the assets may be. I will quote one figure, an instance which could be multiplied. The figures at Wigan may be rather interesting in view of what is happening at Wigan at present. The capital value of the Wigan gas undertaking is £626,638 and the net outstanding loan is £83,296. In Wigan alone the Government will make a profit of £543,442.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I say that my right hon. Friend the Minister of Fuel and Power has followed substantially the Heyworth Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.476.0", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tripe.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "at with an efficiently conducted socialised electricity industry as against a privately-owned gas industry, especially if it was left much as it is now, electricity would win, and win decisively. I believe that the gas people know that. What one has to study is whether it was better to have a triumphant socialised electricity business, and gas undertakings that were in trouble and going down hill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.476.0", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "as against a privately-owned gas industry, especially if it was left much as it is now, electricity would win, and win decisively. I believe that the gas people know that. What one has to study is whether it was better to have a triumphant socialised electricity business, and gas undertakings that were in trouble and going down hill—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Tripe.\"] Is that the position? Do they want that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.476.0", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"State subsidy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "nd going down hill—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Tripe.\"] Is that the position? Do they want that? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] I do not believe it. I know the gas boys. Some time ago, when they used to call me \"the electrical fiend,\" many of them told me privately that it would not be fair for the State to undertake the organisation, stimulus and creation of a highly efficient electrical industry, with State credit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ve been identifying themselves with the \"Manchester Guardian,\" which used the argument, unjustly, I think, against my right hon. Friend that we have not decentralised enough. The fact is that we have decentralised deliberately under this scheme in regard to Area Boards. If I might take the analogy of the United States Constitution, not as it is working now, but as it was in the days of Washington—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ve acted. The difficulties would have been so troublesome, and if someone on the Front Bench opposite says it was accepted, then they did nothing about it. Anyone can accept a thing and do nothing about it. That is another Conservative policy with which we are very familiar. The Heyworth Report is one of the ablest, most constructive, most logically argued Reports I have ever seen. What did it do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "We do not know what the figure is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never mind.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "I am altogether apologetic and I quite agree, Sir Robert. I have been so astonished by the Financial Secretary's mathematics that I have allowed myself to be led into this financial discussion. I agree that this inflationary atmosphere upsets all judgment. I ask the Financial Secretary and the Home Secretary who, I understand, is acting as deputy Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.517.2", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SWEETS RATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "preceding_text": "and when he got into a bit of a muddle. I think I understood what he meant, but I hope the hon. Lady, his Parliamentary Secretary, will be able to confirm this. The right hon. Gentleman meant, I think, two things. He meant, first, that if we use our sugar now we can only get more sugar by spending dollars; and secondly, that there are no dollars available. I think that that is what he had in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.517.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SWEETS RATION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "ct—that by exporting sugar as confectionery in this form to hard currency areas we get dollars which can then be translated into animal feedingstuffs which become meat and eggs for the children? The right hon. and learned Gentleman asked me whether we were conducting our affairs in a more businesslike fashion than we did last year. I think you, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, ruled that question out of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SWEETS RATION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is what the Government are doing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "the prices of the foods we imported from the United States increased by 50 per cent. If he examines our programme for 1948 he will find that we are importing the very minimum. The hon. and gallant Member for Pudsey and Otley (Colonel StoddartScott) is a medical man, and he surprised me by getting up and charging us with taking the children's sweets and thereby reducing their resistance to disease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.525.5", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SWEETS RATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Grey ration books.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "xtra 4 0z. as well. I do not see why expectant mothers should not have that little extra, notwithstanding the current infantile mortality figure. What would it mean? According to my calculation, 14,000 tons. The hon. Lady should have dealt with that point when she was answering my right hon. and learned Friend. Why cannot we spare 14,000 tons of sugar to give the children 1 lb. of sweets a month?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.525.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-11", "file": "debates1948-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9eafaac1d8e0a78a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.528.0", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SWEETS RATION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "and it is right the public should know the way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-11a.528.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-12", "file": "debates1948-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d7aad1f164231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "We cannot, of course, go outside the Act. There does appear to be some recurrent hardship in this case. Probably, we can meet it and avoid uncertainty by calling this man up very quickly for enrolment and medical examination, so as to ease his worry soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-12", "file": "debates1948-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d7aad1f164231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Salter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Salter", "preceding_text": "In giving that answer has the Lord President considered that the interests concerned—such as, for example, the universities—had no reason whatever to expect these changes until publication of the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-12", "file": "debates1948-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d7aad1f164231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "That is possible. But it is a Supply Day, and I assure my hen. Friend I am advised that I have not power to suspend the Rule, even if I wished to do so—which is doubtful. There will be further opportunities for debate. There are bound to be opportunities for debating the economic situation as time goes on.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-12", "file": "debates1948-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d7aad1f164231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.590.2", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERSONAL INCOMES, COSTS AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the hall-mark of a democrat?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "argue with her hon. Friend which is the accurate quotation. I am unhappily not in possession of either. The only quotation I have is from Mr. Morgan Phillips, and about him I wish to ask the right hon. Gentleman and the Prime Minister a question, because this is a serious statement to be made—and it was made. Everybody will agree that it is a serious statement by the Secretary of the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.590.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-12", "file": "debates1948-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d7aad1f164231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.590.4", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERSONAL INCOMES, COSTS AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "whichever of them prefers to answer, is whether one or other of them will repudiate that statement as representing the views of their party. If the Front Bench opposite believe these things and feel themselves unequal to the task of Government, it is my duty to tell them that there are others, whether they disagree with them or not, who feel that they could discharge that task with a better heart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.590.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-12", "file": "debates1948-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d7aad1f164231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERSONAL INCOMES, COSTS AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A cheap comment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "preceding_text": "o not want to delay the House unduly, but the latter part of the right hon. Gentleman's speech strayed into much more general subject-matters as regards the development of the overseas territories and matters of that kind on which he knows we are wholly in agreement. My only comment on them would be to say that it is really most unfortunate that past Governments have so neglected that development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-12", "file": "debates1948-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d7aad1f164231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERSONAL INCOMES, COSTS AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am tied for time, and, in any case, the hon. Member was not in the House. Whatever side of the House we sit on, our duty is to go to our constituents and say that this is a real crisis, that we are living desperately beyond our income, and that, unless this extra effort is made, and made quickly, there will be such austerity that the past two years will seem almost a honeymoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-12", "file": "debates1948-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d7aad1f164231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERSONAL INCOMES, COSTS AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "da on a scale comparable with the prewar years, we shall be forced to dip into our meagre store of dollars to pay her for the food she sends to us. Therefore, I make no apology for coming back to the question of hours. I wish to draw the attention of hon. Members, particularly those on these benches, to the very serious loss of production that is being occasioned by the reduction of working hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-12", "file": "debates1948-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d7aad1f164231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERSONAL INCOMES, COSTS AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Lindsay", "preceding_text": "ednesbury knows well, by harder work, which means longer hours throughout the whole field of British industry. I regret to say that in the White Paper there is one bad example of doctrinaire prejudice. I refer to the order in which the three charges on industry are placed; profits, salaries and wages. The Government know that profits are only the residue after wages and other charges have been met", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-12", "file": "debates1948-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d7aad1f164231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERSONAL INCOMES, COSTS AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Monslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Monslow", "preceding_text": "the Exchequer at Edinburgh during the week-end. He spoke of the danger of totalitarianism. I presume he referred to the growing danger of Communism—I am not frightened of that bogy—or is he afraid of the mountebank Mosley? From my reading of the White Paper, I tell the Government and hon. Members on this side of the House that I am wondering whether it is the prelude to a new Coalition Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-12", "file": "debates1948-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d7aad1f164231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.643.1", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERSONAL INCOMES, COSTS AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blyton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blyton", "preceding_text": "t capital expenditure must be in accordance with our resources. If one goes into the Library and reads the terms of reference of the Geddes Committee, he will find exactly the same words used. I ask Labour Members of this House, \"Are we to risk the situation which would defeat the Government in this unpleasant position and result in the Tories coming back, to give us what we had in 1922 and 1931?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-12", "file": "debates1948-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d7aad1f164231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERSONAL INCOMES, COSTS AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "Has the hon. Member returned from his sleep in the Library.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-12", "file": "debates1948-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d7aad1f164231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERSONAL INCOMES, COSTS AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": " should take note that there was no applause when he finished. There was not even any applause from the opposite benches. That was not merely because he spoke in his usual sermonising tones, but because there was really no confidence in what he said. Even hon. Members on this side who support him are doing so only because they feel that they have a duty to support him, a kind of loyal, blind duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-12", "file": "debates1948-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d7aad1f164231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERSONAL INCOMES, COSTS AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You do not speak for them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "er. It is their duty to ask for a policy, as laid down in 1945, from which we have gone so far. That is what this House should do and that, I submit, is what the working class will do. The hon. Member for Houghton-le-Spring (Mr. Blyton) said that Messrs. Lawther, and Bowman support the White Paper. I wonder if they do. If so, they do not speak for the miners and do not speak for the working class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-12", "file": "debates1948-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d7aad1f164231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERSONAL INCOMES, COSTS AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More than ever you did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "bmit, is what the working class will do. The hon. Member for Houghton-le-Spring (Mr. Blyton) said that Messrs. Lawther, and Bowman support the White Paper. I wonder if they do. If so, they do not speak for the miners and do not speak for the working class. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You do not speak for them.\"] No, I do not speak for the miners, nor do Messrs. Lawther or Bowman if they support this policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-12", "file": "debates1948-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d7aad1f164231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.657.3", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERSONAL INCOMES, COSTS AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why should they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "eed, one of the problems with which the Chancellor and the trade union leaders have to wrestle is that of the very real fear that the day may come when the Conservative Party will be once again in power. The workers look at this White Paper and they begin to see this fear taking a very real form. The danger lies in the fact not that the Opposition want a Coalition, but that the Conservative Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.657.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-12", "file": "debates1948-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "4e8d7aad1f164231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERSONAL INCOMES, COSTS AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Fletcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And a little cheese.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Fletcher", "preceding_text": "ne that the profit system, so mocked at in times past, produced sufficient profits for us to develop, greatly to the benefit of the Argentine and ourselves, the whole of the Argentine railways, which we are about to eat during the next six or 12 months, though, in this case, the Chancellor of the Exchequer will not join in the feast in view of the fact that the railways have been turned into meat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-12a.662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-13", "file": "debates1948-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "d826987eca811fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-13a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY (APPRENTICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. House", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. House", "preceding_text": "dustry during the inter-war years. I remember in 1930 or 1931 attending a meeting of building trade workers in London in the depth of the trade depression of that time. London was the best part of the country from the building industry point of view, and yet the unemployment among the men in the in- dustry who attended that meeting was 27 out of 28—for every one person employed 27 were unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-13a.780.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-02-16", "file": "debates1948-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "29d4ec55825e653f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.816.2", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joynson-Hicks", "preceding_text": "Is it not a term of the peace treaties that in matters of this sort the Governments of these countries should disclose all information required by us; and what action have His Majesty's Government taken in order to obtain the information from the Governments in these other countries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-16", "file": "debates1948-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "29d4ec55825e653f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that I was not inviting him or the Government to escape from difficulties by breaking obligations undertaken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-16", "file": "debates1948-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "29d4ec55825e653f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are very vocal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "No, miners' choirs never were prohibited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-16", "file": "debates1948-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "29d4ec55825e653f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.855.1", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the City of London?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "We are eliminating all of them. After all, the constituency quoted by the right hon. Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) is in its present depopulated condition because of the sacrifices it bore during the war, and it ill becomes anyone to gibe at it in its present depopulated condition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-16", "file": "debates1948-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "29d4ec55825e653f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Conservative colleagues, therefore, accepted the Report, which Mr. Speaker sent to me in May, 1944. We accepted this agreement between all parties as a whole. We subjected ourselves to the very great disadvantages, as it seemed to us at that time and as it proved at the first municipal elections which were held, of the addition of seven million non-rate-paying electors upon the municipal register.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-16", "file": "debates1948-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "29d4ec55825e653f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "e can see what a trustworthy witness he is by listening to and comparing the grotesque travesty which he has uttered with what I have actually said. It is quite true that I did not accuse the right hon. Gentleman of not having taken an interest in the war. Of course, he did. He took an interest in some other matters, too—very much more, if I may say so, than any man in this House. We had accepted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-16", "file": "debates1948-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "29d4ec55825e653f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ng to and comparing the grotesque travesty which he has uttered with what I have actually said. It is quite true that I did not accuse the right hon. Gentleman of not having taken an interest in the war. Of course, he did. He took an interest in some other matters, too—very much more, if I may say so, than any man in this House. We had accepted—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] There is nothing to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.863.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-02-16", "file": "debates1948-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "29d4ec55825e653f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.866.5", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman is challenging me, I must point out that I made no bargain on this matter. The matter was adopted for the Bill which was brought before the last Parliament. No pledge whatever was given on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.866.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-16", "file": "debates1948-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "29d4ec55825e653f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.867.3", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "he Secretary of State for Scotland will be on the mat tomorrow. I wish to refer to a speech by Mr. Pethick-Lawrence, as he then was, who spoke for the Socialist Party and with the full agreement of its leaders. Nothing is altered since the days when those statements were made, except that now the Government have the power and the Parliamentary majority necessary to enable them to break their word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.867.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-16", "file": "debates1948-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "29d4ec55825e653f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has forgotten.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "usly and automatically university representatives must disappear \"—[OFFICIAL REPORT. 12th July, 1912; Vol. 40, c. 2322.] What happened after that speech? We have but to consult the Division Lists to find that the right hon. Gentleman marched into the Lobby in support of that proposition. It would have been only courteous if he had told the House today that he has changed his views since that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-16", "file": "debates1948-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "29d4ec55825e653f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "n. Today those young men who came up with such high hopes as undergraduates in 1867 are only now—if of course their addresses are unknown—being struck from the list. As to the City of London, I am sorry indeed that the right hon. Gentleman said so little. The reasons are, perhaps, obvious. One of the characteristics of Members for the City of London is that they are not progressive or independent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-16", "file": "debates1948-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "29d4ec55825e653f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.902.4", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "esent time does not result in the election of a House of Commons which represents the wishes of the people. It scarcely even roughly represents them. In most of the general elections before the war the Conservative party were, on an average, consistently 155 Members over-represented. What a difference it would have made to the history of this country and of the world if that had not been the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.902.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-16", "file": "debates1948-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "29d4ec55825e653f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.902.4", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "5 Members over-represented. What a difference it would have made to the history of this country and of the world if that had not been the case—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear\"]. At least I get some agreement on that point. If the Liberal Party, or a small section of the Liberal Party, voted with the Conservatives in 1918, actually a majority of the Liberal Party voted for proportional representation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.902.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-16", "file": "debates1948-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "29d4ec55825e653f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.930.3", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Robertson", "preceding_text": "on Government that the right hon. Gentleman did a magnificent wartime job. He played a principal part in providing the tools for victory. He took over the Ministry of Supply when it was nothing but a building and an untrained staff. We had no weapons, no plans for weapons or for tanks. In fact, we had only 1918 tanks, and my right hon. Friend worked for over five years to overcome that difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.930.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-16", "file": "debates1948-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "29d4ec55825e653f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.932.3", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "f it was in Order at the time when it was delivered, surely it must be in Order to reply to it. That is relevant to the Second Reading of the Bill. Surely it is a long-established practice of this House that while it is within the province of the Chair to decide what arguments are relevant, and what are not, or what is tedious repetition or what is not, it is not part of the province of the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.932.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-02-16", "file": "debates1948-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "29d4ec55825e653f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.934.2", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "What you have now said constitutes a most important precedent. We are surely entitled to have a further explanation of it. What you have now said, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, constitutes in my submission a clear Ruling that what my hon. Friend has said is not tedious repetition and is not irrelevant. May I, therefore, ask you, as I am entitled to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-16", "file": "debates1948-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "29d4ec55825e653f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "w many hon. Members were eligible to sit in this House by reason of acquiring British nationality by naturalisation rather than by birth. I wanted to see how big the problem is today, as a possible guide to how big it may be in years to come. Unhappily, the Home Secretary could not give me the information, and said that he did not feel the time and effort involved in getting it would be justified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-16", "file": "debates1948-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "29d4ec55825e653f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.948.3", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLES (BRIGHTON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": " knows, that Hove have opposed up to this point and would have continued to oppose had they felt that anything was to be gained by doing so. As I have said they are actuated in their attitude by the fact that they know perfectly well that the whole tendency of the present Government is to prefer a situation in which they are dealing with large units into which the smaller ones can be swallowed up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.948.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-16", "file": "debates1948-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "29d4ec55825e653f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.958.1", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAVEL FACILITIES (HOLIDAY RESORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Inquiries, not bookings.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " be to cater for the large number of visitors who propose to go to the seaside. I have some newspaper cuttings here, and I find they are rather revealing. They do not support the hon. Member's contention that it is going to be difficult for the seaside resorts. In the \"Evening Standard\" tonight it is said that Brighton has double the number of inquiries over those which it had this time last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-16a.958.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1003.7", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Got him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "But the right hon. Gentleman did. When he speaks later he must explain what his words meant. They were plain: Since the election, the Conservatives have broken that agreement by using the university vote to send back to this House Conservatives whom, at the General Election, the electors rejected at the polls.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th February, 1948; Vol. 447, c. 865–867.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1003.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1004.2", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "It is perfectly clear, despite what the Lord President of the Council said yesterday that there was an agreement. The next issue is, whom did that agreement bind? I submit with equal confidence that it bound not only the individual hon. and right hon. Gentlemen who attended the Conference on behalf of the Socialist Party, but that it bound the Socialist Party itself as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1004.5", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "There was never a Division in the last Parliament on the recommendations of the Speaker's Conference as a whole.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1004.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1005.0", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the last Parliament.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "any instructions from the headquarters to which they themselves belonged? Is it not ridiculous to suppose that they were not acting in that Conference on behalf of the Socialist Party as a whole? I submit, therefore, that any agreement made—and it is now admitted that an agreement was made—was binding on the Socialist Party as a whole, as well as upon those individuals who attended the Conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1005.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1005.0", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "ade—and it is now admitted that an agreement was made—was binding on the Socialist Party as a whole, as well as upon those individuals who attended the Conference—[An HON. MEMBER: \"In the last Parliament.\"] Surely, the next question to which we have to address ourselves is this: If there was an agreement, which it is admitted bound both the individuals who made it and the parties they represented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1005.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": " free, nor are individual Members. If individual Members of parties are freed by the mere fact of a general election, from all their past pledges and promises, what on earth is the good of election addresses and party manifestos? I think that by now I have satisfied the House, first, that there was a bargain; secondly, that the bargain bound not only individuals but the Socialist Party as a whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1011.3", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "don or the university vote can be considered as counters. If the party opposite are admitting that they are counters, they are admitting that both are pocket boroughs for the Conservatives to use. There is no advantage in our giving the City of London or the university votes unless they are claiming that they are privileged pocket boroughs into which they can bring in Members whenever they please.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1011.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "he Secretary of State for Scotland is making. He says there was an agreement about the universities, because he was of the opinion that the university Members in the last Parliament were non-party, but that, since the election, because two Conservatives have been elected, he considers there has been a breach of that agreement. He wants, therefore, to abolish the representation of the universities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1017.2", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "I think I have made my point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1017.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1034.3", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": " Member's motion, lasting only from a quarter to four to half-past seven. In that Debate three university Members took part: Lord Hugh Cecil, Miss Eleanor Rathbone, and my hon. Friend the present senior Burgess for Cambridge University (Mr. Pickthorn). I am sure the House will agree that they had three very dissimilar minds. But they were all completely united in their opposition to this proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1034.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1039.3", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": " had some faith in their colleagues. Last Saturday the graduate body of one of the universities I represent invited graduates of that and all other universities, and, at their invitation, I addressed them on this proposal. Socialists were present and proclaimed themselves Socialists. With an insignificant minority, they were unanimously against this proposal. I feel passionately about this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1039.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1039.3", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "n. Members opposite think it is amusing to feel passionately about anything. I believe this threat to the university franchise is an injury to the universities and to this House; but, apart from the injury which it can do to those two institutions, I believe, above all, that the proposal is completely stupid. It is not only Tories and Liberals who now realise the threat to freedom in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1039.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "With great respect, Major Milner, with the Bill as it stands, that point cannot be raised in Committee. However, I have only one other sentence to add on that point. In the Scottish universities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "Who drove him out? He took another job and then resigned his seat. The point I was dealing with was whether there was any hope of a person sympathetic to the views of hon. Members opposite winning a university seat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackay", "preceding_text": "ion is that because a group of people, Conservative, Labour and Liberal, got round a table to discuss problems, including the problem of giving the vote to the people in local elections and it was decided to extend the franchise for local elections, that that was the only part of the bargain from which we got any advantage. As the Secretary of State for Scotland showed very clearly this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A sudden conversion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "ty who, throughout their history have been hostile to university representation, did not challenge its retention at the Conference. The Secretary of State for Scotland said today that he and his colleagues had suddenly become convinced at the Speaker's Conference of the value of university representation, and that they had come to that judgment out of conviction. Well, it was a very sudden change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "preceding_text": ", the Conservative Party were in power in this country, but at the last election this system told against them unfairly. Today the Labour Party is still almost on the crest of the wave. Next time, or the time after, it may be its turn. I think it is much more than a purely party matter. I hope that hon. and right hon. Gentlemen are prepared to consider this question from a non-party point of view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "he City of London and its work. Today we are in a great financial and economic crisis. I would suggest to the Government that the need for invisible exports is greater today than it has ever been. We are very short of dollars, and it is the dollars which the City of London has earned in the past that are missing at the present time—largely owing to the restrictive action of the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "ing what most voters are, is it to be wondered at that a certain number of them did not exercise their claim in time? I am suggesting that, had that not been in operation, there would have been a considerably larger electorate than there is at present. The Members for the City of London speak not only for those who are on the electoral roll. They speak also for 500,000 people who work in the City.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1062.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Colonel Sir Walter Smiles", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Colonel Sir Walter Smiles", "preceding_text": "time I have been in this House, and before, the work done by university Members has been very good. Let me take, as an example, the Member for Queen's University (Professor Savory). As we all know, he has espoused the cause of Poland. He has asked Questions upon the subject and he has spoken for those poor people. He has done his best; he has done what he could, and that is not very much, I admit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1089.1", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington-Lodge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington-Lodge", "preceding_text": "se outside the party machine can, as I see it, more easily give. As long as the present electoral system maintained under this Bill continues the series of major anomalies which will undoubtedly be preserved under it, why, I ask, should we boggle at the preservation of this particular and smaller anomaly? For example, this Bill leaves England utterly unrepresented compared with Scotland and Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "nes and by the reports of the Debate by sketch writers in certain of this morning's newspapers which seem to have scourged us into a white heat of which neither I nor my hon. Friends were conscious. When the Leader of the Opposition openly accused the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Home Secretary and myself—after all, I always thought all of us honourable and upright men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1104.3", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am always glad to see the right hon. Gentleman who has just intervened. He was a most valued Under-Secretary of mine at the Home Office during the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1105.5", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "That, at any rate, has disposed of the point about Lord Pethick-Lawrence which was raised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1105.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "aker asking if he would preside at such a conference, and I have his permission to say that he decided—and I have no quarrel with his decision—that as party controversy had been renewed since 1918 he felt that, in order to preserve the impartial position of the Chair, he would prefer not to preside at such a conference.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 29th March, 1928; Vol. 215. c 1471.] That disposes of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-17", "file": "debates1948-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f496428c1242379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1114.3", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ld say, \"Good gracious, we have plenty of lawyers here. There is no need to give them special facilities.\" If that is true of the lawyers, we do not need to give special representation of the universities, because there are plenty of university graduates in all quarters of the House. As to the university Members, some of them are definitely partisan. The attendance of the bulk of them is shocking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-17a.1114.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-18", "file": "debates1948-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c133396e973ff91e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-18a.1137.3", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "Whilst there is a lack of capacity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-18a.1137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-18", "file": "debates1948-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c133396e973ff91e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-18a.1293.2", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SARAWAK (MR. ANTHONY BROOKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. West", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. West", "preceding_text": "tions in regard to this matter, because it is most important that the House should clearly understand what is the purpose of this agitation. I do not really understand why right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite have taken such a keen interest in this particular gentleman. I do not know that they have on other occasions even attempted to defend the rights of ordinary men and women in this country.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-18a.1293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-18", "file": "debates1948-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c133396e973ff91e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-18a.1293.2", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SARAWAK (MR. ANTHONY BROOKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. West", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. West", "preceding_text": "ould also like to ask my hon. Friend whether Mr. Anthony Brooke himself is not aware of the situation now prevailing there. If he is, and is so anxious to go into that territory, it can only be for the purpose of trying to usurp the present authority in order that he might become the Rajah of that territory. I know that other Members desire to speak and for that reason I will not continue further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-18a.1293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-18", "file": "debates1948-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c133396e973ff91e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-18a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SARAWAK (MR. ANTHONY BROOKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "preceding_text": "I will tell the hon. Gentleman why in a moment. We have taken up this matter quite recently with the Governor-General, who has been here on leave. Hon. Members will know Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, and will know that he is a man of political experience, and is not likely to come to a conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-18a.1300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-18", "file": "debates1948-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c133396e973ff91e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-18a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SARAWAK (MR. ANTHONY BROOKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did you say about him in 1931\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "preceding_text": "r quite recently with the Governor-General, who has been here on leave. Hon. Members will know Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, and will know that he is a man of political experience, and is not likely to come to a conclusion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—No one can deny that he has had considerable political experience and that he is not likely to come to a conclusion of this kind without carefully weighing it up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-18a.1300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-18", "file": "debates1948-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c133396e973ff91e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-18a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SARAWAK (MR. ANTHONY BROOKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "preceding_text": "site never realise that. I also took the opportunity of discussing this matter with the Chief Secretary, whom I have known for many years, and who was an officer in the Malayan Service and is very experienced. He was very much against admitting Mr. Brooke. We also consulted the Governor, and all three of these responsible officers said that, on no account, should Mr. Brooke be admitted to Sarawak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-18a.1300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-18", "file": "debates1948-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "c133396e973ff91e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-18a.1300.3", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SARAWAK (MR. ANTHONY BROOKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "preceding_text": "ead-hunting and is not yet civilised, then we are imposing upon the government of that country, and, consequently, upon this Government and finally ourselves, a very serious responsibility indeed. That is the position that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Colonies was facing. Was he to disregard the unanimous opinion of the Governor-General, the Governor and the Chief Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-18a.1300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-19", "file": "debates1948-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "61eef8718a1665ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1340.5", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of the by-election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "Can the Leader of the House say what was the result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1340.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-19", "file": "debates1948-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "61eef8718a1665ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "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": " city. But I think that these things are better done by associations of public-minded citizens, rich or poor, than merely by putting the thing on the rates and leaving it unfettered, as it is sought to do in this Clause. For those reasons, we on this side of the Committee, while not unsympathetic to the general objects which, indeed, are in line with the policy that we have pursued for many years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-19", "file": "debates1948-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "61eef8718a1665ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1381.3", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE.—(Provision of Entertainment.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Dreary for whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ason why this power is so necessary. I say this not for the purpose of repetition, but to call the attention of the local authorities to it. During the last 30 or 40 years which has seen the rise of the cinema, we have seen the creation of a building which is useful for one function only and for no other purpose. All of us, I am certain, have spent many dreary hours addressing meetings in cinemas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-19", "file": "debates1948-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "61eef8718a1665ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE.—(Provision of Entertainment.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "n it myself in some of the areas with which I am most familiar. I know of a cinema which is being run by workpeople very profitably, because there is no art in the running of a cinema. All one wants is a building. One hires the films and then stands between the films and those who want to see the film and charges a toll. That is all a cinema is. This workpeople's committee made very large profits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-19", "file": "debates1948-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "61eef8718a1665ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1389.5", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE.—(Provision of Entertainment.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "Certainly. After a most regrettable loss on some plays by Mr. Bernard Shaw the council might decide to recoup its losses by exhibitions of striptease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1389.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-19", "file": "debates1948-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "61eef8718a1665ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1392.5", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE.—(Provision of Entertainment.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Medland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Medland", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Minister what would be the effect, if this Amendment were passed, on, say, the Corporation of Torquay which habitually lets to entertainment companies its pavilion? Would it not mean that what the hon. Member is now asking is to limit the right of his local authority to giving an entertainment in its own home?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1392.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-19", "file": "debates1948-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "61eef8718a1665ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1403.1", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE.—(Provision of Entertainment.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "onvinced that it is the experience of most people that domestic felicity would easily be advanced by it. Many of these public houses would be compelled to change their character and become reasonable places if it were possible to have alcoholic refreshment in places with greater amenities. I confess also that I am temperamentally hostile to unnecessary interference with the liberty of individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-19", "file": "debates1948-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "61eef8718a1665ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1404.2", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE.—(Provision of Entertainment.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "e as a respectable citizen, a teetotaller, and a man known never to have been in a police court, as the right type of man to see that our dances were conducted in a proper manner without being hurtful or injurious to the young people. Unhappily for us, next door to the town hall was a public house. It was very convenient for many of the young people to run out from the dance into the public house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1404.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-19", "file": "debates1948-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "61eef8718a1665ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1432.2", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSTPONED CLAUSE.—(Provision of Entertainment.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "I only wish to take two minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1432.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-19", "file": "debates1948-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "61eef8718a1665ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1462.2", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 99.—(Adjustments for changes In the circumstances of British Transport Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": " Minister deciding to overwrite the railways. In other words, he is trying to say that the Minister, on the grounds of public policy, might bring out the commercial results of the railways at a low figure, and it would be greatly to the advantage of the local authorities if the Minister decided, in spite of the low figure, to bring out an order giving the local authorities the larger sum of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-19", "file": "debates1948-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "61eef8718a1665ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1462.4", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 99.—(Adjustments for changes In the circumstances of British Transport Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "as possible, so that the House of Commons can advance on the task laid upon it, fortified with the full knowledge of what is in the mind of the right hon. Gentleman. We still find ourselves dissatisfied with the fact that the right hon. Gentleman desires to make the order in skeleton form and then elaborate it in a speech. We would prefer that the order were brought before the House fully clothed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-19a.1462.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-20", "file": "debates1948-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "bd5134a40aecaee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-20a.1502.0", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Three years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " them a bigger meed of generosity. The right hon. Gentleman in his speech on the Second Reading referred to this matter and I gathered from what he said then that the payments under the National Insurance Act to be made by new entrants to the police force will qualify their widows for a full widow's pension under that Act. I am very grateful for that, I apprehend there will be a qualifying period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-20a.1502.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-20", "file": "debates1948-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "bd5134a40aecaee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-20a.1525.1", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "It is very difficult to do that. The man was on an incremental scale, and was above the minimum. If I started o give figures I should have to say \"about so much.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-20a.1525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-23", "file": "debates1948-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "dc08a9aabd6550b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-23a.1610.5", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE (INCIDENTS, JERUSALEM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with the last statement at all. The question of the loss of British lives has nothing whatever to do with the statement of the Palestine Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-23a.1610.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-23", "file": "debates1948-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "dc08a9aabd6550b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-23a.1610.6", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE (INCIDENTS, JERUSALEM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "In view of the intensity and universality with which this charge—however unbelievable—has been accepted, and will be accepted, I am afraid, throughout the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-23a.1610.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-23", "file": "debates1948-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "dc08a9aabd6550b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-23a.1715.0", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He will resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "I hope the Chancellor is right and that he will maintain that view by the time I have concluded one or two more considerations from this agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-23a.1715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-23", "file": "debates1948-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "dc08a9aabd6550b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-23a.1718.0", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Six months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "nything they can get will not be something contrary to our amour propre , something that is unworthy of a great nation, but something which not even this House of Commons would tolerate. Let us think what we have done. We have sold our major assets in the Argentine—assets which took 60 years of the resources of this country to build up. We have sold them for nine months of meat and feeding stuffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-23a.1718.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-23", "file": "debates1948-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "dc08a9aabd6550b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-23a.1722.5", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Mr. Strachey)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At North Croydon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Mr. Strachey)", "preceding_text": "one should be prepared to go to the country and say to the people, \"We ought to have forgone at all costs this meat, oils and fats, and linseed,\" which, although it is not a food, is an industrial raw material of great importance. Such a proposition is one which I am quite sure my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor and all of us on these benches would like to meet on any public platform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-23a.1722.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-23", "file": "debates1948-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "dc08a9aabd6550b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-23a.1725.3", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "I have very little time and I have a large number of points to answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-23a.1725.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-02-24", "file": "debates1948-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "808c34568cb64525", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-24a.1769.10", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "During the war.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "This happens to be the state of the law under the Import of Goods (Control) Order, passed in 1940, and I ask the hon. Gentleman carefully to note the date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-24a.1769.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-24", "file": "debates1948-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "808c34568cb64525", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-24a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": " who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day,\" because the dangerous portions of this Measure do not come into operation for years to come. The Minister himself explained that his transitional grants would run for five years and then, he said, his scheme would appear in all its purity. But it is very unlikely that he will still be occupying his present position at the end of that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-24a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-24", "file": "debates1948-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "808c34568cb64525", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-24a.1873.0", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has made an important statement. As I understood it, we are taking the 25 per cent. absolutely blind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-24a.1873.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-24", "file": "debates1948-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "808c34568cb64525", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-24a.1875.3", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "stion about an appeal, and seemed to suggest that a valuation court could appeal. Appellants can appeal, but the court itself is not a party to a case and, therefore, cannot appeal. My hon. Friend the Member for Hitchin (Mr. Asterley Jones) raised some interesting points, of which the Minister has taken note, about the cost of sites, and he will take steps to deal with them whore that is possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-24a.1875.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-25", "file": "debates1948-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "354115ea7207e7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2013.1", "colnum": "2013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERTHYR TYDFIL CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haydn Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haydn Davies", "preceding_text": "It is quite obvious that this Debate has nothing at all to do with Merthyr Tydfil, because such an Instruction as this could have been moved in respect of Bills concerning many other towns. I really am amazed that the hon. Member for Mid-Bedford (Mr. Lennox-Boyd) should have moved this Instruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-25", "file": "debates1948-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "354115ea7207e7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2015.1", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERTHYR TYDFIL CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman taunted me on my memory, and so led me to embark upon a line of argument which is possibly out of Order. I promise I shall not go any further along it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-25", "file": "debates1948-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "354115ea7207e7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2015.1", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERTHYR TYDFIL CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman taunted me on my memory, and so led me to embark upon a line of argument which is possibly out of Order. I promise I shall not go any further along it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] There is nothing to withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-25", "file": "debates1948-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "354115ea7207e7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2016.3", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERTHYR TYDFIL CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And be out of Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I can understand that he is completely ignorant of the situation existing in the industrial areas. Ignorance is the cause of this Bill being opposed. I have no wish to detain the House, not even with reminiscences. If I wanted to do so, I could keep this House going all night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2016.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-25", "file": "debates1948-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "354115ea7207e7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2017.0", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERTHYR TYDFIL CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "I beg the hon. Member's pardon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2017.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-25", "file": "debates1948-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "354115ea7207e7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2017.8", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERTHYR TYDFIL CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin", "preceding_text": "e. However, in this matter they support my hon. Friend, and I propose reading out the arguments adumbrated by them: The reason for the Clause is that there are many cases where it is essential that an employee of the local authority should be housed near his work or near the valuable property for which he is responsible. In such cases the local authority should be able to provide a dwelling house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2017.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-25", "file": "debates1948-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "354115ea7207e7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2022.4", "colnum": "2022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERTHYR TYDFIL CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will appreciate that I am not entitled to impute motives. I always understood that on Private Bills we do not bring to bear any party attitudes in our discussions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2022.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-25", "file": "debates1948-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "354115ea7207e7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2030.1", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RIVER BOARDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "I thought I had made my meaning quite clear. I was saying that the county borough councils obviously represent a great interest in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2030.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-02-25", "file": "debates1948-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "354115ea7207e7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2049.0", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RIVER BOARDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is here.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "n expound his view, when we discuss another Bill: for, surely, to be consistent, he will then have to contend that the man who makes the biggest contribution to the Exchequer—the highest Surtax payer—should have the highest representation in this House of Commons. That is the argument behind this Bill. That is the argument put forward by the hon. Member for Lincoln. I am sorry not to see him here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-25", "file": "debates1948-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "354115ea7207e7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2057.1", "colnum": "2057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RIVER BOARDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Is that not exactly my point? If it is not argued that they have all been offenders or that the majority have not, why is it argued that they must all suffer a quite arbitrary ban for the misdeeds of individuals? I will turn now to the speech of the right hon. Gentleman who opened the Debate for the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-25", "file": "debates1948-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "354115ea7207e7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2058.1", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RIVER BOARDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not lost.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "er of compromise between a variety of interests each of whom will fight, have fought to some extent, and also to a large extent cancel each other out. On the whole, we believe we have achieved the best balance between the various interests, and that the least mischief will be done if we reinsert at a later stage in the Bill the original provision about three-fifths which got lost in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-25", "file": "debates1948-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "354115ea7207e7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2072.1", "colnum": "2072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (ELECTRICITY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": " unnecessary. In the interpretation Clause there is this reference: 'licence' means a licence granted by the Minister; 'the Minister' means the Minister of Fuel and Power. I submit that if in the first words of the Order we are told that the Minister of Fuel and Power is the Minister, then it is a little unnecessary to finish the order by saying that the Minister is the Minister of Fuel and Power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-25", "file": "debates1948-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "354115ea7207e7a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2072.1", "colnum": "2072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (ELECTRICITY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "ppropriate to use in this connection. When we look at the wording of paragraph 2 and take account of what is obviously intended by the word \"unless,\" and substitute a phrase such as \"if not,\" it would run: If not under the authority of a licence, no undertaker shall in connection with any supply of electricity (not being a supply in bulk). We have there three negatives running one after the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-25a.2072.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-26", "file": "debates1948-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bfefca57eeb05bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-26a.2097.5", "colnum": "2097", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I have been into this case fully and have written to the hon. Gentleman about it. There are very many difficulties about importing things of this kind, even as gifts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-26a.2097.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-26", "file": "debates1948-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bfefca57eeb05bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-26a.2111.8", "colnum": "2111", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "—he would have observed that the main purpose of seeking a reduction in prices was to reduce the profits being made by certain sections of private enterprise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-26a.2111.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-26", "file": "debates1948-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bfefca57eeb05bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-26a.2117.7", "colnum": "2117", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister explain, if no allowances were made to officers, how the Duke of Edinburgh got there?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-26a.2117.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-26", "file": "debates1948-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bfefca57eeb05bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-26a.2126.1", "colnum": "2126", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether my opinion is worth much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-26a.2126.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-26", "file": "debates1948-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bfefca57eeb05bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-26a.2199.3", "colnum": "2199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Neven-Spence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is nationalisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Neven-Spence", "preceding_text": "n the West of Scotland, and has been responsible for saving probably 800 lives during the years this service has been running. He knows the job from A to Z, far better than anyone else in the country, and has landed planes in extraordinarily difficult places, so that sick people could be taken away to hospital to be operated upon. It is scandalous that he should be cast out of his job in this way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-26a.2199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-26", "file": "debates1948-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bfefca57eeb05bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-26a.2207.1", "colnum": "2207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": " seven days, but no notification was given to her parents about what had happened to her. I spoke to Anna Williams when I was in Mexico, and she explained how they were delayed three times at various stages on the route. These are all the details I can give about B.S.A.A. I should not like to say, in view of the opposition there has been, that these statements are absolutely 100 per cent. correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-26a.2207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-02-26", "file": "debates1948-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "bfefca57eeb05bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-26a.2253.1", "colnum": "2253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why have they not got it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "he fault of His Majesty's Government. War, and all that war means, has prevented us from providing the centralised bases. We will do the best we can to get them as quickly as possible. The hon. Member for Worcester (Mr. G. Ward), who wound up for the Opposition, referred to premises, particularly B.E.A.'s desire to have Dorland House. B.E.A. have been pressing for it to my knowledge for 18 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-02-26a.2253.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-01", "file": "debates1948-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "58f7b3d673bd224f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-01a.62.5", "colnum": "62", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "t remember evidence ever having been brought to me that the published figures had really been of value to the enemy. Is the Prime Minister sure about that? For instance, we always used to publish the first line strength of our Air Force. Is there any evidence that we did ourselves any harm by publishing it, and if there is no such evidence ought we not to publish the figures now? We ought to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-01a.62.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-01", "file": "debates1948-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "58f7b3d673bd224f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-01a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "Government in this field as well as in other realms. I believe that events which have recently been taking place are a warning, and as my hon. Friend the Member for East Coventry has said, the warning will not be too long before even the act of war might occur. If we did not have these \"little forces,\" as he said, dotted at out the world, in Greece and other countries, who knows what might happen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-01a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-01", "file": "debates1948-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "58f7b3d673bd224f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-01a.126.3", "colnum": "126", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He is only a stooge.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "preceding_text": "view. I am all for international peace, but I do not believe it is right to ruin your D w a country in the hope of an international objective. The hon. Member for West Fife (Mr. Gallacher) and I have been in this House many years, and I am quite convinced that he can do a great deal more good by persuading Russia that we will not attack her, than he ever will do here by trying to preach Communism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-01a.126.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-01", "file": "debates1948-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "58f7b3d673bd224f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-01a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sing it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "this side of the House, have got up and repeated ad nauseam all the foul, vicious dirty lies hitherto peddled by the Tories. Why is it, when Socialists who used to sing: Then raise the scarlet standard high, Within its shade we'll live and die; Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer, We'll keep the Red Flag flying here\"— why is it, when the Red Flag is advancing in Europe, there is such a panic?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-01a.140.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-02", "file": "debates1948-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9ec2d5a03935b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-02a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This is a free country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ars produced, there were violent outcries from the Opposition. When we stepped up our exports of capital equipment, which was needed for restoration of production in our traditional supplying areas, or for the development of overseas territories in Africa, or for the maintenance of overseas territories, there were Questions, Debates, and speeches of all kinds against the need for exporting abroad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-02a.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-02", "file": "debates1948-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9ec2d5a03935b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-02a.339.5", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "s—that was announced yesterday—Denmark, the Argentine, and primarily financial agreements with India, Pakistan and Uruguay. This afternoon, we signed a further trade agreement with Poland. This evening we signed a trade agreement with Finland providing for wood pulp. We are sending them coal in return for the wood pulp, about which the hon. Member for Chippenham (Mr. Eccles) is so rightly anxious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-02a.339.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-02", "file": "debates1948-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9ec2d5a03935b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-02a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Against.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " to continue without any further interruptions. If not, I will certainly give the right hon. Gentleman my comments on any convenient occasion. I am not running away and I have plenty to say on this subject which I want him to hear. I have also promised to answer remarks about bulk purchase, and would like to know for instance where the Opposition stands on this question—are they for or against it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-02a.343.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-03-02", "file": "debates1948-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9ec2d5a03935b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-02a.343.4", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "tlemen opposite must realise that if we had private traders dealing in these markets, bidding up prices against one another in a period of shortage, none of them able to make offers in scarce goods which other countries want, we should have to pay far higher prices than we are actually paying. But, then, maybe the party opposite do not want us to get our food cheaply. That is a conceivable policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-02a.343.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-03-02", "file": "debates1948-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9ec2d5a03935b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-02a.344.2", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Get on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ld be no policy of cheap food imports such as we are trying to get from the Danes to undermine home agriculture. Do they want cheap food imports, or do they not? Because if their policy is not one of cheap food imports, then why do they come to attack this Government for paying too high prices on the conditions of bulk purchase? There are many other questions to which I should have liked to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-02a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-02", "file": "debates1948-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9ec2d5a03935b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-02a.351.3", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH ARMY (FULL-DRESS UNIFORM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "There have been certain special occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-02a.351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-02", "file": "debates1948-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "a9ec2d5a03935b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-02a.353.3", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH ARMY (FULL-DRESS UNIFORM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The point has been made repeatedly by some hon. and gallant Gentlemen opposite that the decision in this case will detract from the recruiting value of the ceremony, and it was for that reason, and that reason only, that I was raising the point of recruiting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-02a.353.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-03-03", "file": "debates1948-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "3926766f6a6b1790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-03a.364.6", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH EMBASSY STAFF, ANKARA (MR. W. E. D. ALLEN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am not clear whether the hon. Gentleman is attacking a civil servant by saying that he was a leading propagandist for Mosley. If so, it is quite wrong for him to say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-03a.364.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-03-03", "file": "debates1948-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "3926766f6a6b1790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-03a.364.11", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH EMBASSY STAFF, ANKARA (MR. W. E. D. ALLEN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I understand that this gentleman who has been appointed, for which I accept responsibility, owes no allegiance to any other country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-03a.364.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-03", "file": "debates1948-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "3926766f6a6b1790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-03a.395.3", "colnum": "395", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES (QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much support?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "y to answer it,\" or, \"This is not the sort of thing with which I ought to deal.\" Let the Minister decide. It is all right so long as the Minister—and these are the governing words—has the support of the House in his attitude. That is the test. If he can carry the House with him he must be considered to be right. The Minister should be entitled to say \"No,\" provided he has the support of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-03a.395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-03", "file": "debates1948-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "3926766f6a6b1790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-03a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES (QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The new scheme has not started yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "l Insurance set up by this House. How many Questions on National Insurance have been put down in the past week? Six or eight? The Ministry I believe has a staff of 40,000—I may be wrong in that figure, but I think it is somewhere about it—and we have got to deal with insurance benefits and so on. How many Questions appear on the Order Paper each week. I should say an average of 5, 7 or perhaps 10.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-03a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-03", "file": "debates1948-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "3926766f6a6b1790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-03a.410.3", "colnum": "410", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES (QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": "It is this: A Ruling once given, continues to be applied until it is revoked by a subsequent Ruling. I want to make a small digression here, but it has some bearing on the conclusion I will reach. Sir, the House, as I think you will know, was a little startled the other day when you said that you went to, or telephoned, Ministers to ask advice with regard to whether Questions were in Order or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-03a.410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-03", "file": "debates1948-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "3926766f6a6b1790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-03a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES (QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ay they would not do it, but we cannot be sure. The essence of the argument is that they should have the right to put Questions on any aspect of the work of the public corporations and that the Minister should have the right of refusing to reply, which would be a very unpleasant situation if it happened very often. This raises the question of the right to put Questions out-side the Rules of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-03a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-03", "file": "debates1948-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "3926766f6a6b1790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-03a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES (QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "liament, and a new point of Parliamentary procedure. Then it is further argued that he need not answer the Questions. I wonder how long a Minister would last, meeting the House day after day, and saying, \"I have nothing to say\"? There would be a row, and hon. Members know it. The other point is this: We have to get to serve on these bodies and as members of the Boards the best men we possibly can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-03a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-03", "file": "debates1948-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "3926766f6a6b1790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-03a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES (QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "se public corporations the very evils that are alleged to exist in the Civil Service. I am surprised that the Conservative Opposition should urge a policy which is bound to weaken the efficiency of these bodies, and to stimulate the very interference which they have been condemning. Why do they want to be able to put Questions about these things? I know. They want to be able to blacken, to damage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-03a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-03", "file": "debates1948-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "3926766f6a6b1790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-03a.474.3", "colnum": "474", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [By Order.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what we are coming to. I understand that we are all in agreement that Clause 41 is wrong, if the magistrates' clerk is to be a judge but not if he is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-03a.474.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-03", "file": "debates1948-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "3926766f6a6b1790", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-03a.474.3", "colnum": "474", "heading": "LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [By Order.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:—\"It is wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": " judge. I would deal with this matter from the practical point of view. I have appeared and practised in a great many magistrates' courts in my time. There are magistrates' courts in which the clerk does not play a very prominent part and in which a strong chairman is in charge of the court and really conducts the proceedings. There are also courts which are ruled by the clerks with a rod of iron.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-03a.474.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-04", "file": "debates1948-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "69fa9756c6737596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-04a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get down to the Estimates.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": " Lake Success he spent a great part of his time as Secretary of State for Air—with what success I do not know. I hope that the present Secretary of State for Air will devote himself, at this grave period, to one thing only, to the Royal Air Force and to the problems of air defence. In that, at any rate, he will be unique amongst Socialist Secretaries of State for Air in the present administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-04a.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-04", "file": "debates1948-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "69fa9756c6737596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-04a.663.5", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "I have risen, therefore, at this hour in order to call for sanity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-04a.663.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-04", "file": "debates1948-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "69fa9756c6737596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-04a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "insanity when we are discussing warfare on such a scale that the defence of the civilian population depends on something that is almost impossible. That is agreed on all sides. Would it not be far more sensible if this Government and the other Governments got together and talked about some sensible way of abolishing war altogether, rather than waste time and money on this nonsense and tom-foolery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-04a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-05", "file": "debates1948-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "675a52a5b8c8da18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-05a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "of that Measure. To sum up my feelings in a sentence; I consider that this Act has disgraced the country more than any other upon record. Both a moral crime and a political blunder, it announces to the world that in England poverty is a crime. Why has it taken us 113 years to pass, as we shall today, a Bill which will sweep away the characteristics of the Poor Law which Disraeli denounced in 1835?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-05a.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-08", "file": "debates1948-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "d69ffa158c237a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-08a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOVIET AND UNITED STATES DOCUMENTS (PUBLICATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "My hon. and learned Friend must not conclude that the treatment accorded to him on this subject is the treatment accorded to all hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-08a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-08", "file": "debates1948-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "d69ffa158c237a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-08a.801.10", "colnum": "801", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (NEWSPAPER REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "I desire to draw to your attention, Mr. Speaker, and to that of the House a report in last Saturday's \"Daily Mail,\" which I wish to submit to you and to ask whether or not it constitutes prima facie a breach of Privilege. It reflects, in effect, upon almost every Member of this House, and, in effect, says that 29 Members of Parliament are traitors and secret agents of a future enemy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-08a.801.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-08", "file": "debates1948-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "d69ffa158c237a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-08a.819.2", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "terests as what they have already said themselves about the strength of the Fleet. My criticism today of Socialist Admiralty policy is twofold. First, the Admiralty never gave so little fighting value for so much money or so many men, and secondly never was such value as there is, so ill-presented to the world. I am always shy of criticising Governments about their mistakes in this changing scene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-08a.819.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-08", "file": "debates1948-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "d69ffa158c237a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-08a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. A. V. Alexander)", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. A. V. Alexander)", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my colleagues on this side of the House for allowing me to speak at once in reply to the right hon. Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill). I give place to no one in this House in my respect for his qualities and service in every phase of fighting, and preparing for fighting, in the past. I have served a great number of years with him. I have seen a great deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-08a.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-08", "file": "debates1948-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "d69ffa158c237a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-08a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "ss before the war required 1,400 men to man it. The \"Duke of York,\" with all its modern equipment, takes at least 1,760 men today. That is an increase of 25 per cent. A Fleet aircraft carrier before the war took 1,000 men. Today, with all the extra things to be done in it, it takes 1,400 men, an increase of 40 per cent. If we compare a modern Fleet destroyer with one of the prewar Greyhound class—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-08a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-08", "file": "debates1948-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "d69ffa158c237a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-08a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman really might get my argument. I never suggested they would be ready at the outbreak of war, but when other great ships are sunk, it is then that the older ones come into play with advantage. It may well be they would not come in until the second year of the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-08a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-08", "file": "debates1948-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "d69ffa158c237a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-08a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "nction of the Navy in the future will be a close escort job. I do not believe that it will be possible to deal with the new type of underwater attack from surface craft. To reach this moving, underwater ship with the existing depth charge technique will be quite hopeless. In the period the depth charge takes to sink the submarine can change direction quickly. Unless we have an atomic depth charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-08a.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-08", "file": "debates1948-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "d69ffa158c237a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-08a.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Class distinction\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": " or it should be abolished. The Admiralty cannot have it both ways. But the arguments, as I see them, are in favour of separate messes being continued. I cannot see anything against that. I know that chief stokers like to have their own mess, mechanicians do, and practically all petty officers and chief petty officers like to have their own mess, just as other people like to have their own house.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-08a.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-08", "file": "debates1948-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "d69ffa158c237a43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-08a.961.3", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "On that point of Order. I think it is rather unfair for the hon. Member for Devonport (Mr. Foot) to have made that observation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-08a.961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-09", "file": "debates1948-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b61facb7751b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-09a.1068.1", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Niall Macpherson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Before the start.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Niall Macpherson", "preceding_text": "raise the voluntary spirit. I cannot help feeling that it is a little late in the day, and that they have already made some grave mistakes. The first mistake was that they gave no recognition after this last war to those who were in the pre-war Territorial Army. It is all very well to say that everybody was in it together. That, of course, is true but the Territorial Army was there from the start.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-09a.1068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-09", "file": "debates1948-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b61facb7751b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-09a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are dealing with Army Estimates.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": ". Why is it that someone has not drawn attention to the fact that there is now no such thing as an Indian Army, that we have no outpost in Burma or in Egypt, and that we are only precariously holding on to the Sudan? I tried to speak yesterday, instead of today, as I was very interested in the Navy. I wished to draw attention to the fact that the British Navy has gone. There was a Navy in Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-09a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-09", "file": "debates1948-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b61facb7751b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-09a.1077.3", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "erous situation in Europe that would justify the greatest possible expenditure on armaments in this country. That is the idea that has been presented in the Press, on the platform and over the radio—that there is a particular danger in Europe at the present time, and therefore it would justify any Estimates that we may have before us in connection with the Army. It is a terrible misrepresentation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-09a.1077.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-09", "file": "debates1948-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b61facb7751b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-09a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": " we got there? I think we should also try to develop our route by road and rail between Kenya and the Sudan. If this was done we could take our troops away from Transjordan, Iraq, Cyprus and Greece, these dotted and dangerous outposts which only act as irritants and temptations to the Russians. We could put between ourselves and the Russians a desert, which is a much more effective form of defence", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-09a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-09", "file": "debates1948-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b61facb7751b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-09a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for War (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for War (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "preceding_text": "ut of the manpower which we take from the nation. The question was raised by the hon. Member for North Blackpool (Mr. Low) of how we divide this manpower between what is roughly described as \"teeth\" and \"tail.\" Well, the answer at the moment, one may make a swift generalisation, is that it is about a fifty-fifty division between what is popularly called \"teeth\" and what is popularly called \"tail.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-09a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-09", "file": "debates1948-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b61facb7751b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-09a.1183.3", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or England.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "d be frankly impossible to do that and maintain a proper balance between the different corps. I may remark that possibly one of the advantages of National Service is that it enables men to meet people from other parts of the United Kingdom they would not meet in the ordinary course of their lives. I would be the last person to say or do anything to hurt the feelings of people in Scotland or Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-09a.1183.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-03-10", "file": "debates1948-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "7a05ca6a931ec49e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1233.4", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "This is a matter of fact. I will read the extract. It is quite short: But recruitment drives alone will not do the trick. That is why the Control of Engagement Order was made in October, 1947.\"——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1233.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-03-10", "file": "debates1948-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "7a05ca6a931ec49e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1233.6", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Indeed, it is. It goes on: This ensures that everyone seeking a new job has a choice of really vital jobs to go into. This is not the same thing as direction\"——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1233.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-03-10", "file": "debates1948-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "7a05ca6a931ec49e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1290.2", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He did not say that.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Macdonald", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Wednesbury (Mr. S. N. Evans) at the outset of his remarks told the House that the Labour Party at no time made a pledge that they would solve the Palestine problem——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-10", "file": "debates1948-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "7a05ca6a931ec49e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "All right, I will accept that, but I am quite convinced that he knows that at the last Election he and practically every Labour candidate said that the Labour Party had a policy for Palestine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-10", "file": "debates1948-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "7a05ca6a931ec49e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1295.0", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "I was telling the House how they happened to be there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-10", "file": "debates1948-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "7a05ca6a931ec49e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1314.2", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I apologise. I am greatly relieved and very grateful, and I think my right hon. Friend ought to be grateful to me for giving him the opportunity to clear up an ambiguity which I am sure was not confined to me alone. We now have it from him that he does not think that partition is impracticable or unworkable. Is that right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-10", "file": "debates1948-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "7a05ca6a931ec49e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1314.2", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": ".\"] We ought to know, because the Government have said time after time, within a connotation which they have not defined and which I think some day they must define, that they accept this decision. When they say, \"We accept it,\" does that mean, \"We think it can work and we will do our best, short of implementing it ourselves, to make it work?\" Is that what they mean? Is that the Government policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-10", "file": "debates1948-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "7a05ca6a931ec49e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1327.1", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "silent on this matter. I agree with the Government decision to get out now, and to cease taking any further action in Palestine after the appointed day. What I do not agree with is that His Majesty's Government should remain silent. If they really believe that this partition will not work—and the hon. Member for Nelson and Come drew that out of the Secretary of State for the Colonies this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-10", "file": "debates1948-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "7a05ca6a931ec49e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1333.3", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And rightly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay", "preceding_text": "ss Eleanor Rathbone, when the Foreign Secretary said, once again, that there was to be another Commission. She threw up her hands in despair, and nearly intervened, but thought that it was useless. Because the Government would not make up their minds after all the Reports, there was to be another Commission, this after the Peel Commission and all the abuse which was poured on Mr. Malcolm MacDonald", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1333.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-10", "file": "debates1948-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "7a05ca6a931ec49e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1340.3", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ould say that unless some hon. Members, both on this side and on the Opposition side of the House had said things which have been said tonight, tomorrow British prestige would be a great deal lower. Unless we maintain the reputation of this country for free criticism, we have not a leg to stand on in attacking Russia for the absence of it. Anyone who has any integrity will vote for this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1340.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-10", "file": "debates1948-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "7a05ca6a931ec49e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1346.1", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "delay? What would have been saved if that delay had not occurred? British lives, British prestige, would have been saved. It would have been a great advantage to this country if that course had been taken. It would greatly advantage the country if the Government did not so often delay in taking the advice of my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) which he gave on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-10", "file": "debates1948-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "7a05ca6a931ec49e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1346.1", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "icult to secure a peaceful settlement in Palestine. Then there are those who say that they will vote against this Measure, on the grounds stated by the hon. Member for Eton and Slough (Mr. Levy), that the Government have not facilitated the United Nations. Of course, if their votes were to be successful, it is worth considering what the effect would be. It would be that the Mandate would continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-10", "file": "debates1948-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "7a05ca6a931ec49e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1350.1", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They could bring in another one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "I say that the effect of this Motion to reject this Bill would be that a Bill for the termination of the Mandate would not be carried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-10", "file": "debates1948-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "7a05ca6a931ec49e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1355.1", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "I am suggesting that if there are responsible authorities taking over, as we hope, they will be alive to the responsibilities and to the dangers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-10", "file": "debates1948-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "7a05ca6a931ec49e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1362.1", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "I am sure that if I were in the witness box my hon. Friend could make a mess of me. There is no ambiguity about the attitude of His Majesty's Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-10", "file": "debates1948-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "7a05ca6a931ec49e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1368.1", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE CONTROL (PAYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is the evidence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "s in 1946 for China were £620,000 and in 1947 were £1,425,000. In Hong Kong the figures were £190,000 and £1,200,000 respectively. I suggest that these figures can only show one thing, and that is that these exports to Hong Kong and China respectively, through Hong Kong, are not in fact going to these destinations, but that Hong Kong and China are being used for re-routing to hard currency areas.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-10a.1368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-11", "file": "debates1948-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b38f8348153a9046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-11a.1430.1", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "It is quite clear that in a Debate on the Budget, hon. Members can discuss reductions of expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-11a.1430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-11", "file": "debates1948-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b38f8348153a9046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-11a.1432.1", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "It is always possible that the hon. Member may not be called on either occasion. With regard to the Palestine Bill on Friday, it seems very hard on the House to be asked to deal with all the remaining stages of the Bill on a short Friday Sitting. We are not opposing the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-11a.1432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-11", "file": "debates1948-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b38f8348153a9046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-11a.1455.1", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-ARGENTINE AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HoN. MEMBER: \"Where are they on that side?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "igures and paying subsidies, our food ration can be maintained. It cannot. The food ration can be maintained only if the right hon. Gentleman can purchase more and more food, and he can purchase more and more food only in so far as we have stuff that we can sell or exchange for the food we wish to purchase. Where, I ask Ministers, are the hon. Members who should be interested in this vital factor?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-11a.1455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-11", "file": "debates1948-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b38f8348153a9046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-11a.1457.3", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-ARGENTINE AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": " 7 per cent. less than food production was 10 years ago. That is a vitally important fact. If the hon. Member for Dumbartonshire does not understand that, I am sorry for him. The Report goes on to say: The world food situation is now as critical as at any time since the end of the Second World War. It is obviously unfair to blame the right hon. Gentleman for not obtaining food that does not exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-11a.1457.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-11", "file": "debates1948-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b38f8348153a9046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-11a.1477.2", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-ARGENTINE AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "On this side of the House, unlike hon. Members of the right hon. Gentleman's party, we do not run our own country down when we are abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-11a.1477.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-11", "file": "debates1948-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b38f8348153a9046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-11a.1484.1", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-ARGENTINE AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Strawberries.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "We made a deal with Holland, too, in which we purchased some foodstuffs—cheese, for example. That does not seem to me an unwise thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-11a.1484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-11", "file": "debates1948-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b38f8348153a9046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-11a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EX-INSPECTOR SYME (WIDOW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "e 1918. As we all know—we discussed it only about a fortnight ago in this House on the Police Pensions Bill—there was no provision then and, therefore, she is in the same position as the widows of a number—now I think a small number—of police officers who left the Force before 1918. She has at her age such assistance as she can get through the non-contributory pension to which she is now entitled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-11a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-12", "file": "debates1948-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "eb65a11ca6acc145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-12a.1654.1", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — B.B.C. REPORT AND ACCOUNTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are his politics?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": " The Third Programme starts at 6.30, and on that programme one is able is hear Bach, Scarlatti or Handel, and one's mind dwelling on high and lofty political themes is often attuned also to these great masters of the past. Unfortunately, just as I am settling down, my eldest son rushes into the room with the cry of \"Dick Barton,\" forcibly takes over the wireless and switches over to \"Dick Barton.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-12a.1654.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-03-15", "file": "debates1948-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "ff6e31936942162f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-15a.1692.2", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR (AGRICULTURE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington-Lodge", "preceding_text": "Is it not much more sensible to keep here the men who are trained in our methods of agriculture than to try to replace them by Poles and others who have to be completely trained, which training takes a long time and may not be so satisfactory?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-15a.1692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-15", "file": "debates1948-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "ff6e31936942162f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-15a.1704.3", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICE (COMMUNISTS AND FASCISTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that the General Election was fought on the basis that the Tories were the enemies of the working class?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-15a.1704.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-03-15", "file": "debates1948-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "ff6e31936942162f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-15a.1705.7", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICE (COMMUNISTS AND FASCISTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, every reason, because Jews and Socialists have a loyalty to this country. That is not so with many Communists, and some fellow travellers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-15a.1705.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-15", "file": "debates1948-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "ff6e31936942162f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-15a.1742.3", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Captain Marsden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Quite true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Marsden", "preceding_text": "I apologise for not being in the Chamber earlier, but I wish to comment on one statement made by the Parliamentary Secretary. As regards the improvement in the position of warrant officers, he said that had been done by this Government and by no other Governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-15a.1742.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-15", "file": "debates1948-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "ff6e31936942162f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-15a.1776.1", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Shinwell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Shinwell)", "preceding_text": "I am now having to consider, in the light of this procedure, whether it is not necessary to ask for further powers. We have to face facts. I ventured to put this before the House on the previous occasion, but it bears repetition, and, to put it rather vulgarly, it ought to be \"rubbed in.\" We are to have an Army, as the House agrees, apart from one or two exceptions that do not matter a great deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-15a.1776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-15", "file": "debates1948-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "ff6e31936942162f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-15a.1815.1", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I would quote the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs who on 14th March last year said in this House that there are things happening in Greece today which His Majesty's Government could never condone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-15a.1815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-15", "file": "debates1948-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "ff6e31936942162f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-15a.1830.1", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "t of view of the health of the workers in the industry. Many of the conditions in the industry, so far as health is concerned, can be greatly improved—for example, by attending to the treatment of mineral oil, in the oiling of machinery, from a purification point of view, to deal with cancerous cases in the industry. That does not seem such a pettifogging point as may be thought on the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-15a.1830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-15", "file": "debates1948-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "ff6e31936942162f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-15a.1848.3", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In County Durham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "I hope to open Industrial Rehabilitation Centres this year at Felling. I do not know where that is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-15a.1848.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1859.6", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "I will get a mathematician to work that out for me. Every person employed in the Ministry of Labour is fully and gainfully employed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1859.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1870.2", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRISONERS OF WAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I understand that special permission requires an export licence", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1870.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1894.0", "colnum": "1894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Byers", "preceding_text": "Without wishing to question your Ruling, Major Milner, I am in some difficulty, because Mr. Speaker has only this minute ruled out of Order the Motion for an Instruction to the Committee on the grounds that, if it were given, it would disfranchise a whole community. We hold the view that this Bill is not a Representation of the People Bill at all, and that under this iniquitous electoral system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1894.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1894.4", "colnum": "1894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "today than at any time in its long history. For a long time past, university education has not been the privilege of a well-to-do minority. It is open to all who have talent, and, in the future, go per cent., at least, of graduates will be drawn from the ranks of the elementary schools. Nor is there anything undemocratic about giving extra representation to the best educated section of our people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1894.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1894.4", "colnum": "1894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "832, but they have singularly little relevance to the situation today. The Lord President, who has a better sense of reality than the Home Secretary, directed his charge against the present university representatives, not against those who had passed on a century or more ago; his charge against them was that they were singularly bad attenders —I think \"shocking\" was the word he used—at this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1894.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1904.1", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "I am extremely sorry that the right hon. Gentleman has refused to answer a very simple—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1904.1", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then why ask him?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "I am extremely sorry that the right hon. Gentleman has refused to answer a very simple—[HON. MEMBERS: \"He has not.\"]—a very simple and a very easy question, the answer to which would enable hon. Members in all parts of the Committee to make up their minds on the merits of this issue. I am now going to tell the right hon. Gentleman whether he is morally bound or not to bring in this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1905.7", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "egard ourselves as bound during the lifetime of the present Parliament to submit to the House the necessary legislation to give effect to these recommendations. The right hon. Gentleman must give his own explanation of this when he speaks. It is perfectly clear that at that time he was saying the Government felt themselves morally bound to carry out the recommendations of the Speaker's Conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1905.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1913.4", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "e a Bill legislating, accepting the duty to implement legislatively, the recommendations of the Committee which he only that morning appointed? That is the most extraordinary abdication of government in the history of mankind, but that was the argument which the Home Secretary ventured—I think that is a fair word. \"Dared\" might be regarded as controversial and I wish today not to be controversial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1913.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1913.4", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": ". This House, which is too fond of referring to itself as the High Court of Parliament, is streamlined perhaps to the point where the dock of the accused and the scaffold for the victim have become one and the same thing. I hope that I may claim both privileges on this occasion. I have some slight title to speak rather lengthily, in that I was a Member of the Speaker's Conference. It is not usual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1913.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1913.4", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "r Milner. I am merely asking how long it will last, because that question blows away the whole argument we have had from the Treasury Bench. There is something general to be said finally. I would not be sentimental about this; and certainly I would not disavow personal concern in the matter, as many of my colleagues have done, no doubt quite honestly. I have extreme personal concern in the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1913.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1930.1", "colnum": "1930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "It is not easy for one man to follow the exact mental processes of another man in answering a Parliamentary point. My impression is—I believe this to be the case—that points had been raised by Lord Samuel referring particularly to proportional representation, and it was in thinking of the proportional representation aspect that my noble Friend referred to the Speaker's Conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1930.1", "colnum": "1930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "was in thinking of the proportional representation aspect that my noble Friend referred to the Speaker's Conference. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] There are reasons which I could add, but they are of an internal Cabinet nature, from which I am quite clear that my noble Friend could not have meant to say that the university representation would be preserved. In any case, it was a very short passage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1968.3", "colnum": "1968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scholefield Allen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too many.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scholefield Allen", "preceding_text": "t is said that if we abolished university seats the voice of the universities will not be heard efficiently and effectively in this House. That is a most unsound argument. On these benches are 31 Members of Parliament who are graduates of Oxford University, 15 graduates of Cambridge University and 55 graduates of other universities, making a total university representation on these benches of 101.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1968.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1990.0", "colnum": "1990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": " special distinction of university Members, and I think anybody who tries to make out this case will probably come a cropper before he is finished. It is quite absurd to pretend that the university franchise at this moment can be defended on any of these grounds. What I object to is this. I was elected as an Independent. I happen to think that there is a case for the Independent university Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.1990.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2003.0", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not Ministers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "preceding_text": "t the remainder of his time dealing with the suggestion that, in some way or other, there has been a breach of faith between the two sides of the House. Perhaps it would be rather better if it were put as between the people who were in the last House of Commons and the people sitting in this, because I understand that most of my hon. Friends sitting behind me are absolved from any such accusation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2003.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2005.3", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Antrim (Sir H. O'Neill) raised the question of the seven million or so local government electors, and suggested that there was some bargain by which they were added to the municipal register in 1945 in exchange for 12 university seats. This is supposed to have been one of the things finally done by my right hon. Friend the Lord President. Really, I regard him as a far better driver—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2005.4", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman forgive me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2005.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2008.1", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "No one has less right to put a question like that to me than the right hon. Member for Saffron Walden (Mr. R. A. Butler).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2008.3", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "Certainly I have, and the Lord President of the Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2008.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2008.3", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about 1867?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "class education measure I should, of necessity, be bound by all the compromises to which I agreed when I was a Member of the Coalition Government. We are told by the right hon. Member for Saffron Walden that constitutional changes of this nature should be made by agreement. There has been only one agreed Representation of the People Bill in the history of this country and that was the one in 1918.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2008.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2019.9", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE CARS (RADIUS RESTRICTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "r it is estimated will be saved by the operation of the regulation limiting the use of private hire cars to a radius of 20 miles. The Minister replied: No estimate can be made. The purpose of the order was not primarily to save petrol but to ensure that hire cars provide the local public service for which their allowances are intended.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 4th March, 1948: Vol. 448, C. 81–2.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2019.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2024.3", "colnum": "2024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE CARS (RADIUS RESTRICTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Member for Kingston-upon-Thames. Paragraph 2 of the order gives as permitted uses, any necessary and urgent domestic purpose of the hirer; and any necessary purpose in connection with the hirer's profession or business. To show how misleading the order is, may I say that I do not agree with the interpretation of my hon.Friend. I believe that the onus lies not only on the man who owns the hire car—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2024.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2026.3", "colnum": "2026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE CARS (RADIUS RESTRICTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I repeat that what the hon. Member said was—quote—\"This order is a very serious matter for some of us\"—full stop—unquote.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2026.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2028.1", "colnum": "2028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE CARS (RADIUS RESTRICTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Teeling", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Teeling", "preceding_text": "I hope that I may come back for a minute to the more serious side after the last quite interesting but facetious speech. In my constituency, and I am sure in most other constituencies, we have a large number of ex-Service people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2035.3", "colnum": "2035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE CARS (RADIUS RESTRICTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "eek, and he made that admission in answer to it. It is quite clear that no petrol is saved. What is the point of keeping in force another of these absurd orders for psychological reasons? It serves no useful purpose in saving petrol, but merely irritates numbers of people, and deprives some honest men, who have been demobilised disabled from the Services, from earning their livelihood in this way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2035.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2040.6", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE CARS (RADIUS RESTRICTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. R. W. Low", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. R. W. Low", "preceding_text": "view that as of the utmost importance. I hope that it will be remembered that when we were dealing with the radius in the Transport Bill, during the Committee stage, the answer from the Government Front Bench to arguments put forward by hon. Members on this side that special exemptions should be allowed to coastal areas because of the fact that half a circle is only half the size of a full circle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2040.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2043.1", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE CARS (RADIUS RESTRICTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spence", "preceding_text": "Mr. Spence rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2043.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2043.4", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE CARS (RADIUS RESTRICTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: It is psychological.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "A point was raised about what the Minister has said in relation to the saving of petrol. The Minister did say that the purpose of the order was not primarily to save petrol, and the order is not primarily to save petrol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2043.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-16", "file": "debates1948-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "491e687bb3754e2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2045.0", "colnum": "2045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE CARS (RADIUS RESTRICTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Sir Ben Smith is the only one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-16a.2045.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2105.6", "colnum": "2105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE, BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "on of Seats) Bill in 1944. The right hon. Gentleman then said: It is felt that to merge the City—and I think I shall carry the I louse generally with me—or any part of the City with adjoining constituencies, is not a proposal likely to receive wide support.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 10th October, 1944; Vol. 403, C. 1619.] That is what he said. The right hon. Gentleman was not then speaking as a Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2105.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2112.0", "colnum": "2112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE, BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman is out of Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "This is becoming a matter of repetition and monotony.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2119.0", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE, BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "succour the present Lord President of the Council then came in his capacity as Minister of Home Security, should now be destroyed in part of its life. It is not its physical possessions that the Lord President is now destroying, for when they were in peril the right hon. Gentleman came to their succour. Now, when the City's traditions are in peril, his is the hand that guides the assassin's knife.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2119.0", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE, BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "on, but that is a matter for hon. Members far more senior than myself—those who have served as Members of the Government, as well as those who have served in Cabinet office. If this link with the ancient city is destroyed we may have achieved something in terms of logic, but every girl typist and every office boy who catches the overcrowded train to the City will feel that something fine has gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2140.1", "colnum": "2140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They only work there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "Yes, 500,000 people work in the City of London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2140.3", "colnum": "2140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": " Old Sarum was disfranchised; it had no voters at all. Some boroughs had one Member taken away. An hon. Member referred to the interest my family had in the Borough of Clitheroe. Two Members used to be returned by Clitheroe and by the Reform Bill only one was retained owing to the small population. Here is a proposition to take away the representation from a city which has a population of 500,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2145.1", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ve the requirements of the number of electors, and it preserved, as separate Parliament boroughs, such small places as Canterbury and Winchester. After all, Winchester was the capital of England before London made claim to that distinction, which I understand is furiously contested by the hon. Member for Twickenham (Mr. Keeling) who holds that the City of Westminster is the capital of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2157.3", "colnum": "2157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "s very disappointed to hear the Home Secretary re-echo what was said, I think by the hon. Member for Hornchurch, about the way in which some Members for the City of London had discharged their duties in this House. He called attention to their poor Division record. Of course, the hon. Member for Gillingham indicated that that is the only criterion exercised by right hon. and hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2171.1", "colnum": "2171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "k I can do this within the rules of Order—that I am not in the least impressed by the fear that there might be a few plural votes cast if that representation were given. I have never yet come across any instance in any election, in this or in any other country, when anyone has ever suggested that the result has been altered in the slightest possible degree by the casting of a few additional votes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2187.0", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "consultation with the other parties concerned in the House. That is important, for reasons that I will try briefly to give. It is a fact that over a considerable period of time we have all taken the view that it was desirable, if possible, that changes in the electoral law should be made by common agreement. I think every one of us will agree that, if that is possible, that is the desirable thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2188.0", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Is that interruption intended as a contribution to my store of learning? If so, in the circumstances I declare it immediately to be redundant. It has been our tradition for some time that, where possible, we should effect changes in the electoral law by agreement. To which ever party we may belong, every one of us would sooner that things were done by agreement than in disagreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2200.1", "colnum": "2200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "iefs. This Government is throwing away something which it has always had in its possession—the world- wide, unique unchallengeable preeminence of the great City of London. In this difficult hour of crisis they are throwing that away as if it were something of no value. There are places and people which are exceptions. There is only one Speaker in the House of Commons. There is only one Archbishop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2212.1", "colnum": "2212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "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": "ary business we had to cancel it, and we substituted last night instead. It was very pleasant, for we went to see \"Annie Get Your Gun.\" I came back in time for the Division, and when I returned I saw the shocking passage my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary was having. I thought he was being treated rather badly, and I had the feeling that I ought to have brought back Annie and her gun with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2212.6", "colnum": "2212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "degree that they had to vote one way or the other upon that issue. That was quite fair and competent Liberal tactics at the Conference. The answer was given by the right hon. and learned Gentleman himself, that there was discussion and accommodation reached by people within the limitations of a Coalition Parliament and a Coalition Government. Everybody had to do the best they could for themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2212.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2218.1", "colnum": "2218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And an affection for East Lewisham?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " their steps to Piccadilly Circus. The right hon. and gallant Gentleman is positively laughing now. I will go with the right hon. and gallant Gentleman. These affections, these sentiments, vary according to what one is used to. For example, I have an enormous emotional sentiment not only for the City of London, but for the East End of London. There is a beauty about it, and an attraction about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2219.5", "colnum": "2219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In 1931.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "f caution and nervousness, and a lot of it was forced upon them, and some of it perhaps naturally on Ministers of that Government. For instance, we introduced the alternative vote, and that was understandable in the political circumstances of the time. But, if it is argued that we are bound to do in 1948 what we did in the circumstances of political compromise in the middle of a great war in 1944—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2219.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2219.5", "colnum": "2219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Knocking about?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "l order. But the figure here is so dramatically lower that it is quite impossible to make the concession. The right hon. Gentleman the junior Member for the City of London (Mr. Assheton) has been looking around for arguments, as was his duty, and he has put them before the House. He has put forward the argument that there are half a million people knocking about the City of London in the day time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2219.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2219.5", "colnum": "2219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "n argued inside out. There is no point in both sides of the Committee repeating the arguments. They have been heard, and the evidence has been given, and we must leave it to those who read Parliamentary Debates to form their own judgment. For myself, I am not afraid of that examination of the arguments which have been advanced. I merely wish to say again that we are not conscious of any bad faith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2219.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2239.4", "colnum": "2239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Patients?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "gone there in order to avoid mental trouble and who are quite normal in most respects. They are not mentally deficient, or suffering from any mental illness, and it seems to me to be undesirable that no account should be taken of these people. I want, Mr. Beaumont, to mention that at a recent by-election I went myself to visit a mental hospital, and there, among the other people were four persons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2239.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2239.4", "colnum": "2239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "e to be undesirable that no account should be taken of these people. I want, Mr. Beaumont, to mention that at a recent by-election I went myself to visit a mental hospital, and there, among the other people were four persons—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Patients?\"]—yes, patients, if hon. Members say it—who were generally normal, and I got those four persons to vote for the Labour candidate in that by-election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2239.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2250.0", "colnum": "2250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROL ALLOWANCES, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. L. Gandar Dower", "preceding_text": "ials motoring to a minimum? What is the average horsepower of cars which stand daily in the Speaker's Court? Imagine, too, what Scottish rural feeling is when they read the following, and I quote from the \"Dorset Daily Echo,\" of Saturday, 13th March. It has been sent to me by a constituent: No fewer than Ono motor coaches went to Sheffield for the tussle between Derby County and Manchester United.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-17", "file": "debates1948-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "bba7e97967523eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2254.2", "colnum": "2254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROL ALLOWANCES, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "n c.i.f. or approximately 16,600,000 dollars. Thus it is a real saving and it does represent something very well worth while, bearing in mind the earlier months where there was very much less saving of petrol. Let me say something about the position of the restoration of basic. That is what the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland wanted to know and what the House and the country want to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-17a.2254.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-18", "file": "debates1948-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ef945da10e9d7f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2260.3", "colnum": "2260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hounds.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that it is totally unnecessary, if stags and foxes have to be destroyed, that they should be chased by scores of dogs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2260.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-03-18", "file": "debates1948-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ef945da10e9d7f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2266.7", "colnum": "2266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "The question of Mr. Hunter's resignation is entirely one between him and the National Coal Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2266.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-18", "file": "debates1948-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ef945da10e9d7f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2296.1", "colnum": "2296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALACE OF WESTMINSTER (SERVICES, MAINTENANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "I will gladly deal with that point. In the very first sentence of my answer, I said that the Government must take steps. The Government will take steps, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-18", "file": "debates1948-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ef945da10e9d7f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2304.0", "colnum": "2304", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I recognise the exact character of the helpful spirit in which the right hon. Gentleman has made these observations, but what it really comes to is that he is asking for two foreign affairs Debates—one on this Motion and one otherwise. I cannot do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-18", "file": "debates1948-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ef945da10e9d7f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2306.1", "colnum": "2306", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ing me down in my seat—apart from whether there is concern in the country or relief in the country, is it not the case that this is a very serious subject with very serious consequences for some people, even though they are a minority? I am talking about the Motion regarding the Prime Minister's statement. I always understood that the Leader of the House was very deeply concerned about minorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-18", "file": "debates1948-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ef945da10e9d7f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2308.4", "colnum": "2308", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Then the hon. and learned Member should make representations to his own Front Bench with a view to a Supply day being taken for this purpose", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2308.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-18", "file": "debates1948-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ef945da10e9d7f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2310.0", "colnum": "2310", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too short.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I fully understand—I emphasise, fully understand—the hon. Member. I have made two proposals to the House: one, that the subject could be debated on the Adjournment for the Easter Recess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-18", "file": "debates1948-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ef945da10e9d7f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2310.0", "colnum": "2310", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I fully understand—I emphasise, fully understand—the hon. Member. I have made two proposals to the House: one, that the subject could be debated on the Adjournment for the Easter Recess—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too short.\"]—and the other is that it can be debated on a Supply day, if a full day is wanted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-18", "file": "debates1948-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ef945da10e9d7f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2311.5", "colnum": "2311", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "Are not all the Adjournment Debates for Thursday already allocated? Irrespective of the machinery of this House, this is a vital issue affecting the liberty of the individual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2311.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-18", "file": "debates1948-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ef945da10e9d7f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2320.1", "colnum": "2320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: What about the Opposition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": " will do well. He should remember at all times that not many of his colleagues in the Cabinet have very much practical knowledge of industrial affairs such as he has; most of their knowledge has been collected from hearsay. I urge him never to give in to the theoretical doctrinaires in his own Cabinet, who are, I believe, the curse of industry and of this country. If he does that, he will do well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-18", "file": "debates1948-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ef945da10e9d7f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2345.1", "colnum": "2345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why to the Press?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ng that he or she dries not intend to follow the person who has just sat down. That seems to me to be the absolute negation of Debate and I propose to carry on a campaign about it by interrupting every time a Member gets up and makes that remark when he or she commences to speak. Any Members who suggest that they do not propose to follow the Debate should clear out and write a letter to the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-18", "file": "debates1948-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ef945da10e9d7f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2350.1", "colnum": "2350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "s behind me agree with me that a man will not work unless he gets something out of it; that is, unless he is a complete idiot or a saint, and I do not claim to be an idiot and I am certainly not a saint. Therefore, I must have a carrot, and the carrot which I want the Chancellor to give me is the carrot which appeals to the women, because my opinion is that men will only work when women make them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-18", "file": "debates1948-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ef945da10e9d7f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2380.3", "colnum": "2380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "l administration. That, of course, may account for the forfeiture of deposits in different parts of the country. These boasts are really not justified in any way. How can any Minister of this Government boast that demobilisation has gone smoothly and, at the same time, play any part in the production of an Economic Survey of this kind which shows that labour has gone into all the wrong industries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2380.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-18", "file": "debates1948-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ef945da10e9d7f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2387.1", "colnum": "2387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They live on the others.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "nd of 1947 the industrial workers in this country were approximately 20,500,000. I have added 4,300,000 children who are receiving family allowances to that number, and I estimate the total to be somewhere in the region of 25 million. What I am anxious to know—and what I hope the Minister will tell me—is, what are the other 23 million in the country doing who are not registered as anything at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-18", "file": "debates1948-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ef945da10e9d7f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2388.1", "colnum": "2388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the housewives?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": " work of any sort, or not working in any way, or making a contribution to the necessary industry of this country. I am not talking about the spivs. I think that word is overdone. I am talking about the people who have never at any time given any assistance at all to the industrial welfare of this country, but have always lived upon the industry and the ability of the other 23 or 25 million people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-18", "file": "debates1948-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "8ef945da10e9d7f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2420.1", "colnum": "2420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "ught to make reference. The hon. Member for Bucklow (Mr. Shepherd) said that there are too many administrative workers, over-elaborate administration, and that every business in this country could reduce its administration. I wonder if the hon. Gentleman would back me up if I asked for power to direct boards of directors and administrative workers? I should like to see them doing more useful work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-18a.2420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-19", "file": "debates1948-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "292987620d6f41b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-19a.2454.0", "colnum": "2454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which representative?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "have outlined, it is our duty to facilitate matters so that we shall be perfectly legally in order in handing over. I would like now to proceed to what we have said. This is what our representatives have said. As recently as 27th February at Lake Success there was a categorical statement made which endorsed precisely what I am saying, and I am quoting now from \"The Times.\" Our representative said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-19a.2454.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-19", "file": "debates1948-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "292987620d6f41b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-19a.2473.2", "colnum": "2473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Attorney-General is here now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman. I will not interrupt him as often as I was interrupted. I am sorry that the Attorney-General is no longer here. I understood when I requested an indication if I was wrong, that he agreed that the United Nations was not the successor to the League of Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-19a.2473.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-19", "file": "debates1948-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "292987620d6f41b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-19a.2492.0", "colnum": "2492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, we do not get one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " of the kind. I heard the Colonial Secretary say it has. So we are back in the position in which he left us with his Second Reading speech, and in which I say, in all humility, he has no right to leave the House of Commons. Is there to be a United Nations Commission in Palestine on 16th May or not? Are we to make our plans on the one assumption or the other? Are we to get no answer to all to that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-19a.2492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-19", "file": "debates1948-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "292987620d6f41b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-19a.2510.2", "colnum": "2510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "preceding_text": "I am glad to have the hon. Gentleman's assurance that he does not impute any ulterior motive to His Majesty's Government. We do not expect that troops will remain in Palestine, but there may be unforeseen difficulties. There may be a storm, a serious storm, which might wreck a troopship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-19a.2510.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-19", "file": "debates1948-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "292987620d6f41b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-19a.2522.4", "colnum": "2522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "n the United Nations what would happen in certain eventualities. I will not argue that, however: it may very well be that they were wrong not to come, but that is no answer to the case I am putting. I am saying they were entitled to choose for themselves, and what the United Nations told the Commission to do was to go to Palestine, and what His Majesty's Government did was to stop them from going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-19a.2522.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-19", "file": "debates1948-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "292987620d6f41b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-19a.2534.3", "colnum": "2534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "e substantial. Its activities are indirectly reflected even further in the fact that the Estimates of the other Departments for publicity, Press and poster advertising, have risen from under £2,000,000 in 1945, to close on 3,000,000 in 1947. On the question of extravagance, I ask the Under-Secretary to tell the House a little about this document, which I hold in my hand, entitled \"Something Done.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-19a.2534.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-22", "file": "debates1948-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "6013d65fab7e4194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-22a.2557.4", "colnum": "2557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did say it was initialled.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "With your permission, Mr. Speaker, if I said that the agreement was signed, I should have said that it was initialled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-22a.2557.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-22", "file": "debates1948-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "6013d65fab7e4194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-22a.2580.4", "colnum": "2580", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "It will, of course, be explained tomorrow. I do not want to be bound in detail to this, but my recollection is that, broadly speaking, it may be that indirectly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-22a.2580.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-22", "file": "debates1948-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "6013d65fab7e4194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-22a.2599.1", "colnum": "2599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE FORCES (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scholefield Allen", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scholefield Allen", "preceding_text": "odation, because the whole of the borough order and security depends upon the strength of the police force. I notice that the Lord Chancellor in another place also ascribes the chief difficulty in recruiting to the housing situation. As the noble Lord indulged in a personal reminiscence, perhaps I may be allowed so to indulge. I have been burgled twice in three months within the Metropolitan area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-22a.2599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-22", "file": "debates1948-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "6013d65fab7e4194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-22a.2671.1", "colnum": "2671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "I have listened to this Debate and I did not think that anybody could say that one word of what has been said has been, in any form, of an aggressive nature. It is on the question of Civil Defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-22a.2671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-23", "file": "debates1948-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "e04de756cfe8ebd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2788.3", "colnum": "2788", "heading": "EXCHEQUER EQUALISATION GRANTS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": " going to overlook all his failings. It convinced him so, and that is what the Minister asks the House to do now—\"Let, I pray thee, the shadow go back on the dial.\" To turn the shadow back on the dial from 24th February, 1948, to 18th November, 1947—that is the solution which the Government brings before us. Sooner than stop the procedure of Parliament, we will not divide against that proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-23", "file": "debates1948-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "e04de756cfe8ebd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2835.2", "colnum": "2835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "preceding_text": "I thought the matter at issue was, what was to happen when we came out, and if the solution of partition were still standing and had to be enforced, it would have to be enforced by the United Nations. I am sure that those who are criticising the Government are anxious that we should join and take our part in any international Force required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2835.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-23", "file": "debates1948-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "e04de756cfe8ebd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2843.5", "colnum": "2843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "preceding_text": "I feel the point is a difficult one, but I am obviously not in a position to compel any Minister to be present. I feel that at the present stage of the Debate we are reaching what I think to be a conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2843.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-23", "file": "debates1948-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "e04de756cfe8ebd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2845.1", "colnum": "2845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order—[HON. MEMBERS: can keep a point of Order going for two hours if necessary. Further to that point of Order, would you not agree that on every precedent, the Chairman of Committees has always given some reason why he should not accept the Motion to report Progress when those concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-23", "file": "debates1948-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "e04de756cfe8ebd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2851.0", "colnum": "2851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "n the Government walk out of Palestine and leave it in chaos, without any attempt to carry out and complete their responsibility? I would have the troops out tomorrow. I would have had them out last year—in fact, long ago—but getting the troops out does not relieve the Government of their responsibility. It is not troops which bring about democratic self-government. It is a policy which does that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-23", "file": "debates1948-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "e04de756cfe8ebd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2851.0", "colnum": "2851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "annot simply lay down the Mandate as they propose without an extra earnest effort being made to carry out the responsibility given to them when they asumed the Mandate. Bring out the troops, yes; but use every possible measure to leave Palestine in a settled condition. Suppose that the Government sent the Foreign Secretary to Palestine instead of to Washington, and the Colonial Secretary with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-23", "file": "debates1948-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "e04de756cfe8ebd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2856.1", "colnum": "2856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "preceding_text": "at that date our representative will be accredited. If there is no legal Government there at that date the other circumstances to which the Attorney-General was referring will obtain, and our representative will be there without being accredited to anyone. International law is made step by step by a series of accidents and eventualities, and we shall just be making a little more international law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-23", "file": "debates1948-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "e04de756cfe8ebd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2866.0", "colnum": "2866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "end well beyond anything that is absolutely essential in order to bring the provisions of this Bill, when it is passed, into effective use. It is a very wide power that is being asked for here. One understands the position with regard to Palestine itself, although one has very considerable fears about it. There has been for long enough in Palestine what might almost be described as a police State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-23", "file": "debates1948-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "e04de756cfe8ebd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2890.0", "colnum": "2890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": " law—a rule of law in which this act of indemnity that we are now asked to pass will be operative, and in which there will be no effective protection for the citizens in Palestine against any wrongful thing that may be done by any black sheep in the British Forces. That is to say that, from 15th May onwards, there will be something very like a totalitarian regime, at least a military dictatorship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2890.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-23", "file": "debates1948-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "e04de756cfe8ebd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2893.1", "colnum": "2893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Beaumont. What I was putting before the Committee was the view that this Amendment is necessary in order to set a precise term to the period during which it will be possible for a regime of military dictatorship to be the effective authority in Palestine. That is really the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-23", "file": "debates1948-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "e04de756cfe8ebd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2894.2", "colnum": "2894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "ity which this Clause gives them after 1st August. The hon. Gentleman who moved this Amendment and his hon. Friends, in a discussion as to whether troops should or should not be out of Palestine by 1st August as the definite date, agreed when the right hon. Gentleman said on Friday that it might not be possible. What they are trying to do now is to say, \"Even though we agree, as we did on Friday—\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-23a.2894.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.2998.1", "colnum": "2998", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRIESTE (TREATY REVISION PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "That has nothing to do with the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.2998.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3029.5", "colnum": "3029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "We are in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3029.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3029.6", "colnum": "3029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman will be listened to in perfect courtesy. I do not think that he has ever complained that I have interrupted him. But I am endeavouring to give an explanation to the House which I think is quite simple, and which I am certain is truthful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3029.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3042.1", "colnum": "3042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They were too big.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "equently they are doubling the representation of these constituencies in which they themselves have almost a monopoly. We have heard the Boundary Commission on this matter, and the Home Secretary this afternoon said a little disingenuously —he had to extend it in more detail afterwards—that the Boundary Commission had drawn attention to the case of these big boroughs. Why did the Commission do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3048.1", "colnum": "3048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I will come to that in a moment. I agree that it cannot be claimed either by my right hon. Friend or myself that the reference of these particular constituencies for the advice of the Boundary Commission was wholly and officially under the procedure prescribed by the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3049.0", "colnum": "3049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "I really must interrupt the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3049.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3055.5", "colnum": "3055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the hon. and gallant Gentleman who has very frankly and very convincingly", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3055.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3056.6", "colnum": "3056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "se this flood of vulgar buffoonery to which this House has time and time again been compelled to listen, this dreary drizzle of personalities of which he is such a master, these personal references to my right hon. Friends on the Front Bench—all this was a studious attention to the merits of the case. If there be a master of irrelevance and buffoonery in this House, it is the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3056.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3056.6", "colnum": "3056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sing it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "es which they make, I am reminded of a story by Rudyard Kipling in which he describes a rather unpleasant tribe of monkeys, the Bandalogs, who, it will be remembered, sat upon seats on which nobler creatures than they had once sat, and dwelt in the palaces formerly occupied by men who were worthy to represent their people, and who sang a song which, Mr. Butcher, you will recollect went as follows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3056.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3059.1", "colnum": "3059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "t that other boroughs might put forward cases as specious. Nor is it an excuse to say that the boroughs which have been selected for preferential treatment themselves desire preferential treatment, whatever their political alignment. All boroughs desire and demand preferential treatment. A much stronger case could be made for the City of Oxford than could be made for half these new constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3059.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3068.2", "colnum": "3068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On all occasions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "I am very much obliged to the Lord President of the Council. He is always courteous on these occasions.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3068.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3068.2", "colnum": "3068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are discussing politicians.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": ", is that it is the right of a party entering into an all-party conference, if the party is in a minority, to act differently when it achieves a majority. I think I am expressing the Lord President's mind accurately. If so, may I say that I think it is a contemptible doctrine? I do not know how, in business or in normal life, agreements between gentlemen would possibly last in these circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3068.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3069.3", "colnum": "3069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Abolishing rotten boroughs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "hrough anything. Having gone through the set-up of the Speaker's Conference and the Report having been issued, the Government had no right to make any alterations which would result in their voting favour without consulting the other parties. It was for Parliament and not the Government, to decide, but for the Government, as the instrument of Transport House, deliberately creating rotten boroughs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3069.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3083.1", "colnum": "3083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "preceding_text": "—and to present the picture to the world that the Labour Government are less honest, less efficient and less fair than previous Administrations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3083.3", "colnum": "3083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": " Bradford would do much better in industrial production if it had four Members rather than three. It is on that point that I would like to make one or two observations. I have been saddened as I listened to the Debate to think how we are wasting our time discussing whether there should be another 15 or 16 Members when the nation is faced with the possibility of war and the certainty of starvation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3083.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3086.1", "colnum": "3086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "I hope the hon. Gentleman can get consolation out of North Croydon because he has been waiting an awfully long time for it. What we have seen today is an indication of the value which the Tory Party attach to their hopes and prospects in this country. I promised to be brief.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3089.2", "colnum": "3089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I explained that to the Committee earlier.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3089.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3091.6", "colnum": "3091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Owen Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Owen Thomas", "preceding_text": "White Paper. There is another point which springs to the mind of hon. Members listening to a Debate of this kind, and especially to the type of contribution which we have heard from the Opposition benches today. I refer to their repeated reference to the Boundary Commission as if that Commission must have the last word about any recommendations and the putting into effect of those recommendations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3091.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3115.0", "colnum": "3115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "n is now perfectly clear. My only regret is that when this Amendment appeared on the Order Paper last week, accompanied by a White Paper, at that time this letter was not published in order to indicate to us that the Commission, functioning as a Commission, although I think in their letter they said that they were writing unofficially, had approved this method of dividing these eight big boroughs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3116.2", "colnum": "3116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Lady said confirms my view, that there should have been opportunities for objections to the boundaries of these constituencies and, if necessary, for local inquiries to have been held. It is really intolerable that a right hon. Gentleman on the Government Front Bench should carve out a constituency for myself, or for other hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3116.2", "colnum": "3116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "if necessary, for local inquiries to have been held. It is really intolerable that a right hon. Gentleman on the Government Front Bench should carve out a constituency for myself, or for other hon. Members—[ Interruption. ] It is perfectly true that the right hon. Gentleman has presented me, personally, with the safest Conservative seat in the North of England, but I say it is a disgraceful thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3118.0", "colnum": "3118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE 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": "m upstairs to talk this thing over rather than putting Amend- ments on the Paper so that they can be discussed by any hon. Member who cares to take part in the Debate. We are told that the Government should not give way to pressure—of course, if it comes from this side of the Committee. If it comes from the other side of the Committee I suppose giving way is a concession to reason and to argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3118.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3124.6", "colnum": "3124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Willoughby de Eresby", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman quoted me, I would point out that I did not raise that objection at all. The whole of my speech was aimed at the way this was being done, and the fact that no consultations were held, and possible agreement reached, with other parties concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3124.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3157.0", "colnum": "3157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes it has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "I was astonished to learn that Clause 3 has not yet been passed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3158.0", "colnum": "3158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The other way round.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "Before this Motion is withdrawn, I should like to ask the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton) whether. he has again treated us to one of his now famous indiscretions. He said that Clause 3 had been passed, and it had not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3160.0", "colnum": "3160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ronald Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ronald Ross", "preceding_text": "xtended to Ireland. It is still quite unsuitable, because the interesting feature about the register in Ireland is that it is taken very seriously. What unites the hon. Member for Fermanagh and Tyrone and myself is that we have each objected to the other appearing on the voters' register. The hon. Member would do his best to get me struck off, and I would equally do my best to get him struck off.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3177.1", "colnum": "3177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "An election on 29th September would take place on the register current at that date", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3180.2", "colnum": "3180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "I insist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3180.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3184.1", "colnum": "3184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is different from voting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": " favour of 18. I hope the Home Secretary will make some observations on this matter. It was only in 1944 when the Labour Members were then half inclined—that is the interpretation of their abstention—to consider that 18 was a suitable age. Yet today the Home Secretary says, \"We think 21 is a suitable age.\" Why? The Home Secretary is well aware that a lad of 18 can be sent to prison for an offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3188.1", "colnum": "3188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulvey", "preceding_text": " polling booths, I wonder what the Home Secretary will say about this process of gerrymandering. I know of one case in Down where the electors have to cross a mountain and go five miles beyond the mountain to record a vote for representation in this House. I know a parish in another district where there is a polling booth in the centre of the parish, but the people—and they are supporters of mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3201.0", "colnum": "3201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ment in social democracy not only for this country, but as a demonstration to the world. What could be a more ludicrous, and one might almost say an obscene, parody not only of democracy but of Government by discussion than the way we have done things lately? Yesterday there was a Debate on Palestine, where there are living two million people without jurisdiction, in the most horrible tragic mess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3201.2", "colnum": "3201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "which also goes to the root of the question whether social democracy is possible —the business of what this Government should and could do to the Communists it is decent, it is democratic, it is Parliamentary, to ask the Committee to deal with I cannot tell how many pages of the Bill, which cover the registration of Parliamentary electors, the place and manner of voting at Parliamentary elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3201.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3203.4", "colnum": "3203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We can read them ourselves.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I made no reference whatever to the habits or the probable situation of the right hon. Gentleman, and I have nothing to withdraw. I must now further remind hon. Gentlemen opposite what is covered by these 30 Clauses. \"Registration of Parliamentary electors\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3203.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3203.4", "colnum": "3203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "vernment elections, supplementary.\" Do right hon. Gentlemen opposite really think in our present circumstances, in the interval between the work done yesterday and the work on the Order Paper of what is now today, that it is decent to suggest that the Committee ought to try to get to that distance, and do all the hon. Gentlemen behind them think it a proper and democratic Parliamentary practice?——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3203.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3203.5", "colnum": "3203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimston", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not be childlike.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimston", "preceding_text": "I want to put a further aspect of the matter to the right hon. Gentleman. I cannot understand myself —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3203.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3203.5", "colnum": "3203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimston", "preceding_text": "I want to put a further aspect of the matter to the right hon. Gentleman. I cannot understand myself —[An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not be childlike.\"] We have spent some time on this already. I cannot understand——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3203.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3204.0", "colnum": "3204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3204.3", "colnum": "3204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This morning!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimston", "preceding_text": "I cannot understand why the right hon. Gentleman wants to press this matter so hard this evening.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3204.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3204.5", "colnum": "3204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimston", "preceding_text": "ent—that. most of the qualities for which so many hon. Members have admired him have deserted him entirely on this occasion. I, therefore, put it to him that it is quite fantastic to expect us to reach Clause 30 tonight or at any reasonable hour this morning, or tomorrow morning. I have been in this House when we have run to the next day and reached II o'clock and cut out the Business of that day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3204.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3218.0", "colnum": "3218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "mind listening—that there is something amounting to a mistake, or at least to confusion, here and I think that most of those struggling with it do agree that that is so now. Might I suggest to the hon. Gentleman what appears to be the case, and perhaps he will correct me if I am wrong. What seems to me to be the case is that this Clause provides—and I shall use very few words, leaving out all the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3218.0", "colnum": "3218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ppears to be the case, and perhaps he will correct me if I am wrong. What seems to me to be the case is that this Clause provides—and I shall use very few words, leaving out all the—[ Interruption ]. If hon. Gentlemen are going to do that sort of thing, I shall read them all, and I shall talk more. I do this with perfect fairness and I will read it as quickly as I can, but not if I am interrupted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3218.1", "colnum": "3218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Wells. It is very important that I should be able to follow my hon. Friend. [ Inter- ruption. ] It is really increasingly difficult if he is constantly subjected to interruptions without being accorded any protection from the Chair. Will you not afford him some protection?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3224.1", "colnum": "3224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under-Secretary\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "I had hoped, Sir, that you would be interested in the alternative. We are told that this is adding a sixth reason but it is not. The sixth reason must be put in a separate paragraph and I think it is a pity, as has been pointed out, that we have not had the benefit of a lawyer. It is easy for a layman on the Front Bench to say something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3260.0", "colnum": "3260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": "ody of democratic procedure, involved in the attempt to attain Clause 30 of this Measure at this all-night sitting, is quite disgusting. But there are many more who think that it is a grand thing if they can thereby kill the sitting later today and avoid a Debate which they know will be highly injurious to their party interests. It is very good that those things should be revealed and made clear.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3269.0", "colnum": "3269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "ividual suffering or recovering from illness, be entitled to vote, either by proxy or post. It would not appear from the state of their health that they had been unable to go in person to a polling station and vote unaided. On the other hand, they might be under doctor's orders. This affects every section of the community, as people nowadays are sent say, from the Midlands to Bognor to recuperate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3269.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3270.1", "colnum": "3270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "I am trying to put a point of some importance which I think the right hon. Gentleman will endeavour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3270.2", "colnum": "3270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "ew piece, the Clause becomes positively ridiculous. The point I wish to make about the construction of this Clause is that we have here division and sub-division on a perfectly fantastic scale. When I was trained as a staff officer I was told by my instructor —a very distinguished general—that if you had more than one sub-division to a clause in any order you were writing, it was a rank bad order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3270.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3272.0", "colnum": "3272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Roberts", "cue_text": "AN. HON. MEMBER: \"Which way?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Roberts", "preceding_text": " arguments in other great cities, particularly in the Midlands and the North of England. 6.15 a.m. I wish to take as my first example the Metropolitan borough of Wandsworth and the question of travelling from there to the Metropolitan borough of Lambeth. The Home Secretary was quite right when he agreed that this was a very long way if one were to travel from Putney all the way round to Vauxhall.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-03-24", "file": "debates1948-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "c6629591381f5a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3279.2", "colnum": "3279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "ing address, his application can be in respect of more than one election? If he has ceased to reside at his qualifying address and has taken up residence some where else, surely the time will come when he will get upon the register in the normal way in the place at which he is at that time living. Therefore, I can see no argument in favour of saying that in that category of cases, the application—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-03-24a.3279.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-07", "file": "debates1948-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2146c136d7e1b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-07a.176.7", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "e made in public expenditure. He has shown that there has been, and that there still is, wasteful expenditure, bad housekeeping, and that much of the money we spend is unwisely spent. The right hon. and learned Gentleman in his speech yesterday said that he had no intention of cutting down the social services—nor, indeed, have we—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—for whose creation we are largely responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-07a.176.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-07", "file": "debates1948-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2146c136d7e1b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-07a.208.3", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "ind of world in which some of the heads of national boards, and some Members of the Government, are now residing. The right remedy for this situation is, not to chase the allowances but to reduce the Surtax. That is what should be done. Finally, I would like to refer to the piece of party spite and rancour known as the Special Contribution. Of course, this \"once for all\" business is pure nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-07a.208.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-07", "file": "debates1948-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2146c136d7e1b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-07a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Certainly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": ", Mr. Tewson, knew that prices were coming down, that they would surely come down and, with prices, profits. At that meeting five million votes were cast for, and two million against, the T.U.C. resolution which gave support to the Government's wage-freezing policy. Does the Chancellor think, in view of his statement yesterday, that if that conference were to be held today, he would get that vote?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-07a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-07", "file": "debates1948-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2146c136d7e1b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-07a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Has the hon. Member?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "his Budget and of other financial impositions which exist at present on such working people? One cannot be dissociated from the other. Take beer; if one allows a working man a pint a day, he will be called upon to pay 7d. a week extra. There may be some on these benches, including the Chancellor, who may say, \"Let him not have it.\" But the Chancellor has never worked in a steelworks or down a pit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-07a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-07", "file": "debates1948-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e2146c136d7e1b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-07a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sidney Shephard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sidney Shephard", "preceding_text": "d I claim that a man who has been thrifty all his life should have the benefit of it. I am utterly opposed to the idea that because a man has saved throughout his life he should be taxed, while the man who has been profligate should go free. If the Chancellor continues with this tax—and I am convinced it will be repeated—he will destroy that very virtue of thrift which has made this country great.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-07a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-08", "file": "debates1948-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "476d393582cefbbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-08a.350.5", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY (SHIFT SYSTEMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MENIBER s: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "I was deferring my answer in courtesy to other hon. Members in case they wanted to ask further supplementaries. This is a matter between the Coal Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-08a.350.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-08", "file": "debates1948-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "476d393582cefbbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-08a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parģiter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parģiter", "preceding_text": "n those prices, until they fall well below the level at which the subsidies were fixed. I would also like some explanation of what is meant by investment income. Investment income appears to me to be one of many things. I could invest £2,000 in a house and, if I were fortunate, I could sell it a fortnight later for about £3,000. How will that £1,000 be brought into the calculation—or will it not?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-08a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-08", "file": "debates1948-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "476d393582cefbbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-08a.470.3", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"Safe within limits \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": " me and I would like to say that I am rather borne down by it. But that would not be strictly true. I know that his bark is worse than his bite and I feel that, whatever I may say tonight, his interest in national savings and his innate patriotism will make him go on supporting the national savings movement. In spite of the special contribution, I can assure him that people's savings will be safe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-08a.470.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-09", "file": "debates1948-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "08cc03a84fd3195b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-09a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "glad to hear that, and I hope he will be in the Lobby with me quite soon—I was not surprised to hear him supporting what was said by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Carshalton (Brigadier Head). It so happens that the hon. Gentleman who sits opposite had a particularly fine military record in the 1914–1918 war, and one of which the Secretary of State has every reason to be envious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-09a.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-09", "file": "debates1948-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "08cc03a84fd3195b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-09a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "s into the cotton industry. A new incentive can be given to get recruits into regiments of the Army. I am quite against the proposal for compulsory transfer. The Secretary of State for War is a very old friend of mine and, no matter how far he diverges from the path of freedom, and no matter how much he should fall short in his Socialist rectitude, I will not join the Tories in voting against him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-09a.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-09", "file": "debates1948-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "08cc03a84fd3195b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-09a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "Since the Secretary of State for War has seen fit to make this quite unprovoked attack upon me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-09a.509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-09", "file": "debates1948-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "08cc03a84fd3195b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-09a.509.4", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ignoring all the imponderable factors to which reference has been made in the course of this Debate. Clearly, if hon. Members are in the mood to impose compulsion as regards a very large section of the British Army, they must not be mealy mouthed or squeamish when it comes to imposing a measure of compulsion which has been rendered essential because of the circumstances in which we find ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-09a.509.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-09", "file": "debates1948-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "08cc03a84fd3195b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-09a.512.2", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "That is a point of substance, to which I will certainly give my attention. I shall not willingly permit harsh measures to be adopted in the case of a man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-09a.512.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-09", "file": "debates1948-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "08cc03a84fd3195b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-09a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY (DR. CHATTERTON-HILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "Having explained some of the circumstances, I will now say to the House that my right hon. Friend does not defend the action of our authorities in this case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-09a.581.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-12", "file": "debates1948-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c5854e4484886c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.630.2", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE (OUTRAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "I think that question must be left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.630.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-12", "file": "debates1948-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c5854e4484886c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: He is a Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "planning—I think this was his classification—others in close planning, others in flexible planning, others to planning through dislocation and causing bottlenecks, and others in what Professor Jewkes calls \"guess\" planning. There are some kinds of almost metaphysical planning which I find very difficult to follow. Mr. Durbin is quoted by Professor Jewkes as saying: Planning does not in the least\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-12", "file": "debates1948-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c5854e4484886c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "logise to the Committee. I should have referred to him as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works. This fact makes it much worse than if he were just a private individual. I really do apologise to so distinguished a Member of the Government. He is quoted as saying: Planning does not in the least imply the existence of a plan. He went on: in the sense of an arbitrary industrial budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-12", "file": "debates1948-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c5854e4484886c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A most embarrassing question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "This raises a new question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-12", "file": "debates1948-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c5854e4484886c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.638.3", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " There is no sign that the Government and their supporters are going to cease snarling and girding against that half—and now more than half—of the nation who happen to disagree with them politically. Do hon. Gentlemen opposite really believe in their heart of hearts that the policy of this party on these benches is aimed to reduce the standard of living of the workers? Do they really believe that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.638.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-12", "file": "debates1948-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c5854e4484886c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.646.3", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "It is part of the right hon. Gentleman's wider policy to take the lid off controls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.646.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-12", "file": "debates1948-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c5854e4484886c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.654.1", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "moment that we regard such a figure as satisfactory. We should prefer to be able to pay for a considerably larger proportion of our imports from that country by our exports this year, and we shall certainly need to do that next year. But I can sincerely inform the House that it was the best arrangement we could get—or, indeed, which any other Government could have got in the present circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-12", "file": "debates1948-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c5854e4484886c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.654.1", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "rkers and managements who are anxious to get the 10 per cent. more—and far higher figures—but who, for reasons entirely beyond their control, and the control of the Government, cannot do so. Many of our industries are held back at the present time by shortages of materials. As the Survey points out, throughout 1948 we shall be short of many raw materials—of which, indeed, the whole world is short.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-12", "file": "debates1948-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c5854e4484886c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.665.0", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "lopment of Inventions Bill. No one who has read the Economic Survey, or has paused for a moment to consider the present position of the country and the size of the job ahead of it, can be in any doubt of the need for full production. My right hon. and learned Friend's Budget last week removed any of the last lingering disincentives to full production which may have remained in the taxation system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.665.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-12", "file": "debates1948-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c5854e4484886c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "preceding_text": " would suggest that, although the Government may have learned these lessons, they have bought their experience at a very bitter cost to the country. If only they had listened to the warning made so often by my right hon. Friends on this side, who, perhaps, have more experience of administration than right hon. Gentlemen opposite, then we might not now be in the precarious position in which we are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-12", "file": "debates1948-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c5854e4484886c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.689.3", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Major Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Bruce", "preceding_text": "it of industry. We want co-operation in making the plans and competitive enterprise in carrying them out. If that is consistent with what the right hon. Gentleman said this afternoon, I think he had better get very quickly into consultation with his absent friend the right hon. Member for Saffron Walden, otherwise I can see an even larger split developing in the Conservative Party than now exists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.689.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-12", "file": "debates1948-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7c5854e4484886c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": " can sit back and do nothing and that is all we need do, that was not social security but social disaster. Here is an instructive quotation from another source: There is no guarantee that Europe will put financial assistance to proper use, or that she will not squander it and be in just as bad a case two or three years hence as she is now … If I had influence at the United States Treasury\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-12a.697.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-13", "file": "debates1948-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "39c70596c632b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I have not with me precise information about the geographical situation of the camp—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.773.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-13", "file": "debates1948-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "39c70596c632b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.795.2", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "Conditions were different after the last war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.795.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-13", "file": "debates1948-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "39c70596c632b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.798.4", "colnum": "798", "heading": "GAS COUNCIL (CHAIRMAN AND DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Yes. Mr. Sylvester was employed as the governor of the Gas Light and Coke Company until fairly recently when owing to illness, which has happily now passed away, he had to resign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.798.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-13", "file": "debates1948-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "39c70596c632b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Gaitskell)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Gaitskell)", "preceding_text": "results of which have been bearing fruit in recent months. But I am sure that my right hon. Friend would agree with me that the credit in this matter is very little due to Ministers at all. It is directly due to the people in the industries, all of them—coal face workers, haulage men, surface men, officials, deputies, under-managers, managers, agents and members of the National Coal Board itself.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.820.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-13", "file": "debates1948-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "39c70596c632b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenyon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenyon", "preceding_text": "ecution of the livestock expansion programme. Unless we can expand the livestock programme in 1948 we cannot expand it in 1951–52. It takes two and a half years to produce a breeding cow, before it starts to give milk, and three years to produce a beef cow, so our production in 1951 depends upon our expansion this year, not on what is done in 1951–52. We must get down to this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-13", "file": "debates1948-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "39c70596c632b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.883.3", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where will it be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "ad such wholehearted support from his followers, in the course of what was an hour's rather chilly silence. I think that gave us the idea that this levy is not \"once-for-all\" at all, but if future Chancellors think that this is an easy way of getting hold of capital, they will find that chasing capital is a very difficult job, and that when they want to put their hands on it, it will not be there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.883.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-13", "file": "debates1948-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "39c70596c632b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairhurst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was a dream.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairhurst", "preceding_text": "The Committee will forgive me if I do not follow the hon. Member for Leominster (Mr. Baldwin) in his argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-13", "file": "debates1948-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "39c70596c632b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairhurst", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairhurst", "preceding_text": ". I suggest that present day values are false and that, sooner or later, we are bound to come back to the issue of what is right and proper in the general interest of our people. Why should a miner always have had an inferiority complex that he was something right down at the bottom, or why should textile operatives have suffered from the same complex that their job was of no value to the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-13", "file": "debates1948-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "39c70596c632b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": " but also explained the Economic Survey of the year. So far as that part of his speech is concerned, everybody, I am sure, will admit that the experiment has been a successful one, quite apart from the Chancellor's own performance—and perhaps he will allow one who was a humble admirer of his, from a long distance away at the Bar, to express his appreciation. The right hon. Gentleman the Bishop of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-13", "file": "debates1948-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "39c70596c632b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.900.3", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "ented on the Front Bench opposite, whose motto is: \"Manners makyth man\"; which we may roughly translate that so long as you are courteous you need not trouble to be convincing. Briefly stated, these were the three arguments in favour of the levy which he advanced. He said, in the first place, that it will reduce spending out of capital, because it will make the payers feel that they are less rich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.900.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-13", "file": "debates1948-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "39c70596c632b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "e in the formulation and the planning, in the way to which I will draw attention in a moment, but also take the major part in its carrying out. The point which the Opposition constantly raised is: How can there be planning unless we are prepared to direct labour? In our view, we can perfectly well plan but we cannot necessarily get the same certainty that the plan will be carried out 100 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-13", "file": "debates1948-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "39c70596c632b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": " How can there be planning unless we are prepared to direct labour? In our view, we can perfectly well plan but we cannot necessarily get the same certainty that the plan will be carried out 100 per cent. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members giggle, which I notice they constantly do when they fail to understand an argument. I assure them that it is really not a laughing matter how we can manage our economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-13", "file": "debates1948-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "39c70596c632b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "ent. I assure them that it is really not a laughing matter how we can manage our economy—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—getting the results which are in the best national interest but at the same time interfering as little as possible with individual freedom. That is the objective of democratic planning, and considering that we are in such early stages of what is a great experiment in civilization—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.905.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-13", "file": "debates1948-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "39c70596c632b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What can you foretell?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "ifficult it is after five days of Debate to understand the Opposition policy. I will take up one example which the right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Bristol (Mr. Stanley) used in his speech as to what he called \"the failure of planning over brick-making.\" We have never suggested that in planning we could necessarily foretell the state of world market supplies in a whole range of substances,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-13", "file": "debates1948-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "39c70596c632b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.907.2", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have never been able to do so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "What I am debating is whether one can foretell how much there will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.907.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-13", "file": "debates1948-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "39c70596c632b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "ricks. This nervousness and anxiety on the part of the Opposition, making it impossible for them to make up their minds whether they believe in a free economy or not, is really the result of their fear of a repetition of what happened after the last war. This, fortunately, is one of those rare instances in history where we have an almost exactly parallel set of circumstances on which we can judge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.908.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-13", "file": "debates1948-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "39c70596c632b660", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.909.4", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Look them up before you make your speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "The facts are on record, and they can be looked up and verified by anybody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-13a.909.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-14", "file": "debates1948-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8608b6d4425cd648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.950.10", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": ". I was asked a question with regard to a speech alleged to have been made by the C.I.G.S. and whether I accepted responsibility on behalf of His Majesty's Government for our occupation of Germany. I said that the control of this business was in the hands of the civil Government here. I adhere to that. That was the answer. With regard to the speech made by General Robertson, I approve that speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.950.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-04-14", "file": "debates1948-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8608b6d4425cd648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.954.2", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which paper?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that in a very reputable paper, with which he is very well acquainted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-14", "file": "debates1948-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8608b6d4425cd648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "her an emphatic statement but that is what I said. I then went on to say: To hold in custody a man who can look forward to freedom at however remote a date is quite different from keeping custody of one who is doomed and knows he is doomed to live and die in prison. I have met that by saying we must accept the fact that people will not be detained indefinitely if the capital sentence is abolished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-14", "file": "debates1948-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8608b6d4425cd648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Paton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Paton", "preceding_text": " organisation … it would be an evident sign of weak juridical sensibility to exhibit aversion to extreme measures of defence against those who display a criminal activity subversive to the essential needs of life and of the political and moral elevation of the State. That is a philosophic expression of the essential nature of the death penalty as a part of the Fascist dictatorial structure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.1015.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-04-14", "file": "debates1948-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8608b6d4425cd648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.1022.1", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "\"There but for the grace of God …\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "rely negative conclusion, which I was trying to state, namely, that no useful inference is to be drawn on either side. If I were to apply my mind in my own way to this problem, I should look into my own heart. I may be speaking only for myself, but I do not believe that I am constituted any differently from criminals. I do not know whether hon. Gentlemen are or not, but I do not believe that I am.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-14", "file": "debates1948-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8608b6d4425cd648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.1033.1", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "isagreement with the Chairman and did not record their votes. However, it was a unanimous vote of the majority of that Committee, including independent Members. There would have been a majority in any event. Therefore, the Report was a favourable Report. We are suggesting today that we should carry out the recommendation of that Committee. It can be suspended at any time. It is open to suspension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.1033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-14", "file": "debates1948-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8608b6d4425cd648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Capital punishment did not save him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "preceding_text": " the freedom with which reprieves are being granted at this moment. My hon. Friend the Member for Norwich (Mr. J. Paton) said he spoke with \"fire in his belly\" when he was discussing this question of capital punishment. I dare say that is true. I know him to be a very sincere person. But how truer it must be of the parents of that poor unfortunate child who was murdered in Lancashire last weekend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-14", "file": "debates1948-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8608b6d4425cd648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "preceding_text": "ver shocking it may be to sentimentalists, British public opinion is as sound as a bell of brass on this matter. There is no substantial body of public opinion in this country in favour of the abolition of capital punishment. Public opinion in this country is healthy and vigorous and free from neurosis. It accepts the Biblical injunction, and I share that sentiment—\"eye for eye, tooth for tooth.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-14", "file": "debates1948-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8608b6d4425cd648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "jority one way or the other when we ourselves disagree with it. If that were to be the case, it would lower the position of the Member of Parliament to something really contemptible. I know there is a feeling that in this Debate today, which is free from party conflict, all the sentiment and emotion are on the side of those who support the Clause and all the hard common sense is on the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-14", "file": "debates1948-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8608b6d4425cd648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "ditor of a newspaper, I watched these murder cases, and I certainly played my part in exploiting the great public interest in them. I did not create the interest; it was there. But what does a murder trial do? What does the death sentence do? It creates an aristocracy among criminals; the murderer becomes the aristocrat. An hon. Member on this side says \"No.\" I went to prison last Saturday morning", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-14", "file": "debates1948-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8608b6d4425cd648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "papers to show what each man had done. They were receivers, they were different kinds of thieves, various kinds of criminals with lots of convictions against them—but supposing a man had come in who had been convicted of murder? At once I would have been profoundly interested. The whole atmosphere would have changed. I would have been in the presence of one of the aristocrats of the criminal world", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-14", "file": "debates1948-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "8608b6d4425cd648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.1087.4", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I have already given way several times and I am already well beyond the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-14a.1087.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-04-15", "file": "debates1948-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "f06aa3e7be0ad333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-15a.1138.5", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES, INDIA", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "There is not any.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington-Lodge", "preceding_text": "May I ask what literature is available which sets out a positive and constructive policy for the Conservative Party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-15a.1138.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-15", "file": "debates1948-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "f06aa3e7be0ad333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-15a.1146.3", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I have already said that the Americans have not got the final agreement. Secondly, if a company wants to know anything they can come and ask at the Board of Trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-15a.1146.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-04-15", "file": "debates1948-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "f06aa3e7be0ad333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-15a.1149.9", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "Are not the unfortunate conditions described in the Question proof of how right the Government were to nationalise the industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-15a.1149.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-04-15", "file": "debates1948-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "f06aa3e7be0ad333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-15a.1171.2", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "PERSONAL EXPLANATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Stand at the Box.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education (Mr. Hardman)", "preceding_text": "May I draw your attention, Mr. Speaker, to an inaccuracy in today's HANSARD? A Division took place last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-15a.1171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-15", "file": "debates1948-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "f06aa3e7be0ad333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-15a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "I must be permitted to make my own speech in my own way. I am making a statement of fact, as the hon. Member well knows, and it is no use his trying to controvert the fact. For the benefit of the hon. Member, I will repeat my statement. To describe as \"children\" young men of an age at which they fight in the Army and Navy is a misuse of the word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-15a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-15", "file": "debates1948-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "f06aa3e7be0ad333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-15a.1272.0", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "s important to protect as the prisoner. I consider that the right hon. Gentleman has given fair consideration to the case, and I would like to repeat, for the fifteenth time, the fact, which does not seem to be wholly accepted by hon. Gentlemen belonging to the Socialist Party, that, in my opinion, in this Amendment the right hon. Gentleman has gone a long way towards producing the fairest system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-15a.1272.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-04-16", "file": "debates1948-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "087c838fec0e39c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-16a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elwyn Jones", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman suggests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-16a.1313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-16", "file": "debates1948-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "087c838fec0e39c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-16a.1313.4", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "ke his own speech in his own way, and can interpret what Ribbentrop would say. I want to ask the Home Secretary a very serious question. What is to happen to those Germans who are in this country at the present time and who are liable, as I understand it, to be tried for murder? Are they to be taken out of this country and sent to Germany? They cannot be hanged for murder here. What is the answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-16a.1313.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-16", "file": "debates1948-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "087c838fec0e39c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-16a.1313.4", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "happen to those Germans who are in this country at the present time and who are liable, as I understand it, to be tried for murder? Are they to be taken out of this country and sent to Germany? They cannot be hanged for murder here. What is the answer? [ Interruption. ] Hon. Gentlemen opposite indulge in a series of interruptions about this, but it is a perfectly fair question. What is the answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-16a.1313.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-16", "file": "debates1948-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "087c838fec0e39c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-16a.1313.4", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "ate until the Division took place. Then he mysteriously disappeared from the House. We do not know what he was doing at that time, but one thing he was not doing was supporting his own Secretary of State on an important occasion. The hon. Gentleman seems to be rather pleased about it, but whether his constituents and the public will be pleased is quite a different matter. I would say to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-16a.1313.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-16", "file": "debates1948-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "087c838fec0e39c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-16a.1313.4", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "the House. We do not know what he was doing at that time, but one thing he was not doing was supporting his own Secretary of State on an important occasion. The hon. Gentleman seems to be rather pleased about it, but whether his constituents and the public will be pleased is quite a different matter. I would say to the House—[ Laughter. ] Hon. Gentlemen opposite seem to think that this is amusing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-16a.1313.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-04-16", "file": "debates1948-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "087c838fec0e39c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-16a.1322.2", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Ask the Palestine police.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "That is the evidence of 1931. It is extremely important that that evidence should be brought to the attention of our police, and that it should be made clear to them that they are not endangered by this change. It is a point of psychology, which should be dealt with by some propaganda of the kind I suggest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-16a.1322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-16", "file": "debates1948-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "087c838fec0e39c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-16a.1322.4", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He will read about them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "8. That being so, it is possible for me, with a clear conscience, to congratulate both the House and the Government upon their composite achievement, with the one regrettable slip-up which occurred last Wednesday. I would say honestly that the Home Secretary has shown wisdom, humanity and common sense. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman is listening to me. He may not hear such compliments later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-16a.1322.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-16", "file": "debates1948-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "087c838fec0e39c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-16a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Langford-Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Langford-Holt", "preceding_text": "the Minister will make quite certain that the responsibilities of the parent are not taken away. I would caution the right hon. Gentleman about the attitude of the ordinary citizen towards his employment exchange. It is important that this attitude is not in any way engendered by the new system. The ordinary citizen has a fear today of getting into what one might call the clutches of the exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-16a.1393.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-19", "file": "debates1948-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed0b39210aecae47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-19a.1536.3", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD (LANDS) BILL [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "By leave of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-19a.1536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-19", "file": "debates1948-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed0b39210aecae47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-19a.1536.3", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD (LANDS) BILL [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "By leave of the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am about to answer, if I have not the leave of the House I cannot answer. All I do say is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-19a.1536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-19", "file": "debates1948-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed0b39210aecae47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-19a.1536.3", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD (LANDS) BILL [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "By leave of the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am about to answer, if I have not the leave of the House I cannot answer. All I do say is—[ Interruption. ] is it not granted? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-19a.1536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-19", "file": "debates1948-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed0b39210aecae47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-19a.1547.1", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT TARGETS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton (Thirsk and Ma1ton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has been increased.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton (Thirsk and Ma1ton)", "preceding_text": "other short points which I wish to raise, in order that we may have an explanation from the Government. My constituents and those of other hon. Members are suffering great austerity for the sake of exports. Sometimes we think that some of the austerity is unjustifiable. This year there has been a cut in the clothing ration—clothes and footwear. There has also been a severe cut in the sweet ration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-19a.1547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-19", "file": "debates1948-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "ed0b39210aecae47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-19a.1568.1", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT TARGETS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shipping.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " Australia in 1926 and there were a large number of people on my boat, mostly from Scotland, trying to flee from a Government which was certainly not a Socialist Government, to find a new life in Australia. May I say that the number of people who have left this country monthly since the end of the war is under half the monthly number of people who left this country as emigrants after the lest war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-19a.1568.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-04-20", "file": "debates1948-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff6c107ae870fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-20a.1617.4", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Now we know.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "In the circumstances in Palestine, it is desirable occasionally to exercise restraint.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-20a.1617.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-20", "file": "debates1948-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff6c107ae870fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-20a.1629.2", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "ITALIAN ELECTION (MEMBERS' TELEGRAM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I did. By the way, I ought to have said before, that I am sure hon. Members in all quarters of the House are very glad to see the right hon. Gentleman back after his illness, and would wish me to express our pleasure that he looks so well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-20a.1629.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-20", "file": "debates1948-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff6c107ae870fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-20a.1674.2", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "That is an exceptional case and I will look into the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-20a.1674.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-20", "file": "debates1948-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff6c107ae870fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-20a.1675.3", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Maclean", "preceding_text": "e Secretary a question about the statement he has just made. Anyone owning shops in a particular area would be entitled to vote in respect of those shops. The question arises whether the owner or occupier would be entitled to vote in the different wards in which the shops were situated in a local government election. Would such a person be entitled to have a vote in respect of each of those shops?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-20a.1675.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-20", "file": "debates1948-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff6c107ae870fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-20a.1678.3", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Owner, or occupier as tenant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": " register my protest. However, there was a specific point which I wished to raise in connection with Subsection (3, a ). That Subsection reads: In Scotland, a person shall be deemed to have a non-resident qualification in an area if he— ( a ) is the owner, or occupier as tenant. … That seems to me to be rather rubbish, to be frank. I am not a lawyer, but it suggests that an owner as tenant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-20a.1678.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-20", "file": "debates1948-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff6c107ae870fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-20a.1688.0", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "ture. In that village or coast town, the local people may require houses, or better drainage, or a hospital; but the people who occupy the £70 house, merely for July and August, are not interested in the building of a hospital, or in a better water supply, and they certainly are definitely opposed, as in cases of which I know, to an extension of housing in the area where they spend their holidays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-20a.1688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-20", "file": "debates1948-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "ff6c107ae870fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-20a.1695.0", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They pay rates.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I have had experience of people owning or occupying a house at the coast. In the West of Scotland it is very common for people in cities or towns to own or occupy houses at the coast. They will occupy them for a very short period, and then they rent them out to holiday-makers during the summer. Because they occupy them for a time, they have votes, as owners or tenants of the property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-20a.1695.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-04-21", "file": "debates1948-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "179f3f140a76f58f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1816.5", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SILVER WEDDING PROCESSION (TERRITORIALS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why should he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "Why not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1816.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-04-21", "file": "debates1948-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "179f3f140a76f58f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1862.2", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "Is it the pleasure of the Committee that the Amendment he withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-21", "file": "debates1948-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "179f3f140a76f58f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1870.0", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is she?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Northern Dorset (Mr. Byers) with his habitual courtesy asked a question and then like a lady in the Bible would not stay for an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-21", "file": "debates1948-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "179f3f140a76f58f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1902.2", "colnum": "1902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "er. I am assured that the register can be produced on the new basis set down in this Bill, and can be published on 15th March, well in time for everybody to be ready for the elections in May, 1949. If there is an up-to-date register, compiled on a house-to-house canvass, we shall have an opportunity of achieving a true result, possibly for the first time in, say, Croydon for a very long time past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1902.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-21", "file": "debates1948-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "179f3f140a76f58f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1904.0", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "an enormous surplus of people, who are more or less skilled in these matters, who could be turned on to the job from other Departments. We have swallowed a good deal from the Government today, and I would like to express an opinion in the Division Lobby on this question. I do not suppose that Members opposite would support me, but there is no reason why those of us who really believe in democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1904.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-04-21", "file": "debates1948-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "179f3f140a76f58f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1914.0", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": " an accurate matter as far as this Clause is concerned. Now, I will turn to another word about which, Major Milner, I think, you allowed the hon. Member for Oxford to say a word or two, namely, whether the word \"people\" was accurate or inaccurate in a technical sense. Without going into any argument, I would like to express my own personal opinion that the title of the Bill in the technical sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1913.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-21", "file": "debates1948-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "179f3f140a76f58f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1920.0", "colnum": "1920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "d and inconvenient fact, however, that this rather technical Clause should come before us now as a new Clause instead of having been in the original Bill. I rise to protest against the fact that it was not in the Bill originally, and that it has been left to hinder and hold up the present stage of the Bill by having to be brought before us now. I regret that our time should be wasted in that Way.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-21", "file": "debates1948-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "179f3f140a76f58f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1923.6", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank McLeavy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank McLeavy", "preceding_text": "man. Mr. H. H. Fowler, afterwards Sir Henry Fowler, then Member for Wolverhampton, pointed out that the Measure proposed to forbid the man who could afford two guineas to hire a carriage from doing so, while it continued to permit the man who could afford 200 guineas for the permanent ownership of a carriage to use that vehicle for the conveyance of himself and his friends to the poll. He went on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1923.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-21", "file": "debates1948-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "179f3f140a76f58f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1934.1", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes they can.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "oes not really stop there. The hon. Member for Jarrow (Mr. Fernyhough) told a pitiful story about his own failure to arrive at the poll before a minute to nine, because he was so short of cars that they were always carrying some cripple to the poll and had not time for him. He seconded this Amendment, but has it struck him that cripples cannot in future be carried to the poll under this Amendment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-21", "file": "debates1948-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "179f3f140a76f58f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1936.1", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "hts according to rules which are perfectly rightful rules, have very likely gained on the balance. It is also true that hon. Members opposite, with other rules—and other rules affect electoral law—notably those affecting trade unions, benefit hon. Members opposite. The right moral to be drawn is not for each party to try to deprive the other party from such advantage as they get from proper rules—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1936.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-21", "file": "debates1948-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "179f3f140a76f58f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1936.1", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "are very largely—and this has struck me more than ever in this Parliament—living in the past in matters of this kind. There was a time, and I can remember it, when a great fleet of Conservative cars was to be seen carrying blue colours at elections and one tiny little Socialist car, gallantly bearing the yellow and red flag, would be seen trundling along on the other side, but those days are past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1936.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-21", "file": "debates1948-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "179f3f140a76f58f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1948.0", "colnum": "1948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": " and if the Home Secretary is going to concede this Clause. May I ask the right hon. Gentleman if he realises the extent of the feeling on this subject in Germany, for example? I had the honour to present a petition to this House last October on behalf of several thousands of wives in Germany, but, like all petitions, it found its way to the green bag. So far as I know it has never been taken out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-21", "file": "debates1948-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "179f3f140a76f58f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1956.0", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "It does not work till you get an actual majority and the process goes on till you eliminate the smaller voting totals. I think the system better than the present one because these votes have an effective value which they do not possess at all under the present system. The hon. Member interrupted me at the most interesting part of my argument when I was giving a list of members of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1956.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-21", "file": "debates1948-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "179f3f140a76f58f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1962.4", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Smiles", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Smiles", "preceding_text": " is quite possible for people to come from Eire to Newry or Londonderry to work and go home to Eire in the evenings. They have far less distance to cover than the average man or woman working in the city and travelling to and from Greater London every day. The very real danger in which we might find ourselves is that of being flooded with \"foreigners\" in some of our Northern Ireland constituencies", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1962.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-21", "file": "debates1948-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "179f3f140a76f58f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1967.0", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to follow the hon. Member for Hornchurch (Mr. Bing)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-21a.1967.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-22", "file": "debates1948-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "366a7881caeb0e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2011.4", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I did undertake the other day that I would consider the Motion of my hon. Friend the Member for King's Norton (Mr. Blackburn) when it was on the Paper. I did not commit myself. I have very carefully considered the matter. I said then, and I am bound to say that I am still of the same opinion, that I thought this was a family matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2011.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-22", "file": "debates1948-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "366a7881caeb0e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2015.0", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker, is it in Order for the right hon. and noble Member to get up in this House and incite people outside to make allegations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2015.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-22", "file": "debates1948-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "366a7881caeb0e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2016.0", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. Of course, officially, it is not a matter for the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2016.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-22", "file": "debates1948-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "366a7881caeb0e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2029.1", "colnum": "2029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLY (INQUIRY AND CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "s laid down the conditions which are necessary for the full realisation of the public interest. That is exactly what has not happened in the case of private monopolies or of some of the restrictive practices I have referred to, and in bringing these also before the searchlight of public inquiry and under the possibility of public control, we have put them, to a limited extent, on the same footing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-22", "file": "debates1948-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "366a7881caeb0e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2070.1", "colnum": "2070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLY (INQUIRY AND CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I was not meaning to be quarrelsome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2070.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-04-22", "file": "debates1948-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "366a7881caeb0e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2074.1", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLY (INQUIRY AND CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Bennett", "preceding_text": "As I happen to represent the largest suppliers of equipment in the motor industry, might I state that that is absolutely incorrect, and that the Grantham company were supplied with the supplies for which they asked? They did not go into big production, but there was no pressure whatever put upon the suppliers of the equipment to Grantham Productions which kept them from getting the car going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-22", "file": "debates1948-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "366a7881caeb0e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2076.4", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLY (INQUIRY AND CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or trade union.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "o not say that is right. It is something we want to overcome if we can, but at least those men are only reacting in the way that most human beings would react who had been treated as the trade unionists have been treated in the past. I hope that will be remembered. In any case, as far as I am concerned, it is a moral issue. It ought not to be within the power of any firm, combine, cartel or trust—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2076.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-22", "file": "debates1948-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "366a7881caeb0e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2081.0", "colnum": "2081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLY (INQUIRY AND CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under the Tories.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Member for Jarrow would agree that there is a great distinction between temporary unemployment, such as was advocated by Lord Beveridge of 3 per cent.—which is about 500,000—and unemployment of a mass and prolonged order such as we had between the wars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2081.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-22", "file": "debates1948-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "366a7881caeb0e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2090.0", "colnum": "2090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLY (INQUIRY AND CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " which the naiveté of the President of the Board of Trade must have astounded almost every Member in the House. There is no reference to State monopolies in this Bill, because State monopolies are enshrined in the hearts of all hon. Members opposite. Despite the facts that a State monopoly possesses all the evil attributes of a private monopoly, but to a greater extent and more intensively—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2090.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-22", "file": "debates1948-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "366a7881caeb0e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2104.1", "colnum": "2104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLY (INQUIRY AND CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I stand by my assertion that entry into the compositors' union is not free. I ask the right hon. Gentleman to deny it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-22", "file": "debates1948-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "366a7881caeb0e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2112.3", "colnum": "2112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLY (INQUIRY AND CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "a that the industry is inefficient and incapable of exports could not be sustained. Finally, I can think of very few manufactured articles which, considering the rise in wages and in all raw materials, are now selling at 28 per cent. below he price at which they were selling before the war. Of course, it is easy to say that that merely means that the lamps were sold too expensively before the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-22", "file": "debates1948-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "366a7881caeb0e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2114.1", "colnum": "2114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLY (INQUIRY AND CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " they assist the comfort and convenience of the people. An example is the selling of popular newspapers at the same price. I do not think that is by arrangement, because it has become a custom. It would be manifestly absurd if every bookstall had to put up the \"Daily Mail,\" the \"Daily Herald\" and the \"Daily Express\" to auction when the travelling public wanted to buy them to read on the 8.30 train", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-22", "file": "debates1948-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "366a7881caeb0e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2114.1", "colnum": "2114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLY (INQUIRY AND CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " that vexatious inquiries—and we have had some signs of that today—will be set on foot, perhaps inspired by the competitors of large concerns for malicious reasons, or started for purely political reasons by those who are ill disposed towards private enterprise. My information, drawn from many quarters, leads me to suppose that there are some people who are ill disposed towards private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2114.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-22", "file": "debates1948-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "366a7881caeb0e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2121.3", "colnum": "2121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLY (INQUIRY AND CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "ly thinks, they are going to operate as a means of raising revenue, then I think the poor travelling public—the consumers of rail travel, so to speak —equally have a right to know how the State railways are making so much money at their expense. In either case, whether it is the taxpayer or the traveller who is being exploited, both should have the right to have their State monopoly inquired into.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-22", "file": "debates1948-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "366a7881caeb0e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2124.1", "colnum": "2124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLY (INQUIRY AND CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Might.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "that most monopolies have a case. His support was, therefore, a little bit restrained. The hon. Member for Louth made one of his earnest contributions to the Debate to which I listened with pleasure. A great deal of it was devoted to the labour side of industry to which I have already referred. He finished up with not a very great support for the Bill. He said that it would do more harm than good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-22a.2124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-23", "file": "debates1948-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "98a17045b5537d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-23a.2238.5", "colnum": "2238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED EX-SERVICE MEN (MOTOR CARS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "e principle which any Government desiring to carry on the traditions of our country would have to follow, and that is the principle for which my right hon. Friend has been responsible. We are now having from the Opposition the allegation that we ought to do, in relation to cars, what we have done in relation to housing, which they thought was \"lousey\" anyway. It is a most extraordinary phenomenon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-23a.2238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-23", "file": "debates1948-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "98a17045b5537d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-23a.2238.5", "colnum": "2238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED EX-SERVICE MEN (MOTOR CARS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "aordinary phenomena occur in this House, but surely this is the most diverting of all. I speak with some personal conviction on this subject, because it is the view of some Members I have some influence in relation to the allocation of cars by Austins. I am constantly approached by a large number of Members of Parliament to get cars either for them or their constituents, for one reason or another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-23a.2238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-26", "file": "debates1948-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd87445252740326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-26a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Entitled?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "May I deal first with the point raised by the hon. Member for Montrose Burghs (Mr. Maclay) and by the hon. and gallant Member for Ayr Burghs (Sir T. Moore)? Scotland already has 91 more seats than she is entitled to on any system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-26a.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-26", "file": "debates1948-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd87445252740326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-26a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "aclay) and by the hon. and gallant Member for Ayr Burghs (Sir T. Moore)? Scotland already has 91 more seats than she is entitled to on any system—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Entitled?\"] While I have no doubt that Scotsmen will intervene during the course of our discussion, this might be regarded as a matter primarily for English Members. There is no ground for suggesting that until England gets 92 more seats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-26a.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-26", "file": "debates1948-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd87445252740326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-26a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "on any system—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Entitled?\"] While I have no doubt that Scotsmen will intervene during the course of our discussion, this might be regarded as a matter primarily for English Members. There is no ground for suggesting that until England gets 92 more seats—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Yes, on a basis of strict proportion, Scotland will be over-represented in the new House by 91 Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-26a.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-26", "file": "debates1948-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd87445252740326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-26a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "rse of our discussion, this might be regarded as a matter primarily for English Members. There is no ground for suggesting that until England gets 92 more seats—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Yes, on a basis of strict proportion, Scotland will be over-represented in the new House by 91 Members—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I am sorry, I should have said that England is underrepresented by 91 Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-26a.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-26", "file": "debates1948-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd87445252740326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-26a.140.2", "colnum": "140", "heading": "FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Parliamentary Constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "preceding_text": " monster of all Estates of this Realm. I may add, in modern language, that ever since Parliament has existed Westminster has been respected—one may almost say, revered—throughout the English-speaking countries as the cradle of their laws and liberties. The proximity of the citizens of Westminster to Parliament gave them a political education and consciousness unknown in other parts of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-26a.140.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-26", "file": "debates1948-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd87445252740326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-26a.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Parliamentary Constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It has got a zoo!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "sly making the best case they could. However, he refused their suggestion and insisted that they should remain with Staffordshire. I ask him therefore to adopt the same attitude here as he did about education and police and fire services, and between now and the Report Stage to do his best to recognise that Dudley is the heart of the Black Country and is the most progressive borough in that area.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-26a.163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-27", "file": "debates1948-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "193d10ea512b85db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-27a.202.7", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "In view of the really dangerous situation in Palestine and the fact that an enormous amount of ammunition has been lost, as well as British lives, surely the right hon. Gentleman will realise that this is intended to be a friendly question, and that there is a need for keeping the House fully informed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-27a.202.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-04-27", "file": "debates1948-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "193d10ea512b85db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-27a.210.2", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "Is it the case that Post-War Credits can now be released irrespective of the age of the applicant, provided he is in debt to the Government, and if he is solvent he has to wait until he is 65 years of age? Is that the case?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-27a.210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-27", "file": "debates1948-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "193d10ea512b85db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-27a.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSJORDAN AND PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Us?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend intimate to the Minister there that it is essential that the Treaty of Alliance which has been entered into by ourselves and Transjordan shall be properly respected? Will my hon. Friend point out that we are spending considerable sums of money in training the men who might possibly be used in the event of a war taking place between Transjordan and us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-27a.214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-27", "file": "debates1948-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "193d10ea512b85db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-27a.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSJORDAN AND PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Treaty of Alliance which has been entered into by ourselves and Transjordan shall be properly respected? Will my hon. Friend point out that we are spending considerable sums of money in training the men who might possibly be used in the event of a war taking place between Transjordan and us—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Us?\"] Would not a war against Palestine at the present moment be a war against this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-27a.214.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-27", "file": "debates1948-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "193d10ea512b85db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-27a.288.0", "colnum": "288", "heading": "THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Proceedings at Parliamentary Elections.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "cel of the mentality of the person who looks upon a foreigner as an inferior being. The hon. Member did not take that view when we welcomed to our shores a potential father of a future King of England. That attitude was not adopted towards the Duke of Edinburgh because he was born a Greek. Nobody raised the question of his nationality, and I fail to see why there should be this national prejudice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-27a.288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-27", "file": "debates1948-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "193d10ea512b85db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-27a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Proceedings at Parliamentary Elections.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "t to know and wish to obtain from their poll cards. All these three things will be within the knowledge of the returning officer. As a rule, he will know where the polling place is before the candidates do; he will know the hours of the poll, and he will also know the elector's number on the electoral roll. Does the elector, in these days, want to know on the poll card the names of the candidates?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-27a.304.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-27", "file": "debates1948-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "193d10ea512b85db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-27a.325.0", "colnum": "325", "heading": "THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Proceedings at Parliamentary Elections.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "nd right hon. Gentlemen opposite in getting little bits here and there on these occasions—that all the candidates should have equally large print and equal descriptions. I thought that the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman) was treating this matter rather lightly in the speech which he made. We are rather accustomed to hear speeches from him—but I will not say any more about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-27a.325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-27", "file": "debates1948-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "193d10ea512b85db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-27a.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Proceedings at Parliamentary Elections.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "I hesitate to intervene after the Home Secretary, but I would like to speak as one of the very few Members who resides in his own constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-27a.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-28", "file": "debates1948-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "f7914a9d2803c42a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-28a.376.6", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARAB STATES (ARMS DELIVERIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He said he was going to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I do not think I should assume any such thing until King Abdullah indicates that he proposes to do it. Why should I assume that he is going to do these things? I have had no indication of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-28a.376.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-28", "file": "debates1948-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "f7914a9d2803c42a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-28a.502.3", "colnum": "502", "heading": "TENTH SCHEDULE.—(Enactments repealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "hat crop is placed on the same basis as other cereal crops from the long-term point of view. I make that point strongly, because it affects us adversely in the North-east of Scotland. Farmers are, rightly or wrongly, deeply concerned because of the bitter experiences they have had in the past. I will not deny that some of those bitter experiences were at the hands of Governments which I supported.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-28a.502.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-28", "file": "debates1948-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "f7914a9d2803c42a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-28a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "LORD HIGH COMMISSIONER (CHURCH OF SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Including Cumnock.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "preceding_text": "High Commissioner, who has continually attended these functions. I did not go as a member of the Church of Scotland, which I have been for many years, but in my capacity as a magistrate. Here is what happens. There are 195 burgh and 33 county councils in Scotland. To every one of them invitations are sent, and, let me assure you, Major Milner, promptly accepted by Labour members all over Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-28a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-28", "file": "debates1948-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "f7914a9d2803c42a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-28a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "LORD HIGH COMMISSIONER (CHURCH OF SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MeKintay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MeKintay", "preceding_text": " my colleagues who represent English divisions and who are mere Englishmen in this Scottish quarrel, not to be misled by specious pleas for economy. The English Members would be well advised, if I may say so, to leave this as a private affair and to leave it, if it goes to a Division, to the vote of those who represent Scottish constituencies, because I am satisfied that the overwhelming majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-28a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-28", "file": "debates1948-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "f7914a9d2803c42a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-28a.547.1", "colnum": "547", "heading": "LORD HIGH COMMISSIONER (CHURCH OF SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Huģhes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Salary?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Huģhes", "preceding_text": "ly. This has been the traditional attitude of Labour Party critics of the Conservative Government throughout the last 30 years. The hon. Member for Dunbartonshire was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the former Secretary of State for Scotland, Mr. Tom Johnston, and I believe that if the Conservative Party had introduced a Bill increasing by 100 per cent. the salary of the Lord High Commissioner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-28a.547.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-04-28", "file": "debates1948-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "f7914a9d2803c42a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-28a.554.0", "colnum": "554", "heading": "LORD HIGH COMMISSIONER (CHURCH OF SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "They are not Tories.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": " which has been called and the one which has not been called—the first-named hon. Member in each case, so far as I can discover from my researches, is not a Scotsman, and was not born in Scotland. That, I clearly recognise, is not their fault but their misfortune. But be that as it may, it leads me to question whether they are fully qualified to represent Scottish opinion on this important matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-28a.553.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-04-29", "file": "debates1948-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "fbcc86fbb22e6b1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.606.7", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware of the fact that some 3,000 statutory rules and orders were issued in 1947, amounting to about eight a day? How can people possibly know what they are about, when they are not obtainable from the Stationery Office? Does it not, clearly, bring the whole thing into ridicule?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.606.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-29", "file": "debates1948-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "fbcc86fbb22e6b1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.614.4", "colnum": "614", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "To revert to the matter previously being discussed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.614.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-29", "file": "debates1948-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "fbcc86fbb22e6b1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.624.3", "colnum": "624", "heading": "WHITE FISH AND HERRING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Woodburn)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Woodburn)", "preceding_text": "and than in England and Wales. The point is that inshore fishing is much more a definite part of the fisherman's life in Scotland than in England where there are sometimes alternative methods of earning one's livelihood, and the fishing is not so consistent as in the North. The tendency in Scotland is also for larger boats, which accounts for the larger catch, and, to some extent, the larger cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.624.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-29", "file": "debates1948-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "fbcc86fbb22e6b1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "WHITE FISH AND HERRING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duthie", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duthie", "preceding_text": "le ports in the country, so that when there is a glut we shall be able to lay down in the freezing plants sufficient herring of prime quality to enable us to have herring on our tables throughout the winter. I sincerely trust, too, that the Herring Board will watch the interest of the fishermen, not forgetting the curers, the processors, the kipperers and those engaged in the red herring industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-29", "file": "debates1948-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "fbcc86fbb22e6b1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.686.4", "colnum": "686", "heading": "WHITE FISH AND HERRING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did not the hon. Member stop there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "cept a Minister. That is a thing which I enjoy doing on a point like this. The hon. Member has asked me why I did not do this job between the wars. The answer is that I joined a little fish firm in Billingsgate about 30 years ago. When I left it to come into this place in 1939, the capital was something like £3 million. We raised the firm from a little enterprise worth about £4,000 to that figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.686.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-29", "file": "debates1948-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "fbcc86fbb22e6b1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.710.7", "colnum": "710", "heading": "WHITE FISH AND HERRING INDUSTRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "ional and a moral right. An extremely important fishing on the West Coast takes place from Castlebay at a special time of the year. There they catch the Matje herring. I shall not be out of Order here, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, because you do not cook a Matje, but simply put it under the tap and then straight into your mouth. It is better than caviar; it is the highest form of luxury; it is magnificent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.710.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-29", "file": "debates1948-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "fbcc86fbb22e6b1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.752.3", "colnum": "752", "heading": "BASKET AND WILLOW TRADES", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. Belcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. Belcher)", "preceding_text": "ember for Chippenham should single out this particular trade association for attack is something which I do not know. I am in touch with many trade associations whose practices are similar to those of this organisation, but we hear nothing of them. To return to my point, the willow growers and the importers were asked to make available for their quota scheme all their production and their imports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.752.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-29", "file": "debates1948-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "fbcc86fbb22e6b1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "BASKET AND WILLOW TRADES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": "The fisherman does not require a licence; he has to buy from a licensed merchant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-29", "file": "debates1948-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "fbcc86fbb22e6b1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "BASKET AND WILLOW TRADES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "There is still a monopoly over shortage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-29", "file": "debates1948-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "fbcc86fbb22e6b1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.761.3", "colnum": "761", "heading": "BASKET AND WILLOW TRADES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": " express arrangement\"— They do not need to have a tacit arrangement here; they have a statutory express arrangement in this order— to limit competition in any way. That is what the right hon. Member for Bishop Auckland said ought to be swept away. It is exactly what the hon. Member and what the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade have been asking us tonight to give statutory sanction to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.761.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-29", "file": "debates1948-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "fbcc86fbb22e6b1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.761.3", "colnum": "761", "heading": "BASKET AND WILLOW TRADES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "this order— to limit competition in any way. That is what the right hon. Member for Bishop Auckland said ought to be swept away. It is exactly what the hon. Member and what the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade have been asking us tonight to give statutory sanction to. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Let me read it. I was astounded when I picked up this paper and read it just before this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.761.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-29", "file": "debates1948-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "fbcc86fbb22e6b1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.763.2", "colnum": "763", "heading": "BASKET AND WILLOW TRADES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of course there is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Belcher", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman suggesting that there is some intrinsic difference between war and peace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-29a.763.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-30", "file": "debates1948-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "fc0a333935bd9290", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-30a.805.2", "colnum": "805", "heading": "FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Minor and Consequential Amendments.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin", "cue_text": "AN. HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin", "preceding_text": "ion. Whereas in the past, because of economic necessity, we have allowed these children to be exploited in many cases, perhaps we might now switch from the younger to the older generation, the much older generation. In my view the best way of doing away with this evil would be to agitate for older people to be employed for this work, and the type of person I have in mind is the old age pensioner.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-30a.805.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-04-30", "file": "debates1948-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "fc0a333935bd9290", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-30a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Minor and Consequential Amendments.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "preceding_text": " most emphatic in stating that he would seek to maintain the required standard as laid down by the Coalition Government. I hope that we shall not fall away from that standard. I wish to refer to what I consider to be the major part of this Bill, the issue about which my hon. Friend the Member for Southampton (Mr. Morley) has already spoken, the fixing of the age of transfer at 10 years six months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-04-30a.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-03", "file": "debates1948-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd892fdea1cf0262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.885.6", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — YUGOSLAVIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "cie evidence, and what is not? Is it, according to His Majesty's Government, confidence in the judicial methods of the other party, because that apparently is what he said? Secondly, does his original answer mean, for that is apparently what he said, that His Majesty's Government know nothing of what happened to any of these Yugoslays handed over, except that they did know that Lieut.-Colonel Cus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.885.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-05-03", "file": "debates1948-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd892fdea1cf0262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.899.6", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES (PROFESSOR HALDANE)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And to the Tory back bench.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "In view of the essential nature of these committees will the Prime Minister extend the purge of the Civil Service to members of Government advisory committees and the B.B.C.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.899.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-03", "file": "debates1948-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd892fdea1cf0262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.968.0", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR SPIRIT (REGULATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "et in food can fairly be described as greedy, and the man who enters the black market in clothes can be described as vain, but the man who obtains petrol through the black market is seeking something which cannot be easily condemned in terms of that sort. Like the quartermaster-sergeant to whom I referred earlier, he is in a sense seeking freedom—a much less definable but more desirable objective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-03", "file": "debates1948-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd892fdea1cf0262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.993.0", "colnum": "993", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Allowance to Lord High Commissioner to Church of Scotland.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " I do not believe that there is any demand from the Church of Scotland for increasing these emoluments. I believe that if the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland were consulted in the matter, the general consensus of opinion would be that this is an inappropriate time to increase the expenditure of this Office. In Edinburgh of all places where Sir Stafford Cripps went to outline his appeal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.993.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-03", "file": "debates1948-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd892fdea1cf0262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Allowance to Lord High Commissioner to Church of Scotland.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From a minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "ons for the Bill, and it is remarkable that the only correspondence that has appeared in the Edinburgh Press so far about the Bill has been against it. My hon. Friend the Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Emrys Hughes) has pointed that out in a letter which appeared in \"The Scotsman\" this morning. The only letter in \"The Scotsman\" about this Bill was one from, I believe, a minister, against the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.1000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-03", "file": "debates1948-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd892fdea1cf0262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Allowance to Lord High Commissioner to Church of Scotland.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are making a mistake.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "ave been dignified and in keeping with the traditional Scottish character, their love of living within their income, and their pride and independence. I think that and I feel that—it would have given a lead to the workers in Scotland, who, I see, on Friday rejected the Government's policy concerning wages and income about which we argued a few nights ago but which would be out of Order at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.1000.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-05-03", "file": "debates1948-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd892fdea1cf0262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.1000.2", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Allowance to Lord High Commissioner to Church of Scotland.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": " of living within their income, and their pride and independence. I think that and I feel that—it would have given a lead to the workers in Scotland, who, I see, on Friday rejected the Government's policy concerning wages and income about which we argued a few nights ago but which would be out of Order at present. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You are making a mistake.\"] I understand that the Scottish T.U.C.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.1000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-03", "file": "debates1948-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd892fdea1cf0262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.1005.3", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH (DENTAL SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "g the prior approval of the Dental Estimates Board, and there is a number of forms of treatment which do not give any very definite idea to the lay mind of their extent. In column B, the treatments for which the prior approval of the Dental Estimates Board is required include such items as apicectomy and alveolectomy—the very words are difficult enough to be pronounced, let alone to be understood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.1005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-03", "file": "debates1948-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd892fdea1cf0262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.1013.2", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH (DENTAL SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "s. Those who work whole-time will be whole-time salaried practitioners; those who work part-time will be paid a salary in respect of the time during which they are working in the health centre. I would like some information on that score, and I would tell the right hon. Gentleman quite candidly that I view the suggestion of salaried practitioners in health centres with a good deal of apprehension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.1013.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-03", "file": "debates1948-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd892fdea1cf0262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH (DENTAL SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "I think it would be better if the hon. Member developed his own speech later. Broadly speaking, the more skilled and more experienced dentist is able to command higher fees than the less skilled dentist. Also, he may have a more central office, and a more comfortable waiting room.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-03", "file": "debates1948-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd892fdea1cf0262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.1019.6", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH (DENTAL SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Touchy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "y to occur as a result of the method laid down in this order. We ought to have some idea what policy the Board will adopt in coming to a decision on what is suitable treatment and what is not. Is it the amount of money available? I see the right hon. Gentleman is leaving the Chamber, but I would like to have his attention for a moment because I am asking about something of considerable importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.1019.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-03", "file": "debates1948-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd892fdea1cf0262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.1028.1", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH (DENTAL SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "preceding_text": "aborate the point later. The point is that the dentists getting the biggest fees are not necessarily the best dentists. Many dentists working, for instance, in the East End of London in working-class districts are just as good as the dentists in Harley Street who are paid bigger fees. Dentists with comfortable waiting rooms and with the social graces are not necessarily the most skilled operators.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.1028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-03", "file": "debates1948-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd892fdea1cf0262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.1032.3", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH (DENTAL SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "If the X-ray examination costs more than two guineas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.1032.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-03", "file": "debates1948-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cd892fdea1cf0262", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.1039.3", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH (DENTAL SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER \"Like the approved societies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "stand that I am not now talking about remuneration. I am not in a position tonight to talk about remuneration, because we have not had the report of the Spens Committee. All I am saying is that the estimates will come to the Board and on their responsibility, either directly or indirectly through their staff, decisions will be taken which will go back to the dentists within a week in normal cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-03a.1039.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-05-04", "file": "debates1948-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "58af5a89be1cb7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-04a.1100.9", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE (TEMPORARY CLERKS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Like sabotage.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I have never liked the word \"temporary,\" but it is in common use and is quite well understood. It really means \"unestablished.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-04a.1100.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-04", "file": "debates1948-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "58af5a89be1cb7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-04a.1103.3", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By sending a telegram.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "Through what sources does my right hon. Friend expect Members on this side to make representations to him on such a matter?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-04a.1103.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-04", "file": "debates1948-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "58af5a89be1cb7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-04a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "preceding_text": "e monstrous proposal, as an inflammatory proposal. We awaited with some confidence—at least, I did—a clear and instant repudiation of any such suggestion from the Minister of State when he rose to reply. After all, this suggestion that a force with air support should intervene to seal off the northern frontier of Greece would be read with interest in the Kremlin by the leaders of the Soviet Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-04a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-04", "file": "debates1948-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "58af5a89be1cb7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-04a.1155.0", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, he is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "preceding_text": "arding the standard by which we should judge an adequate state of military preparedness. I am assuming that some hon. Members have followed what I have said whether they agree with it or not. Assuming then that our aim is indeed the preservation of the integrity of Western Europe. How can that be done? It is my absolute belief—and I am sorry that the hon. Member for Eton and Slough has gone again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-04a.1155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-04", "file": "debates1948-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "58af5a89be1cb7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-04a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "ted States are occupying the south and Soviet Russia is occupying Northern Korea. Northern Korea has the minerals and coal and electric power so the people in the south are having a pretty bad time. The Communists have built up an Army in the north, trained by Soviet Russia and supplied with equipment. If the United States drew out their occupation forces in the south, the Communists will walk in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-04a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-04", "file": "debates1948-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "58af5a89be1cb7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-04a.1207.0", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "their telegram. It is no part of British foreign policy to interfere in that way with purely party politics inside another country. It is leading our foreign policy gravely astray. I would add that we cannot conceal the presence of 40 or 50 \"Nenni goats\" by producing one scapegoat. I see that the right hon. Gentleman, or the hon. Gentleman as he now is, the Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-04a.1207.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-04", "file": "debates1948-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "58af5a89be1cb7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-04a.1207.0", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "foreign policy, and the refusal to accept that there is any difference between peoples and governments of countries when making these broadcasts. Also there is the failure to re-establish the political warfare executive which did such valuable work during the war. Then there is the failure to take proper action against their own disloyal elements, a matter to which I have already referred. Lastly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-04a.1207.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-04", "file": "debates1948-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "58af5a89be1cb7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-04a.1207.0", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "ourselves and for the Communists. As one example of that I would cite the forcible repatriation of Yugoslavs after a prima facie case had been established against them by some sort of tribunal which I think was appointed by the Foreign Office. I am happy to be able to agree that the utmost trouble is taken in establishing these prima facie cases. What annoys me beyond words though is the pretence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-04a.1207.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-05", "file": "debates1948-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e6e719964e031af4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1237.4", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "preceding_text": "I am not able to make any further statement on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1237.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-05-05", "file": "debates1948-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e6e719964e031af4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1248.2", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "Ought it not now to be admitted, in justice to the individual concerned, that the statement made by General Sir Frederick Morgan, which led to his dismissal, was, in fact, substantially true?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-05", "file": "debates1948-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e6e719964e031af4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1267.1", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "Does the Parliamentary Secretary realise that the large number of people in Scotland making sausages have now been cut off?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-05", "file": "debates1948-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e6e719964e031af4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS (WESTERN UNION)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I mention all these matters not in connection with the Foreign Secretary's speech yesterday at all, but because of the strange writings which have appeared from time to time in leading articles of the \"Daily Herald\" lately. For instance, on 29th April last, I read these words: We Socialists have a distinctive attitude to questions of European unity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-05", "file": "debates1948-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e6e719964e031af4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS (WESTERN UNION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "preceding_text": "The trouble is that that area is becoming larger. I want to make one or two remarks to the Foreign Secretary about the state of lethargy into which he now seems to have lapsed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-05", "file": "debates1948-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e6e719964e031af4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1321.5", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS (WESTERN UNION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What line?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "preceding_text": "Certainly not, but a far stronger line would have been taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1321.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-05", "file": "debates1948-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e6e719964e031af4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS (WESTERN UNION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "Saturday Evening Post\" by two reputable political correspondents. In the recent Election in Italy there was most tremendous pressure from the United States, both through threats and through bribes in the shape of America saying before the Election that if the Communists came in all help to Italy would immediately cease. These developments have materially interfered with the free play of democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-05", "file": "debates1948-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e6e719964e031af4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1335.1", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS (WESTERN UNION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "The Plan provides for a measure of control and policies which are quite effective in checking any further measures of Socialisation, and even in rolling back what has been done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-05", "file": "debates1948-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e6e719964e031af4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1343.5", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS (WESTERN UNION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about coal?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I think one can fairly say that many nations are watching to see if it can achieve results. If it had done so we should have made one of the greatest contributions to world politics or economics that has ever been made, but there is still no sign of it, and I do not think there will he.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1343.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-05", "file": "debates1948-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e6e719964e031af4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS (WESTERN UNION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "I say that it is a hot frying pan. He thinks that outside it is hotter. But if he gave a really good heave, a really good lurch, he might get out of the frying pan, over the fire, on to dry land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-05", "file": "debates1948-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e6e719964e031af4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1383.1", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS (WESTERN UNION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order. The charge \"crypto-Communist\" means being a secret member of the Communist Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-05", "file": "debates1948-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e6e719964e031af4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1383.1", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS (WESTERN UNION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order. The charge \"crypto-Communist\" means being a secret member of the Communist Party. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.] The noise from hon. Members opposite proves what I am saying. It means being a secret member of the Communist Party while ostensibly belonging to the Labour Party. If that were true, it would be a very dastardly and infamous thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-05", "file": "debates1948-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "e6e719964e031af4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1383.6", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS (WESTERN UNION)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Mayhew)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four million tons.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Mayhew)", "preceding_text": "ate to accuse him of bad faith, but he does not always succeed in that intention. I am not referring to his exaggerated and fanciful metaphor of my right hon. Friend in the frying pan, but I would refer to what I am sure was an unintentional slip on his part in suggesting we were pursuing a policy which involved the bringing down of German steel production from 17 million tons to two million tons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-05a.1383.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-06", "file": "debates1948-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b5b873689a44765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1431.3", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLITICAL PROCESSIONS, LONDON (PROHIBITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "Is the Home Secretary aware that the figures he has just given must astound the House—nearly 1,000 police being used on May Day in order to protect the Mosley Fascists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1431.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-05-06", "file": "debates1948-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b5b873689a44765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1431.4", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLITICAL PROCESSIONS, LONDON (PROHIBITION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": " just given must astound the House—nearly 1,000 police being used on May Day in order to protect the Mosley Fascists—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"]—and is he further aware—and I regret that, unfortunately, the earlier Questions were not asked—of the way in which the police conducted themselves on that day, not preventing the Fascists from their action but rather beating up ordinary civilians on the streets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1431.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-06", "file": "debates1948-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b5b873689a44765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLITICAL PROCESSIONS, LONDON (PROHIBITION)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very funny.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the procession of Sir Oswald Mosley, when passing Holloway Prison, stopped and Mosley gave the Fascist salute?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1433.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-05-06", "file": "debates1948-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b5b873689a44765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1437.6", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the person referred to in Question No. 31 gave the best years of his life to his country while serving in an unpleasant climate, overseas? Is not the political spite of the right hon. Gentleman intolerable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1437.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-05-06", "file": "debates1948-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b5b873689a44765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1453.0", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "This is a very difficult field. I can say that my right hon. and learned Friend has given a good deal of attention to this matter of whether we can allow currency for people to go to Switzerland if they can be helped at all, but some of these cases can be helped just as much, and sometimes more, elsewhere, sometimes in the sterling area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1452.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-06", "file": "debates1948-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b5b873689a44765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1466.3", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh, yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "There have been frequent invitations to hon. Members opposite from this Box and the benches behind me to indicate where and in what way they would reduce expenditure. Up to now there has been no answer whatever.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1466.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-06", "file": "debates1948-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b5b873689a44765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1535.1", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Because beer is best.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ear Profits 1944–45 … … … £39,000,000 1945–46 … … … £41,500,000 1946–47 … … … £49,000,000.\" —[OFFICIAL REPORT, 3rd May, 1948; Vol. 450, C. 104. ] Other figures were also given by my right hon. Friend which showed that there has been a steady rise in profits of £27 million in 1938–39 to £49,000,000 this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-06", "file": "debates1948-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b5b873689a44765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1557.1", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "se that we could not possibly contemplate spending the money we are spending by this Budget if it were not for the help of the taxpayers of capitalist America. I hope they appreciate that, and will not forget it; because it may be that even now hon. Members opposite and members of the Labour Party outside are beginning to realise that Capitalism produces wealth and that Communism produces poverty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-06", "file": "debates1948-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b5b873689a44765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1568.0", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "nnot run straight out. Nor is he correct in saying that there is plenty of material for traditional houses. The shortage of timber is still acute. We have large stocks at this moment in the country, but we have not the dollars with which to replace those large stocks, and if we were to use them all up now, it would mean that we should stop building altogether in the course perhaps of a year or so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1568.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-06", "file": "debates1948-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b5b873689a44765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1568.4", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Socialist planning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "The houses are now being built, but it is not economic, if there is not a flow of timber coming forward over the future months, to use it all in these months and then have nothing left to use later. If I may say so, this is an absolutely typical case of the way in which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1568.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-06", "file": "debates1948-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b5b873689a44765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1568.4", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On houses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "The houses are now being built, but it is not economic, if there is not a flow of timber coming forward over the future months, to use it all in these months and then have nothing left to use later. If I may say so, this is an absolutely typical case of the way in which—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Socialist planning.\"]—private enterprise would use their resources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1568.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-06", "file": "debates1948-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b5b873689a44765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1568.4", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We want houses now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "rward over the future months, to use it all in these months and then have nothing left to use later. If I may say so, this is an absolutely typical case of the way in which—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Socialist planning.\"]—private enterprise would use their resources—[An HON. MEMBER: \"On houses.\"] Hon. Gentlemen must really remember that it is not merely for the next six months or year that we have to look—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1568.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-06", "file": "debates1948-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2b5b873689a44765", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1598.6", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "BEER SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "preceding_text": "w that in the country districts there are abundant supplies of beer. It is not for me to say why there is a shortage in the Midlands, but I would like to tell the House that on Easter Sunday morning I travelled over my constituency and visited fourteen public houses. Of these, twelve were completely shut; only two were open. It is a common habit in the West Midlands for publicans to remain closed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-06a.1598.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-07", "file": "debates1948-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "9b4d41727cfeb1e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-07a.1662.1", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corlett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corlett", "preceding_text": " are most worthy and competent people but, in the nature of things, they deal with legal niceties, correct procedure and strict compliance with standing orders, and they are not so much concerned with what might be called the human and social side of the work. I suggest that the children's officer ought to be a member of the staff of the education office; but I am a voice crying in the wilderness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-07a.1662.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-05-10", "file": "debates1948-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f79b39b0fff9a56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-10a.1705.11", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "V.E. DAY: MESSAGE FROM DANISH PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I have sent a suitable reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-10a.1705.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-10", "file": "debates1948-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f79b39b0fff9a56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-10a.1719.0", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE (EXECUTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "In view of the very great shock to public opinion in this country, because of these judicial murders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-10a.1719.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-10", "file": "debates1948-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f79b39b0fff9a56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-10a.1740.2", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will do his best to give such time to the House as he can, but I am sure the right hon. Gentleman appreciates the difficulty. We will do all we can to meet the proper requirements of the House, but I must point out once again that all parties are anxious that such relaxations as can be given to the motoring population should be given by the date we have set, 1st June.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-10a.1740.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-05-10", "file": "debates1948-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f79b39b0fff9a56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-10a.1807.0", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Offences by private motorists.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "ere is a twilight of freedom. It was admitted by the Attorney-General that all he wanted was to be satisfied that an accused person could not get away with it by giving any sort of explanation. He has now had every conceivable concession made to him and has not given way. I believe that I should go on obstinately fighting the lost battle of virtue, but I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-10a.1805.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-05-10", "file": "debates1948-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f79b39b0fff9a56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-10a.1812.3", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Offences by private motorists.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman (Colonel Ropner)", "preceding_text": "Is it the pleasure of the Committee that the Amendment be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-10a.1812.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-10", "file": "debates1948-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f79b39b0fff9a56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-10a.1847.1", "colnum": "1847", "heading": "CLAUSE 4.—(Disqualification of retail dealers for twelve months after conviction.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "tate expediency. That also is typical of the Police State. The right hon. Gentleman certainly did not use those arguments. I am sure that when he read this, if indeed he did read it, he certainly did not glow with inward pride or swell with moral satisfaction at the commendation which was given to him in this most unfortunate article. It was published in a paper which has no particular importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-10a.1847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-10", "file": "debates1948-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f79b39b0fff9a56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-10a.1847.1", "colnum": "1847", "heading": "CLAUSE 4.—(Disqualification of retail dealers for twelve months after conviction.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " moral satisfaction at the commendation which was given to him in this most unfortunate article. It was published in a paper which has no particular importance—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What name?\"] It was published in the paper called the \"Daily Graphic.\" No doubt that is an excellent paper in so far as it supports with servile sedulity the party to which the noble Lord the Member for South Dorset belongs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-10a.1847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-10", "file": "debates1948-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f79b39b0fff9a56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-10a.1850.0", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "CLAUSE 4.—(Disqualification of retail dealers for twelve months after conviction.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "House, the seriousness of the crime of murder has been reduced owing to our decision altering the penalty? I do not believe for a moment that the country will wish to measure the seriousness of the black market by the amount of the penalties awarded for such offences. On the contrary, I think that, if we award automatic penalties, the only effect will be to arouse some sort of pseudo-hero worship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-10a.1850.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-05-10", "file": "debates1948-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f79b39b0fff9a56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-10a.1860.0", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "CLAUSE 5.—(Disqualifications and special Penalties in respect of offences by private motorists.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "to challenge or question their sincerity, and attempting to suggest they are influenced by financial considerations, they should take elementary precautions, such as any gentleman would take, of making sure about their facts. It so happens that I do not and could not possibly own a Rolls-Bentley. I own an 8-horse power Ford, and also a Wolseley car. I wish I had a Rolls-Bentley, but even if I had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-10a.1859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-10", "file": "debates1948-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "f79b39b0fff9a56b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-10a.1860.3", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "CLAUSE 5.—(Disqualifications and special Penalties in respect of offences by private motorists.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I would have thought that if the hon. Member had in fact been entitled to the title he receives by courtesy in this House, he would have apologised. At no time have I owned a Rolls-Bentley or anything approaching a Rolls-Bentley. I only wish I had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-10a.1860.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-11", "file": "debates1948-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ca62666ec34dc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-11a.1983.1", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "OIL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that it is a good thing that the House and the country should know about this allocation of steel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-11a.1983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-11", "file": "debates1948-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ca62666ec34dc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-11a.1986.2", "colnum": "1986", "heading": "OIL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "nd Sale (Mr. Erroll). If hon. Members will turn up that Debate, they will find a good deal of information which, with permission, I do not propose to repeat this afternoon. At the time that the coal-oil conversion programme was launched, the situation in this country was grave. We had a surplus of fuel oil, there was a grave shortage of coal, therefore it was the commonsense thing to encourage it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-11a.1986.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-11", "file": "debates1948-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ca62666ec34dc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-11a.1991.1", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "OIL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Gentleman and referred to my right hon. Friend. The right hon. Gentleman was very concerned about what had been represented to me as the most contentious part of the new arrangements for the issue of standard petrol, that is, in relation to persons in receipt of supplementary allowances who are to have the amount of standard petrol deducted. It is suggested that this is a hardship —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-11a.1991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-11", "file": "debates1948-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ca62666ec34dc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-11a.2015.1", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "OIL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "is that the British people say that none of our men shall remain in Palestine one second longer than the last day fixed for our withdrawal. Others can have their oil: we want world cooperation. Their lives are too valuable for our boys to be kept in the Middle East any longer than is necessary. It is agreement that is required rather than the policy now being pursued. What is going on in Ethiopia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-11a.2015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-11", "file": "debates1948-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ca62666ec34dc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-11a.2059.4", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "OIL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ew motor cars about, but a man with a horse and trap was not called a \"trappist.\" There was a much less elegant sound about that than about \"motorist.\" The term \"motorist\" is apt to conjure up a very grotesque and antique figure, driving an antique car, preceded by a man with a flag and accompanied by a lady wearing a big veil. Today the motorist is the doctor, farmer, or workingman going to work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-11a.2059.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-11", "file": "debates1948-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "1ca62666ec34dc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-11a.2086.1", "colnum": "2086", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION (SAFETY MEASURES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "s 69 in 16 months, which is an average of four a month, or one a week. The return covers the principal causes, and does not cover all accidents. It is worth while comparing this with the world position. In the first quarter of this year, the total number of aircraft casualties, either partially or totally destroyed, in the world, exclusive of the Soviet area, for which figures are not made public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-11a.2086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-12", "file": "debates1948-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "97324c2fe6c0202a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-12a.2180.0", "colnum": "2180", "heading": "Clause 2.— [Definition of river board areas and constitution of river boards.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "I am very worried by the words the Parliamentary Secretary has used on this Amendment. It is made clear that what the Minister intends to do under this Bill is to see that urban interests get undue weightage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-12a.2180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-12", "file": "debates1948-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "97324c2fe6c0202a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-12a.2220.2", "colnum": "2220", "heading": "DOMESTIC COAL ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wheatley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wheatley", "preceding_text": "owed to have their own supply of coal, because they are all of the same family. Young people do not want to spend their evenings at the same fire in the sitting room as the old people. They want their own fire in their own room. They ought to have their own quarters and their own quota of coal. After all, it is hard enough that they cannot have their own house which is the fault of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-12a.2220.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2260.5", "colnum": "2260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE PAY AND CONDITIONS (COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "—and a former member of the T.U.C. General Council; Sir Alexander Ramsay is a director of the Engineering and Allied Employers' National Federation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2260.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2260.5", "colnum": "2260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE PAY AND CONDITIONS (COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "—and a former member of the T.U.C. General Council; Sir Alexander Ramsay is a director of the Engineering and Allied Employers' National Federation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] —Professor Seaborne Davies is professor of common law at Liverpool; and Mr. Sullivan is a member of the Transport and General Workers' Union, and this year's chairman of the Scottish T.U.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2260.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2285.8", "colnum": "2285", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PETROL ALLOWANCE (FOREIGN TOURISTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It takes two or three years.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Williams", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in many cases it takes from six to eight weeks to get a new car?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2285.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2285.11", "colnum": "2285", "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": "pply (15th Allotted Day), Committee. The Ministry of Works estimate will be considered with special relation to administrative costs and buildings until about 7 o'clock; Afterwards, consideration of the Opposition Motion for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the signatures to the Nenni telegram. Friday, 28th May—Second Reading of the Nurseries and Child Minders Regulation Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2285.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2288.9", "colnum": "2288", "heading": "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "r your room? How much will you pay on board?\" And then, a splendid question, the results of which must be immensely valuable from a scientific point of view, \"Which month do you like most in the year?\" I know the idea is to stagger holidays of grown ups, but anyone who has ever had children knows that one cannot stagger the holidays of grown ups until one staggers the holidays of children as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2288.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2298.3", "colnum": "2298", "heading": "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": " makes my mouth water. It is sold for 1s 6d.—it is very good value, with photographs and diagrams. Many of the articles are inaccurate, but let that pass. On page 37 there is a large \"montage\" picture in which is shown cuttings to advertise the success of British films. The purpose is to show how well British films, either Central Office films or other films, have been received all over the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2301.11", "colnum": "2301", "heading": "SUPPLY", "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": "nor of Departmental publicity. I mean the one about the street accidents, the one issued with the driving licence, to which the right hon. Gentleman referred, and from which he quoted something about a particular insurance company. The right hon. Gentleman either did not study the pamphlet at all, or he knew perfectly well that it was published by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2301.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2301.11", "colnum": "2301", "heading": "SUPPLY", "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": "ed to it, but he did not say it was published by them. I am sure that, if this is reported to the country in the way in which the right hon. Gentleman referred to it, the reader will be led to believe that it was issued by the C.O.I. or by the Ministry of Transport. The right hon. Gentleman ought, in fairness, to have said that it was published by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2301.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2340.1", "colnum": "2340", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donovan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donovan", "preceding_text": "f that is all one knows, but suppose one knows that in Greece there is such a thing as \"moral responsibility for murder,\" and that moral responsibility carries a death sentence. It is a term which is capable of, and given, a very elastic interpretation. Suppose one knows that hearsay evidence is admitted in Greece. One can say in the witness box, \"X told me that the prisoner committed the murder.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2345.1", "colnum": "2345", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": " pitifully small as to convict those responsible of gross misjudgment and misunderstanding. Unless such justification is forthcoming, we on this side and, I imagine, many hon. Members on the other side of the Committee, will feel it a most urgent public duty to demand a drastic curtailment of the functions of this Department. After so much criticism I should like to make a constructive suggestion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2355.0", "colnum": "2355", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "ic. That is a somewhat undignified state of affairs. I remember meeting an old lady in my constituency when I was there in January, and she impressed me very much. We were talking about the Marshall Plan in ordinary language, and she said, \"When I was a lass, we should have gone hungry sooner than live on somebody else.\" That is the position which a great many of our people feel and feel strongly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2359.1", "colnum": "2359", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Major Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Bruce", "preceding_text": "ume everyone is actuated by the same motives as they are. What do we find on page to of this pamphlet, which has been so heavily criticised from the Opposition benches today? Under the heading \"The Development Areas,\" it says: Today in those same areas, the heavy industries are providing plenty of employment. Is that true or not? Can any right hon. Gentleman point out and say where it is not true?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2362.3", "colnum": "2362", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Major Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Bruce", "preceding_text": "I can assure the noble Lord that, coming from him, I do not take that as a compliment. Turning to page 10, we find these words, referring to the Development Areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2372.1", "colnum": "2372", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "if my remarks seem a little disjointed. I shall make them rather in the accidental order of my notes on earlier speeches than in any logical sequence. I should like to begin by saying a word about films. I was astonished at the speech of the hon. Member for the Forest of Dean (Mr. Philips Price), who appeared to think that our situation in the Near East can be put right by a few documentary films.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2372.1", "colnum": "2372", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Improved.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ather in the accidental order of my notes on earlier speeches than in any logical sequence. I should like to begin by saying a word about films. I was astonished at the speech of the hon. Member for the Forest of Dean (Mr. Philips Price), who appeared to think that our situation in the Near East can be put right by a few documentary films. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I said that he appeared to think so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2372.1", "colnum": "2372", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " always does more harm than good. There are one or two things which I have to say about films. It is hard on speakers from this side that whenever they mention individual films or posters they have been said to have been niggling about small matters of no great importance; whereas if specific instances have not been given, it has been said that all the objections are half-hearted and generalising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2372.1", "colnum": "2372", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "aching the public which it might be supposed the public do not already know, was that the first step towards taking an active part in municipal politics was to get seven ratepayers to sign a nomination. Otherwise, there was a handsome hero with whom the local schoolmistress fell in love and whose slogan had a curious similarity to the slogan of the party opposite. It was verbally almost identical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2372.1", "colnum": "2372", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption. .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "now whether that was tendentious or not. It requires no extreme malignancy on the part of the spectator to suspect that there may be a tendentious intention concealed there. There has been mention of a poster in which the First Lord of the Treasury besought us to do a) per cent. more. I thought the heaviest charge against it was not launched. It is no use saying that is any small niggling mistake—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2372.1", "colnum": "2372", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "mplex than it used to be in the time of their fathers. I do not ask hon. Gentlemen to believe that I understand the 2oth century any better than they do, nor very much better the 19th, the 18th or 17th century, or any other. I ask them to believe that it has been my professional business to give more attention to the earlier centuries than it has been the professional business of anyone else here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2384.1", "colnum": "2384", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "e Central Office of Information ought to do far more than, so far as I know, it has done already to make known in this country something of what is going on—the great new developments and changes—in the Colonial territories, something of what has been done already by this Government to make the British Empire at last something to begin to be proud of, instead of something to be largely ashamed of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2384.1", "colnum": "2384", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "s; but I am not sure that those dangers are not outweighed by the danger that, during these few critical years, tile people of this country will not be sufficiently informed and inspired. It is difficult for propaganda put out by the Central Office of Information really to inspire people, since it is inhibited from reminding them specifically, in so many words, that this is a Socialist Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-13", "file": "debates1948-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "0671bb0016084de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2388.1", "colnum": "2388", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay", "preceding_text": "y opinion there would be an even worse impression if there were another Government in power. It is not a question of party politics. We have had too much of party politics here today. Suppose a Conservative Government get into power and they have these creative civil servants, what is the position? Where lies freedom under these present conditions? It is exactly what is happening on the Continent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-13a.2388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-14", "file": "debates1948-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "508ec97e85a247da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-14a.2431.1", "colnum": "2431", "heading": "PALESTINE (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "I am not concerned with whether it was before or after the surrender of Haifa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-14a.2431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-14", "file": "debates1948-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "508ec97e85a247da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-14a.2434.5", "colnum": "2434", "heading": "PALESTINE (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. A. V. Alexander)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. A. V. Alexander)", "preceding_text": "tions in this House, and in the course of what I have to say, I shall try to reply categorically to the points that the hon. Member raised. I regret very much the speech of the hon. and gallant Member for Perth (Colonel Gomme-Duncan). It introduced an element into this serious question which indicated no desire in the mind of the hon. and gallant Gentleman except to score party points if possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-14a.2434.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-14", "file": "debates1948-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "508ec97e85a247da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-14a.2455.3", "colnum": "2455", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY (INTERNATIONAL CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "I am quoting what the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford said in this House—that he took it on his conscience—not on the present Prime Minister's conscience, though my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister may have grave responsibilities in other ways— for working out, with the President of the United States, the dropping of these two bombs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-14a.2455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-14", "file": "debates1948-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "508ec97e85a247da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-14a.2455.3", "colnum": "2455", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY (INTERNATIONAL CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "f bridging this abyss of suspicion between the Russians and ourselves in regard to what we really mean to do with the atomic bomb. If I were a Russian and I had that held over my head, as we know it has been held over their heads, that the atomic bomb was being prepared against me and against my country, I should react in the same sort of stupid, foolish and wrong way which the Russians have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-14a.2455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-14", "file": "debates1948-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "508ec97e85a247da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-14a.2461.1", "colnum": "2461", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY (INTERNATIONAL CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "preceding_text": " which, in its political implications, must be seen primarily from the technical point of view. For example, speakers have attempted to estimate the time which they think will elapse before the Soviet Union have a supply of atom bombs. Speaking entirely for myself, on the basis of my own estimation of the position, I am satisfied that the Soviet Union is in possession of atom bombs at the moment.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-14a.2461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-14", "file": "debates1948-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "508ec97e85a247da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-14a.2471.1", "colnum": "2471", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY (INTERNATIONAL CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Could not we push at the open door?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot in the least —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-14a.2471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-05-14", "file": "debates1948-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "508ec97e85a247da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-14a.2518.10", "colnum": "2518", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT FUND (INVESTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "reasury have usurped the rights of the National Debt Commissioners, and the hon. and gallant Member for the New Forest (Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre) wanted to know how the National Debt Commissioners had managed to collect so much of what he called the \"Dalton\" stock. The reason is that that stock, which had gone to a discount, was the stock which would give the best yield at the time they bought it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-05-14a.2518.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.53.3", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I should say that, on a strict interpretation of the Clause, it would not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.53.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. York", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. York", "preceding_text": "This new Clause has been conceived in dishonour, as have a large number of Amendments made to the Bill since it first came before the House. In no respect has there previously been such a deliberate and outspoken attempt to give advantage to the party in power.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "preceding_text": "m in that part of the world at election time for whoever in the district has a car to take the whole lot. Last Saturday I was having supper with a farmer and I was talking about this Clause. Before I had even started to criticise it, my friend's wife said, \"But I do not understand. I take in all our people. I have not the slightest idea how they are going to vote. How are they going to get there?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.63.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "exposed the attraction which this new Clause has for the Socialist Party. Never before in this House have so many hon. Members got up and protested that what they want the law to be is party legislation. Hon. Members opposite pretend sometimes that they are a democratic party. Here they are applauding a provision which will prevent electors from voting. That is the whole object of this new Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "y hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Horncastle (Commander Maitland) for protesting that too many offences were being created at the present time. I am very worried about the extent of black market offences and the sapping of the morale of the electorate. People do not want to become criminals, but they are being forced to become criminals by the legislation which this Government is producing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "ng of the morale of the electorate. People do not want to become criminals, but they are being forced to become criminals by the legislation which this Government is producing. [ Laughter. ] If hon. Members laugh at that, it shows they do not care a bit about it. In fact, the whole object of some—not all—hon. Members is to create a criminal mind because the criminal mind lends itself to Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.68.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "legislation which this Government is producing. [ Laughter. ] If hon. Members laugh at that, it shows they do not care a bit about it. In fact, the whole object of some—not all—hon. Members is to create a criminal mind because the criminal mind lends itself to Socialism. [An HON. MEMBER \"Rubbish.\"] I have seen members of the Socialist Party come into my constituency and dabble in the black market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.72.5", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "No, it did not start on this side of the House. It started with the suggestion that this Government is introducing legislation which is making criminals of people, and that it is the criminals who are voting for the Socialist Party. That was the suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.72.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.73.2", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "of England, so that I know something of the problem of getting the rural electorate to the polls, and I have never found that it has been necessary for the Tory Party to plan how they were going to get the farmers to the polls. Under this Clause the farmer will still be able to go to the poll in his own motor-car, and he will still be able to take his wife, and the cowman if he lives in the house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.73.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.87.0", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn Levy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn Levy", "preceding_text": "l districts has been changing very remarkably. Hon. Members opposite may have had the same personal experience that I have had in talking to agricultural workers and farmers lately, who have volunteered without being asked that at the next election there will be a change in their political allegiance in favour of a Government which for the first time has really served the interests of agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.87.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "I beg the House's pardon. One to every 1,000 voters in the towns and one to every 1,500 in the counties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "n elections, and much to the surprise of some people outside the figure carried at the Speaker's Conference was carried unanimously. I can understand this as far as the Conservatives are concerned, because in some sections of the country some Conservative Members are expected to pour money out like water and they want this limitation as much as the Labour Party who have not got the money to spend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "rset (Viscount Hinchingbrooke) seemed to think that the proposal will be to the disadvantage of the Labour Party. Some Conservatives think like that and feel very sorry for us. They are protesting against the Clause on that account. Some people outside think that the operation of this proposed new Clause will be to the disadvantage of the Conservative Party. The noble Lord the Member for Sandwich—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "You never know. The policeman may give them a lift if they do too much of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.100.2", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then answer it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's point has been put half a dozen times more ably by other hon. Members during the Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.100.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.101.3", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "No. As I say, any interpretation of this law is a matter for the courts, and I can assure the hon. Gentleman that not even the most learned gentlemen in this House—and I challenge the right hon. and learned Member for Hillhead (Mr. J. S. C. Reid) who will be speaking after me to say—that any learned gentlemen in this House would ever anticipate what the decision of a court would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have been listening to you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "I agree that the House has got into a state of confusion, and the reason is that hon. Members did not listen to what the Home Secretary said in reply to the right hon. Member for North Leeds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Hartley Shawcross)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Hartley Shawcross)", "preceding_text": "dmirably achieves that result. The provisions of the Clause appear to be perfectly clear and to raise no kind of legal difficulty whatever. There is no excursion here into those esoteric fields so beloved by some hon. and learned Gentlemen opposite. Under this Clause the use of a motorcar for the purpose of conveying voters to the poll in order to promote the candidature of a particular candidate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.122.3", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "I am glad of confirmation on that point. I challenge the hon. Member for South Ayrshire to gainsay me. He knows full well that what counts in local government elections, particularly in the rural areas of Scotland, is the moral calibre of the various people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.147.0", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "ould prove the case and the matter could be brought before the courts. As the Home Secretary said, that would provide evidence. That is not a satisfactory arrangement either, because to use again as an illustration the case of these two villages which I know very well, it is not only a question of cars being collected on the village green. There are no village greens. These are scattered villages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.150.2", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "at he thought that it was administratively unworkable to transfer the licence within the allocation. The point which I wish to put is that in these rural areas where there is to be a party car allocation of one per 1,500 of the population, working perhaps in a hilly district climbing steep lanes and driving on difficult roads, it may be that a car will develop some defect, mechanical or otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.150.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.159.7", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "There is another point; they still have a supply of cars under the new Clause. More than that, in most boroughs there is a far greater amount of passenger transport than in the county districts. One must have some sympathy for the case of the county district. A number of hon. Members pointed out that under this Clause the boroughs would be cluttered up with cars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.159.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.162.2", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ha, ha.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "preceding_text": "I support what has been, said by the hon. Member for North Croydon (Mr. F. Harris). It so happens that my constituency, being not far from his, had a certain amount to do with his car and transport arrangement in that by-election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.162.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.162.2", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cars.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "preceding_text": "I support what has been, said by the hon. Member for North Croydon (Mr. F. Harris). It so happens that my constituency, being not far from his, had a certain amount to do with his car and transport arrangement in that by-election. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ha, ha.\"] Yes, hon. Members say, \"Ha, ha,\" but who won the by-election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.162.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The Amendment has been accepted.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "wn for what amounts in some constituencies to a reduction of between £40 and £50 on an agreed figure. It is true we have had so many variations of agreements during the course of this Bill that, I suppose, one is becoming fastidious if one resents even one more, but we have had no argument put forward for the inclusion of this additional £2. Not only that, but we have had the £2 included although—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.178.5", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite now change their ground and say this is a good thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.178.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.187.0", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "hich returned people of academic distinction and of no particular party who put forward an independent point of view. I was prepared to accept that—and, indeed, in the cases of some hon. Members I still accept it—as being a possibility; but—and I am not making any reflection on hon. Members who have been returned by the universities—when the universities can be used to return purely party Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Salter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Always.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Salter", "preceding_text": "refrain from voting for people of a particular complexion. On that occasion, he went on to say that the agreement had been broken because some Members—and he was good enough to refer to my right hon. Friend the Member for the Scottish Universities (Sir J. Anderson) and myself—having been elected as Independents, had subsequently voted and spoken more often than not against the present Government.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-14", "file": "debates1948-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "60488f49774b3e1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.201.2", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I gathered that the great burden of the right hon. Gentleman's speech, where it ascended to serious argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-14a.201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-15", "file": "debates1948-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b33e7ce1b940bb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-15a.235.6", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept my hon. Friend's last assertion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-15a.235.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-06-15", "file": "debates1948-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b33e7ce1b940bb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-15a.237.12", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The courts.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "\"Elsewhere\" is a wide term. They wear the kilt in the Army and in the streets, and in some parts of the Highlands. I am not quite clear what the hon. and gallant Gentleman means by \"elsewhere.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-15a.237.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-15", "file": "debates1948-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b33e7ce1b940bb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-15a.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Privilege.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "bolic survival of one Member. Unlike the university seats, which represent a solid bloc at the present time against the Government, this is only one vote. I should have thought that even the Lord President might have considered taking the risk of one vote. Logic and the common sense of the panty opposite are both on their side, but there is something in this greater than logic; there is tradition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-15a.264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-15", "file": "debates1948-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b33e7ce1b940bb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-15a.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "r five Members of this House who had had the courage to vote against the King. What a splendid thing it was that there should be that refuge. I look upon the progress of politics in this country and I think there may come a time when some of us will also have to go down the river and hide from the wrath to come. All these things are happening, and to say that this miserable two and two makes four—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-15a.264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-15", "file": "debates1948-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b33e7ce1b940bb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-15a.371.11", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "preceding_text": "y well known and, ever since the early days of the industrial revolution our products have gone out to the four corners of the earth. The Home Secretary is a good democrat and a person well versed in civic affairs. He will not fail to recognise that there is a psychological aspect to the inclusion of the name of a compact community of 25,000 citizens in the nomenclature of a constituency. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-15a.371.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.404.2", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FALKLAND ISLAND DEPENDENCIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "Could the right hon. Gentleman at least assure us that while this conduct continues there will be no question of disposing of historic ships of the Royal Navy to countries who behave in this way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.418.4", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALAYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I did not want to interrupt the supplementary questions that have been put, but now I want to ask if it is in Order or tolerant that anybody should be allowed to put down a Question referring to \"Communist-inspired murder\" when there is no evidence of any kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.418.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.419.8", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALAYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that nobody knows what sedition is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.419.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I realise that hardship may be caused in certain cases, but taxes have to be paid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.471.1", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "preceding_text": "o be on its technical staff National Joint Board. There has been no suggestion that particular unions are selected for negotiating purposes. I believe that there are 12 or 15 separate unions recognised by the British Electricity Authority for the purposes of negotiation, several of which have no political affiliations of any kind. One of the unions, N.A.L.G.O., is not even affiliated to the T.U.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "de that only 5 per cent. of the stockholders have their shares quoted on the Stock Exchange, but the others are to have their shares valued on the same basis that is the equivalent of Stock Exchange values. I would point out that those people whose stock is not quoted on the Stock Exchange would, in a great number of cases, have great difficulty in disposing of their stocks if they wished to sell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.498.3", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "It would be most improper for me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.498.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "In the first place, I referred to the efficiency of the Birmingham Gas Department and also of the Gas Light and Coke Company in the same sentence. The Parliamentary Secretary should quote the whole of the sentence and not use just part of it. The fact that Mr. Pearson is a very efficient engineer does not necessarily mean that his views on nationalisation are correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.524.5", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do not do it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "that the consumers will benefit by better services. The Opposition have tried to get Amendment after Amendment accepted so that it would be the Government's duty to extend gas services throughout the country, yet the Minister was the first to refuse every such Amendment. At present, any gas undertaking is bound to provide an efficient and abundant supply of gas. They are bound to do it by statute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.524.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "d services have diminished. The Minister's coal, which is now used alternatively for rockeries or tiling roofs, is a perfect example, except that the price now demanded is far more than it was under private enterprise. On the Second Reading the Minister leapt to his feet in indignation when I said that the electricity charges would go up. Since the Second Reading Debate those charges have gone up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": " duty to answer the question—and much depends on the answer—whether such an overburdened Ministry can give adequate time to the affairs of the gas industry? The Lord President rightly said that the Minister is probably the most over-worked man in Britain, but that remark also applies to the Minister's officials. I felt real sorrow when I saw those hardworking civil servants sitting up every night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "the problem of redundancy or worsening conditions. It offers no right of compensation for redundancy, except—to quote the Bill—in such cases and to such extent as the Minister sees fit to provide. I say that this Bill hurts the workers; it hurts the housewives; and it hurts the industrialists. What effect will it have on the tens of thousands of small people who have put their money in gas stocks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "e on the tens of thousands of small people who have put their money in gas stocks? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"] Most of these people are very small people. Many of them are workers. The compensation terms in this Bill are more worthy of the Burmese Government than of the British Government. The policy of using Stock Exchange quotations as a yardstick for compensating investors is absurd and disingenuous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Gaitskell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Gaitskell)", "preceding_text": " in my opinion, an excellent Debate this afternoon, and I think that the reason for that is that we are really working to a timetable, and that the speeches have to come to an end by 10 o'clock; therefore, they are shorter and much more to the point. Moreover, many excellent speeches were made from this side of the House which, unfortunately, could not be made at earlier stages in our proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.544.5", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Well, no, not accurate banter: inaccurate banter—abuse, flattery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.544.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.544.5", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ves. I do not imagine, Mr. Speaker, that you will have read the right hon. Gentleman's speeches in Committee, but certainly if you had listened to them, I cannot help thinking that you would agree with this: that they are extremely reminiscent of that screeching, raucous voice we used to hear from time to time—it spoke in German—over the wireless before and during the war—the voice of Herr Hitler.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.544.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.544.5", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where were you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ong time in the Committee upstairs, and I know that the right hon. Gentleman will allow me a little latitude tonight. I do not wish to insult him, because I think there is a very simple explanation of this. The right hon. Gentleman was Minister of Information during the war, and he no doubt had to listen to all these things, and the result of it is, I am afraid, that he cannot help imitating them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.544.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "of which he knew so little as the right hon. Gentleman did in Committee upstairs. Hon. Members say \"Cheap,\" but they were not in Committee with us upstairs, otherwise they would know that nothing I have said tonight to the right hon. Gentleman compares in offensiveness to the things he has said to my hon. Friends and myself. However, we will leave it there. I turn to an entirely different subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 1920 is a long time ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ntleman had bothered to read what I think is the latest official report on this subject, the 1920 report on co-partnership and profit sharing, he would have found these words The most noticeable feature in the statistics of the profit sharing and co-partnership movement in this country is the large proportion of the schemes which have ceased to exist. That is an official judgment on this movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But there is in gas.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "utious advice on this subject this afternoon. We might ask what has been done in other industries, for instance, the steel industry, about which the Opposition like to talk rather freely nowadays. There is no co-partner-ship in the steel industry. There is no co-partnership scheme in electrical engineering, with which the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Aldershot (Mr. Lyttelton) is associated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.550.5", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "n abominable swindle. Other hon. Members have spoken about barefaced robbery. Even the right hon. and gallant Member for the Scottish Universities (Lieut.-Colonel Elliot) got as far this afternoon as using the word \"looting.\" That was rather extreme for him, I must say. Let us just examine what has been the position of the persons who held stock in the electricity industry, and see how they fared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.550.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.550.5", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not take gas?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": ". Even the right hon. and gallant Member for the Scottish Universities (Lieut.-Colonel Elliot) got as far this afternoon as using the word \"looting.\" That was rather extreme for him, I must say. Let us just examine what has been the position of the persons who held stock in the electricity industry, and see how they fared. [ Interruption. ] A right hon. Gentleman opposite said \"Barefaced robbery.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.550.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Daltons'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way now—it fell, in fact, 9 per cent. to 150, and it is a fact that the shareholder in electricity stock has gained 10 per cent. as a result of having his stock taken over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is because of the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "nd gallant Gentleman the Member for the Scottish Universities made great play with the coal prices. He made great play with electricity prices. I must say I thought that was really unworthy of him. He knows perfectly well why certain electricity charges have gone up. They have gone up because the undertakings which have been taken over were making losses before and it was necessary to put them up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ses before and it was necessary to put them up. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It is because of the Bill.\"] When he talks about the peak load and the B.B.C. being cut off, he knows perfectly well—he was a member of the war Government—that that is due simply and solely to the shortage of plant occasioned by the war. These arguments are really quite ridiculous and quite unworthy even of the Opposition Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " in the end. We do not propose to follow that path or get into that bog. We propose to follow the broad, straight highway signposted in this Bill. This Bill gives the industry the structure which it needs. It compensates the shareholders fairly, and it provides an opportunity for those in the industry to make the fullest possible use of their knowledge and experience. It is not a sensational Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.559.1", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steele", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steele", "preceding_text": "I thought that the hon. Member for The High Peak (Mr. Molson), might raise the point, and the Minister of National Insurance will deal with the principle, but the fact is that I started off by hoping that I might not be asked to say too much. It is getting late and hon. Members are, of course, anxious to get home but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-16", "file": "debates1948-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f49eb143182ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY SERVICES (COMPLAINTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Railway robbery.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "heese. When I came to pay the bill they charged the full price of a full meal. I said, \"Surely, that is absurd.\" They said, \"No, that is what you have to pay.\" And I had to pay it. That difficulty could be overcome by having a table d'hote meal and charging for it, and having an a la carte menu for circumstances like that. It is highway robbery to charge full price for something worth a few pence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-16a.611.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-17", "file": "debates1948-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "c728d9c3d0b9177e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-17a.657.2", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BURMA GOVERNMENT (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "It is not a change of policy by the Burmese Government; it is a speech by the Prime Minister and there is no indication—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-17a.657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-17", "file": "debates1948-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "c728d9c3d0b9177e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-17a.667.9", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAW COTTON PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "easons, they are welcome to do so. Actually I would much prefer to enjoy the Parliamentary luxury of silence and to see things being better done. However, this afternoon we have thought it opportune to set aside half a day of Opposition time to discuss raw cotton prices. Let me begin at the beginning and go to the source of Fabian wisdom and there drink a cup of clear, pellucid Socialist doctrine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-17a.667.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-17", "file": "debates1948-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "c728d9c3d0b9177e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-17a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAW COTTON PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairhurst", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He cannot hedge now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairhurst", "preceding_text": "re and sell in the world market. I remember the time in the industry when a manager would probably sell 100,000 pieces of cloth and the price would be so-and-so. The markets would be closed and on the following day the price of cotton would have changed overnight before he could buy cotton to cover himself. Thus he would find himself unable to fulfil his contract because cotton prices had gone up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-17a.704.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-17", "file": "debates1948-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "c728d9c3d0b9177e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-17a.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAW COTTON PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was speaking of the probability of two years continued high prices. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The right hon. Gentleman certainly was, earlier on. Let it not be forgotten that the Commission, and the Control which preceded it, have already made very considerable gains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-17a.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-17", "file": "debates1948-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "c728d9c3d0b9177e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-17a.747.2", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FILMS AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "f American films should not be regarded purely as a question of the internal industrial economy of the United States, but as an important factor for the publicising abroad of the American way of life. I want to turn to the famous Agreement of 11th March between the right hon. Gentleman and Mr. Eric Johnston That Agreement had much favourable preliminary publicity, probably Governmentally inspired.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-17a.747.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-17", "file": "debates1948-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "c728d9c3d0b9177e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-17a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FILMS AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: No dollars.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": " basis. In this Agreement, by spending £4,500,000 we get something like £15 million of films. We must expect in return to have to make one or two concessions, in order to obtain £11 million worth of films for nothing. It would be a remarkable Agreement if it made no concessions at all. That is precisely what has happened. We are going to benefit by £11 million a year for no money at all in return.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-17a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-17", "file": "debates1948-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "c728d9c3d0b9177e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-17a.768.3", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FILMS AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "When the next election comes, we may have an even better selection than we have now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-17a.768.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-17", "file": "debates1948-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "c728d9c3d0b9177e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-17a.776.3", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FILMS AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did the right hon. Gentleman expect?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "To be quite honest, I have only seen the play, and I was judging from that, and I think the hon. Gentleman has some responsibility for the play, at least. The hon. Member for Bury (Mr. W. Fletcher), whose speech was so different from the speech he made earlier in the afternoon on cotton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-17a.776.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-17", "file": "debates1948-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "c728d9c3d0b9177e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-17a.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FILMS QUOTAS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "Considerably more than 70, but considerably under the number needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-17a.802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-17", "file": "debates1948-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "c728d9c3d0b9177e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-17a.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FILMS QUOTAS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "y astray. The President of the Board of Trade was pleased to be a little severe on what he called the \"schizophrenic and sadistic\" type of films now being produced. I wonder what he would have said of the Elizabethan drama some hundreds of years ago. There is no film at its most extreme which reaches the depths of schizophrenia and sadism which is reached by Shakespeare, and when it comes down to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-17a.802.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-18", "file": "debates1948-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5f4bd4d786d8adbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-18a.909.2", "colnum": "909", "heading": "EDUCATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations (Mr. Gordon-Walker)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations (Mr. Gordon-Walker)", "preceding_text": "ns. It is not the task of this Government to promulgate such advice. Dominion Governments, in fact, would resent our doing so, for it is their affair and they do it on a good and active scale. It is for the receiving Government to paint a picture of the conditions which the emigrant will find. There are two severe material difficulties in the way of the ordinary flow of migration. One is shipping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-18a.909.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-21", "file": "debates1948-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "e0f3378471e56d8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-21a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LONDON DOCKS STRIKE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not do something?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman and the House will agree that this is a matter which must be uppermost in our minds. We are watching the matter very carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-21a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-21", "file": "debates1948-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "e0f3378471e56d8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-21a.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ch more to what I have said. It is a tax which ultimately will be a charge on capital through the income in respect of which the contribution is first imposed. The £25 will have to be paid in all probability out of the corpus. It might be that the wife or the husband in that case would not have recourse against the trustees—it is a smallish sum. If a charity did pay—and it is an unlikely situation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-21a.986.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-21", "file": "debates1948-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "e0f3378471e56d8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-21a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "stage a fortnight ago? Why, on Report, do we find this new, heavily penal proposal? My right hon. Friend the Member for West Bristol (Mr. Stanley) invited the Solicitor-General to give us examples of where persons had been found guilty of these offences, but the right hon. and learned Gentleman was unable to do so. I understand that he has since been to the source of inspiration under the Gallery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-21a.994.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-21", "file": "debates1948-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "e0f3378471e56d8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-21a.1086.5", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He would have tried to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " these complicated details, if necessary, but how in the world are we to do so when the representative of the Government gets up time after time and says he knows nothing whatever about it and relies entirely on the draftsmen? This really would have not have passed on another occasion. If the right hon. Gentleman had been in opposition he would have made a lot of trouble about this kind of thing.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-21a.1086.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-06-22", "file": "debates1948-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "ad84535171157c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1133.4", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "I said that he had been informed of the findings and had expressed to me his desire to withdraw the allegations, which he made in all good faith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-22", "file": "debates1948-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "ad84535171157c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1139.3", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LONDON DOCKS STRIKE", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman say, to allay the natural anxiety felt in constituencies like mine and many other districts based on London for their meat supplies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-22", "file": "debates1948-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "ad84535171157c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1174.3", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "e Act, 1947, under which the Minister might take over a farm, it was laid down that certain payments which might be made should be notionally or actually considered as rent, and therefore as income, and thus become liable to Income Tax. This year the reference is to the Agriculture (Scotland) Bill, which is the Scottish counterpart of the Agriculture Act, 1947. The whole thing is perfectly simple—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-22", "file": "debates1948-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "ad84535171157c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "It is limited in that it must be an enactment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-06-22", "file": "debates1948-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "ad84535171157c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1176.4", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has already spoken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-22", "file": "debates1948-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "ad84535171157c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1179.2", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "ster of Agriculture was not present and it is noticeable today that there is no Minister present representing the agricultural Departments. This is a provision dealing with agriculture, and one would expect that when questions of agriculture and ordering farmers to keep accounts were under discussion, the Chancellor of the Exchequer would have the advice and comfort of the Minister of Agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-22", "file": "debates1948-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "ad84535171157c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1184.1", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Raspberries.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "most of them for the purpose of exclusion from the provision which would apply under the two Amendments—that the farm with an annual value of £100 should continue to be taxed under Schedule B. There are, of course, a great many other activities besides these which lead to exceptional profits. It would be interesting to know, for instance, whether rhubarb is included under fruit of this definition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-22", "file": "debates1948-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "ad84535171157c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1185.2", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rhubarb?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows very well that the line between market gardening and farming is not very clear, but it has been defined by a number of decisions and it does not include growing mushrooms in open fields, growing broccoli or rhubarb in open fields, and so on. There might be a rotational crop of one of these on an ordinary farm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1185.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-22", "file": "debates1948-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "ad84535171157c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1189.0", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "s year from the crop last year, and where profitability one year varies greatly with the profitability another year. I should like to have it categorically stated now what instructions are to be given to whom to decide how to assess. That seems to be the crux of the whole matter. I am afraid that the Chancellor has hardened his heart once again and that we are to get no concession or help because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-22", "file": "debates1948-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "ad84535171157c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1244.2", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "nvolved in this expenditure, then, under the present Income Tax law, he can enter it, as part of the management expenses of his estate. I want to make it quite clear that we are dealing here with landowners and not with farmers. Farmers are not touched by this in so far as they are farming and their farming profits are concerned. We are dealing here with landowners who must be in a pretty big way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1244.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-22", "file": "debates1948-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "ad84535171157c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1245.4", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "Agriculture is de-rated, and considerable sums are given in subsidies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1245.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-22", "file": "debates1948-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "ad84535171157c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1245.6", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I must say, these continual attempts to get something extra for agriculture are grossly unfair to the community generally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1245.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-22", "file": "debates1948-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "ad84535171157c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1260.0", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " investment of that sort is £125. It is unlikely, in the first place, that a person who has a very substantial investment income of £1,000 will have no capital behind that income; that is to say, that he will draw the whole of it from one form of capital investment. It is extremely substantial in terms of quantifiable value. It is in the highest degree unlikely it will not be £125 many times over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-22", "file": "debates1948-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "ad84535171157c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I do not object to the right hon. Member for Epsom (Mr. McCorquodale) complaining that we are discussing this matter at ten minutes past one o'clock in the morning. I know that they are important regulations, but if there had been a little more co-operation earlier tonight, when another Measure was being discussed, we could have avoided sitting so late.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-22a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1345.4", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "In view of the ineffectiveness of the £26 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1345.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1348.7", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "These constant and rather insulting references to a friendly Power do deserve reproof.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1348.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1355.7", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "e is being exported and that it will come back into this country containing various products of a quality lower than that which could be produced at home? Does not he realise that the strawberry crop this year is far greater than it has been for about 10 years and that his Ministry's explanation of the reason why this tinplate is being refused is because the fresh fruit market can absorb the crop?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1355.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1355.7", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": " at home? Does not he realise that the strawberry crop this year is far greater than it has been for about 10 years and that his Ministry's explanation of the reason why this tinplate is being refused is because the fresh fruit market can absorb the crop? [ Interruption. ] Does he realise that those areas producing this fruit which are some distance from dense populations will suffer very greatly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1355.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1377.5", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "re of our Debate. We have heard several speeches of this kind from the right hon. Gentleman, the greater part of which consists in reading out long extracts from the non-controversial passages of the Bill, which is already fully before us, with a few party gibes thrown in to ingratiate him self with his supporters. I shall not myself attempt this afternoon to inject undue heat into the discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1377.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1377.5", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "t Under-Secretary of State for Scotland—who distinguished himself in this Bill almost as much as his chief—said, when winding up: But, as has already been stated, this is a temporary Measure\"— that is the Elections and Jurors Act— and, as far as I can see, when the present Government introduce legislation implementing all the recommendations of the Speaker's Conference that are found practicable\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1377.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1377.5", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "es or other constituencies choose to return the people for whom the great majority wish to vote? The proposition advanced by the Secretary of State for Scotland is, of course, absurd. If, as is probable, he had particularly in mind the result of the by-election in the Scottish Universities when my right hon. and gallant Friend the Member for those universities (Lieut.-Colonel Elliot) was returned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1377.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1377.5", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He lost his ticket.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "nd this Scottish business, his complaint appears to be that my right hon. and gallant Friend was a Conservative. But there were five candidates at this election—a Conservative, Socialist, Liberal, Liberal National and Independent—and all except the Independent were party men, and, with the exception of my right hon. and gallant Friend, all lost their deposits. The Socialist candidate was Dr. Joad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1377.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1419.1", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "ur of the party which they purport to lead. Of course, this House is not bound. Back benchers opposite, if they disagree with their Front Bench when their Front Bench is acting honourably, are entitled to throw out the Government. What they are not entitled to do is to claim that they are honourable men in demanding that their leaders shall act dishonourably. Nobody has ever disputed the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1424.1", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": " passages. After throwing over the Secretary of State for Scotland, in which I agree with him, he said: It would be outrageous if the Ministers did not accept their high obligation, which is to represent the movement which sent them here and the vast movement of public opinion which has occurred since the Speaker's Conference.''—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 14th June, 1948; Vol. 452, c. 192.] Later, he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ased. It is precisely because the Government have chosen a third way—a third way which, in this instance, involves a distinct breach of a clear pledge—that I am not in the least going to accept the criticism that we have been indulging in mere abuse when we describe this as a dirty business of which any honourable man ought to be ashamed. A great deal of humbug has been talked about the principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1462.7", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend the Member for Saffron Walden (Mr. R. A. Butler) challenged the Home Secretary, and asked what it was intended to do about the big cities, whose case had been pressed on Second Reading by the Chancellor of the Duchy. The Home Secretary, knowing perfectly well that 10 days earlier the Cabinet had decided to add 17 seats to the boroughs, never gave any reply of any sort to that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1462.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1471.1", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "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": "tion, they recognise the necessity for an equitable scheme of redistribution, but they object to the Bill on the grounds that it repudiates agreed recommendations of Mr. Speaker's Conference, 1944, and disregards for the purpose of party advantage the findings of the Boundary Commission, thereby bringing discredit on Ministers of the Crown and lowering the traditional standards of our public life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1471.1", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "Conference, 1944, and disregards for the purpose of party advantage the findings of the Boundary Commission, thereby bringing discredit on Ministers of the Crown and lowering the traditional standards of our public life. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Well, it is quite right that the Opposition should applaud the terms of their own Amendment. I have listened to pretty well the whole of this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1471.1", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You will hear it again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "ERS: \"Oh.\"] Oh, yes. Hon. Members should not raise that point at all. I have had reports upon the remainder of it. I am bound to say that I do not think that the Opposition have succeeded in any way in establishing the allegations made in the Amendment to the Motion for the Third Reading. Quite frankly, there is only this difficulty in replying to the Debate, that we have heard it so often before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1471.1", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "l and basic business vote—that is to say, property voting as property voting—is the official policy of the Conservative Party. O.K. by me—except that we do not agree with it—but as a matter of electoral tactics that is fine, that is Conservative policy. It is their intention that although the City of London, the ancient City of London, for which, as the House knows, I have much sentimental regard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1471.1", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of the wrong kind.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "f the Conservative Party. O.K. by me—except that we do not agree with it—but as a matter of electoral tactics that is fine, that is Conservative policy. It is their intention that although the City of London, the ancient City of London, for which, as the House knows, I have much sentimental regard—[HON. MEMBERS: Oh.\"] Yes, I have—and historical feeling, both as a Londoner and as a Parliamentarian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1471.1", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "he region of 4,000 or 5,000, the Conservative Party will restore one Member of Parliament to the City of London for 4,000 or 5,000 electors. That is item No. 2 of the constructive policy of the Conservative Party. Certainly it is their firm intention to restore the 12 university Members. That is to say, they will confer upon the universities of the country, with which we certainly have no quarrel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1471.1", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "for 4,000 or 5,000 electors. That is item No. 2 of the constructive policy of the Conservative Party. Certainly it is their firm intention to restore the 12 university Members. That is to say, they will confer upon the universities of the country, with which we certainly have no quarrel—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] We have no quarrel with the universities, none whatever, and they have no quarrel with us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1477.3", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I gather it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1477.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1477.3", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Look it up in the Library.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I gather it was. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I cannot see what else it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1477.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1477.3", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I gather it was. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I cannot see what else it was. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Look it up in the Library.\"]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1477.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1479.1", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " of the Duchy. Far be it from me not to let the Chancellor of the Duchy have any credit to which he is entitled in this matter, because it was a creditable operation and nothing for him to be ashamed about, but there were other minds than the mind of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster at work on this, including that of my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary himself, but as a matter of fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1480.3", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "They achieved remarkable success. The whole of the agreement was based upon the intention that it was accepted by the representatives of that particular Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-23", "file": "debates1948-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc46bbe71d54507e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1482.0", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Party, another Government and an entirely different House of Commons. I entirely repudiate, with sincerity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-23a.1482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-24", "file": "debates1948-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "f3f4e72e87fca0f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1538.5", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALIENS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Dr. Joad.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Excuse my saying so, Mr. Speaker, but this matter becomes more and more amazing. I want to ask the Home Secretary, in view of the written answer last Thursday, whether this man came to this country without permission and was detained and whether, when he was left on his own, he was put off a bus because he could not pay his fare? Will the Home Secretary tell us who paid his fare to this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1538.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-24", "file": "debates1948-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "f3f4e72e87fca0f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1584.2", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "No Minister can correct in 12 months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1584.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-24", "file": "debates1948-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "f3f4e72e87fca0f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1584.8", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": " quoted thus: We know that given the right men, and the right atmosphere … we can inspire this great national industry. … What my right hon. Friend said was: We know that given the right men, and the right atmosphere, together with public good will and organisation …\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 29th January, 1946; Vol. 418, c. 716.] The right hon. Gentleman missed out those last words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1584.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-24", "file": "debates1948-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "f3f4e72e87fca0f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1594.1", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ck me because it is my direct responsibility as Minister. All I can say is this. How anybody in the face of those figures can say that there is not, in fact, a real improvement since last year I cannot say. I cannot understand either how anyone could say, as the \"Daily Express\" said, that the Coal Board is an ill-conceived, top-heavy bureaucratic organisation which has failed to secure production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-24", "file": "debates1948-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "f3f4e72e87fca0f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1657.1", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "of it. The answer is simple and straightforward; we can have what wages we like in the mining industry and as much welfare as we want, but it has to be paid for out of the coal that is produced inside the mining industry. There is no difference of opinion between one side of the Committee and the other as to what we want to give the miners, but we cannot do these things unless we produce the coal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-24", "file": "debates1948-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "f3f4e72e87fca0f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1675.3", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the right hon. and learned Gentleman will tell the Committee what the change in O.M.S. at the face was between 1937 and 1945, and the corresponding increase in mechanisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1675.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-24", "file": "debates1948-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "f3f4e72e87fca0f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1681.1", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Robens)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Propaganda.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Robens)", "preceding_text": "hon. Members opposite and ourselves. But there can be no question on this side of the Committee that, whether or not private enterprise could have faithfully implemented the Reid Report, we are satisfied that, without nationalisation, the question would have been not of reaching the high target set by my right hon. Friend, but of producing any coal at all in many of the coalfields of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-24", "file": "debates1948-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "f3f4e72e87fca0f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1681.1", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Robens)", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Robens)", "preceding_text": "n. Referring once again to something which the right hon. and learned Member for West Derby said, I get a little sick and tired of absenteeism being thrown in the face of the miner. He is the only worker in this country who has that thrown in his face. Why is that? It is because in mining more statistics are available than in any other industry in the country. It would be a most interesting thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-24", "file": "debates1948-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "f3f4e72e87fca0f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1684.1", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "If a miner slept at the coalface, as the hon. and gallant Member for New Forest and Christchurch (Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre) is now sleeping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-24", "file": "debates1948-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "f3f4e72e87fca0f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1684.5", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "t enter into that technical production position, which was still not controlled. I will take 1941. From that year, when the output per man-year was 295 tons, right down to 1945, when the Labour Government came to power, there was a steady decline in production, which dropped to 246 tons per man-year over those four years. From the moment the Labour Government was elected, production began to rise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1684.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-06-24", "file": "debates1948-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "f3f4e72e87fca0f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1687.2", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": " a point of Order. The Parliamentary Secretary has made an accusation against me. He suggested that I was questioning the money which was spent on pneumoconiosis. I did nothing of the kind. A statement was made earlier in the Debate that it was 5s. or 6s. a ton. I wanted to know whether the Parliamentary Secretary was able to give the figure for it. I am as much concerned as anybody in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-24", "file": "debates1948-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "f3f4e72e87fca0f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1687.4", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "me in which to deal with many of the other interesting points raised. I should have been glad to do so. In conclusion, I would say that it is often said, with great truth, that Britain's greatness was built on coal. That is true, but that greatness was also built upon the misery of wretched conditions, the insecurity of employment and under-payment of the British miner. Every mining village today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-24a.1687.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-25", "file": "debates1948-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "da5c5b7cd5b42254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-25a.1733.1", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "RT, 29th April, 1909; Vol. c. 501.\"] I commend that to the Economic Secretary, and would like him to read the whole speech. Then Mr. Lloyd George, as he then was, said that he was putting up Income Tax only from 1s. to 1s. 2d. Now we are calmly accepting the tax of 9s. Mr. Lloyd George was putting on Surtax of 6d. in the £ on incomes of over £5,000 a year. Now we have Surtax at 10s. 6d. in the £.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-25a.1733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-25", "file": "debates1948-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "da5c5b7cd5b42254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-25a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Some do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "0 to invest and, who at the end of it all, would find himself with very heavy additional taxation in comparison with the wealth left after paying Income Tax and Surtax. In order to drive this case home, however, the hon. Member then dropped on the notion of the man with £100,000 who wrapped it up in a stocking at home; he would pay nothing at all. People do not do that sort of thing with £100,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-25a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-25", "file": "debates1948-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "da5c5b7cd5b42254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-25a.1785.3", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only in the earlier stages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I think can remember such occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-25a.1785.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-06-25", "file": "debates1948-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "da5c5b7cd5b42254", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-25a.1786.6", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is the brick.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "An astonishing statement. We cannot accept that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-25a.1786.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-28", "file": "debates1948-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ccbd97c3e78f86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-28a.1820.8", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. The Minister gave a completely inaccurate answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-28a.1820.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-28", "file": "debates1948-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ccbd97c3e78f86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-28a.1820.8", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. The Minister gave a completely inaccurate answer—[ Interruption. ] May I raise this matter on the Adjournment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-28a.1820.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-28", "file": "debates1948-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ccbd97c3e78f86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-28a.1842.1", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DOCKS STRIKE (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "ime Minister has just given the House, is it not the case that all along he has been misinformed, in that during last week he told us that he had hopes that the dockers would return to work? In view of the fact that he has been so misinformed, would he not reconsider his attitude and meet the leaders of the Strike Committee in order to discuss with them the terms on which they will return to work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-28a.1842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-28", "file": "debates1948-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ccbd97c3e78f86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-28a.1905.1", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOURTH SCHEDULE.—(Repeals.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "This is a good Bill, and it has become a better Bill because of the atmosphere in which it was discussed during all its stages up to date. There were no discordant voices in Committee. Why? Simply because, as many hon. Members have said, there was only one aim in the mind of every Member of the Committee. There is another factor about it which I like. It does not need any capital expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-28a.1905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-29", "file": "debates1948-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b789cceb871f8f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-29a.2041.0", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLY (INQUIRY AND CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Malpractices.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "ering, due not to a monopoly, but to a kind of understanding between traders that the public had to be fleeced in a certain direction. That is the power, even if that is not what it means. It is laid down very clearly that: The Board of Trade may at any time require the Commission to submit to them a report on the general effect on the public interest of practices. … What kind of practices?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-29a.2041.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-29", "file": "debates1948-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b789cceb871f8f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-29a.2046.3", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLY (INQUIRY AND CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "his way of trying to make it an obligation to achieve X—to achieve the public interest, the whole public interest and nothing but the public interest—we are, in fact, getting a rigidity and an extreme doctrinairism which I believe will make this Clause either nugatory—something which is just mere pious uplift—or will make it excessively constrictive. I could explain the point at very great length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-29a.2046.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-29", "file": "debates1948-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b789cceb871f8f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-29a.2063.4", "colnum": "2063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLY (INQUIRY AND CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " quite possible, for instance, that the Housewives League might take a part against the present Administration, and it is absolutely certain that if a Conservative Administration were in power, the organisations of the present Government and those associated with them in the industrial field would use the device of this Clause for the purpose of besmirching those against whom they had some grudge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-29a.2063.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-29", "file": "debates1948-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b789cceb871f8f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-29a.2099.3", "colnum": "2099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLY (INQUIRY AND CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "preceding_text": "motive and origin of a private monopoly is to satisfy the interests of a private body of people, it obviously is an organisation which is ripe for this kind of inquiry. The position is totally different with a nationalised enterprise. Hon. Members opposite smile, but I have not heard them criticise the Post Office which has been admitted by them to be the finest business organisation in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-29a.2099.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-29", "file": "debates1948-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6b789cceb871f8f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-29a.2116.1", "colnum": "2116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONOPOLY (INQUIRY AND CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "If the House will grant me permission to answer the hon. Gentleman's invitation, may I say two things? First, I have always been an advocate, as the hon. Gentleman knows, of a non-legalistic procedure for this Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-29a.2116.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-30", "file": "debates1948-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7ca14d914f01f99d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-30a.2185.8", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "preceding_text": "As an hon. Member who, apparently, is alleged to be not equal in standing to the hon. Member for East Woolwich, in that he has taken at dictation from the Minister the wording of the Question put down, might I protest on this and ask the Minister whether he is aware that, in point of fact, there are two schools of thought in Bath—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-30a.2185.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-30", "file": "debates1948-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7ca14d914f01f99d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-30a.2228.1", "colnum": "2228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "an be moved at once. As soon as the land and water communications, either singly or together, are opened, we shall proceed to move it with great speed and avoid any deterioration of the health and well-being of the population. We have heard this morning that Marshal Sokolovsky has now indicated that some, at least, of the technical difficulties over communications can be overcome, but in addition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-30a.2228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-30", "file": "debates1948-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7ca14d914f01f99d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-30a.2256.1", "colnum": "2256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington-Lodge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington-Lodge", "preceding_text": "ruelty. I have not touched very much on the Berlin position. There the physical facts must be matched to considerations of prestige. I am not quite sure this so far has been done. As it is, and having committed ourselves, I entirely agree we must be and must remain absolutely firm, especially, I would add, as I think that Russia's hostility is technical and administrative only at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-30a.2256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-30", "file": "debates1948-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7ca14d914f01f99d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-30a.2268.1", "colnum": "2268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ue for dismantling, which in Mr. Hoover's view it was necessary to get going, not only for German economy, but to help generally in the revival of Europe. Mr. Hoover goes on to explain what everybody ought to know but nobody seems to know—that a factory cannot be pulled down and be expected to be of the same value when it is on the floor as it was when it was standing up. That is quite elementary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-30a.2268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-30", "file": "debates1948-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7ca14d914f01f99d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-30a.2271.1", "colnum": "2271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: The figure is 1,750.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " too little building going on there at the present time. I conclude on that very unsatisfactory note in regard to dismantling and hope that I shall have some assurances from my right hon. Friend when he comes to reply. It would obviously be out of place if I finished without saying a word about food. The rumour has now got abroad in Germany that from tomorrow the calorie level is going up to 1,800", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-30a.2271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-30", "file": "debates1948-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7ca14d914f01f99d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-30a.2292.1", "colnum": "2292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "n Secretary stood at that Box and declared that he was going to nationalise the industries in the British zone, he made a declaration which prepared the way for economic unity with the Soviet Union but not for economic or political unity with American monopoly capitalism. But he did not carry out that pledge. He has a nice excuse now. The excuse is democracy. It is an amazing word, this democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-30a.2292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-30", "file": "debates1948-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7ca14d914f01f99d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-30a.2293.1", "colnum": "2293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I would gladly make a digression and talk about that, but the Chairman would rule that out of Order. I consider that interjections of that kind represent the meanest and most cowardly type of interjection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-30a.2293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-30", "file": "debates1948-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7ca14d914f01f99d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-30a.2296.1", "colnum": "2296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " war is launched on the people of Europe and the world, it will not only mean appalling slaughter and devastation, but the finish of this country. I insist that what I said at Question Time is correct, that any talk of war on the part of the leaders of this country is talk of national suicide. I ask the Government and the Foreign Secretary to weigh well the serious situation they have got us into—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-30a.2296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-30", "file": "debates1948-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7ca14d914f01f99d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-30a.2320.3", "colnum": "2320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State (Mr. McNeil)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State (Mr. McNeil)", "preceding_text": " a word to the hon. Member for West Fife. I had great difficulty in following his argument. As far as I could follow it, apparently we have no rights in Berlin. He said that clearly enough, but he did not stop to deal with the evidence of my right hon. Friend. It seems that we have no rights and that we have one obligation—to conform to Soviet wishes in this place at all times and in every respect", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-30a.2320.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-06-30", "file": "debates1948-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7ca14d914f01f99d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-30a.2324.3", "colnum": "2324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: It is 35.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is inaccurate even there. The difference between 1,715 and 1,750 is 45.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-06-30a.2324.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-01", "file": "debates1948-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5ff558c79ab7998b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-01a.2370.5", "colnum": "2370", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "Is the Financial Secretary aware that there is great resentment by foreigners arriving in this country who have their money stolen from them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-01a.2370.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-01", "file": "debates1948-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5ff558c79ab7998b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-01a.2392.1", "colnum": "2392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "e fact that the Government were backing these exports made payment abroad more certain. That moral backing has been of immense value in trade during all those years. I am glad to be able to congratulate the Minister on paying tribute to something done by two Governments about which, I am quite sure, if he looks back at his own speeches he will find he said that they had never done any good at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-01a.2392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-01", "file": "debates1948-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5ff558c79ab7998b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-01a.2468.0", "colnum": "2468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX ARREARS (EX-SERVICE MEN)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "May 1, by leave of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-01a.2468.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-02", "file": "debates1948-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "34568cbdb2c424c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-02a.2470.2", "colnum": "2470", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (LISTS OF DOCTORS)", "cue_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": "Is it not absolutely unfair to put the whole blame for the delay on the doctors, than whom there is no more public-spirited body in the whole country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-02a.2470.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-02", "file": "debates1948-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "34568cbdb2c424c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-02a.2481.3", "colnum": "2481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "hese restrictions upon his work and his production, I ask the Minister, either in Committee or in another place, to reconsider the Bill and to see whether something can be done to bring in a new Bill or to improve the present one. If the Minister can do nothing else, he can insist that permission must be given in particular cases to the employer's doctor to act for the employer as against the man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-02a.2481.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-05", "file": "debates1948-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "649d5bdfed1b94b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.33.7", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "I have the services of a part-time art expert. [ Laughter. ] It is a surprising thing how some people regard themselves as experts on jobs they know nothing about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.33.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-05", "file": "debates1948-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "649d5bdfed1b94b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And after six years of war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "ut this aid, then we must ask ourselves the second question, which is whether the terms upon which it is offered are too onerous or too hampering for us to accept. I do not think that any hon. Member in any part of the House, whether he is in favour of this Agreement or not, could help feeling a certain sense of humiliation at the straits to which our country is reduced after three years of peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-05", "file": "debates1948-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "649d5bdfed1b94b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " acclaim the achievements of the Socialist Government. What they omit to say is that, for example, full employment—which it would have taken the grossest mismanagement not to secure, so great were the needs and so large the shortages in the world—the social services, and the very standard of life itself have only been sustained by huge loans from a capitalist country, the United States of America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-05", "file": "debates1948-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "649d5bdfed1b94b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.74.3", "colnum": "74", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "I am prepared to substantiate it. I have already substantiated it, in the words which the Chancellor himself used, but which I am not going to read again, when he said Britain would starve and our factories would close, without more American aid. I shall vote for this Agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.74.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-05", "file": "debates1948-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "649d5bdfed1b94b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.75.1", "colnum": "75", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To exploit us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Smith", "preceding_text": "h with him because, in proving the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Aldershot wrong, I propose to call his right hon. and gallant Friend the Member for the Scottish Universities as a very material witness. The only constructive suggestion made by the right hon. Member for Aldershot was that Americans should be given every opportunity to invest their capital in this country and in its Colonies.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.75.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-05", "file": "debates1948-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "649d5bdfed1b94b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " the integrity of his right hon. and learned Friend. I must confess, that confidence has been a little shaken, and in future I shall feel tempted to examine very closely every perceptible facet of any answer which my right hon. and learned Friend may give at any time to any Member of this House. Never before have I asked the House to listen to me for more than 20 minutes, and I must now ring down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-05", "file": "debates1948-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "649d5bdfed1b94b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "at point is very easily dealt with. The loan arrangement was put through originally nearly three years ago, and a great deal that was in it was experimental. How those clauses were going to work at length began to be recognised both across the Atlantic and here, and many attempts were made to get the Chancellor and the Government to see how things were going and the new turn that things had taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.99.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-07-05", "file": "debates1948-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "649d5bdfed1b94b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.106.2", "colnum": "106", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "I would rather the hon. Member did not interrupt me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-05", "file": "debates1948-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "649d5bdfed1b94b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.108.0", "colnum": "108", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": " Article III contains the first express provisions by a British Government for the incursion of large-scale American investments into the United Kingdom. Hon. Members may think that that cannot harm us, for British capitalists have long since given up trying to invest in the United Kingdom. It is some time since the British capitalist has been prepared to invest in the basic industries of Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-05", "file": "debates1948-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "649d5bdfed1b94b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.108.0", "colnum": "108", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has had it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "lemen opposite will look at their copies, they will find that Section in 111 ( a ) prescribes the duty of the Administrator and says, the Administrator may … furnish assistance … upon the terms and conditions set forth in this title\"— which are hideous enough— and such additional terms … as he may determine. If the right hon. Gentleman would like more read out, he can have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-05", "file": "debates1948-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "649d5bdfed1b94b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "In any event I wish to be consistent about this. I have expounded this theory from many platforms in the country, and I feel I can be consistent only by repeating it here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-05", "file": "debates1948-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "649d5bdfed1b94b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "preceding_text": "If they lived in Somerset they would not necessarily take their holidays in North Devon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-05a.150.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-07-06", "file": "debates1948-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "1a91e5c8ed4427a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-06a.217.2", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "ntleman what the Socialists in this House are doing. Let me refer to a speech by the Foreign Secretary that was reported a few days ago. He said: We cannot carry out the new European recovery system we are evolving unless we are quite sure that the capacity of each, industry is such as to give effect to the plan in its totality. We cannot leave it to the Prudential Assurance and to the financiers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-06a.217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-06", "file": "debates1948-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "1a91e5c8ed4427a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-06a.218.2", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Member will allow me to repeat just what I did say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-06a.218.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-06", "file": "debates1948-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "1a91e5c8ed4427a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-06a.219.1", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the weather.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "e Government will go on drifting, waiting for something to turn up, like a fall in the prices of our imports; but, then the full responsibility for that disaster, should it come, will be seen to rest fairly and squarely on the British Labour Government. Having first had the American Loan and now Marshall Aid, they will not be able to fix the blame for their own incompetence upon the outside world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-06a.219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-06", "file": "debates1948-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "1a91e5c8ed4427a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-06a.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "As it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-06a.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-06", "file": "debates1948-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "1a91e5c8ed4427a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-06a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION", "cue_speaker": "Major Bruce", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A tinker's cuss.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Bruce", "preceding_text": "I am glad hon. Members opposite are getting self-conscious.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-06a.281.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-07-06", "file": "debates1948-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "1a91e5c8ed4427a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-06a.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Salter", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I need define further what I mean by fellow travellers. It is pretty evident to everyone here. What I was about to say was that I hope that they will be alone in opposing this Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-06a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-06", "file": "debates1948-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "1a91e5c8ed4427a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-06a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "itted to using our best endeavours�ž \"( a ) To adopt or maintain the measures necessary to ensure efficient and practical use of all the resources available to it, including— ( b ) to promote the development of industrial and agricultural production on a sound economic basis; to achieve such production targets as may be established through the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation;\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-06a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-07", "file": "debates1948-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f349bc7050d065bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman make inquiries about certain dumps on non-requisitioned agricultural land which are becoming the homes of a lot of vermin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-07", "file": "debates1948-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f349bc7050d065bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.359.10", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAUDI ARABIA (BRITISH MILITARY MISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Manning", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Manning", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order. Has it not always been the rule in this House that you, Mr. Speaker, indicate when a Member has caught your eye—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.359.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-07", "file": "debates1948-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f349bc7050d065bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH NATIONALITY BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who does?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ch of the Dominions that has been created by the Statute of Westminster. I know there are also some who feel that it is wrong to have a citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies. Some people feel that it would be a bad thing to give the coloured races of the Empire the idea that, in some way or other, they are the equals of people in this country. The Government do not subscribe to that view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-07", "file": "debates1948-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f349bc7050d065bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH NATIONALITY BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "Clause 1 (1) of the Bill as now drafted says: Every person who under this Act is a British subject of the United Kingdom and Colonies. … We propose to make it read again \"citizen.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-07", "file": "debates1948-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f349bc7050d065bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH NATIONALITY BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir David Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir David Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "Before I address myself to the arguments on this Bill, I hope the right hon. Gentleman will not think it an intrusion if I venture to convey from his colleagues in every part of the House our deep sympathy with him in his recent loss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-07", "file": "debates1948-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f349bc7050d065bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH NATIONALITY BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "preceding_text": "ject, is deprived of that position. It is something of which we really are custodians. Some of the proposals in the Bill as it has emerged from another place will not help us. It would be a terrible mistake, at this juncture when so many changes are taking place, if we tried to assume that we know better than the Dominions what they want. I understand that they have all asked for this legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-07", "file": "debates1948-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f349bc7050d065bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.485.1", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH NATIONALITY BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "is Bill. Let me give an example. I think I am right in saying that New Zealand has not yet legislated at all on these lines. Are the Government quite certain that, when the New Zealand Government come to legislate, they will not use the words \"British subject of New Zealand\"? I do not regard that as at all impossible. If they did use that phrase, it certainly would not wreck the scheme in any way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-07", "file": "debates1948-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f349bc7050d065bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.518.0", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman should have adopted the attitude he has adopted, the more so as I fully recognise that he has made an attempt to meet the point which was urged from both sides of the House on the Report stage. Really, the right hon. Gentleman in his references to the requests made from this side of the House took what I must describe as a legalistic attitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-07", "file": "debates1948-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f349bc7050d065bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.520.0", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "speak to another. What I very much object to is, whatever Amendment he was speaking to, or thinking he was speaking to, that there is a perfectly clear implication in his words \"least of all to parents who may not be as careful about what they do with them as they should be.\" There is the perfectly clear suggestion there that parents are not to be trusted with documents relating to their children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-07", "file": "debates1948-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f349bc7050d065bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.538.10", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONEL TASSOEV", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: And Marshal Tito.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": " I hope will not offend my hon. Friend the Member for King's Norton (Mr. Blackburn). Suppose there are some Portuguese refugees, will they be accommodated? There are countries where persons of colour do not get all the rights of free citizens. If there is a deserter, a humble coloured private from the forces of such a country, will he be accommodated? What if a general deserted from Franco's army?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.538.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-07", "file": "debates1948-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "f349bc7050d065bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONEL TASSOEV", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": " the Colonies if there is any truth in the statement that there is Communist agitation, one gets no answer. The same situation occurs here. We do not mind which way the facts go. We want to know what the facts are. It matters not whether the facts go in favour of the Communists or against them. On the benches opposite, if the facts go in favour of the Communists they do not want to hear the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-07a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-08", "file": "debates1948-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "7975675f0e6db1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-08a.609.2", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "ut up a better defence than that which he has already made if he is to satisfy public opinion here and in Malaya. I would like to associate myself with what the right hon. Gentleman said about the late Sir Edward Gent. He was a personal friend of mine for nearly 30 years, and the Colonial Empire has certainly never had a more able or devoted servant, nor has Malaya ever had a more faithful friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-08a.609.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-08", "file": "debates1948-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "7975675f0e6db1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-08a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harrison", "preceding_text": "derstanding between this country and China. I was describing the friendly regard that most of the Chinese have for us in Great Britain, and, while I was speaking a Chinese mob was almost simultaneously storming the Shameen Bridge of Canton and succeeded in burning down the consulate. A few weeks before, as members of the Parliamentary Good Will Mission to China, we were sleeping in that consulate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-08a.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-08", "file": "debates1948-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "7975675f0e6db1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-08a.631.3", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "Possibly some was being kept for seed, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-08a.631.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-08", "file": "debates1948-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "7975675f0e6db1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-08a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Digby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Digby", "preceding_text": "fficulties, but nevertheless the possibilities are there, and I hope that the Government will address their mind to these difficulties, not only in words but in deeds, and will not think that the groundnut scheme in Tanganyika is enough for this enormous undeveloped territory. There is plenty more work to be done. It is about 2,000 years since a Roman poet—I will not attempt to quote him in Latin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-08a.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-08", "file": "debates1948-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "7975675f0e6db1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-08a.705.7", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CAPITAL GOODS (EXPORT PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "r the Department of Overseas Trade, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury or my hon. Friend the Economic Secretary to the Treasury has made to any of the manufacturers. The only one I can find is the one made by the President of the Board of Trade, which I quoted. I consider that that is entirely inadequate. All that the manufacturers need to be told is that no stigma attaches to making profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-08a.705.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-09", "file": "debates1948-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "5119f7f639fbbd20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-09a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "FACTORIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "s this: the factory inspector can come along to a factory to see the records. There is no particular accident or matter relating to the factory that has been brought to his attention. He just wants to see the records. He can see the records in the office of the management. He will go there and look at them. He will exchange a few words with the management by way of courtesy, and leave the factory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-09a.751.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-07-12", "file": "debates1948-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "c7f50f6e0e50cc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.843.1", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE REGULATIONS (PUBLICATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "So if an order came into operation two days before it was published, the Financial Secretary would not consider there had been any delay. Would he tell us what, in his view, is delay?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-12", "file": "debates1948-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "c7f50f6e0e50cc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "ant depriving our own people of this very essential ingredient of agriculture in order to give it to someone else and it is quite clear that imports into Eire from hard currency countries must be financed by us. It is very nearly three years now since the war ended and this Government came into power. Those three years have witnessed a steady decline in the quantity and quality of our food supply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-12", "file": "debates1948-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "c7f50f6e0e50cc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Mr. Strachey)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cheer up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Mr. Strachey)", "preceding_text": "y that it is perfectly true that the forecasts that we made for the end of this potato year—for the month of May and the beginning of June—were, I use the word quite frankly, falsified by the event in the sense that the potato crop this year was the earliest in living memory and was extremely bountiful. All I can say is that I heartily wish that every estimate I made was falsified in the same way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-12", "file": "debates1948-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "c7f50f6e0e50cc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Mr. Strachey)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Snoek.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Mr. Strachey)", "preceding_text": "amount to spend in South Africa and we could not fit in that purchase. When the right hon. and learned Gentleman speaks of South Africa as being in the sterling area, he is correct in one sense, but beyond a certain point any purchase from South Africa means that we get that much less gold so that it is the exact equivalent of hard currency or dollar payment. We simply could not afford these peas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-12", "file": "debates1948-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "c7f50f6e0e50cc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.876.0", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "This Committee knows perfectly well that there is no greater adept than the Minister at putting in things which, when they are read out, will give quite a different impression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-12", "file": "debates1948-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "c7f50f6e0e50cc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": ". I most categorically deny both accusations and I should like to see them justified and substantiated. I ask the Committee to recall what, in fact, we did say. In the original White Paper, Cmd. 7033, of 1st February, 1947, our actual words were: Serious difficulties and delays, many of them unforeseeable, may arise in the course of the undertaking. What is there wildly over-optimistic about that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-12", "file": "debates1948-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "c7f50f6e0e50cc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They want to get out of this country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "sort is something that this country should engage in today. It does seem to me of vital importance that in a perhaps, rather humdrum, drab world, we should start some project, some enterprise, which strikes the imagination and this scheme has struck people's imagination. The Overseas Food Corporation have had over 100,000 applications from men and women of this country to go to work on the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-12", "file": "debates1948-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "c7f50f6e0e50cc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Another phrase is", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Another phrase is", "preceding_text": "e met largely through increased yields rather than increased acreage. That is certainly true of this country. People always seem to forget that the purpose of agriculture is the raising of food. That is why I suggested, at the beginning of the war in 1939, that the Minister of Food should be in the main responsible and that the Minister of Agriculture should be a sort of factory manager under him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-12", "file": "debates1948-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "c7f50f6e0e50cc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.905.3", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Never mind.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "l, because we do; we want that as fervently as anyone. I noticed that the other points on which the right hon. Gentleman was cheered were when he read out utterances made by other people, but not his own. The first was a letter on the well-being of children. I am sure the Committee is gratified to learn that the children are so well, in spite of the severity of rationing. The other had to do with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.905.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-12", "file": "debates1948-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "c7f50f6e0e50cc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.939.3", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us where.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "preceding_text": "hese benches about vegetable prices last year were fully justified. The position is very different today, however, and during the last few weeks we have seen fruit and vegetables of all kinds at very much more reasonable prices. My hon. Friend the Member for West Salford (Mr. Royle) said that prices were still exorbitant. That may be so, but I have seen cherries in the shops at 6d. and 1s. per lb.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.939.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-12", "file": "debates1948-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "c7f50f6e0e50cc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Edward Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Edward Davies", "preceding_text": "s going to disclose weaknesses in our administration which, if properly attended to, would lead to beneficial results. But, when the Minister of Food got up—and I noted the words of the hon. Member for Holland with Boston who said that the Minister did so \"sheepishly and modestly,\" I do not think he was at all sheepish but he was certainly modest for that is the nature of the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-12", "file": "debates1948-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "c7f50f6e0e50cc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "r Southport (Mr. R. S. Hudson), had not previously gone back and changed this antiquated 1939 system. Now I know the reason—it is because the Minister of Food tells him that, working it out in coarse grains for beef, we should not get more coarse grains for producing bacon and eggs in this country. What are the facts? Let us look at poultry. If we could have doubled the imports of maize this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-12", "file": "debates1948-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "c7f50f6e0e50cc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No railway engines.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "y were due to the extravagant ambitions of the Minister of Food. If he can get groundnuts from East Africa in sufficient quantities in sufficient time, I shall be the first to congratulate him. What I am far more concerned about is what is happening on the other side of Africa where there are some 300,000 tons of groundnuts that have not been moved as speedily as they would have been moved if the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-12", "file": "debates1948-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "c7f50f6e0e50cc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": " that it is the Minister of Food who is entirely responsible. He told us that he had congratulated the Vulcan Works when the locomotives were built. I would rather that he had pointed out to the Vulcan Works how important it was that the locomotives should have been delivered when asked for, which was in 1945 and not 1948. It is true that in 1945 the Ministry was still working under Sir Ben Smith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-12", "file": "debates1948-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "c7f50f6e0e50cc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "ocation of only one ounce per ration book. It may be that hon. Gentlemen who represent other constituencies have been more fortunate. I want to find out. Perhaps Dundee and Fulham and the industrial centres have had more. The feeling among the grocers and the housewives in the North of England is that these large stocks of food are being hoarded for what?—Christmas or is it for a General Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-12", "file": "debates1948-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "c7f50f6e0e50cc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.960.5", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "d West Salford (Mr. Royle) reminded the Committee that we must realise that, although we are now concerned with obtaining enough food for this country, we must think along a different line. Hon. Members have perhaps forgotten that this is the last report of Sir John Boyd Orr He has resigned from the Directorship of the Organisation and it would be appropriate on this occasion to pay him a tribute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.960.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-12", "file": "debates1948-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "c7f50f6e0e50cc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.964.3", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "If the noble Lord will try to be a little quiet he will hear a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-12a.964.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-13", "file": "debates1948-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "654ad5d99013212a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-13a.1025.3", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH NATIONALITY BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "n. and learned Gentleman that in some way or other the geographical sundering of the people included in this title invalidates it. I believe that the people who in the old days were described as Roman citizens in fact belonged to cities that were severed by seas in the days when sea probably divided people more than it does now. Saul of Tarsus was proud to be a Roman citizen but, as far as I know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-13a.1025.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-13", "file": "debates1948-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "654ad5d99013212a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-13a.1047.3", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH NATIONALITY BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "the Home Secretary today. I cannot find any positive evidence from either of those speeches that there is an overwhelming desire in this country or in the Colonies for the change which is proposed by the Government. We have not had any evidence from the Government that Governors or Prime Ministers of the partly self-governing Colonies have been consulted and have expressed views about this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-13a.1047.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-13", "file": "debates1948-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "654ad5d99013212a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-13a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH NATIONALITY BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was in 1946.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " represent should have been fully seized of what was intended and desired, what was possible and impossible, in time for discussion, and in time for influence to be brought by those who might then have discussed it and made up their minds. But that is not in the least what has happened. What has happened has been that there has been a Prime Ministers' Conference. I have forgotten the date of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-13a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-13", "file": "debates1948-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "654ad5d99013212a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-13a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH NATIONALITY BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "of the Bill, and particularly these words here, which in themselves are not perhaps very operative but which go to the whole root of the nature of the way we are approaching the matter, form reason in itself enough why the Government should not be given this Amendment. Then I think there are other reasons too. I do not apologise for being to some extent rather vague in what I am going to say next.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-13a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-13", "file": "debates1948-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "654ad5d99013212a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-13a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH NATIONALITY BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "p—rights and duties; to strengthen that view, as against the view of allegiance and subjecthood and tradition as being the roots that matter. 6.0 p.m. Therefore, I would ask the right hon. Gentlemen opposite to consider—I tried to put this in a different way on the Second Reading—I would ask them to bear with a quotation from Latin, and I will give them a probably incorrect translation afterwards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-13a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-13", "file": "debates1948-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "654ad5d99013212a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-13a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH NATIONALITY BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Jolly good speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " Second Reading—I would ask them to bear with a quotation from Latin, and I will give them a probably incorrect translation afterwards—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am thinking more of my own bad qualities than of any want of learning there may be on the Treasury Bench. This is the phrase: Jam non consilio bonus, sed more eo perductus, ut non tantum recte facere possim, sed nisi recte facere non possim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-13a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-13", "file": "debates1948-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "654ad5d99013212a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-13a.1116.2", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH NATIONALITY BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I. will endeavour to deal with the questions put by the senior Burgess for Cambridge University (Mr. Pickthorn). With regard to the first, the man would be capable of taking the oath. Whether he took it or not would be a matter for him. Mr. Bradlaugh refused to take the oath, though he could come to the Table and be sworn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-13a.1116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-13", "file": "debates1948-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "654ad5d99013212a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-13a.1138.0", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH NATIONALITY BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": "I do not think this Debate should go on any longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-13a.1138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-14", "file": "debates1948-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a00686b002e2b2d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1177.3", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — YUGOSLAVIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is the fact that you, Mr. Speaker, in your position, as we all are, are influenced by propaganda—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-14", "file": "debates1948-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a00686b002e2b2d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1201.9", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "ials has been concentrated upon this and upon traditional houses ever since. The programme of non-traditional houses is now undergoing the run-off which was anticipated, and the programme of traditional houses is running up, as also was anticipated. The building machine of this country, after perhaps a slow start, is getting into shape to deliver houses at a rate comparable with the pre-war years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1201.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-14", "file": "debates1948-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a00686b002e2b2d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1204.1", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "at is the great task which now lies before us. We are now beginning to lay down the lines upon which the next four million houses will be begun, carried through and completed. That is a task upon which many Ministers of Health will be engaged. Indeed, it will tax severely the energies of the whole country. The output of houses since the war has been considerable and I am more than glad about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-14", "file": "debates1948-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a00686b002e2b2d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1250.2", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bad taste.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "Merely by way of illustration, Mr. Butcher, I was trying to point out the error of the right hon. Gentleman's ways. The hon. Member for Cannock (Miss Lee) refused to go into the Division Lobby. If he had said to her, \"My dear, you look nice in the New Look,\" she would have followed him like a lamb into the Lobby, and that is the method he should apply to the building industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1250.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-14", "file": "debates1948-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a00686b002e2b2d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1250.4", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The vermin.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I do not know what title has been given to me by the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1250.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-14", "file": "debates1948-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a00686b002e2b2d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1250.8", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman during that Debate. It was reported in full in the \"Daily Herald\" and is about one of the greatest falsehoods ever uttered in this House. I ask the right hon. Gentleman, when he replies, to deal specifically with this question. I will hand him these figures and I want him to either substantiate or withdraw them. In the two and a half years after the German war we built 315,452 houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1250.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-14", "file": "debates1948-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a00686b002e2b2d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1303.1", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "mme into phase, the necessity of which had been emphasised from this side of the Committee very strongly in the Debate last July, and even before that by my hon. Friend the Member for Wallasey (Mr. Marples). However, I am struck by another thing. It seems to me that material shortages are used far too often by the Government. They are becoming a stock excuse to cover up their inept administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-14", "file": "debates1948-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a00686b002e2b2d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1307.1", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "Well, perhaps, I mistook the hon. Gentleman. I certainly took his words down, and that was certainly the impression he gave me as to the whole trend of his argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-14", "file": "debates1948-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a00686b002e2b2d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1307.1", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Tories were not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "Well, perhaps, I mistook the hon. Gentleman. I certainly took his words down, and that was certainly the impression he gave me as to the whole trend of his argument. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Hon. Gentlemen say \"No,\" but half of them were not in the Chamber at the time the statement was made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-14", "file": "debates1948-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a00686b002e2b2d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1307.1", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you agree with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "and a large increase in the number of houses to be completed, there may well arise a demand from those who are homeless or living in obsolete houses for a return to houses of good pre-war design, particularly in view of the statement made by that unquestioned enthusiast on housing, Lord Simon, who has stated that the pre-war houses satisfied all the requirements for a full and healthy family life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-14", "file": "debates1948-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a00686b002e2b2d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Vermin.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "preceding_text": "y polemics that the men who fought in the war are now living in decent homes more and more and more. I would like to claim that, here and now, as a contribution and an achievement of all the members of the community, no matter to what party they may belong, because this job is a vast job of social co-operation and could not have been accomplished except by all kinds of person in all walks of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-14a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1380.2", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "Is not this another example of the failure of Socialist planning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1380.2", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "Is not this another example of the failure of Socialist planning—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"]—to face the facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1380.2", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "Is not this another example of the failure of Socialist planning—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"]—to face the facts—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"]—and of raising false hopes which they cannot implement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1380.3", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "No, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1380.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1380.3", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. [ Laughter. ] I hope this question will not be treated as one that can be dealt with lightly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1380.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1381.3", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "I do not think there is a position of disappointment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1390.10", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in Switzerland and Italy tourists can get as much petrol as they wish?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1390.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1409.8", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "INDIA (STERLING BALANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "The budgetary consequence to us is that, each year for the next 60 years, we shall be paying away a certain sum of money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1409.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1417.0", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Hartley Shawcross)", "preceding_text": "ers. On the contrary, I think we are bound to have close regard to it. But, of course, in deciding what weight we should attach to particular manifestations of public opinion, we are also perhaps entitled to consider to what extent these expressions of the public view upon the part of some section of the community may have been artificially stirred up by those who have been playing party politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1411.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1417.4", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I am very much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman. I cannot attempt to contradict the right hon. Gentleman, because he and others who sit opposite are, of course, masters of partisan polemics. Nobody, except one who desired to make cheap political points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1420.1", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " to victory in the way that he did. So here today, in regard to a great moral matter, we shall invite the House not to be worried too much by logic-chopping and hair-splitting. We aim here to deal with this matter as a matter in which great moral standards are involved, a matter in which, to some extent, we ought to be influenced by our instincts and beliefs. What does this new Clause actually do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1420.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1430.1", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"An hour\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman has managed to occupy, in a fashion not disagreeable to the House, three-quarters of an hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1436.0", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will tell me what it is he wants me to withdraw I will repeat it twice over. In my view, this Clause is not an experimental one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1436.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1438.1", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ecide to kill your wife because, after cold, calculated and deliberate consideration you come to the conclusion that you will live more agreeably alone or with another woman, or because you will benefit under the terms of her will, you have a variety of methods at your disposal, without risking your life even if found guilty. You can strangle her or hold her head in the gas oven until she expires\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1438.1", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "to be explained to juries on many occasions. I am assured that is so by people whose knowledge, authority and repute in the law are as a pyramid to a molehill compared to that of the Attorney-General. I cannot take his advice against the advice of the people whom I have had the opportunity of consulting. I say that practically the whole of this lengthy Clause will have to be explained to the jury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1438.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1448.4", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not know the evidence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "g else. He would have made a better speech and a more useful contribution to this extremely difficult question if he had quoted the words of the juryman's oath at the beginning of his speech instead of at the end, and had himself taken an oath before he made his contribution this afternoon to endeavour to reach a true verdict according to the evidence, because he made no attempt whatever to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1448.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1449.3", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " object. That is untrue. It was not merely the withholding of objection. The right hon. Gentleman himself stood up in his place at the Box and warmly welcomed the decision of the Government to do it in this way. Is that the responsibility of the Government? Was it the responsibility of the Government that the Conservative Opposition Whips were taken off just as the Government Whips were taken off?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1449.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1450.14", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "t, that it should not be raised in Committee; secondly, that it should be raised on Report stage; thirdly, that on Report stage it should be left to a free vote of the House, with the Whips off on both sides. The Leader of the Opposition himself made the proposal whereby this proposed Amendment on the Report stage was taken out of its order so that it could have a full run of Debate the whole day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1450.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not 'chance'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Chance—I beg his pardon. The right hon. Gentleman in his speech said that the decision of the House was taken on a casual—chance majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "so from reasons of principle. The phrases 'an eye for an eye' and 'a life for a life,' etc. are recurrent. Religious reasons\"— that is put in heavy type— merely emphasise the same principle as Christian doctrine. Then there follows this quotation from a man who is a N.A.A.F.I. club manager, aged 47: I think it's all wrong. He means the proposed change. I'm a Christian to all intents and purposes\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " He means the proposed change. I'm a Christian to all intents and purposes\"— [ Laughter. ] I want to go on. The man's opinion must be respected. This is what he says: I'm a Christian to all intents and purposes and it's our creed that it's an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, and we are going against our own religion by doing away with something that has been taught to us for donkey's years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Elementary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " who do not sit on these benches—the whole of the Liberal Party, with one exception, and quite a number of Conservative Members, some of whom collaborated with us most usefully in the early preparation of the Clause and the organisation of the Debate. It is really very wrong for the right hon. Gentleman to complain of it now. Let me say to him—he talks about being logical, rational and reasonable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1454.0", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " Let me say to him—he talks about being logical, rational and reasonable—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Elementary.\"] Perhaps that is a good thing too. We are entitled to know what he really believes, whether he calls it logical or not, and I should like to know from him, if he were satisfied that the death penalty could be abolished without increasing the number of murders, whether he would wish to retain it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1455.0", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "If I were assured that abolishing the death penalty would bring all murders to an end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1456.1", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a hypothetical question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I still do not know what the right hon. Gentleman means. I am putting a perfectly plain question to him. I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman is ever capable of a monosyllabic answer to anything, but it ought to be possible to give a monosyllabic answer to this. I am putting a perfectly plain question to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1456.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1456.2", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He said \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " was satisfied in 1930, that the death penalty is not necessary in order to protect society, that we could abolish it without affecting the rate, or the number, or the incidence of murders, or crimes of violence; if he agrees with all those countries and all those witnesses and with the Select Committee of this House, would he still think it right to retain the death penalty for some other reason?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1467.1", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "Opposition at great length on precisely the ground that he was suggesting that my right hon. Friend had backed down from an undertaking. When I asked what the undertaking was and when it was given, all the hon. Gentleman did was to go into certain irrelevant observations made before the decision was taken on 14th April and at a time, therefore, when no hon. Member knew what that decision would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1501.3", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I do not think I ought to give way. I mean no discourtesy to the hon. and learned Gentleman, but I feel that there are many hon. and learned Members who wish to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1501.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1524.3", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "y, that was not large, that was contributed to by every party in the House—I am quite sure neither of the right hon. Gentlemen opposite would deny that—the House decided in favour of suspension over the whole range. The issue had been left to a free vote of the House, and I did not quite understand what the right hon. Gentleman meant this afternoon when he said he thought I ought to have resigned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1524.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1524.3", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will be to night.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ned—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—at the stage when the matter was left to a free vote of the House, because I supported, not merely as a member of the Cabinet, but I supported personally—I make that disclosure—the view that this matter should be left to the free vote of the House. I intimated to the House at the time that this was a matter on which the conscience of Members should not be coerced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1524.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1524.3", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or in the country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "at the time that this was a matter on which the conscience of Members should not be coerced. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It will be to night.\"] The right hon. Gentleman dealt with the matter chronologically; surely I might be allowed to deal with the matter chronologically also. We are faced with the fact that the decision reached by this House by a small majority has not proved acceptable in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1524.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1527.4", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has said that during the last four years 28 people were hanged who, under his new Clause, would not have been sentenced to death at all. I presume that the majority of those 28 were hanged at a time when he had a full right to recommend that they should be reprieved. How can he ask this House to reprieve, as it were, retrospectively a large number—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1527.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1550.3", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": " at all except the determination not to risk it again. Therefore, I would ask the House to be careful and avoid concentrating on these purely hypothetical cases which are presented by so many well-meaning reformers and muddled-minded psychiatrists. I am certain that it is generally held that it is the tongue that leaves the deepest wound and not the cane or birch. This is going to be my last word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1550.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1605.0", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": " against the fox which is being hunted according to the English rules. Now I will say something which I hope will not cause offence, or be thought disrespectful. I have from time to time—not very often, because it is not really my line of country—appeared before the Court of Criminal Appeal. It is not a tribunal before which I like appearing very much. There is a nasty atmosphere about that court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-15", "file": "debates1948-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "297dd2d16babcf1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1613.0", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He can apply for bail.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ite frequently and quite properly. We are now asked to add to this power, a power for the Court to say that there was an irregularity, that there was a fundamental error—because that is what it comes to in this Clause—but they feel that this chap might have been guilty after all, and he ought to be put to the expense of a new trial, which presumably would take place with the man still in custody.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-15a.1613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-07-16", "file": "debates1948-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "8e12e79a4c0ddfe9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-16a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT OF INVENTIONS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "says that the root of this matter will be the character and abilities of the board of directors of the Corporation. I can hardly think of any business function that will be more difficult to exercise than the function of these directors. It is very difficult to study and weigh up the value of research, development and invention in any industry. Many hon. Members, both behind me and opposite, know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-07-16a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-09-14", "file": "debates1948-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "79b60fba07bd7dfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-14a.5.1", "colnum": "5", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "Mr. McKie (Galloway) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-14a.5.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-14", "file": "debates1948-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "79b60fba07bd7dfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-14a.5.2", "colnum": "5", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie", "preceding_text": "cannot see why there should be any bitter recriminations in debating such a moderate Measure, and therefore I hope that sweet reason will prevail. I know that many hon. Members on this side would have preferred the Government to go further, but one step is enough for the time being. Much will depend on how the Bill fares in the other House. In all these matters the will of the people must prevail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-14a.5.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-14", "file": "debates1948-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "79b60fba07bd7dfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-14a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On borrowed money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "s. We were all interested to know that things are better in his constituency—distinctly better—than they were in the years between the wars. He will be happy to know that that is by no means exceptional. That is the case with the constituencies of most hon. Members, including the constituencies of hon. Members opposite, because we have sought to do good for their constituencies as well as our own—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-14a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-14", "file": "debates1948-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "79b60fba07bd7dfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-14a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ment is that we should not have called this short Session but should have let the Bill progress in the next normal Session and take its chance in the final year, which would have been a more normal course. If we had done that, we should have had the possibility of a \"neck-and-neck\" situation, if their Lordships were disposed to reject, or fatally to impair, any Measure which we had put up to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-14a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-14", "file": "debates1948-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "79b60fba07bd7dfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-14a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "POTTERY INDUSTRY (DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": "ions which are often more suitable for moles than human beings. There are, of course, different types of employers varying from \"not so good\" to \"better\" employers, and because of these factors there is a certain amount of depression amongst the workers. They look to the Government, and in particular to a Labour Government, to do all they can. Many promises have been made by the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-14a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Bevin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Bevin)", "preceding_text": "As an old industrialist who lived in these trades for a good many years and. took part in their between-the-war troubles, I almost wish I could disregard foreign policy this afternoon and answer the right hon. Gentleman on the latter point. I should have a wide field there I can assure him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Bevin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Bevin)", "preceding_text": "am in favour of such cases being brought. On the other hand, in regard to the question whether Hyderabad is or is not a State, I have always to keep in mind other considerations and in particular how such a situation as this might, even within this Empire, create a precedent for bringing a case by right before the Security Council even where we were opposed to it. Therefore, I would ask the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Bevin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Bevin)", "preceding_text": "e, of which the House is well aware. Because of these considerations I cannot allow my feelings to dominate the situation. I have to have regard to the actual facts and circumstances when a decision is to be taken. Therefore, I do not propose to say any more about Hyderabad at the moment, except that I regret, as everybody must regret, that this warlike spirit has developed in these new Dominions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.92.2", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": " their own country. The right hon. Gentleman referred to Malaya. It is quite true that His Majesty's Government have known for some time that this policy on the part of the Communists of the world was working, but no one knew exactly in what form or where it was going to break out. Even if we suppress it in Malaya, as we shall, it may break out in Africa or somewhere else tomorrow, and the agents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.92.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.93.3", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"Look up the Debate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I cannot accept that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.93.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.93.3", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I cannot accept that. [An HON. MEMBER; \"Look up the Debate.\"] I know the pressure that was put on the Government at the time because the party opposite thought it would appeal to people and stir up prejudice. They made it very difficult at a very critical time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.93.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.93.3", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "ing the troops and so on, let me ask them to read the speeches made on demobilisation at that time, not only in this House but outside. No one has been firmer than I have; I think the right hon. Gentleman will give me credit, both in the Coalition Government and since the war, for trying to get an orderly post-war defence system in this country in the teeth of opposition by many of my own friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.93.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.93.3", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "is the meanness of our opponents, from the point of view of the cost, which I had to face. The question of having sufficient troops is the responsibility of this House as a whole. Both sides were involved in the dismemberment of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force as quickly as possible without regard to the fact that peace had not been established. However, we have reorganised the police forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.93.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "—and by 3,000 other ranks since July.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": " but of two wars, then there is a possibility of restoring a better equilibrium in the world. We have had to face of course—and I must remind the House of it—in every economic fact before us, whether we turn to coal, steel, transport, or anything else upon which demands are now being made for production to meet our post-war needs, we have had to face the neglect of those 20 years between the wars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.108.3", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I am not in the least interested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.109.3", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "it is not my own, I warn the House. I think it comes from a Malayan newspaper: Constitutions before rice, trade unions before law and order, the collection of Income Tax before there were any Income Tax collectors. Every theoretical horse madly butting into every practical cart and pushing it into every ditch that can be found. That's a fair short description of His Majesty's Government in Malaya.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.109.3", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "s of these islands? I do not know but I reckon there are not many more than 2,000. I do not know how many hon. Gentlemen were here when Singapore fell but I remember speeches, one at least and in especial, from what was then this side of the House, the joy, the rejoicing of, \"Aha, these planters, swilling their whisky pegs, and their wives dancing at Raffles Hotel, are going to go through it now.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.128.3", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "We take about 10 per cent. of all the wages to send to the Chancellor. In fact, we have become a nation of tax collectors. I know that my colleagues on the other side of the House have not grasped the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.136.5", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You said so.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I was thinking particularly of tin. So far as I know, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Aldershot has nothing to do with rubber", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.136.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.137.3", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "rals. The doctors ought to be civilians. After months of delay the Home Secretary sent along his doctors. They reported that the generals were quite fit to stand trial. A noted wit of the House, who shall be nameless, said to me when I told him the story, \"Yes, Dick, and if the doctors had been from the Ministry of Labour they would have come back and said that they were fit for national service.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.137.3", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"It is hard work.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "to be forthcoming. I find when I talk to the working men—and I talk to quite a few of them—that they want definite information on this matter. In the works that I control in Ipswich, voluntary absenteeism for the last six months averaged.3 of one per cent. I do not believe it can be got any lower than that. These workmen say to me \"Why is it that the miners' voluntary absenteeism is 8.6 per cent?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "a Government that calls itself Socialist. The Leader of the Opposition has talked about a million and a half unemployed if we did not get Marshall Aid. He quoted some leader of the Labour Party as having said so. There is no reason whatever for such a thing. The Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe could keep our factories going for generations and could supply us with goods in return.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "at are looking after you.\" Deakin is indignant with the Russians because they will not accept those fellows as the friends of the working class or of Socialism. I do not think it would be possible, if we had those people arrayed together on a Labour Party or a Trade Union Congress platform, to persuade the workers that they were the people who would help the workers. Marshall is a Tory capitalist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Palestine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " those who are, he thinks, stronger than himself. No man who has a proper regard and respect for himself or his fellows is brutal and domineering. I challenge anyone in this House to show me where the Foreign Secretary has ever been brutal and domineering in his relations to the Tories of America, to show me one instance where he has spoken harshly to them. He has never done anything of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "stine. I would very much like to hear him talk about Palestine. Has he been ready at all times in his dealings with America to put forward in the interests of the people a Socialist policy of peace, progress and prosperity? Here we are, with all the problems that are confronting our people, and we are to go in for further expenditure on militarism, directed or driven to it, by American capitalism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "I am not accusing the right hon. Gentleman of any specific quotation but his policy, and all the propaganda of his party during the last two years and more, has been on this basis: Social Democracy is the greatest safeguard against Communism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-15", "file": "debates1948-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "e86ac72bc2461b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "nd that there was now India and Pakistan. I noted that Palestine where we had, with the foundation of our trade, some considerable influence, had passed from our jurisdiction. I noted that Egypt, on this map which is to go to salvage, had lost its place in the British association. These are the achievements of the last three years. No Government in so short a time has made such remarkable changes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-15a.202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-16", "file": "debates1948-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "851ac0b718053afa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-16a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Only? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "preceding_text": "t trade during all the latter part of the war. Many of our most valuable economic connections were severed, and we had sold, as the House knows, a large part of our income earning overseas assets. With surprising speed we rebuilt our export trade and re-established our commercial connections, so that by the end of 1946, the first post-war year, our total deficit for the year was only £370 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-16a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-16", "file": "debates1948-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "851ac0b718053afa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-16a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": " And all this must be done while we are still continuing to expand the total of our exports to other countries in order to improve our own balance of trade position, and particularly, expanding our exports to the dollar markets. In this connection I should like to refer once again to the generosity of Australia in making us a gift of £A10 million to help us in discharging this liability to Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-16a.256.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-16", "file": "debates1948-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "851ac0b718053afa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-16a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Chancellor said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I readily agree with the Chancellor. I pay my personal tribute to him for all that has happened, but I am trying to show that we are not completely out of the wood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-16a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-16", "file": "debates1948-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "851ac0b718053afa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-16a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ave written it. It was a first-class speech, one of the best that the Lord President has ever made. Did his own party like it? Did they support it? Did it suit them? Two days later the Socialist Party had an election for their national executive. The Minister of Health got 736,000 votes, the late Chancellor of the Exchequer got 670,000, but the Lord President came a poor fourth with 580,000 votes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-16a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-16", "file": "debates1948-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "851ac0b718053afa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-16a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "preceding_text": "Certainly, and I think the attention of the House and of the country, certainly of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, should be called to the tremendous ramp that is going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-16a.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-16", "file": "debates1948-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "851ac0b718053afa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-16a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not the fault of this Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member for Acton. However, he exaggerated a little when he said that all the vital statistics are constantly improving. As my colleagues from Scotland very well know—the hon. Member for West Fife (Mr. Gallacher) will bear this out—since the Labour Government came in the movement of the tuberculosis statistics in Scotland has been continuously adverse and it is now the worst for 20 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-16a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-16", "file": "debates1948-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "851ac0b718053afa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-16a.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "ort come out in 1948, but no action upon it has yet been secured. It is perfectly true that this country is no doubt doing the best it can in a quiet way, but if Ministers were willing to press the matter with the vigour which they should have exercised, and if the Foreign Secretary, as well as the Minister of Agriculture, had thrown his weight into it, I think it would have been possible to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-16a.356.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-16", "file": "debates1948-09-16a.xml", "sha256": "851ac0b718053afa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-16a.368.3", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "If anybody thinks I did say that, I will withdraw, but in fact I did not say that the whole of the Opposition was in favour of removing all controls. What I am saying is this: that any hon. Members opposite who want to sweep away—and these were my actual words—these vexatious controls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-16a.368.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-17", "file": "debates1948-09-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc4e7213dd87a46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-17a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "l disorders lies on the hands of Members of this Government to a large extent owing to their arrangements for the transfer of power, so, I believe, the blood which has been shed in these recent hostilities also to some extent rests on the hands of Members of the Government, because I believe that they could, by a definite and resolute statement, have averted the hostilities which have taken place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-17a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-17", "file": "debates1948-09-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc4e7213dd87a46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-17a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which it has been doing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "d and former colleague. It is indeed a strange Session on which we are now embarked. Arbitrarily summoned, it is soon to be arbitrarily dismissed. Opened with all the traditional pomp and circumstance, it is to be unceremoniously closed down as soon as it has done its dirty job. Parliament might properly have been recalled to deliberate upon the state of the nation and upon the state of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-17a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-17", "file": "debates1948-09-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc4e7213dd87a46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-17a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "Yes, but to whom should we be thankful? To the Socialist Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-17a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-17", "file": "debates1948-09-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc4e7213dd87a46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-17a.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dalton has gone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "e progress made, has naturally wanted to probe deeply into the figures published yesterday. Let us consider the change that has taken place since my right hon. and learned Friend made his speech at the Central Hall, Westminster, exactly a year ago this week, when he set forward the export programme and the balance of payments programme for the nation. What has transformed the situation since then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-17a.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-17", "file": "debates1948-09-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc4e7213dd87a46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-17a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And coal?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "nvidious to single out individual export industries and talk of their contributions, but if we look at the second quarter of 1948 and compare it with the second quarter of 1947 we see some really remarkable achievements in increased exports. The cotton industry is up by 41 per cent.; woollen and worsted by 62 per cent.; silk and rayon by 43 per cent.; iron and steel and manufactures by 8 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-17a.461.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-09-17", "file": "debates1948-09-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc4e7213dd87a46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-17a.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " and over imports? Would they maintain or scrap control over raw materials, which sends our scarce resources into the export industries, building development area factories and capital goods industries, instead of their going into the more profitable dog tracks, road-houses and so on? Would they maintain this control over raw materials or not? I think the country has a right to be given an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-17a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-17", "file": "debates1948-09-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc4e7213dd87a46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-17a.466.5", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Let us look at the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-17a.466.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-17", "file": "debates1948-09-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc4e7213dd87a46e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-17a.466.5", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They had no shoes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Let us look at the facts. [ Interruption .] I know a little about Yorkshire, for I lived in Yorkshire during a period when—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-17a.466.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Ah well, Sir, if it is a question of that, I readily withdraw at once—if it be a question of American aid. But if that be the case, I hope we shall hear no jeers and gibes at this Government for accepting American aid in the general economic interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "t be a question of American aid. But if that be the case, I hope we shall hear no jeers and gibes at this Government for accepting American aid in the general economic interest— [ Interruption. ] I am not wishing to pursue the point, and if I were the right hon. and gallant Member for the Scottish Universities (Lieut.-Colonel Elliot) I would not do so, either. That, then, is the case for the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose assumption?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e the Bill has been introduced, to reject it. This argument rests upon an assumption that the Tory Leaders in this House, no doubt with the assent of the Conservative Central Office, have arranged with the Tory Lords in another place that a Bill, as yet unintroduced, shall be rejected— otherwise the argument means nothing. It must be an assumption on the part of the Party opposite that this is so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "to assume that their Lordships will reject the iron and steel Bill—no right at all. Indeed, I will now quote statements by the Leader of the Conservative Opposition in the House of Lords all of which go to show that the iron and steel Bill will be passed. If that is so—I shall read what has been said—clearly it would be ridiculous for the Government to assume that the Bill is going to be rejected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.525.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.528.0", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " wished to make it clear that this assumption of his Tory colleagues in this House, that the Lords would necessarily reject the iron and steel Bill, was false. Referring to the iron and steel Bill he said: Moreover, what grounds are there for assuming what would be the attitude of your Lordships' House to such a Bill if it were introduced here? That must depend on the character of the Bill itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.548.4", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "AN. HON. MEMBER: \"They do not know anyway.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "if they have read carefully, with value, the events of those years. Some may have read the speeches made by a much younger, vigorous politician with great oratorical power—the present Leader of the Conservative Party. 1f hon. Members opposite read those speeches, which to me ring as true today as they did 30 years ago, they will hang their heads in shame and wonder wherever they got such a leader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.548.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Webb", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Webb", "preceding_text": " the Upper House is very relevant to that question. I agree with the hon. Member for Solihull that it is necessary to find some new check on the power of the Executive. I believe also that it is necessary to give the Executive wider and swifter powers to deal with its tasks. But these are all complicated and intricate problems which will have to await a more leisurely period of Parliamentary time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.569.0", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "shown that they wish to avoid a conflict with the House of Lords. They have gone far to meet the Opposition and the wishes of the House; they have been ready to discuss the wider problem of the reform of the House of Lords. When we remember the resolutions passed by Labour Party Conferences not so very long ago we realise that that is a great concession on their part. It is a considerable advance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "e are renowned for our moderation, but it is just that quality which encourages drift and a tendency to allow the great democrat principles of our Constitution to go by default, with the comforting assumption that a genuine betrayal of liberty cannot possibly happen here. I maintain that this Bill is a striking example of the undermining of the whole conception of democratic liberty as we know it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.578.1", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "er whether he will withdraw this Bill, await a General Election, and let the people have a proper opportunity to give their minds to the great and fundamental issues involved. If he will not do so at such a late hour, then I challenge every Member of this House to vote in the Lobby tonight according to his conscience because this Bill is a challenge to our personal political judgment at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": " reconsider their whole attitude to the abolition of the other Chamber. We have no dislike of pageantry. We are perfectly prepared to see the House of Lords continue as an historical hangover, which does a useful job of revision and re-drafting; but it is really intellectually cheap to pretend that we cannot revise this present Chamber in order to make one Chamber do the job perfectly efficiently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": "So it always has in this country and the House of Lords has never in recent years obstructed useful legislation really desired by the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "ans that at least certain elements in the Government would accept Single Chamber Government, as was made plain from the remarks of the hon. Member for Cannock. Is that the ultimate objective of some Members who support the Government? The only other possible objective is to push through a Bill which they know extremely well, as do many of their supporters in the country, should not be put through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "tionalisation of iron and steel. In his speech today the Lord President of the Council made a point that it was not necessary for the purpose of passing a steel nationalisation Bill. I think that is a clever way for a front bencher to handle a situation of this kind. Front benchers—I know it—have to be more careful in their language than ordinary back benchers. He was very careful in his language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "do that? Is that one of the Bills the Government are to introduce and want to facilitate? Let us look at land. In \"Let us Face the Future\" are some very outspoken things. It says: If the landlord cannot or will not provide proper facilities for his tenant farmers the State should take over his land on a fair valuation. Then it says: Labour believes in land nationalisation and will work towards it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "lls as well, and that some of these Bills may be just as questionable on the matter of mandate as any of the other Bills we have had presented so far. I believe myself that the Government know very well that some of the things they have in mind to do will quite likely provoke their lordships, and that they are determined that their lordships, if they are provoked, shall have their power curtailed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": " less than 102 per cent. They were very great majorities, but how many millions of their people have expiated their weakness in handing over their sovereignty in the concentration camps of those countries? Socialists like the plebiscitary idea, because they think their measures are the only ones any good at all, and they have a complete and absolute contempt for the intelligence of the electorate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On a three-line Whip.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "All I was pointing out was that it was a three to one majority in the Liberal Party against the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Lord President of the Council?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "at great luminous face. Then I know, not only that my case is just but that it will prosper. As I say, I think too much credit for forcing this on the Cabinet may have been given to the Minister of Health. I believe that the pathological vanity of the Foreign Secretary has a great deal to do with it, and no doubt there are others, not wise but foolish after the event, who have taken the same view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, we do not believe it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "could there be for it other than the connection between these two Bills? Also, as my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for West Derby (Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe) pointed out, we have had evidence from the \"New Statesman\" from the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wakefield (Mr. Arthur Greenwood), from the hon. and learned Member for Llandaff and Barry, and many others. News gets about, you know", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT 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": " the Statute Book. I want to invite the attention of right hon. Gentlemen opposite to the position as revealed by the action of the House of Lords in the Parliament that lasted from 1924 to 1929. In that Parliament there was passed one of the most controversial Measures ever placed before the House of Commons—the Trades Disputes Act, 1927. It had not been an issue at the previous General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "in the Debate, he dealt with the issue which has been raised by several hon. Members from the other side in the course of this Debate: what are you to do if you get some irresponsible House of Commons, with an irresponsible Cabinet, who may be playing ducks and drakes with the Constitution? The answer of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford, which is as sound today as it was then, was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "s big as ours behind it need in its fourth Session have any fear what the fate of its legislative proposals would be when they reached another place. We cannot see why a Government which is not Tory, approaching its fourth Session, should find itself in a worse position than a Tory Government. Of course, the inherent belief behind it all is this, that the people of this country are naturally Tory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " our position? The question is not really that. The question is: What did they do when they were in our position? Only once since 1688—which is going back a long time—has the Tory Party in office been without a majority in the House of Lords, and that was in 1711 when they were anxious to bring to an end the wars which had been conducted by the great ancestor of the right hon. Member for Woodford.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-20", "file": "debates1948-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4bf9308a7172371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.659.6", "colnum": "659", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION (NONSCHEDULED SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is no law.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "dated Order forward in some months time. We had intended to give the force of law to the regulation under Article 5 in the new Consolidated Order, but as this has happened we cannot allow this violation to go on unchallenged. One cannot allow persons in the Press and elsewhere deliberately to flout rules and regulations, and boast that they are going to do it, for it brings the law into disrepute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-20a.659.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.715.1", "colnum": "715", "heading": "PARLIAMENT BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "That is perfectly true, but we on this side of the House never take anything the Lord President says quite seriously until he has said it twice. Be that as it may, we came to the conclusion that the two possible points upon which this Resolution procedure might be used, being fundamental to the Bill, were better dealt with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "PARLIAMENT BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "s not an unreasonable attitude—\"The nation and the world are faced with very serious matters and the Government insist on wasting our time in discussing irrelevancies.\" That has been their objection to this Session and to this Bill. If that is their position why do they not accept the Motion, and let us get on with the real business they want discussed? Who is holding up the time of the House now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.743.4", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "inciple from which I must say we profoundly differ. Hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite pay lip service to the principle of popular sovereignty. \"The people's will,\" they say, \"must be law, but we are always the only people to tell the world what the people's will is.\" There is ample precedent for such an attitude. It was the view of Hitler: \" Das ist Recht was dem Führer gefällt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.743.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.754.0", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "cal compliments on the traditions which he is in the process of destroying, decides to pervert the procedure of Parliament and undermine its authority in such a way that towards the Government it becomes a servile Reichstag but towards the people an uncontrolled and despotic master. The noble Lady the Member for Anglesey (Lady Megan Lloyd George) yesterday asked us what we meant by national unity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.754.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Digby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Digby", "preceding_text": "he people must be consulted. In his farewell address to the people of the United States President Washington was very downright on this. He said: The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "s in responding to the essential needs of the masses of the people of this country. As has already been pointed out by one hon. and learned Member, it is very much better when making the laws of the country to see that they are properly drafted and do not lead to endless disputes and litigation. It is a curious thing to recall that our profession on the whole has always in a spirit of self-denial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "hat the Socialist Party have realised that their 1945 majority was an extraordinary fluke, and it is not likely to be repeated. They are determined to make one vast swoop and to rush everything they possibly can through this House whilst they have a chance. That is the only pre-supposition which makes this argument about jeopardy at all reasonable. If the country is behind them in these proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.784.3", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": " that they have been very short-sighted in thinking that by this treatment of the Constitution they have necessarily helped their own cause. The hon. and learned Member for Gloucester (Mr. Turner-Samuels)—with several points of whose speech I hope to deal out of courtesy to him—said a great deal against the House of Lords. He made it out to be a thoroughly unsatisfactory and even an unworthy body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.784.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.787.2", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "vernment's life and the subsequent years. It is perfectly true that contact with the nation at a recent election becomes more distant as a Parliament grows older, but the power of delay with which this Bill seeks to deal is exactly the same power throughout a Parliament's life. If two years is wrong in the last two Sessions there is no reason why two years should not be wrong in the first Session—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.787.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.788.5", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "omething improper. I ask which is the more likely, that the Second Chamber may go mad and do something improper or that a Government may become tyrannical and that the public would then have no remedy. I do not wish to go into the argument, about which the hon. and learned Member for Gloucester said so much, as to the Government not having lost by-elections, etc. Suppose that were absolutely true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.788.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.788.5", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "this Parliament, it will apply to Parliaments which will be able under the provisions of this Measure, if it is carried into law, to do anything they like, notwithstanding that they have lost every by-election. I wonder if hon. Members desire to enact that. Let me turn to the retrospective provision, and I hope that hon. Members will be good enough to give this matter really serious consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.788.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Don't put ideas into our heads.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "her example more directly germane to the Parliament Bill. Under this retroactive provision, which starts at line 20 of this Bill, it would be possible for the Government to introduce in the next Session a Bill reducing the period of one year to one day. It would be possible, under the retroactive provision, to abolish to all intents and purposes the delaying power of the House of Lords altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gage", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gage", "preceding_text": "that is the case, why take the step of curtailing the period to one year? Why not abolish it altogether? I cannot understand the logic of simply curtailing it by one year. Surely, the real question is not the power of the other place to curtail a Socialist Government's Measures: it is the power of a Second Chamber to curtail the Measures of a representative Chamber, no matter what its composition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gage", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gage", "preceding_text": " were different, if there were a Tory Government sitting here and a Socialist majority in the other place—something that is not so wildly fantastic, after all; according to the best information I have Socialist peers are on the increase; the days have gone when the solitary Socialist peer was something of a rarity would hon. Members opposite acclaim this Measure in the way in which they have done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "With this Bill now being given its Third Reading, the question arises whether it is worthy of support. We have to ask ourselves whether it fits in with the ideas of our people and with our ideas about democracy. I ask Members whether there is any indication that if we went back to the country the people would throw us out for implementing this legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have said so yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "nterfere with anybody, across whose minds never passes a partisan thought, who do not even know the meaning of the names of political parties—if indeed they know the names of political parties at all—who are always kind to the House of Commons, whatever majority may be in power, and who have done no harm either to this Labour Government or to this House of Commons. That is the innocent conception.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "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": ". Friend the Member for Gravesend (Sir R. Acland). In that excellent short speech of his he really summed up the whole position in saying that all that we are asking for in this Bill is that we shall have from their Lordships' House for four years the same treatment as a Tory House of Commons will get for five years. That is the case for the Bill; indeed, there is not much else to be said about it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.816.4", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "Further to my point of Order. Am I wrong in thinking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.816.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.816.4", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "Further to my point of Order. Am I wrong in thinking—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Am I right in thinking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.816.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.817.4", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " and to his noble Friend, Lord Samuel, for the impartial and helpful attitude they adopted during that Conference. Their attitude is significant, because they started by rather agreeing with the 12 months from the Third Reading which was urged by the Conservatives, but as we so nearly reached agreement on composition, subject of course to ratification by the various political parties or otherwise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.817.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " I have an admiration for both papers, and it made me sad to think that they were going off the rails on this Bill. However, I say no more about it because I never attack the Press, especially the friendly Press. Today, the great \"Manchester Guardian,\" a newspaper for which I think we all have great admiration, says at the beginning of its leader; Whatever the shoddy origins of the Parliament Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "All right, but wait. It goes on to say: and its irrelevance to the time, it is a measure that Progressives cannot fairly oppose. On the fundamental issue \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.821.4", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about steel?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "These observations with which I was concluding were in relation to today's Debate. I was sorry when the hon. Member got out of control in the greater part of his speech, which is how he landed into one and a quarter hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.821.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.821.4", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "t about steel?\"] I always noticed about this Opposition that, whatever one is talking about, they will always interrupt and say, \"Tell us about something else,\" because they thoroughly object to what we are saying. The second sentence in the \"Guardian\" read: On the fundamental issue between the Lords and Commons the choice is clear and the Liberals certainly cannot start compromising at this hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.821.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "HOSPITAL ENDOWMENT FUND", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I do not mind in the least—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-21", "file": "debates1948-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "7d1f68987c245bd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.841.1", "colnum": "841", "heading": "HOSPITAL ENDOWMENT FUND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "Undated and longdated are interchangeable terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-21a.841.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.910.0", "colnum": "910", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "In the territory you have got?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": " a sort of salient. So far as I am concerned, I felt when that blockade was put on that a great choice had to be made. We made it. It was either to stand firm there or turn south and go to another Munich. That was the issue with which we were faced. I believe that East and West have to live together. I am ready to live together. I am ready to say: \"You live in peace in the territory you have got.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.911.2", "colnum": "911", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And incite more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "icult to imagine one more difficult—and the key to the difficulties seems to me to be found in the campaign which the Russians have run, parallel to the talks which have been taking place in the Kremlin or elsewhere, deliberately designed to incite chaos and mob rule in Berlin itself. No doubt I can talk more frankly than the right hon. Gentleman was able to talk today in regard to Soviet tactics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.911.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "I will come to that point in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Clausewitz.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "on our happiness and peace. What is to happen if war occurs? The hon. Member for Holland with Boston said that we are at war. He qualified it and said that he meant not the war of guns but the war of diplomatic arguments, politics and so on. He could have put the paraphrase quite rightly if he had quoted Nietsche. Nietsche said: War is a derivation of politics for it is a continuation of politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "n HON. MEMBER: \"Clausewitz.\"] Clausewitz, I beg pardon. If the Foreign Secretary were concerned about this he would ask himself what is to happen if there is a war. The House will remember the Foreign Secretary's last words. In the most maudlin of words, almost in tears, he ended his peroration by saying that this country will survive. It looked as if he was hardly able to survive when he said it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.983.4", "colnum": "983", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "I understand. One of the wisest things the Labour Government did since they came into power was to withdraw from an impossible position in Burma and India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.983.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.984.2", "colnum": "984", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "The war was not over in 1944. I am talking about the time when my right hon. Friend became Foreign Secretary in 1945. I am talking about his actions as Foreign Secretary. I say that he saved Greece and the Near East for democracy, or it is hoped that they will have been saved for democracy in the long run. The Communist imperialists are not in power there up to date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.984.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "It would be an impertinence for me to comment on the speech to which the House has just listened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": " conference of December, 1944, the conference in London, and I was utterly wrong about Greece and he was completely in the right. I very much regret that fact. I now know I was wrong. Let me, however, now come to the guts of the matter. It is this. Funnily enough, it was in the papers. I very rarely read Sunday newspapers, but someone brought in the \"Sunday Dispatch,\" and it had a leading article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "stern Union. He is the leading exponent of a policy by which 16 States of Europe are today trying to plan their economy. Is that a small thing or is that a great thing? Let me go a little further and ask hon. Members on this side something about the United States of America. Hon. Members talk about the United States as a capitalist country. Is it really a capitalist policy to give money to people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why red?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": " say I believe it was the most fore-sighted speech that I have ever read in my life. Let me come now to the main issue—what shall we do now? I do not wish for one moment to evade it. I said, and I repeated two months ago, that in my opinion, after giving due warning to the Soviet Union we should have stated we were prepared, in co-operation with America and France, to send convoys under red flags—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "t shall we do now? I do not wish for one moment to evade it. I said, and I repeated two months ago, that in my opinion, after giving due warning to the Soviet Union we should have stated we were prepared, in co-operation with America and France, to send convoys under red flags—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why red?\"]—red flags because, after all, it is the red flag's mission to bring food to beleaguered people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "esistance. I may be wrong, but I believe that this step ought to be taken now. I also believe that the party opposite ought to tell us where they stand, and that they ought to tell us tonight. I have only two more points to make. The next is, I believe, fundamental. Nothing I say tonight is in any way intended as criticism of the Foreign Secretary. I mean that quite sincerely, and for this reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.997.1", "colnum": "997", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " control the flow of raw materials The main difficulty of our Debate today—I shall not be long, so I hope hon. Gentlemen will find it possible to listen to me—is the assumption that you are always in a condition—the Under-Secretary at least really should listen to me. The Under-Secretary has not been here for a very long time this afternoon. I will take this time out of the Under-Secretary's time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.997.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "nt; most of all, perhaps, in the control of foreign policy by persons who are politically strong enough to control foreign policy because of their Parliamentary performance. That is what Parliamentary government is. Now a series of accidents, including the last war, made the right hon. Gentleman the present Foreign Secretary into a Cabinet Minister without ever having been in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Palestine? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ught against us and is being fought against us in the Balkans, in many parts of the East—most noticeably in Malaya. And it does not rely upon my assertion, that statement. The right hon. Gentleman the Foreign Secretary said as much in the references he made to Malaya a week ago. There is a guerrilla being fought against us in various parts of the world. I take only three—Greece, Palestine, Malaya.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is this the same speech as last week?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ya very high. If he puts it anything like so high, it is his duty if he is conscious of that happening, as His Majesty's principle adviser on foreign affairs to bring that matter to the power most likely to have an influence on it. I brought that matter forward 10 days ago, so there's been ample notice given of the question; when was that done and if it has not been done, why has it not been done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1012.0", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is the Prime Minister?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "y up with the great schemes of Western Federation which we have heard so much about. Indeed, I was astonished to notice that the right hon. Gentleman, speaking for the Conservative Opposition, had nothing to say on this topic at all. Even more significant, perhaps, is the fact that the Leader of the Opposition has not even seen fit to attend this Debate, and I consider these facts are significant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1010.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "FARM WORKERS (EXTRA RATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "o pursue that point. What I wish to draw attention to is Section I, which lays down that if a farmer takes on even casual labour at harvest time or, it may be, at the fruit picking time, or the potato lifting time, or the sugar beet lifting time, he must give 24 hours' prior notice to the Food Office, and not only make out the form but deliver it. What a factitious impractical arrangement to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "FARM WORKERS (EXTRA RATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker White", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Go to Woolworths.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker White", "preceding_text": "riend has referred, that in practically every case these difficulties have been cleared up satisfactorily. If I were not out of Order I could quote a whole bunch of cases showing that nothing of the kind has happened. I could quote a farm bailiff walking round the country with 6,000 points to spend and the grocer having nothing to offer him except tinned pineapple. I do not call that satisfactory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1021.3", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "FARM WORKERS (EXTRA RATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gooch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gooch", "preceding_text": "cultural workers in his division and at each meeting there was an expression of gratitude to the Minister for issuing this order, although I admit they asked the Minister to go a little further. I share the opinion expressed on the opposite side of the House that the best solution of this problem of extra rations for farm workers would be to allow the farm worker's wife to draw the rations direct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1021.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1021.3", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "FARM WORKERS (EXTRA RATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gooch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gooch", "preceding_text": "nt even though they were released of all other obligations in securing the allowances. Then further discussions took place. The Minister finally decided he would issue the order which hon. Members opposite are asking the House to annul. In connection with the Motion which is now before the House I know that the National Farmers' Union have said they will do all they can to get this order annulled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1021.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1024.2", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "FARM WORKERS (EXTRA RATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gooch", "preceding_text": "I am assuming something which I believe in my own mind to be correct. I am suggesting that in moving to annul this order, hon. Members are acting as the tools of the National Farmers' Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "FARM WORKERS (EXTRA RATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": " right in saying that the alternative, and the practicable way of dealing with this existing order, was put forward at the time. It is that the farmer should be forced to certify that the worker was working on the particular occasion and was, therefore, entitled to additional rations and, having certified this, to hand the form to the worker's wife, who would draw the rations. Am I right or wrong?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1033.1", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "FARM WORKERS (EXTRA RATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joynson-Hicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joynson-Hicks", "preceding_text": ". If I may be allowed one reference which has a double meaning, I would say that this order is entirely pointless. I repeat that it is contemptuous of the farmers. It is obviously unworkable and it is calculated to promote ill-feeling throughout the industry. Of that there is not the slightest doubt whatever. It is disruptive of the effort which the farmers are trying to make to produce more food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1033.3", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "FARM WORKERS (EXTRA RATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food (Dr. Edith Summer-skill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food (Dr. Edith Summer-skill)", "preceding_text": "ht. I have learned that they are farmers, and I have listened to them in the House and have formed the opinion on certain occasions that they were concerned with the welfare of their workers. Tonight, with a sense of great surprise, I listened to the same hon. Gentlemen identifying themselves with the bad farmers of the country, bad farmers who show little concern for the welfare of their workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1033.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1033.3", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "FARM WORKERS (EXTRA RATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food (Dr. Edith Summer-skill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food (Dr. Edith Summer-skill)", "preceding_text": " Tonight, with a sense of great surprise, I listened to the same hon. Gentlemen identifying themselves with the bad farmers of the country, bad farmers who show little concern for the welfare of their workers. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"] Tonight they have deliberately evaded the real issue. They have tried to confuse the issue by talking on matters which Mr. Speaker has already said are out of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1033.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1034.2", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "FARM WORKERS (EXTRA RATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Major Milner)", "preceding_text": "Certain matters are clearly out of Order. Matters to which reference has been made have not, so far as I know, been out of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "FARM WORKERS (EXTRA RATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "sh and ruthless. We had nothing to do with fixing them. They are in the Defence Regulations. I believe the maximum penalty for larceny is 14 years, but a pick-pocket gets something like 14 days so that hon. Members need not be too worried. If they decide not to observe this order perhaps the penalty will not be the maximum prescribed by the Defence Regulations. But I do want to refer to this order", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "FARM WORKERS (EXTRA RATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"His wife.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "e called on to fill in hundreds of forms. I will remind the House of what the procedure is. Hon. Members have given a picture of this poor, harassed man who is incapable of grappling with the difficulties with which the Ministry of Food has presented him. All he has to do is to make a separate application for each of these processes. The farmer need not make the application, his nominee can do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-22", "file": "debates1948-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "9341f5b2af66f2f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "FARM WORKERS (EXTRA RATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has enough to do already.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "n HON. MEMBER; \"His wife.] Certainly, if you like. A farmer's wife is not a completely helpless woman. Hon. Gentlemen opposite must not be so nineteenth-century about women. I think most of them know that women can write letters. The farmer, or his wife, or a representative of the agricultural workers, or any other reputable person acting on their behalf, can do this. The local doctor could do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-22a.1036.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-23", "file": "debates1948-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "6069d573b16db50d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1072.0", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I took the very greatest possible care with this case. I submitted the evidence to two eminent lawyers who are Members of this House. They differed in the first place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-23", "file": "debates1948-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "6069d573b16db50d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ise. I do not wish to speak about manpower or the Army or the Navy. I want to speak of something about which I happen to know a little, and that is the production and supply side of this rearmament programme. I think the House is well enough versed in the history of rearmament to know that a rearmament programme does not go on a dead level; it either rises or it falls. There is no doubt that that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-23", "file": "debates1948-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "6069d573b16db50d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Making a statement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "I am asking the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-23", "file": "debates1948-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "6069d573b16db50d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "I am asking the question. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Making a statement.\"] I said, I think it would be true to say. Let me be perfectly frank. I should be only too glad to have the report which I have derived from serving officers in that brigade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-23", "file": "debates1948-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "6069d573b16db50d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1204.1", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttleton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttleton", "preceding_text": "e if this is to be put right. The Royal Air Force is an entirely distorted force. As my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Carshalton (Brigadier Head) has said, 53 per cent. of the Royal Air Force are now short-service National Service men. The whole basis of the Royal Air Force is now distorted because no proper regard has been had to its position as a striking force, and all this on balance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-23", "file": "debates1948-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "6069d573b16db50d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1208.1", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Shinwell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Shinwell)", "preceding_text": "rt with other peaceloving nations in order to resist aggression. On these matters there is agreement, but there we part company. The gravamen of the charge against the Government, as I understood from the speeches made on the other side of the House, was that we had no plan and that, even if we had a plan, we refused to divulge the contents of that plan to the Opposition and to the world at large.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-23", "file": "debates1948-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "6069d573b16db50d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1209.3", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "It is much too early for that kind of interruption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-23", "file": "debates1948-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "6069d573b16db50d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1209.3", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "It is much too early for that kind of interruption. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"] I have only just risen to my feet, Mr. Speaker, and I have only uttered a few preliminary sentences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-23", "file": "debates1948-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "6069d573b16db50d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1209.3", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "It is much too early for that kind of interruption. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"] I have only just risen to my feet, Mr. Speaker, and I have only uttered a few preliminary sentences. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite enough.\"] The right hon. Member for Aldershot (Mr. Lyttelton), who expressed himself in censorious tones about the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-23", "file": "debates1948-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "6069d573b16db50d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1210.3", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "d about 800,000 men. When hon. Members opposite complain that we have no plan, I would remind them that there has been a plan, a coherent plan that can be understood, a plan that can be explained and has been explained in this House, but a plan related to the rundown of the Army in relation to the then international situation. But, of course, a change has come about in the international situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1210.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-23", "file": "debates1948-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "6069d573b16db50d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1212.4", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "We have done our utmost on this side of the House to support the Government in their Foreign policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1212.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-23", "file": "debates1948-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "6069d573b16db50d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1213.5", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ion of the length of National Service will not be overlooked. I cannot say any more than that; I cannot anticipate legislation before the legislation is actually prepared, but nevertheless my right hon. Friend the Minister of Defence, the Service Ministers and the Government as a whole are bound to take note of the submissions made by hon. Members in relation to the inadequacy of National Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1213.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-23", "file": "debates1948-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "6069d573b16db50d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "sting speech, when he presented a very interesting point of view which I will pass on to the Foreign Secretary, namely, that the United States of America should make itself financially responsible for Western European rearmament, also stated that at the present time we have the fewest fighting units on record. That is quite wrong. I am sorry he made such a statement, because it simply is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-23", "file": "debates1948-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "6069d573b16db50d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "to the Foreign Secretary, namely, that the United States of America should make itself financially responsible for Western European rearmament, also stated that at the present time we have the fewest fighting units on record. That is quite wrong. I am sorry he made such a statement, because it simply is not true. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"] At no time during peace have we ever had more men available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1216.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-23", "file": "debates1948-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "6069d573b16db50d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "cretary a considered statement in reply to his question. The question put to me was, How far are the principles laid down for the organisation of Civil Defence in the last war being adhered to? The reply is this. There will have to be some kind of Civil Defence organisation on a local basis and the detailed organisation is being considered in consultation with representatives of local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-23", "file": "debates1948-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "6069d573b16db50d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1229.7", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "GERMANY (DISMANTLINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "ith 24, and Nilsen and Korte with 24, making a total of 298 as the capacity. The present output is 161. That is the figure which my hon. Friend had in mind, and I think he mentioned the figure of 144. What he has confused is the present output compared with the present capacity, and that is our whole defence, or the main part of our defence, for the dismantling of plant which has surplus capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-23a.1229.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-24", "file": "debates1948-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "d7845734a415db9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-24a.1253.3", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "MALAYA AND GOLD COAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "preceding_text": " a word about the chiefs. The Commission propose that a radical change should be made in the position of the chiefs, but they do not make any definite proposals. The Government strongly criticise this suggestion of the Commission, and they point out that the members spent most of their time in the towns and not enough in the rural areas; in other words they listened too much to the intelligentsia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-24a.1253.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-24", "file": "debates1948-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "d7845734a415db9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-24a.1271.2", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "MALAYA AND GOLD COAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Fletcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "It was refused five times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-24a.1271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-09-24", "file": "debates1948-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "d7845734a415db9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-24a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "UNITED NATIONS APPEAL FOR CHILDREN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "on, and so on. I rather think the House should take notice of 'that statement from the Official Report. We were influenced by the statement of Commander Jackson on behalf of the Secretary-General on this point and also by the arguments put forward by the New Zealand Delegation. We were asked to follow the Australian lead, but the New Zealand Delegation expressed a view with which we have sympathy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-09-24a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-26", "file": "debates1948-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "88ad57b965f808ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-26a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden (Warwick and Leamington)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden (Warwick and Leamington)", "preceding_text": "st cordial congratulations on his restoration to health and to tell him we are glad to see him here. We hope that he will enjoy taking part in the share of the controversies to come. I feel that the Mover was expressing the experience of us all when he said that whatever our domestic controversies might be-and it is obvious they will be very bitter this Session— most of us in this House certainly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-26a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-26", "file": "debates1948-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "88ad57b965f808ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-26a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden (Warwick and Leamington)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden (Warwick and Leamington)", "preceding_text": " it— producing at all-time record levels, an achievement which redounds to the credit of everyone in the industry, as the hon., Gentleman said. I have no doubt that the Prime Minister would endorse that statement. Here is an industry which is today producing steel at prices lower than anywhere in Europe or in the United States of America and which has had a long record of good industrial relations", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-26a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-27", "file": "debates1948-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1cd2869ef7e96636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-27", "file": "debates1948-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1cd2869ef7e96636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "s merits in each case. In the case of all the Measures of nationalisation so far carried out, I believe the reasons, on balance, were sufficient. Many hon. Members on these benches will not agree but I still think that, on balance, they were sufficient; I make no stronger claim. But the nationalisation of iron and steel and the still wilder schemes with which some hon. Members opposite are toying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-27", "file": "debates1948-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1cd2869ef7e96636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Between the wars?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "re now wiping out the last vestiges of independence by confiscatory taxation. Not the least of the services rendered by Lord Catto to the country is his blunt warning to the Chancellor that personal saving is incompatible with the present rate of taxation. The disastrous effects on the capital re-equipment of industry were seen between the wars, and the social consequences are no less disquieting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.114.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-10-27", "file": "debates1948-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1cd2869ef7e96636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speak for yourself.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "t are creating? Does it not correspond more closely to human nature? Does it not offer far better assurances for the individual than the all-powerful State? If I mistake not also, there are many hon. Gentlemen opposite who, although they may not express themselves vocally or in the Lobby, share this ideal. But they are powerless within the Labour Party to halt the drift to the totalitarian State——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-27", "file": "debates1948-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1cd2869ef7e96636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.117.2", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "lution appear to be utility, priority, austerity. One of the problems of revolution is that it is a chain reaction. There are always other revolutionaries behind, and today the Labour Party is being rushed into courses which its wiser Members deplore. The chief problem of the Labour leaders at all levels, from the shop steward to the Prime Minister, is the man just behind them who wants their job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-27", "file": "debates1948-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1cd2869ef7e96636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Dr, Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr, Morgan", "preceding_text": "You are a dirty dog.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.117.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-10-27", "file": "debates1948-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1cd2869ef7e96636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.118.3", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "If, in the circumstances, Mr. Speaker, you think that, after the remarks we have heard from the hon. Member for Keighley, I said anything which would reflect on the dignity of the House, I will willingly withdraw, and perhaps outside——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.118.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-27", "file": "debates1948-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1cd2869ef7e96636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.118.10", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "dership it will recover its place in the world. Even though no leadership has come from Downing Street in the past three years, the authentic voice of Great Britain has still been heard—as it was heard after Dunkirk, at Fulton, at Zurich, at The Hague and at Llandudno. And when that voice can again command action as well as attention, there will be a national revival which will astonish the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.118.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-27", "file": "debates1948-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1cd2869ef7e96636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.119.2", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Paton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Paton", "preceding_text": " expect me to make any comment on the arguments in the incredible speech by the hon. Member for Keighley (Mr. Ivor Thomas). I have a much more serious purpose today than to attempt to detain the House by making any examination of the feeble apologetics and special pleadings which we have just heard. No doubt some of the acid of his comments arose from eating sour grapes during the past few months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.119.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-27", "file": "debates1948-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1cd2869ef7e96636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"It has done very well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " what the Government are doing is to carry out their own ideological policy instead of considering what is best from the point of view of the country. The right hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington said yesterday that whatever was proposed in this respect, he would be in opposition to it. The position of the steel industry today is largely due to what happened during the period between the wars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-27", "file": "debates1948-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1cd2869ef7e96636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "preceding_text": "ter for the nation if they had. What I am concerned about is the amount of compensation we are paying for the services taken over. What has nearly every Member on the other side of the House said in opposition to the nationalisation proposals? There was not much emphasis on the need or otherwise for taking an industry over, but on the question, \"What can we make the nation pay for taking it over?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-27", "file": "debates1948-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1cd2869ef7e96636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.139.3", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "g to realise on which side they are. I turn, therefore, to exactly the kind of Socialism which is served up. I understand it is out of Order in this Debate to discuss the Steel Bill in detail; and anyway I do not intend to. But I do want to say this to my hon. Friends. It will not matter what arguments are put up against the Steel Bill; the Socialists intend to put it through despite any argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-27", "file": "debates1948-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1cd2869ef7e96636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.196.3", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"An act of war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "tom bombs on Russia?\" Not at all. What it means is this: that we should give warning to Russia—this is not my plan, but it has been put forward—that we intend to take a convoy through by road. In case the road should be out of action we will take wrecking crews along as well. To avoid any unpleasant incident there will be a military escort and, if necessary, we will escort the convoy from the air.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.196.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-27", "file": "debates1948-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1cd2869ef7e96636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.201.7", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "le element of unity in the country not only for the sake of things at home but for the sake of things abroad. The secrets of the Cabinet are not always kept. On this side of the House we know something of the, battle inside the Cabinet over the Steel Bill. Hon. Members opposite who try to pretend that this is a happy or unanimous decision on the part of the Government do not know what is going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.201.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-27", "file": "debates1948-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1cd2869ef7e96636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "the proposed Bill which is to deal with the safety of life at sea. I wish to say how deeply I welcome the fact that His Majesty's Government appear to be intending to operate the International Charter for Merchant Sailors and to legislate accordingly. Recently it was my privilege, as some hon. Members are aware, to travel on a merchant ship across the Atlantic Ocean. I shared the life of the crew.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-27", "file": "debates1948-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1cd2869ef7e96636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PIT PONIES (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "the feeding and watering arrangements seemed very good. On 11th May, permission was granted to Mr. Frank Christopher, M.R.C.V.S., who represents the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, to go down the pit and examine the pony in his stable. He reported to the Society that Ned was perfectly fit to carry out the work required of him and that the amount of work was very reasonable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-27a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-28", "file": "debates1948-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "cdf84364facb1ca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-28a.242.6", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ions an unfailing succession—these very high intellectual persons who, when they wake up every morning, have looked around upon the British inheritance, whatever it was, to see what they could find to demolish, to undermine or to cast away. It now appears that the word \"Empire\" is taboo: Oh no! we never mention it; Its name is never heard. Flushed with electoral success beyond their dreams—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-28a.242.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-28", "file": "debates1948-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "cdf84364facb1ca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-28a.256.7", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "oss the Atlantic, even though what military preparations are made in the West can only be, for some years, quite subsidiary to the deterrent power of the atomic bomb. This alone at the present time prevents the rebarbarisation and enslavement of Europe by the Communist forces directed from the Kremlin. I am very glad to hear that significant silence from the Government Benches which gives consent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-28a.256.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-28", "file": "debates1948-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "cdf84364facb1ca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-28a.256.7", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Feet on the Ground.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "n founded. I am sorry if personal jealousies, or other motives below the level of events, have led the Socialist Party at first to embark upon the unnatural plan of narrowing United Europe down to United Socialist Europe. I warned them at the very beginning that that was not a hopeful line of advance. I hope that their recent publication, entitled, I think, \"Facing the Facts,\" or \"Face the Facts\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-28a.256.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-28", "file": "debates1948-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "cdf84364facb1ca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-28a.258.7", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "trust that our manhood throughout the island will not be deterred from coining forward by the record in peace and war or by the frequent utterances of the present occupant of the War Office and several of his principal colleagues. If these Ministers fail in their duty to the nation, the nation must endeavour all the more to fill the gap. I now come—and let me relieve the House by saying \"finally\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-28a.258.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-28", "file": "debates1948-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "cdf84364facb1ca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-28a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "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": "o the matter at all. It has nothing to do with our economic views. We believe that the word \"Commonwealth\" is a better word in spirit and accuracy to use in describing this extraordinary assembly of nations than the words \"British Empire.\" We have a lot of sympathy with a politician who said some years ago that the trouble with the Tory Party was that it dished out patriotism by the imperial pint.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-28a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-28", "file": "debates1948-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "cdf84364facb1ca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-28a.265.0", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was deliberate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I intended no discourtesy to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-28a.265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-28", "file": "debates1948-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "cdf84364facb1ca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-28a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "complains that the word \"Dominion\" seems to be going out of use, and that the word \"British\" is being dropped from its association with the Commonwealth. As a matter of fact, the word \"British\" has not been universally used in connection with the Commonwealth for quite a time. The term \"Commonwealth\" has been used before, in connection with official pronouncements, I think under other Governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-28a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-28", "file": "debates1948-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "cdf84364facb1ca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-28a.270.3", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ace, we should not have introduced the word \"independence\" for which there was no warrant in any of the previous negotiations between the parties. I consider, in the second place, that the 30,000 or 40,000 British troops who were squandered in the shameful failures of Palestine could have been stationed in India and could, without any bloodshed, have maintained the peace and order of that country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-28a.270.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-28", "file": "debates1948-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "cdf84364facb1ca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-28a.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ished and recognised procedure, to which the right hon. Gentleman had formerly been a party, as to trade union political funds. It altered the Act of 1913. That had nothing whatever to do with the General Strike. On the contrary, the more working men and women are permitted to join together to take peaceful political action, the less likely we are to get general strikes. But the Bill went through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-28a.274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-28", "file": "debates1948-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "cdf84364facb1ca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-28a.288.5", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "The Soviet Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-28a.288.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-29", "file": "debates1948-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "586f49c768a6f8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-29a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KINGS'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Well, there it is. I can only say that the deputation was perfectly courteous and I think I was, too. I think it is a pity that, arising out of it, an untruthful statement of this sort should be made. With regard to the three points which I am going to answer and of which I had notice I want to say this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-29a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-29", "file": "debates1948-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "586f49c768a6f8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-29a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KINGS'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "There were many coal owners before the war, and if a man could not get a job with one, he could try another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-29a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-10-29", "file": "debates1948-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "586f49c768a6f8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-29a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KINGS'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "There were many coal owners before the war, and if a man could not get a job with one, he could try another. [ Interruption. ] I have not finished yet. If he became so well-known a character in one coalfield that the other pits fought shy of him, all he had to do was to journey to another coalfield. There was no black list which extended over the different coalfields.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-10-29a.411.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-01", "file": "debates1948-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1810342b3c9fb1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-01a.536.3", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir Arthur Salter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Arthur Salter", "preceding_text": "to such -a point that by far the greatest part of what he has said today finds me in full agreement with him. There were, however, in what he said a few echoes from his earlier past. I do not think it was perhaps, altogether the best method of rallying the nation to defence against the Communist menace to take such pride in the part that he himself has taken in the evolution of the British Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-01a.536.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-11-01", "file": "debates1948-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1810342b3c9fb1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-01a.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "and then used words in regard to hon. Members of this House which he ought never to have used. He was talking about the need for a Secret Session, and he then said: I would not be deterred from this expedient by the fear that there may be elements in this House who feel towards Great Britain no sense of comradeship or brotherhood.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, Thursday, 28th October, 1948; Vol. 457, c. 260.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-01a.557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-01", "file": "debates1948-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1810342b3c9fb1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-01a.558.5", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "Yes, and that is why we are getting the results now. I hope we shall have another and a different Government after the next Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-01a.558.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-01", "file": "debates1948-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1810342b3c9fb1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-01a.565.3", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": "What does that matter? It was Mr. Ramsay MacDonald who insisted upon appointing the extra Boundary Commissioner. It was in 1925.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-01a.565.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-01", "file": "debates1948-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1810342b3c9fb1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-01a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Major Wise", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Wise", "preceding_text": "ar easier for the farmer to feed the heavier pigs and it is far better that we should produce something which will mean a higher tonnage of meat for consumption at home. There is another point which I think should be mentioned, and which is referred to in the Gracious Speech; and that is the question of the marketing boards. I represent possibly the finest agricultural constituency in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-01a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-01", "file": "debates1948-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1810342b3c9fb1d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-01a.629.0", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "nd more particularly the Parliamentary Secretary, the benefit of some sound second thoughts about the order which requires that the statement of rations for seasonal workers shall be in with the food office officials at least 24 hours before the beginning of each harvest operation, because the right hon. Gentleman and the Parliamentary Secretary are the laughing stock of the countryside over this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-01a.629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.683.7", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "em having achieved substantial progress despite planning. The only industry referred to in that \"Bulletin for Industry\" of September, in which the target had not been reached, and of which nothing good could be said, was the nationalised industry of coal. The Chancellor of the Exchequer also sees fit from time to time to lecture industrialists on the need for better organisation in their industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.683.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has not said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "I am concerned with the administration of the Minister of Health in his Department. He has no right to delude the public into thinking that he has in fact built 750,000 new houses.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "I am concerned with the administration of the Minister of Health in his Department. He has no right to delude the public into thinking that he has in fact built 750,000 new houses.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"He has not said so.\"] —when he has had to pad the figures by the means I have described. Then he says that he has broken the back of the housing problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.694.0", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "-war. It is inevitable that the State should play in our affairs a role much bigger than it used to do. Decisions on the balance of payments, for example, are bound to be taken on a scale wholly inappropriate for any private industry, however large. In times of scarcity, there are occasions on which decisions as to supplies must be taken by the State on information that only the State can possess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.711.6", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "My view is that the right hon. Member was talking about tinplate and not about steel", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.711.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.729.0", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "I know nothing at all about Richard Crittall's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.729.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": " of the Chancellors of the Exchequer whom it has put into power.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT. 19th December. 1945; Vol. 417, c. 1380.] We had a little recent evidence on that point which I regard as of more significance. Sir James Grigg has recently given us the privilege of reading his reminiscences. No hon. Member opposite would dispute the fact that Sir James Grigg is a tried and trusted and crusty Tory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.737.5", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "I have misquoted the hon. Member, and I accept that his words are not precisely those which I wish to use; but because of the dangerous future, because of the conditions now mentioned, if he likes, in the Amendment which we are now discussing, it was desirable that there should be a cessation of controversy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.737.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "in the last three years than went up in the previous 50. Are we to have a target for the liquidation of the Empire? Are we to be told what part is to be liquidated next? If so, it would be rather interesting to know when we shall come to the Isle of Wight. I say that the Government have failed in everything that matters. They have failed to feed us as well as we were fed before and during the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "r the first time in our history we are mendicants. The symbol of Britain is no longer the proud trident of Britannia, but the begging bowl. One out of every four meals we eat today come to us from the bounty of the United States. There are nearly two million unemployed in this country today, but they have been exported, if not in body, in economics, to the public assistance authorities in America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "ed prestige throughout the world; a Chancellor of the Exchequer who will reduce taxation and reduce the rising cost of living; a Minister of War who will by his words and personal record give confidence to the Army; a Minister of Food who knows something about business and a Minister of Health who will allow houses to go up as fast as they did before the war. That is the first plank in our policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haworth", "preceding_text": "s? They suggest that industries must be bankrupt or we are not justified in taking them over and then, when we take them over, they reproach us because the industries do not make an immediate profit. I think we should take over some of the prosperous industries and I have one or two in mind for consideration at the next election. On the question of coal, I do not think the price matters two pence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Greece.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "preceding_text": "I believe that I can but I have not the reference at my finger tips. I was implying that a mass opinion on an intricate matter of policy was not the way to legislate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "ion of the means and instruments of production, distribution and exchange? If that argument failed to help the hon. Member and it did not seem to me to help nationalisation very much—how much less hope of it in the new protégé of the Fabian Society? I thought the Fabian Society died with Lord Passfield; I thought it had disappeared. It is a long time since I saw a pamphlet from them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "d of clerks and inkwells. I have been there. I am back in a livelier and braver society which deserves better leadership than it is getting. I should like to think that the end of mankind is not the socialisation of the means of production, distribution and exchange. I should like to think that this great test, and striving with all its cruelties and with all its miseries, will go on increasingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "fields rejoicing in this new-found happiness? That is the test. Will any Member here tell me of one iota of human happiness that has come about during these miserable three years as a result of an individual member of the public knowing that he owns the Bank of England? Is there any joy in the hearts of any of us because we own Cable and Wireless? Does it really matter who owns Cable and Wireless?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.783.1", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " a large number of repairs as well. And that kind of experience can be repeated in many parts of the country. It is disreputable that the Opposition should try to pretend that the housing programme has collapsed when, in fact, we have a better housing record than any other country in the world. Taking into account the fact that my city of Plymouth stands almost at the top of the league in housing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.783.1", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about conscription?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "roken up. I do not believe we can ever have national leadership with people who only represent a small clique but if we ever were to think of that, I think we could at least demand that they should vote for at any rate one or two unpopular measures which they felt might conceivably lose them votes. If they did, some people might be prepared to consider national unity with them, though I would not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And others.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "I notice that the hon. Member for Devonport (Mr. Foot) delivered a very scathing attack upon the right hon. Member for Woodford when he was not in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.789.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.790.0", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does it matter?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "ave to devote to the necessary re-armament programme in the present Session of Parliament? What sort of effect upon the potential recruit for the Territorial Army will be created by the spectacle of the Minister of Supply conducting a Bill for the nationalisation of iron and steel through all its stages in this House? Will Marshal Stalin be very impressed? I should guess that he will be chuckling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.804.3", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "urb that industry at a vitally important moment when the disturbance may affect the rebuilding of our defences. Let us take another instance. Was the country warned at the time of the General Election in 1945 that our economic position would be as difficult as it is now? Was the country warned that the dollar picture would be such as has developed over the last three years? Of Course, it was not.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.804.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.806.2", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "t he was told he would be part-owner; the claim that he was told that he would take a larger share in management; the consequent frictions and ill-feelings; the strikes and threats of strikes that have arisen because of promises that have been wildly hurled for years by hon. Members sitting opposite now that once the industry was nationalised the works would be owned and controlled by the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.806.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": " occupied the minds of the Government. Even more serious is the blow which has been struck at the whole system of the standards of morality and of life in this country by an attempt to iron out standards over vast fields of employment and enterprise, all within the strait-jacket of direction from the centre. It is said that our standards of morality and honesty in this country are sinking rapidly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-02", "file": "debates1948-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f818678410feffb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": " the blow which has been struck at the whole system of the standards of morality and of life in this country by an attempt to iron out standards over vast fields of employment and enterprise, all within the strait-jacket of direction from the centre. It is said that our standards of morality and honesty in this country are sinking rapidly. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Hon. Members opposite agree?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-02a.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — U.S. AIRCRAFT UNITED KINGDOM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "In view of public uneasiness about this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — U.S. AIRCRAFT UNITED KINGDOM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I am afraid that I can give no such assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.862.7", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "in \"The Times\" of 15th November last year, and this is what Mr. Douglas said: Because of the condition which the war created and the pre-war history of the coalmines, when the Government took them over on January 1st they inherited, on the whole, a rather dilapidated estate, and it will take some time to get them back in order. Then he went on to say that a good start had been made, and I believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.862.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.865.4", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "l activity which is covered by industries in our Development Areas, which were distressed areas when hon. Members opposite had full political power. I hope that hon. Members opposite, when they talk about this Government restricting enterprise and initiative, will read very carefully a recent White Paper, published in October of this year, and entitled \"Distribution of Industry.\" I would ask them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.865.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.865.4", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, 1931.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "e, quoted the example of the Fire Service in his constituency, which he said was a microcosm of nationalised industry. I should like the right hon. Gentleman also to take as a microcosm a constituency which he once represented—Whitehaven, in the former distressed area. Let me quote the figures of employment and unemployment in that area under a Labour Government as compared with the past. In 1932—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.865.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But you cannot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "er for Saffron Walden (Mr. R. A. Butler). On page 24, it states: We are opposed to nationalisation as a principle upon which all industries should be organised. If that is not doctrinaire, I do not know what is. If that means that hon. Members opposite oppose nationalisation as a principle, surely that is a doctrinaire approach? If we can prove that it is necessary to take over the steel industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.868.4", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "s's definition that Freedom is the possession of continuous initiative. Today, for the first time, some of our people have an initiative, the right to enjoy holidays with pay in the mining industry, the right to have the best available education that the nation can afford. All these essential freedoms are being developed through a comprehensive policy of social reform initiated by this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.868.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.871.1", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "ble speech. On this side of the House we are less concerned with the past than with the future. It would indeed be very optimistic to expect the nationalised industries to make what the Treasury calls an \"adequate profit\" in the first year of their existence. I give that point to hon. Gentlemen opposite, but I must also remind them that the losses of the nationalised industries are unconscionable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or from the Tory Party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "eant, but they are utterly futile. Miners are men set apart. They follow a dangerous calling, and hard and dirty is their work. Of all sections in the community they can best claim to be members of one another. Their loyalties and their suspicions are titanic. They will not respond to lecturings from the Government or from the Coal Board or, indeed, from any one in London, or from London's agents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.908.5", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Clarke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Lord Sankey.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Clarke", "preceding_text": "her tragic. I do not believe anything has been more destructive of the coal industry in the last 35 years than the continuous warfare which has taken place to get nationalisation. For more than a generation, Communists, Syndicalists and even good trade union Socialists have been pouring out a continual stream of propaganda to the effect that the coal industry did not work under private enterprise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.908.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "o balance it later.\" To put it in the background, is the dishonest conception about finance which grew up under the aegis of the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Duchy. It has been partly corrected by his successor, but if the Chancellor of the Duchy is to be the Minister who is to be in charge of the nationalised industries, and if he infuses into them his entirely unjustified optimism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.931.2", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Chamberlain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Chamberlain", "preceding_text": "r the will of financial interests, which have run these big industries, to run them for the nation's benefit. In fact, further researches I have been making recently into certain phases of what is called big finance make it quite clear to me that, generally speaking, where there is a contest between the benefit of the nation and the benefit of the shareholders, the shareholders have it every time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.931.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.931.2", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Chamberlain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Chamberlain", "preceding_text": "led big finance make it quite clear to me that, generally speaking, where there is a contest between the benefit of the nation and the benefit of the shareholders, the shareholders have it every time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Oh, yes. There are honourable exceptions, I agree; but, generally speaking, no fair minded person would refuse that proposition, because he would know that it is perfectly true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.931.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.939.0", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ition allege that nationalised industries have already imposed burdens upon taxpayers and consumers. I took a series of nationalised industries in succession and considered that allegation. In the particular case of Cable and Wireless, I repudiated the claim on both counts. Cable and Wireless since nationalisation have not imposed a burden on the taxpayers, because they yielded a profit last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.939.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.941.3", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "on? Hon. Gentlemen opposite are not being even remotely intelligent. They are running away from this problem of the 20th century and are merely digging their heads into the sands of nationalisation. What do we want of industry? Generally speaking, I should say that it should be able to provide a higher standard of life for the people of the country and give continuity of employment to the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.941.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.942.3", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "of opening up an office in Berkeley Square, or taking over some baronial hall in Berkshire and dragging in a few performing Peers. I suggest to Members opposite that the particular form of nationalisation to which they appear to be wedded costs the country more in wasteful administration than private enterprise would take in the form of profits. I agree that there are defects in private ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.942.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman's party did not at the last Election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "y idea, in 1945, that the economic conditions which the Government would have to face would be as grievous as they are. That they are not tempered in their judgment of the problems they are up against—which are of greater magnitude than they imagine—is evidence of the fact that they are prepared to put their party aims before the national weal. No party which does that ever survives for very long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.953.1", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "—or will be discussing in the next week or two. All this is helping the Communist cause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawley", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawley", "preceding_text": "refore the standards above them which they consider incentives, are still pre-war standards and even pre-first war standards. Only the other day a Conservative industrialist was saying to me, \"Until we get back to the day when every business executive can earn £10,000 a year, net, we shall never get back to prosperity in this country.\" But why should we hand these vast sums to business executives?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.963.2", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.963.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.963.3", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Quintin Hoggers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "erything else, it is rather humiliating. Still, contrary to high authority, it brings them not death, but their one hope of political survival. In these political and economic circumstances—the perilous position overseas and the grave economic position—what would be the prudent course even for those who are convinced advocates of national ownership? I do not ask this question of the whole-hoggers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.963.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.963.3", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or for Edinburgh University.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "em not death, but their one hope of political survival. In these political and economic circumstances—the perilous position overseas and the grave economic position—what would be the prudent course even for those who are convinced advocates of national ownership? I do not ask this question of the whole-hoggers—[An HON. MEMBER: \"The Quintin Hoggers.\"] The hon. Member ought to qualify for the B.B.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.963.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "tion, \"Ought there to be universal Capitalism or universal Socialism.\" They may in the end arrive at universal Socialism, but I think the British temperament is such that, if they do get it, it will only be by examining it at each stage of the way, and seeing whether this and that step is right or wrong. And that is the spirit in which this Government have approached this problem of socialisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "According to the heading of the OFFICIAL REPORT it was a Debate on the Amendment to the Address. I have no recollection that that was confined to controls over industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.975.1", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To get him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Because I am anxious to get them on our side", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.975.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.979.0", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, Hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ative Party—on 21st March, 1943, as reported in the \"Manchester Guardian\": There is a broadening field for State ownership and enterprise, especially in relation to monopolies of all kinds. The modern State will increasingly concern itself with the economic wellbeing of the nation, but it is all the more vital to revive at the earliest moment a widespread, healthy and vigorous private enterprise——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.976.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.982.3", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.982.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-03", "file": "debates1948-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "fbb513d7e15bbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give the names.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman need not get quite so excited. As he has paid my speech the compliment of this apparently deep study", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-03a.983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-04", "file": "debates1948-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "32a63323f4399bb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-04a.1017.7", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "There is no serious shortage of beds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-04a.1017.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-05", "file": "debates1948-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "c468dc28aff0208a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-05a.1207.5", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAVINGS BANKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "e of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and those under him. If they really mean what they say in supporting the Bill, the best thing that they can do is to remove the grave distress which unfortunately they themselves have raised in the minds of the people through declarations that the Government are using these savings to further Government policy. I do not want to be controversial in this respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-05a.1207.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-05", "file": "debates1948-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "c468dc28aff0208a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-05a.1223.0", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARD OF TRADE (DUTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman challenges me to say what ought to be done. I am not going to presume to tell him how to run his Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-05a.1223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-08", "file": "debates1948-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "366eb285aefcf13d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-08a.1304.3", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REMOVED RAILINGS (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "R. Forrest, of 2, Corstorphine Hill Avenue, Edinburgh. Mr. Forrest is a constituent of mine. The facts of the matter are that when Mr. Forrest came back from the war he found that 130 feet of iron railings had been removed from around his garden. The fact that it was a garden is important to the case which I want to put to the Minister, if he would be good enough to listen—if, indeed, he is there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-08a.1304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-09", "file": "debates1948-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "affffcf640d04b8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-09a.1389.8", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Woodburn)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Woodburn)", "preceding_text": "The demand for water by an estate has also, in many cases, grown appreciably because of the number of houses and other buildings requiring water on the estate, and also for such reasons as the development of dairy farming. Moreover, arrangements made years ago for water to be supplied on special monetary terms have ceased to have any relation to the much depreciated value of the currency of today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-09a.1389.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-09", "file": "debates1948-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "affffcf640d04b8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-09a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was also true before the war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "preceding_text": "he milk supplies if they had a supply of water to wash up the dairy utensils. One could give other examples of how water is required to develop our basic industries to the nation's advantage. I agree with the hon. Member for North Edinburgh (Mr. Willis) that insufficient enemy was being devoted to this problem of supplying water, and I should like to see a speeding up of efforts in this direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-09a.1433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-09", "file": "debates1948-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "affffcf640d04b8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-09a.1439.1", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If we have the water.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "ils and bring them back full. That was not nearly so much a job as an art—to walk half a mile with two pails full of water and arrive home with the pails still full of water. That was only during a holiday. When I realise that that sort of thing is the lot of, perhaps, thousands of people in our country still, then I feel that any opposition to this Bill ought to be washed out of court altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-09a.1439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-09", "file": "debates1948-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "affffcf640d04b8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-09a.1455.1", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "No, but that was the understanding. If the hon. Member was here, as I think he was, at that time he will recollect that that is what all Scottish Members expected. It would have been a substantial development, something of the order of £1 million a year. This sum of £20 million, according to the repeated testimony of the Secretary of State, will take 50 years to expend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-09a.1455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-09", "file": "debates1948-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "affffcf640d04b8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-09a.1490.1", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-SOVIET PAMPHLET", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "have come from in Germany and pass it to the Foreign Office so that they may put a stop to it there. (I can well imagine that there is a large-scale production of such stuff in Germany, and that it may be very dangerous.) The Home Secretary remained perfectly calm. For a month he attended to all the business of his office except this. I received absolutely nothing of any description for one month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-09a.1490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-09", "file": "debates1948-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "affffcf640d04b8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-09a.1505.1", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANTI-SOVIET PAMPHLET", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "rming myself with that information, but I do not think that this is the place in which to debate legal technicalities. I say that, as I have not seen the text, it would be futile to debate the technicalities. I am saying that mere attacks on foreign governments are not in themselves likely to constitute seditious or criminal libels in this country, and that one would have to examine the documents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-09a.1505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-10", "file": "debates1948-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3da3457b9c2712b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1581.1", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimston", "preceding_text": "That is a large proportion considering the small number of television sets at present in existence. I think we may take it from that intervention that the problem will become really acute when television sets become universal, which will not be for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-10", "file": "debates1948-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3da3457b9c2712b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Marshall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not here now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Marshall", "preceding_text": "haps because it was a fit moment to fill in time during this week. That is my impression. If my impression is right, it is indeed a very good reason why the Bill is bad. During the period I have been in this House I have noticed that if the Lord President of the Council spends a considerable time on the Government Front Bench when he is not actually conducting a Bill, he is not too happy about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-10", "file": "debates1948-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3da3457b9c2712b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "e next question asked of him referred to similar legislation in other countries. He was asked which were the countries and what was the legislation. He replied, \"I do not know. I will find out.\" Is it proper that when the Government propose a Bill such as this, these absolutely vital considerations should not have been completely known by the Assistant Postmaster-General and his right hon. Friend?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-10", "file": "debates1948-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3da3457b9c2712b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1601.3", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": "Knowing that all good Deputy-Speakers, particularly in the early stages of what I hope will be a long and illustrious career, are anxious that Debates should be conducted with rectitude —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-10", "file": "debates1948-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3da3457b9c2712b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1616.1", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "ficult. Nobody else will be involved. No doubt from time to time people will be guided by the Post Office and experiments will be made with gadgets for the improvement of reception, and cutting out interference, and that kind of thing; but the number of people involved under the Bill will be relatively small. I do not think it is necessary to take up very much more time on this particular subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-10", "file": "debates1948-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3da3457b9c2712b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1629.1", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two million in five years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " small grievance, although it is maddening enough when it arises, especially if it happens when people wish to listen to a special programme. It might be that the hon. Member for Bolton (Mr. J. Lewis) had been asked to broadcast \"The Week in Westminster,\" and that all the apparatus of his constituents might be subject to interference that day, so their one day of enjoyment in life would be spoilt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-10", "file": "debates1948-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3da3457b9c2712b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1655.1", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD RATIONING (RETAILERS'LICENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Related to this order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "ons of all the Acts passed in this Parliament, to find how our liberties were being taken quietly away, how power was becoming more centralised in the Executive, and how all these things are going on for the most plausible of reasons. Some of these Acts went through this House unopposed. I have vivid memories of one, in connection with which I found nobody to support me when I wanted to oppose it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-10", "file": "debates1948-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3da3457b9c2712b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1660.0", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD RATIONING (RETAILERS'LICENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In wartime.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "therefore, to make this amendment to the General Provisions Order. Every hon. Member opposite has overlooked the most important point. The hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield condemned the policy; I think he used words to the effect that we were filching the liberties of the people. Does he realise that this is a continuation of the policy which was established in 1943 under the Coalition Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-10", "file": "debates1948-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3da3457b9c2712b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1660.4", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD RATIONING (RETAILERS'LICENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "erving in a managerial capacity in another food concern. Surely the House must realise that before these men have their licences revoked we examine very carefully the charges made against them. Finally, my right hon. Friend makes a decision. In every case there is evidence that these men have been guilty of offences which make them quite unfitted to be a suitable link in the chain of distribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1660.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-10", "file": "debates1948-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3da3457b9c2712b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1665.1", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD RATIONING (RETAILERS'LICENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": " hon. Lady has asked me if I would allow her to amend this order. I wish I were in the position to say whether or not she should amend it; but I do not, and we on this side of the House do not control these things. She must come down on one side of the fence or the other. She admits, as she has to admit, that part of this order is bad. We say, \"Take it away and bring in a new order. Take it away.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-10", "file": "debates1948-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3da3457b9c2712b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1669.0", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD RATIONING (RETAILERS'LICENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "That, of course, shows the woeful confusion of thought in the hon. Gentleman's mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1669.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-10", "file": "debates1948-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3da3457b9c2712b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1673.3", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD RATIONING (RETAILERS'LICENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "realise yet that under this order, if a man is turned out and his licence taken away under one of these orders, and if by chance he is employed by one of the great co-operative societies, it is liable to get into trouble. It is my duty, being one of those ordinary Members closely connected with every concern in his division, to look after the great co-operative movement, as well private interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-10a.1673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-11", "file": "debates1948-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "3b3189670ea34da3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-11a.1706.5", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Titterington", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Titterington", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend endorse the view that the conferring of university status on technical colleges situated in the major industries they serve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-11a.1706.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-11", "file": "debates1948-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "3b3189670ea34da3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-11a.1771.1", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL ROADS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has.-\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "any agriculturists living near the roads which they will not be allowed ordinarily to use, although they will, no doubt, be able to admire the motor traffic travelling along them, is not likely, so far as I can see, to be put into operation. What is the logic of this Bill coming from a Socialist Government, especially from the present Ministry? Had this come at the end of 20 years of Tory misrule?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-11a.1771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-11", "file": "debates1948-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "3b3189670ea34da3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-11a.1771.1", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL ROADS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "ng them, is not likely, so far as I can see, to be put into operation. What is the logic of this Bill coming from a Socialist Government, especially from the present Ministry? Had this come at the end of 20 years of Tory misrule? [HON. MEMBERS: \"It has.-\"] No. There have been three years of reconstruction by an enlightened Socialist Government, and during that time transport has been nationalised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-11a.1771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-11", "file": "debates1948-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "3b3189670ea34da3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-11a.1785.1", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL ROADS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "preceding_text": "d be obtained in the eventual future. The question now is that of the most urgent priorities. There is not enough to go round, and we must choose that which is most vital. I suggest that what is most vital today is to use our resources to buy the food which will keep our people alive, to buy the raw materials which will keep them employed, to build up a defence which will save our people from war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-11a.1785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-11", "file": "debates1948-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "3b3189670ea34da3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-11a.1788.1", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL ROADS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Kinghorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Some hope! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Kinghorn", "preceding_text": "ough and Whitby. The latter is already well served by one of the best of these roads in his constituency. It almost seems as if, now he has got his roads, he does not mind what we do in other parts of the country, where we have roads which are hardly fit for the passage of Lady Hamilton's carriage. In my own constituency they are pretty useless for the vehicles we shall have in the next few years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-11a.1788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-11", "file": "debates1948-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "3b3189670ea34da3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-11a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL ROADS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The generosity of the Americans.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "her methods of transport, but rather will be supplementary to them. As to the point regarding employment, it is perfectly true that, in some districts, the building of these roads will afford opportunities for employment should there be anything in the nature of unemployment there, but, even if there is no unemployment, and I think the policy of this Government will ensure that there will be none—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-11a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-11", "file": "debates1948-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "3b3189670ea34da3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-11a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL ROADS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "would have been extremely serious. It certainly would not be anything like our present position in which there is the possibility for men and women to live in comparative comfort—I do not say luxury. That is particularly clear when we compare our conditions with those which prevail in other countries, and, in view of the fact that we were faced with great difficulties when we entered into office.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-11a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-11", "file": "debates1948-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "3b3189670ea34da3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-11a.1812.1", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL ROADS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joynson-Hicks", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How far back?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joynson-Hicks", "preceding_text": "eater length of road, and in no better roads—though they may, perhaps, be a little larger—will result in the roads being built in no shorter space of time, but only at a vastly increased cost. So I commend to the right hon. Gentleman the example of his lineal predecessors, the Emperors. Who really did build our roads, and I urge him to carry his reactionary outlook right back to its proper source.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-11a.1812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-11", "file": "debates1948-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "3b3189670ea34da3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-11a.1835.1", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL ROADS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ur, which is what I have had. What is his answer to this? He may say he will use the profits to subsidise the railways, but what about the \"C\" licences? The more he improves these roads, the more people will want to go on them, either in their own motor cars or driving their own goods in their own vehicles. Is my hon. Friend right and is he going to stamp out the \"C\" licences? I support this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-11a.1835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-11", "file": "debates1948-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "3b3189670ea34da3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-11a.1836.1", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL ROADS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "e as amenities, which were referred to by the hon. Member for Twickenham (Mr. Keeling) among others; and the fourth concerned the general position in regard to the capital investment programme. In commenting on the points that have been raised, I want to deal with them as far as possible under these four main headings, because they seem to me to make up the content of what we have been discussing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-11a.1836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-12", "file": "debates1948-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "2f428094bc265b76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-12a.1881.3", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIZE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": "In answer to the hon. and gallant Member's first question, any officer who reaches the rank of Admiral or Admiral of the Fleet is a man of outstanding ability and he should receive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-12a.1881.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-12", "file": "debates1948-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "2f428094bc265b76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-12a.1885.1", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIZE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Marsden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Marsden", "preceding_text": "ter will be taken up by other speakers. Not a few men, but thousands are involved in this matter, and we hope that prize money will be allowed them. Reference has already been made to the commodores of convoys. I do not intend to refer to them. I know perfectly well that, unfortunately and regrettably, many hon. Members opposite have not the slightest interest in officers or their pay and welfare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-12a.1885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-12", "file": "debates1948-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "2f428094bc265b76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-12a.1929.1", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIZE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Walter Edwards)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Walter Edwards)", "preceding_text": "ovisions of the Bill and particularly with regard to the scale of payments. I will therefore deal with this point, as it has been the concern of most hon. Members opposite today, as well as of some of my hon. Friends. The concern of hon. Members opposite seemed to be, in the main, that the Admiral of the Fleet should get more than ten shares and that the boy at the bottom should get less than one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-12a.1929.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-11-15", "file": "debates1948-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "636add95e2c36eb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-15a.37.2", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "preceding_text": "Can the hon. Gentleman say why these buildings are so expensive, because, as he is no doubt aware, the general criticism about them in the country is that they cost far too much and compare very unfavourably in price with similar buildings produced by private enterprise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-15a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-15", "file": "debates1948-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "636add95e2c36eb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-15a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, to leave out \"now,\" and, at the end of the Question, to add \"upon this day six months.\" I have viewed this Bill with the gravest anxiety since I first saw it, and I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman who has just sat down will not mind if I say that, during the hour and twenty minutes during which he has been speaking, everything he said greatly deepened my anxiety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-15a.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-15", "file": "debates1948-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "636add95e2c36eb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-15a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " be nominally 70 or 80 per cent. of the national economy, but, in reality, private enterprise will have ceased to exist effectively. The whole apparatus of production will therefore be subject to the State, or be so dependent on the State for its common services and raw materials that it will not be able to turn loom or lathe, fire a furnace or launch a ship, except at the discretion of the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-15a.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-15", "file": "debates1948-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "636add95e2c36eb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-15a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. L. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. L. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": " themselves have said. That is the position as I see it. There is enough in the steelworks today to blow the whole lot sky high, were it not for one saving expectation—the expectation provided by the Bill that their beloved industry is going to be taken at last into the security of national ownership and control, to make their own job secure and to make that industry serve the nation as it should.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-15a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-15", "file": "debates1948-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "636add95e2c36eb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-15a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Monslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not believe it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Monslow", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Stockport (Sir A. Gridley) has by implication given us the usual theme which has characterised most of the speeches we have heard today from hon. and right hon. Members opposite, that if the Government would drop the nationalisation of this great o basic industry, they would have the complete support of the Tory Party in relation to their other legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-15a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-15", "file": "debates1948-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "636add95e2c36eb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-15a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mort", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mort", "preceding_text": "chain throughout the country. The industry must be planned as a whole and the trade must be applied to the most profitable and economic places. Who can do that effectively? Everyone must agree that we must have a national power vested in the Government so that everything can be planned and arranged. That is my view and it is the view of the workers in the trade. We must get in on the ground floor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-15a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-15", "file": "debates1948-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "636add95e2c36eb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-15a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is about.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "enchers get in on it before him It would be interesting to know what the right hon. Member for Deptford would have to say about this. After all, he gave this pledge in these unqualified terms, which were endorsed by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. I am sorry to say that I have not seen him in his place all day. Perhaps he will attend during the remaining two days' Debate on this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-15a.161.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "We accepted all the French exports they can supply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.215.4", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "e recent presidential elections; except in their open hostility to Russia and Communism—in which we support them—His Majesty's Government are far closer to Mr. Wallace than to either of the great parties in the United States, and yet the United States continue, in a broadminded spirit, to keep them going. It is on this footing and by this approach that I come to the Measure which is now before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.215.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.215.4", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "prices were thoroughly competitive in world markets. The industry was enabled by returning prosperity to spend £50 million on new plant between 1934 and 1939. Thereby it increased its capacity by two million tons and thus prepared itself for its magnificent war effort. Unemployment in the steel industry, which had risen to more than 40 per cent. under the Socialist Government in 1931, was rapidly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.215.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.222.1", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman allow me——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.223.1", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " to secure enough revenue to meet their combined outgoings properly chargeable to revenue account, taking one year with another. Let me quote the Minister again, He said, they\"—— the private firms— may not extend their production to such a degree as to make the integrated working and efficiency of the major publicly-owned sector impossible.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 15th November, 1948; Vol. 458, c. 65.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "hren outside the compound and thus to demonstrate the failure of private enterprise and the wisdom and elevation of Socialist methods and ideals? I say this is not a Bill, it is a plot; not a plan to increase production, but rather, in effect, at any rate, an operation in restraint of trade. It is not a plan to help our patient struggling people, but a burglar's jemmy to crack the capitalist crib—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "es the Government the utmost span of office, and at the same time presents the nationalisation of steel as the direct issue at the General Election. Other motives are more a matter of conjecture. To my mind the fixing of this remote date seems to have been the means by which the differences in the Cabinet were adjusted between the extreme nationalisers and the more sober and responsible Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.234.6", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "aw. That is a letter giving a resolution passed this very morning: a reiteration of the workers' views of the last 16 years, and of their intention to stand by this Measure. One could deal at length with the type of wishful thinking that has been put forward, particularly from the Opposition back benches, and I hope that we shall not hear any further of such arguments in the course of this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.234.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.234.6", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "and of their intention to stand by this Measure. One could deal at length with the type of wishful thinking that has been put forward, particularly from the Opposition back benches, and I hope that we shall not hear any further of such arguments in the course of this Debate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Indeed, I hope not. Are we again to hear the argument that steel workers do not want nationalisation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.234.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "What I said was that there was no recorded minute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come to Sheffield.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": " to find one recorded minute—even a minority minute—in any one of the minute books of the 634 branches of that great organisation. Of course, there is the odd fellow here and there, and that odd man will seek to let his views be known; and the Opposition will seek to find that odd man so that they can try to convince the House. The Opposition, I suggest, would prefer the odd man. I have no desire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.240.3", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "Tories to a change of heart. For instance, there have been these few visits to steel works by Tory M.P.s during the Recess to learn all about the industry; to these visits I have already referred. We intend, however, to make very certain that any fears about the past will be eliminated by the passing and implementation of this Bill. May I now leave the past and come to the more immediate position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.240.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.240.3", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ncrease in the last 12 months of nearly a million tons of steel was created by some magician resident in Steel House or in the Tory clubs of Great Britain. It is the result of the great sacrifice and effort made by these men who are now working under this Socialist Government, their own Government, and working under the firm, solid pledge of nationalisation. Let the House make no mistake about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.240.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.240.3", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "anagers—not only in one works—suffering from a sense of frustration because of the lack of progressive minds on the boards of directors. How often have I seen fine, good men who have given a lifetime of service held back, while youngsters, through marriage or other relationships, and almost straight from college or from the Army, have been placed in authority over them, and with what dire results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.240.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.259.0", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "No. The right hon. Gentleman does not really know. It would not be right and proper for me to disclose to the House my own private information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.260.2", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "r more complex than gas. In that case we had a Commission appointed by the Coalition Government, or by the Caretaker Government, when all the facts were given and all the suggestions were made. If such an inquiry had been held in this case, I am sure that we should have had the facts and that probably alternative proposals would have been put forward as to the right way to deal with this industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.260.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.265.3", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "I was a member of the Government which introduced that legislation, and passed it, and I was in favour of it, as I made clear in more than one speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "e industry will carry on in much the same way as it has been working. There will certainly be a change of ownership, but that will not be so obvious to the men in the various departments, and I do not anticipate that disturbance which has been prophesied from the benches opposite. I believe that, of all nationalisation projects, the nationalisation of our iron and steel will be the most difficult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Lindsay", "preceding_text": " to higher costs of a non-profit making public enterprise subject to political pressure. Yesterday afternoon, the right hon. Gentleman was -very frank about what the new Corporation would do. It would appoint new men to the boards of these companies, he said. We know quite well what that means. It will inevitably mean the failed politicians like Sir Ben Smith, now a Coal Board Regional Controller—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.298.3", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "d saying that the writer would have preferred it otherwise. The writer goes on: No one intimately associated with the industry which, whatever other faults it may have had, has always conducted its affairs with dignity and propriety, can be anything but deeply disturbed at the thought of it becoming the centre of a turbulent commotion created to satisfy the egotism and ambitions of the vociferous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.320.3", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "has pointed out that there will be one more day in future than ever there has been in the past. That is, of course, not the actual position, because the Minister can be questioned upon matters arising, exactly as other Ministers can be questioned on matters of policy which arise in connection with nationalised undertakings. It seems to me that this shows conclusively what a decisive point this is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.320.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By gunpowder?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "tial that democracy should assert its rights, as otherwise it must acknowledge for all time that it cannot touch these citadels of power, and that it is not the electorate but the owners of industrial property who shall determine the economic policies of the country. And the ugly alternative would then be that any such change which is to occur must be brought about by other and more violent means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "is not the electorate but the owners of industrial property who shall determine the economic policies of the country. And the ugly alternative would then be that any such change which is to occur must be brought about by other and more violent means—[An HON. MEMBER: \"By gunpowder?\"]—and it is because we are preventing that that we say that Socialist democracy is the true barrier against Communism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "rty who shall determine the economic policies of the country. And the ugly alternative would then be that any such change which is to occur must be brought about by other and more violent means—[An HON. MEMBER: \"By gunpowder?\"]—and it is because we are preventing that that we say that Socialist democracy is the true barrier against Communism—[ Interruption .] I should like hon. Gentlemen opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.326.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.326.9", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "You have no right to——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.326.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-16", "file": "debates1948-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "aff367324e39af89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "LONDON-EDINBURGH AIR SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Scots.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. We could run the service in exactly the same way as we ran it last winter. We could run that service if, in fact, the conditions were such that we could get into the airport, but the mere fact of irregularity of the service causes a low load factor, and it is the British taxpayers' money with which we are playing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-16a.333.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.347.9", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Segal", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Segal", "preceding_text": "Is not the present position somewhat anomalous, and would it not be better if the care of British interests could be entrusted to the hands of some friendly Power, such as the United States Of America—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.347.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Duncan", "preceding_text": "ut his own official announcement some time ago said this about it: The Minister of Supply invited them to serve a further year but with the exception of the trade union members they have told him that in the changed conditions likely in their view to arise from the Government's proposals…they are not willing to continue on the Board. That is no expression of view at all as to public policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackay", "preceding_text": "The question has been put to me whether the limiting factor to the expansion of the steel industry will be finance rather than men and materials. My answer is that I do not think that men and materials will be a limiting factor. I do think that finance may be a limiting factor unless the industry is taken over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackay", "preceding_text": "e only substantial steel application after the war to the City for money was a failure. It was by the Welsh Steel Company, where £50 million was wanted, of which £15 million was to be subscribed on a mortgage debenture ½ per cent. above the then rate, a mortgage debenture which was in front of a security for £35 million from the Finance Corporation, which was virtually a Government concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the name of the paper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackay", "preceding_text": " of the way in which between the wars we suffered, let us look at this expression of opinion which comes not from a British but from an American newspaper, not from a Labour but from a Liberal newspaper—one which is probably the second leading Liberal newspaper in the United States. This appeared in a leading article only a few days ago It says: Private enterprise has failed to do its job.…", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "y hon. Friend the Member for North-West Hull has told this House this afternoon, that the fight now is not for the simple preservation of Capitalism but a fight that some of us have seen coming for 40 years. It is the fight for the people. The masses are on the move. The masses are now determining that control and power must be vested in the community and not in groups or sections. I believe that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Hutchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Hutchison", "preceding_text": "Certainly he did. I quite agree. However, he went on to indicate that the possibility of their leaving in that way was a highly undesirable feature. That is a very curious theory, because it means that he wants to use this Bill in order to prevent people from being able to leave their employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.422.3", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "From State-owned railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.422.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "he Member for North East Ham (Mr. Daines) saying in this House: The plain fact to be faced—and I, as a Socialist, recognise it—is that Socialism is not only a means of economic change. Unless it has a spiritual content which is capable of changing men and men's nature, then it is bound to fail.…We must change men and their outlook.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT. 21st November, 1946; Vol. 430, c. 1045.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Bank of England.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ion today on this subject of nationalisation. I submit this to the Lord President, who is acknowledged to be one who has his ear to the ground and knows all about public opinion. I think that the nation is saying something like this, \"In this one Parliament we have seen a great many Measures of nationalisation—nationalisation of coal, transport, electricity, gas, Cable and Wireless, and so forth\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "t that it was the action of the steel masters that brought the life of the Steel Board to an end. It was the Government's own action in proceeding with nationalisation that killed the Steel Board. Let the right hon. Gentleman look at their terms of reference and he will see that it was not only the steel masters, who resigned, but the chairman and all the other members, except the trade unionists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear. hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "tional economy. I should have thought that its very importance makes it all the more necessary that the decision tonight should be taken on grounds of economic efficiency, and not on the purely ideological grounds that Ministers have so far advanced. The fact is that if steel is vital to our economy, or to the defence of the country, then so are a great many other industries—the chemical industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "grounds of economic efficiency, and not on the purely ideological grounds that Ministers have so far advanced. The fact is that if steel is vital to our economy, or to the defence of the country, then so are a great many other industries—the chemical industry—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear. hear.\"]—that cheer from the benches opposite is what I hoped for—the machine tool industry, the agricultural industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ems that they all ought to be nationalised, according to hon. Members opposite. So hon. Gentlemen opposite agree with me. Right hon. Gentlemen on the Front Bench opposite do not seem quite so agreeable. Hon. Gentlemen and I agree that if this argument applies to steel it applies to the industries I have mentioned, and to a great many others, too. In logic—an expression of the Chancellor's—it does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "Bill this essential industry will operate more successfully or at a lower cost or with better industrial relations than exist today. At a critical time, when we still depend for our life on foreign help, when we are daily consuming our accumulated foreign assets, the result of the thrift of our ancestors, or, if hon. Gentlemen prefer, the result of the wicked capitalist instincts of our ancestors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Argue it then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": " the Opposition wrong, but, Sir, that does not matter. Every time issues come before the House, or before the newspapers of the Conservative variety, always they assert, whatever arguments may have been advanced, that no case has been made. That is partly sheer political prejudice and partly because the Conservative Party is incapable of understanding a case which is argued in the public interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL 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": "ust said, we have had many good speeches from hon. Members on both sides, and I thought that the outstanding speech—easily the outstanding speech—of the Opposition, as it was on the occasion of the previous Debate, was the speech of the right hon. Gentleman the senior Member for the City of London. It was a speech worth hearing and worthy of the most careful study, whether we agree with it or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.484.3", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ment has an even dimmer future than it seems to have at present. It has been argued that all has been well and is well with the iron and steel industry. I agree in principle with the right hon. Member for the City of London (Sir A. Duncan) that the future of the industry and what we are going to do with it are more important than having arguments about the past. I only want to read two quotations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "n its evolution. We cannot go on for all time with the Conservative idea of large-scale, big self-governing economic units, economic Empires within the State, albeit subject to public supervision. That is not a doctrine which is going to be permanently acceptable to the British people. When we get to that point, it is far better that we should take the logical next step and take over the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "capital as well as it can be raised under State guarantee, either in speed, or in amount, or in the rate of interest which has to be paid. Therefore, we think that also is a disadvantage. The proposals that we submit to the House meet these difficulties, and I will tell the House why. It is, of course, a complex industry, as we all understand, and it is the most controversial of the socialisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "s the most controversial of the socialisation—[ Interruption. ] This is the old game of the gentlemanly party. They will get it back one of these days. We are quite used to it. This is, we quite agree, a complex industry; and this is the most controversial of all the socialisation Measures. But, in our submission to the House, this Bill is the best way of dealing with the problems of the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " terms in the Bill. It really does illustrate the lack of practical minds of Members opposite and the unreal world in which they live. Surely the wise thing, if the industry is to be socialised, is to provide for it to be taken over, to let the shares be vested in the Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain, and then to let the Iron and Steel Corporation, composed of competent business people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "That allegation is a little premature—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.514.7", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Try.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "It seems to me that if I attempted to answer the hon. Member, which I should be perfectly happy to do, I should have to go into detail and the Chairman would rule me out of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.514.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-17", "file": "debates1948-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "cf21d1474b7107c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.516.4", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I think that the point which the hon. Member for Torquay (Mr. C. Williams) has now put is rather different from the one he first raised. I understand he wants to know what sort of remuneration the men who sit on boards of referees and arbitration tribunals will receive. There is a standard rate laid down by the Treasury, but I do not know the figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-17a.516.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-18", "file": "debates1948-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "caf195b990ce2f54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-18a.566.0", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN UNITY COMMITTEE (BRITISH REPRESENTATIVES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Did the right hon. Gentleman, in coming to this decision, take into consideration the fact that the formation of this Committee arose out of The Hague Conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-18a.566.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-18", "file": "debates1948-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "caf195b990ce2f54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-18a.568.0", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN UNITY COMMITTEE (BRITISH REPRESENTATIVES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And outside.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have tried to explain to the right hon. Gentleman, in reply to the letter he was good enough to send me, that in the case of France there is a Government composed of many parties. It is not surprising, therefore, that they have representatives of those parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-18a.568.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-18", "file": "debates1948-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "caf195b990ce2f54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-18a.572.0", "colnum": "572", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you ever?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "We have both got to be reasonable about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-18a.572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-18", "file": "debates1948-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "caf195b990ce2f54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-18a.591.0", "colnum": "591", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Fees and charges for wireless telegraphy licences.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is what the Postmaster-General said", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "ptain Crookshank) and the hon. and learned Member for Daventry (Mr. Manningham-Buller) have succeeded in making this Clause appear to be somewhat confused. I do not think that the interpretation of this Clause is that which they have suggested. It is more a case of ingenuity than interpretation. Of course, obviously it does not depend on the number of seats in a cinema. That is a ridiculous basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-18a.591.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-11-18", "file": "debates1948-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "caf195b990ce2f54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-18a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "CLAUSE 3.—(Regulations as to wireless telegraphy.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And still is.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cobb", "preceding_text": "I thought the hon. Member for Torquay (Mr. C. Williams) had been talking since 1905.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-18a.604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-19", "file": "debates1948-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87d00e30b9973178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-19a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "preceding_text": "I was talking of private monopolies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-19a.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-19", "file": "debates1948-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87d00e30b9973178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-19a.833.2", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOTEL AND CATERING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "But the hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-19a.833.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-19", "file": "debates1948-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "87d00e30b9973178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-19a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOTEL AND CATERING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "ge these amounts, the hon. Member for Eastbourne should realise that we have met their point. Before I came to the House I asked what could be charged by the Grand Hotel, Eastbourne. The hon. Member who asks that people should go for Christmas to the big hotels in Eastbourne might like to hear those prices. In the Grand Hotel in Eastbourne lunch served in a private room with music would cost 11s.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-19a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-22", "file": "debates1948-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "1e971b9472814700", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-22a.859.7", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "If we made this concession we should also have to make concessions to brickmakers, market-gardeners and smallholders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-22a.859.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-22", "file": "debates1948-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "1e971b9472814700", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-22a.874.4", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether there was any breach of contract?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-22a.874.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-22", "file": "debates1948-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "1e971b9472814700", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-22a.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS (18th November)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "tal sum of money was increased, those categories would be included, does not follow at all. The more likely result of an increase in the amount available would be that the shares of everybody concerned would be increased, and, in fact, I think the Parliamentary Secretary said on Second Reading that if, after the first division, there was still money available, there would be a second distribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-22a.893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-22", "file": "debates1948-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "1e971b9472814700", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-22a.939.0", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS (18th November)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "preceding_text": "I rose because, although I feel that the eulogies of the Navy are well justified, and I take not the slightest exception to what has been said about the personnel of the Service—it is very true that too much cannot be said—I feel that the Merchant Navy has been forgotten in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-22a.939.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-22", "file": "debates1948-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "1e971b9472814700", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-22a.942.3", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS (18th November)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On Report stage.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "sons which have persuaded the Admiralty that in fact our division was the best division—ships of war, or not ships of war. But I can see that there is a case on the other side. That being so I am perfectly prepared, while I cannot accept the Amendments as they stand, to consult my noble Friend and see whether it is possible to have an Amendment with this object in view introduced in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-22a.942.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-22", "file": "debates1948-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "1e971b9472814700", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-22a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS (18th November)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "Really, this is a quibble—the difference between, \"I have no doubt\" and \"undoubtedly.\" Sometimes when I look at the hon. Gentleman I wish that he would take that enamelled sneer off his face and remember the sacrifices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-22a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-22", "file": "debates1948-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "1e971b9472814700", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-22a.947.0", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS (18th November)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "I should like to make one appeal to the Parliamentary Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-22a.947.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-22", "file": "debates1948-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "1e971b9472814700", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-22a.959.4", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS (18th November)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "nted in the future, that prize bounty and prize money had been looked upon as emoluments which automatically were granted to the officers and men serving in the Navy. When I joined the Navy 40 years ago no one then said anything about prize money or prize bounty, and nobody in the last half century or more has ever been told that prize bounty and prize money are part of the emoluments of the Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-22a.959.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-22", "file": "debates1948-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "1e971b9472814700", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-22a.963.0", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS (18th November)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. and gallant Gentleman allow me? There is a distinct difference between prize money and prize bounty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-22a.963.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-11-23", "file": "debates1948-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f06324307faee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1066.2", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "Do I understand that the right hon. Gentleman says that there is no shortage of materials whatever and that the limitation is the limitation of the building trade?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-11-23", "file": "debates1948-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f06324307faee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1076.10", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "There is no such difference at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1076.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-11-23", "file": "debates1948-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f06324307faee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1082.7", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "May I have an answer to my question? The question was specific—did the Department actually consult with the textile industry? May I have an answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1082.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-11-23", "file": "debates1948-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f06324307faee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1084.2", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "ILLNESS OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "preceding_text": "he people of Australia and New Zealand in their sense of loss, for this visit from their King and Queen has been most eagerly awaited, and many preparations have been made to ensure its success. I am sure that all of us in this House and in this country share with them, and with all the other peoples of the Commonwealth, the most earnest hope that His Majesty's recovery may be speedy and complete.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1084.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-11-23", "file": "debates1948-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f06324307faee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1132.5", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is not true.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "May I interrupt my hon. Friend? Will he ask the right hon. Gentleman if he is not aware that before the war the wealthy had sufficient money to build and did build deep shelters for themselves, and that they were very well stocked deep shelters. Does he deny that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1132.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-23", "file": "debates1948-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f06324307faee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1133.0", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "in full measure the brunt of the Government's foreign policy, for this will be the outcome of it. I cannot, therefore, support the Second Reading of the Bill. My party, the Communist Party, favours measures which are essential to the defence of the civil population and which are precautions against the likelihood of war. Above all, we favour measures which will be successful in preventing any war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1133.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-23", "file": "debates1948-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f06324307faee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1134.0", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "Before anybody says, \"Hear, hear,\" he had better hear what I have to say. My record in London is known to many people and those who know my record had better listen to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-23", "file": "debates1948-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f06324307faee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1134.10", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "I hope I shall be able to continue the last part of my remarks fairly smoothly. My record and that of the Communist Party before the war are well known in this respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1134.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-23", "file": "debates1948-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f06324307faee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1134.10", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "spect. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Hon. Members cannot afford to laugh, for many hon. Members on the other side were not involved in the East London raids, as was the hon. Member for Upton (Mr. A. Lewis) and another hon. Member who spoke with a knowledge of East Ham. I speak with some knowledge of Stepney. Hon. Members opposite who come from provincial constituencies had better leave this to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1134.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-23", "file": "debates1948-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f06324307faee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "preceding_text": "l not stand for, and I hope that the Government realise that. I cannot believe that any sensible Government in this country would bring in a Clause of this nature. I wish the Government well in their arrangement for Civil Defence. I know that they are undertaking a task which is not popular and one which will not bring them in votes at the Election. That is all the more reason why they must do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-23", "file": "debates1948-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f06324307faee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "In order to give hon. Members an opportunity of winning a concession on the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-23", "file": "debates1948-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f06324307faee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1198.1", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ovided by the re-organisation of our structure. Take, for example, the National Health Service: It is not necessary to have the Emergency Medical Service today because the health and hospital services of the country are already instruments of the Government. There has not got to be elaborate co-operation with the voluntary hospitals; arrangements have not to be made with local authority hospitals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-23a.1198.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-11-24", "file": "debates1948-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e2e85644593ccd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1235.4", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JAMAICA", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He did not say that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "But does the right hon. Gentleman really agree with the statement that the tourist traffic is of no economic importance to the West Indies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-24", "file": "debates1948-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e2e85644593ccd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1270.3", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " to the conclusion that it would be inadvisable for Members of Parliament to serve upon the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire, not because we have any lack of faith in Members of Parliament—not in the least—but because it is clear that it would be impossible for the great bulk of them to serve upon the Council. Indeed, it is even quite likely that the great majority of them would not be elected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1270.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-24", "file": "debates1948-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e2e85644593ccd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1279.0", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. J. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How long have you been here?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. J. Williams", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman is making a statement which is entirely untrue. I for one certainly never advocated, or associated myself with a demand for a Secretary of State for Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-24", "file": "debates1948-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e2e85644593ccd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1280.3", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "are to be people sitting in secret council who are to tell the Government what is the view of Wales, democratic Wales, upon questions of the day—sitting in secret there, and sending for Ministers. It reminds me of the retort made to a very great Welshman. You may \"call spirits from the vasty deep\"—but will they come? This precious council, nominated in this way: this 27; this sort of Star Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-24", "file": "debates1948-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e2e85644593ccd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1297.3", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price-White", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price-White", "preceding_text": "e Socialists will trapes after in two years' time. Whatever we may have done in Wales, we have at least caused the right hon. Gentleman to give hurried attention to the problem of Welsh affairs. I think that we Welsh representatives—I am speaking of those who are Welsh and not those who are representative of Wales because of the peculiar texture of the bag they carry from a political headquarters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1297.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-24", "file": "debates1948-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e2e85644593ccd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1321.1", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "preceding_text": "ealing and more instructive to the Government than to work on a commission of that kind. I will not attempt to anticipate the findings of such a commission; I will only refer to one of the many amazing phenomena in our Welsh life that would be discovered by the commission. I am sorry the Lord President is absent at this moment, because he is under the impression that Wales can be easily satisfied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-24", "file": "debates1948-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e2e85644593ccd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "is Debate. If this Council is to be set up, we in Wales may well have to reconsider whether a greater measure of devolution than even a Secretary of State for Wales with a Welsh office might provide, may be the only satisfactory solution. I believe, as other hon. Members do, and I think it is fast becoming apparent, that in the interests of this House, which is becoming cluttered up with business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-24", "file": "debates1948-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e2e85644593ccd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "I am very glad to have heard such a very sane speech as that which we have just had from my hon. Friend the Member for Wrexham (Mr. Richards). Those of us who know Welsh ways and Welsh representatives in this House, know well that nobody is better qualified to give a thoroughly Welsh and representative point of view than the hon. Member. I have two long speeches which I wish to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-24", "file": "debates1948-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e2e85644593ccd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1350.1", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "that the meetings should be held in public, but it is nothing of the kind. It is a body to advise Ministers. It does not affect Ministerial responsibility or the answerability of a Minister to hon. Members in this House in any way whatever. Therefore, to make this body one which can act in public and make its pronouncements in public, perhaps contrary to the opinion of the elected representatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-24", "file": "debates1948-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e2e85644593ccd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1358.1", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mort", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mort", "preceding_text": " constituency in which 400 men have become redundant who were making copper boilers for the Indian railways. Those men will be absorbed by the firm, but not in their particular trade, and not employing their particular skill. Then we have the labour problem at the great strip mill which is now being built at Margam. The building of that mill gives me a song in my heart when I pass it twice a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-24", "file": "debates1948-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "2e2e85644593ccd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "er for Llanelly—in 1936. Wales itself was in the depths of depression. Our industries were declining, the young people were leaving, there was disintegration and decay everywhere, because for 25 years, except for two very small periods during which there was a Labour Government without adequate power to carry out its policy, Wales had been misgoverned by the Conservative and Coalition Governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-24a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1415.5", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "EIRE (RELATIONS WITH COMMONWEALTH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ople of Northern Ireland, of Ulster, has been simplified and consolidated by the decisions which the Dublin Government have taken. That is a fact, and I was sorry that some emphasis on that fact found no part in the statement which the Prime Minister has just made to us. There is only one other observation which I should make. We wish to harbour no towards the Irish people wherever they may dwell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1415.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1421.3", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "EIRE (RELATIONS WITH COMMONWEALTH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "elieve me, I am not trying to be controversial. The Leader of the Opposition felt that he had to make a statement perhaps outside the ordinary limits of a supplementary question. You, Sir, made an appeal to my right hon. Friend the Chief Whip to move the Adjournment. We consulted, and the Adjournment was moved. Obviously, this must be an exceptional case, and if we do not get on with the Business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1421.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1425.2", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I move this Motion with regret.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1425.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1426.0", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ion prescribes as the time limit for these proceedings 17th March, 1949. This means that these proceedings can be spread over 11 Parliamentary weeks; and that, of course, takes no account of the Christmas Recess. It also means, as I interpret it, that, according as the Business Sub-Committee may decide, it would be possible, within that period, to provide for 35 sittings of the Standing Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "opposition to it; but, once it is passed, I think it would be a good thing if we all of us were to try to get the Business Committee procedure used with a view to securing the maximum examination of the Bill in the time available. I honestly think that, in the time that we propose to give, adequate examination of the Bill can take place in Standing Committee upstairs and on the Floor of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " believe we are on the threshold of a considerable experiment in this field of procedure, and, entirely without prejudice to our respective views about the Bill, I think it is far better that these matters, so far as possible, shall be settled by agreement, with a bias in favour of the view of the minority as to the use of time, rather than that the majority should just clamp down on the minority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am not dealing with those two Bills at the moment, though I may do before I am done. At this moment I am dealing with the new chapter in our island story—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1443.1", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "It is no part of my task to explain the policy of the Liberal Party to the right hon. Gentleman. All I have done is to add up the figures in respect of those who voted against the Bill and put them against the figures for those who voted for the Bill, and result is to put the Government in a minority of approximately 220,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1443.1", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "t 37 out of 127 Clauses and seven out of 13 Schedules had not been considered at all. Does the right hon. Gentleman consider that that was adequate discussion for a Bill of that magnitude? On the Report stage, may I remind the Home Secretary, the Guillotine fell at Clause 38 out of 127 Clauses. Does the right hon. Gentleman consider that that was proper discussion of that Bill on the Report stage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllister", "preceding_text": "omething that was a breach of the Constitution. That is simply masquerading their defence of the companies involved in the Bill. They attempted to make out a constitutional case, but they did not make out a very good case because no great constitutional issue is involved. When the right hon. Gentleman mentioned the 107 companies affected, each one of whom, he said, would require a separate Debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1463.1", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllister", "preceding_text": "It was not debated either by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Warwick and Leamington or by the hon. Member for Chippenham. The time which is being lost under the terms of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1463.6", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "No one is saying that the hon. Gentleman was what he said. I was saying something to an hon. Friend be-bind me which the hon. Member for Rutherglen overheard, and he has taken it as an insult to himself, which I assure him was never intended. I certainly would not suggest that he was intoxicated in any way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1463.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "ion Clauses. I might have some sympathy with him on that point because one could find time to discuss the compensation Clauses in a very different way from that desired by the hon. Member. I am thoroughly dissatisfied that the owners of steel should get so much compensation as is proposed. If time were allowed, I could submit a good many proposals that would deal with this matter more effectively—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1471.1", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "Exactly. If we could have a regulation of time, we should not be mute because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Major Haughton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Haughton", "preceding_text": "ly that consideration ought to be accepted? I find it hard to believe that any hon. Member in any part of the House would agree that a very big and important British firm should be absorbed into the State monopoly without being given an adequate opportunity to put its own case. There are 107 firms in that Third Schedule. Consideration of their cases alone would take up a tremendous amount of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1511.1", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tiffany", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiffany", "preceding_text": " forward from the Opposition benches tonight carry any real conviction. The hon. Member said that we on this side are muzzled, led at the end of a chain, as it were, by the Lord President, that we are not allowed to speak or move Amendments in Committee, that we must be dumb. All these things -he attributed to us on this side of the House. Do Members opposite honestly believe that this is correct?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why cannot they be discussed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "lculated to ensure—and did ensure—that every Section of that Act was fully discussed in this House. The timetable actually set for the Iron and Steel Bill cannot conceivably produce that result. Every Member of this House can make his own guess as to which Clauses will be discussed, but what is quite demonstrably certain is that all the Clauses cannot be discussed. That is a very vital difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1518.2", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "tly easy to justify everything that is being done, both in the Bill and in the timetable, on Marxist principles. It is not possible to justify those things on any other. That is why I repeat that it is not in the least a fluke that the Bill is so heartily backed by precisely those Members of the Cabinet who were once expelled from the Socialist Party for forming a common front with the Communists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1518.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1520.1", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Usborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Usborne", "preceding_text": "e we face an urgent moment when new legislation must rapidly be passed through. At the same time, in order to meet the twin difficulties, we must remember that the thing we want to preserve is the Parliamentary democracy which has served us so adequately in the past. I am convinced that hon. Members on this side of the House take just as much pride in that as anyone on the other side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1520.1", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Usborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is St. Patrick's Day\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Usborne", "preceding_text": "t merely to abstain. I must say, therefore, that unless I can hear, before the Division takes place, some more adequate reasons, I shall be compelled, for the reasons I have tried to explain, to vote against the Government. There is one point I should like to have explained. Firstly, why is it so vitally necessary that 17th March shall be the date upon which the Committee stage is to be completed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1525.2", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pargiter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Discipline?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pargiter", "preceding_text": "erent procedure from that adopted with previous Measures. It is argued that 550 Members of this House will be deprived of the opportunity of taking part in the discussions. I have sat through many Debates and been deprived of an opportunity of taking part, simply because of the verbosity of hon. Members opposite. The Government are now taking steps to curb that verbosity, and from that discipline—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1530.1", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Face.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "s to be made to those two Bills in another place. I defy the right hon. Gentleman, if he searches legislative records of prewar days, ever to find a case in which a Bill going from the House of Commons had to receive Amendment on that scale in the Lords. It is because of the inadequate time given here that this extra work is needed in the Lords. The right hon. Gentleman puts on that sanctimonious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1536.7", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "It is true that the hon. Gentleman did say the two things he has just mentioned. As he said, it was a quotation from himself in an earlier speech. The Government dislike the Guillotine procedure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1536.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1538.0", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are saying so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that if the right hon. Gentleman thought 17th March did not give him sufficient time, he could have said so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1538.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-25", "file": "debates1948-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "225ffb95def39d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1538.2", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "It has been common talk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-25a.1538.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-26", "file": "debates1948-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "2546640cee9ad53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-26a.1551.1", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS APPEAL TRIBUNALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": " not be very long on my feet. I have no intention of going into the details of the Bill, which were very ably explained by the Minister of Pensions, and for the further discussion of which there will be other opportunities on the succeeding stages of the Bill. The hon. and gallant Gentleman finished up with further British Legion advocacy for an inquiry into the whole basis of disability pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-26a.1551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-29", "file": "debates1948-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "56a143cd270e1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1645.3", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Robens)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Robens)", "preceding_text": "h Parts of this Bill are designed to amend those Acts in the light of experience gained while they have been in operation. While Part I of the Bill does amend the 1946 Act I should say that the Government as a whole do not regard this moment as the time for reconsidering the whole of the provisions of that Act. That may be very desirable; indeed, at some time or another, it will be most desirable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1645.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-29", "file": "debates1948-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "56a143cd270e1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1645.3", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Robens)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Robens)", "preceding_text": "ased to a chairman and 11 other members. At the same time, it restricts the number of full-time members to the chairman and eight others, which was the original size of the Board. It would not, however, prevent my right hon. Friend from deciding to have more part-time directors and fewer full-time members of the Board. Clause 2 deals with the area of the Board's activities in a geographical sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1645.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-29", "file": "debates1948-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "56a143cd270e1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1647.1", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ha, ha.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "in the meaning of the 1946 Act, and are activities from which the National Coal Board are prevented by statute in engaging. This Clause enables the Coal Board to have that freedom. The Board will now be able to appoint a representative to supervise their purchases of items of equipment in the United States; they will now, with the passing of this Bill, be enabled to establish bunker depots abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-29", "file": "debates1948-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "56a143cd270e1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1649.1", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": " efficient service and keep in touch with their overseas customers. Finally, there is the amendment to Section 37, which is necessary to ensure that the field of persons eligible for compensation is clearly defined, and within that field individual cases are properly dealt with. I want now to turn to Part II of the Bill, which is, of course, quite different from what has been considered in Part I.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-29", "file": "debates1948-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "56a143cd270e1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": ", by the assurances given by the Minister of National Insurance in 1945—I think in June. The Minister is, appropriately, the successor to the Secretary of State for War in the Chairmanship of the Labour Party. Let me read the Minister's declaration on coal policy. He said: Labour's policy, and Labour's policy alone, can set our coal industry on its feet again and give the nation the coal it needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-29", "file": "debates1948-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "56a143cd270e1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "eet again and give the nation the coal it needs. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Hon. Gentlemen opposite cheer, but let them read the Minister's speeches at almost every week end. I must say I congratulate the Minister on his energy and on his self-sacrifice, for he goes to almost every part of the country begging for an increase in production and telling the miners we have not got the coal we need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-29", "file": "debates1948-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "56a143cd270e1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Coalowners\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "nal Coal Board are surrounded by an ever-bulging bureaucracy, which has created its own image in all the eight divisions. Of the members of the boards in charge of these divisions, Sir Charles Reid has said: Few had ever been in control of a business. I think that is a lair comment. The Coal Board have become a sort of Chelsea Hospital for retired generals, admirals, and other brave warriors, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-29", "file": "debates1948-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "56a143cd270e1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1663.1", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Both Tories.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "im read, for instance, the admirable suggestion for reforming the National Coal Board made by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Fylde (Colonel Lancaster). He and Sir Charles Reid have expert knowledge of coal production; there are few men in the country who have more expert knowledge; and, allowing for the fact that both are experts, there is a remarkable measure of agreement between them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-29", "file": "debates1948-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "56a143cd270e1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1666.3", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I had better say \"military gentlemen,\" or \"warriors.\" There is a whole list of these gentlemen who are parked on the industry in one capacity or another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1666.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-29", "file": "debates1948-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "56a143cd270e1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1691.1", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": " and I shall welcome it. But, since that point has been put to me, I will say one thing. If there is to be increased recruitment there must be the feeling among those who go into the mines that they are getting proper leadership at the pits. There must be proper leadership and proper authority for the management in the pits. It is one of the weakest things about the Coal Board at the present time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-29", "file": "debates1948-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "56a143cd270e1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1714.0", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "oving. I was only producing facts. What, then, is wrong? I think I can say without any doubt at all, that on all sides of the House we agree that the chief cause of the present trouble is an administrative cause. I think that in all parts of the House we agree that the present administrative system is not satisfactory—that is to say, the whole scheme of managing the coal industry that we have now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1714.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-29", "file": "debates1948-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "56a143cd270e1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1740.3", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where did the pressure come from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "ame for accidents. On more than one occasion, I have had to prohibit something which was being done at the men's request. This is a two-sided matter. The hon. Member for Ince (Mr. T. Brown) mentioned pneumoconiosis. It was during my time that pneumoconiosis was made a disease for which compensation was payable. I set up the first clinic in this country for the purpose of looking into that disease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1740.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-11-29", "file": "debates1948-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "56a143cd270e1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1768.4", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "In Committee?", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Certainly, that will be the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-29a.1768.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-11-30", "file": "debates1948-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "2787e40f423367c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1788.5", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "1931.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Bruce", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend give comparable figures for the year 1933?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1788.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-11-30", "file": "debates1948-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "2787e40f423367c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1806.3", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Leah Manning", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1806.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-30", "file": "debates1948-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "2787e40f423367c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1830.2", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "I quite agree, but they act jointly to achieve the purpose, which is the primary responsibility of one Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1830.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-30", "file": "debates1948-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "2787e40f423367c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1847.0", "colnum": "1847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "o me, although I am not a lawyer, that no practical necessity for the other words have been put forward. I notice that we are without a lawyer on the Front Bench opposite to explain the legal necessity of these words. I suggest that the real reason the right hon. Gentleman likes to keep them is because they are rather pedantic and schoolmastery. They sound very nice but are ineffective in any way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-30", "file": "debates1948-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "2787e40f423367c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1847.0", "colnum": "1847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "ition to the Amendment and lets us have it. It is a good plan for the Government to propitiate the Opposition early in the discussion of a Bill. There is nothing like giving the Opposition an Amendment. That is why it would be an excellent idea to give my right hon. and gallant Friend the Amendment he moved, in the hope that then he will be willing to go on at full speed with the other Amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-30", "file": "debates1948-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "2787e40f423367c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1860.4", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "ter what happened at Hiroshima. The next point is in regard to the Government's proposal to train the civil population—obviously on the same lines as in the last war. There is reference in paragraph ( e ) to 'the provision, construction, maintenance or alteration of premises, structures. … It is admitted by the powers that be that there is no structure which can stand up to the atomic bomb.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1860.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-30", "file": "debates1948-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "2787e40f423367c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1860.4", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "re is not one in this country which would do so. The great difficulty is that because another Power played power politics, we immediately jumped to the conclusion, that we, a nation almost bankrupt as a result of the last war, must declare ourselves prepared to go to war again. In my opinion, the Government today who declare that they intend to get ready for the next war are simply asking for war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1860.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-30", "file": "debates1948-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "2787e40f423367c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1861.3", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "e saying that the dropping of atomic bombs on the civil population is not anarchy? This country of all countries cannot be defended in atomic war. Take this city of London, in which there is the greatest concentration of population in the whole world. Three or four atomic bombs would wipe it out. The same applies to Sheffield, Manchester, Glasgow. What would be then left of this island after that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1861.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-11-30", "file": "debates1948-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "2787e40f423367c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1938.0", "colnum": "1938", "heading": "CENSUS OF DISTRIBUTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "For years.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": " we all know every ton of coal produced, every bag of potatoes, every bushel of wheat and so on, and that it is necessary, therefore, to know what the distributive trade, which is the largest of all the trades in the land, are doing. The first thing we were told was that we cannot have this census because there is a shortage of consumer goods. How long do hon. Members think that is likely to last?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1937.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-30", "file": "debates1948-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "2787e40f423367c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1941.1", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "CENSUS OF DISTRIBUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "se 1949 cannot be a normal year. What is a normal year? Some hon. Members would like to think of 1938 as a normal year, but I do not think we can ever look back in the sense of normality as it applied in that year, for the obvious reason that our economic position is much different from what it was then. What we want to know are the facts now and not at some hypothetical normal year in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-30", "file": "debates1948-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "2787e40f423367c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1941.1", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "CENSUS OF DISTRIBUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "he details as soon as possible. The figures we have about the distributive trade are indeed meagre. Suppose I were to accept the suggestion that we should wait until rationing and controls disappear. That would mean that we should start off with the most scanty information at a time when we wanted the fullest possible knowledge in order to make our national economy work as completely as it should.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-30", "file": "debates1948-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "2787e40f423367c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1941.1", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "CENSUS OF DISTRIBUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " in grocers' shops or how many are in chemists' shops. We certainly must have fuller details about distribution and consumption. and about what happens to the goods. At the moment, after the goods leave the factories and go into the shops, there is little or no information about what stocks are held. When goods are imported, after they have left the warehouses no further check of any kind is kept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1941.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-11-30", "file": "debates1948-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "2787e40f423367c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1949.1", "colnum": "1949", "heading": "CENSUS OF DISTRIBUTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. May I suggest to you, Mr. Speaker, that the right hon. and gallant Gentleman in discussing this matter on the Motion, \"That the Question be now put,\" is not entitled to go into the merits of the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1949.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-30", "file": "debates1948-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "2787e40f423367c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1949.2", "colnum": "1949", "heading": "CENSUS OF DISTRIBUTION", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Leader of the Opposition ought to be here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " has been given. In view of the speeches which have been made I think the Minister of Labour, who is the only Cabinet Minister present, the only Minister who can speak with authority on this matter, should take account of what has been said. I should have thought that this was a matter of sufficient importance for the Leader of the House to be here, but he never does come here after Question Time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1949.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-11-30", "file": "debates1948-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "2787e40f423367c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1949.2", "colnum": "1949", "heading": "CENSUS OF DISTRIBUTION", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "self out of line. I do suggest now that the Minister of Labour should take his courage in his hands, having heard the arguments, and answer the Debate. I see the Home Secretary has arrived. Now, of course, the whole situation has changed. The Minister of Labour is absolved, the Deputy-Leader of the House has arrived, but the unfortunate part is that I would be out of Order if I repeated my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-11-30a.1949.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.1979.0", "colnum": "1979", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WAR MATERIAL (EXPORTS TO RUSSIA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, I have been advised, and I think well advised, at the Table, on several occasions, that assertion, particularly unproved and un-provable assertion, should not go into a Question. Yet we have here the assertion that there is: Russian-sponsored hostile propaganda and subversive activities in this country. I ask you, Sir—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.1979.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.1990.1", "colnum": "1990", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALAYA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I raised the present point of Order because of that. I must admit that on that occasion I was taken off my guard. But it has become such a common practice that it appears that anyone can make any accusation or any slander against me or against my colleague or those with whom we are associated. I think that that is very undesirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.1990.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2008.1", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "ining cadres to deal with the National Service intake—and not only the National Service intake, but the comparatively high rate at which Regular recruits have been received. In the next place, I recall with gratitude that when we introduced the 1947 Measure in the very early part of the year the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition described the action of the Government as courageous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2009.3", "colnum": "2009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "I said that it probably took me longer than it took the right hon. Gentleman in his consultations with his Chief Whip over the kerosene tax in 1927, I think it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2009.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2009.3", "colnum": "2009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "tion. I say that we have since been faced with new facts which have compelled the re-examination of the situation. After a great war it has always been difficult to make accurate forecasts of a kind which enable one to make adequate plans both for short and long-term requirements. It is absolutely necessary to keep such matters under constant review and to adapt a policy to changing circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2009.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2014.1", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We know what that means.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "There will be an early announcement in every case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2014.1", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "There will be an early announcement in every case. [An HON. MEMBER: \"We know what that means.\"] I do not believe there has been any complaint in the country whatsoever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2014.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2015.2", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "at has to be adjusted from year to year according to the needs of the situation. It may depend to some extent upon any changing international circumstances and upon the growth of the Regular Forces and their ability to train a given number. It may also depend upon something equally important, and that is the financial provision we shall ultimately be able to make for the Defence Forces as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2015.4", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members will not face up to the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2015.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2019.1", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "l with it—the Army at 1,000,000 and the Air Force at 400,000 men. This, at the time, would have been a wise, sensible and far-seeing measure, and it might markedly have helped our recovery after the war. In late 1945 the morale of the Army was good—far better than after the first World War—and their relations with the Government were good. They voted for the Government, the great majority of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2020.1", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who says so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "fully safeguarded myself by saying that I spoke without knowledge of any later changes in the foreign situation, and that the Government must put that first. However, during a period when there was no urgent sign of the approach of danger, whatever latent facts may have existed, the Government kept great numbers of men with the Colours who were not needed. They might have come home a year earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2026.1", "colnum": "2026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "general good feeling among all his supporters. In these appointments I must say it seemed to me that the Prime Minister put party first, party second and party third and national and even international affairs were included, for the completion of the narrative, amongst the \"also rans.\" I thought the appointment of the present Secretary of War was surprising. I believe the Army is better entrusted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2030.1", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "of those we mobilised in 1914, including the Reserves. Let us now look at the financial side. In 1914 our Army cost us £28,885,000. That was the amount of the Army Estimates in 1914. It represents £76 million at the present day purchasing power of money. I am making a fair comparison. This year we have voted no less than £305 million for the Army, or four times as much as in 1914 at present rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2030.1", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " purchasing power of money. I am making a fair comparison. This year we have voted no less than £305 million for the Army, or four times as much as in 1914 at present rates. [ Interruption. ] I have made allowance for the value of money and therefore the £28 million is represented by £76 million. I have made full allowance for the value of our money which the Government have so grievously reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2034.1", "colnum": "2034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Guilty men.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "cription by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and other Ministers. I could not compete with them in their denunciation and invective. They made me feel a very mild young man, generous and moderate. I thought that they meant what they said. Almost every leading Member of the Government was loud in his opposition to conscription in peace time, in 1938 and 1939. Now they propose to extend conscription.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2034.1", "colnum": "2034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": " invective. They made me feel a very mild young man, generous and moderate. I thought that they meant what they said. Almost every leading Member of the Government was loud in his opposition to conscription in peace time, in 1938 and 1939. Now they propose to extend conscription. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Guilty men.\"] Do not say too much about guilty men. There has been enough provocation this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2038.7", "colnum": "2038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "his matter outside and they decided to abstain from voting. Others voted for the abolition of the death penalty. How dare the same people who were engaged in that controversy, vote tonight for sending our boys of 18 to other parts of the world? The misuse of manpower in the Army is a major scandal. If it were a case of the misuse of money, then a tribunal would have been appointed long before now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2038.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2040.3", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "n other parts of the world. I am not prepared to risk the life of one boy by sending him to places like that. A sum of £30 million of the hard-earned wealth of this country was spent before the war on that mighty bubble of impregnability, Singapore. A terrible prewar indictment can be built up in regard to the pre-war aristocratic parasites who lived in Singapore and in other parts of that island.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2040.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2043.0", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "r with him in the first war, may I say that we appreciate very much his spirit, but we should like to ask him one question before he allows his genuine emotion to run too far ahead of his reason. May I assure him that there is nobody who took part in the first war who does not feel as he does about the dead? But, had we been prepared before 1938, had America been prepared, had a Bill such as this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2043.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2049.1", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "adet, from National Service to Civil Defence and the Home Guard—his conception of militarism from the cradle to the grave. He said this, which was reported in the \"Star\" on 29th May: I hold strongly that the man is still the first weapon of war, and to get success in battle the first thing is to get men who have morale, with the light of battle in their eyes, and who are trained to fight and kill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2052.0", "colnum": "2052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, you did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member must not suggest that I have mocked at people in uniform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2064.1", "colnum": "2064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Byers", "preceding_text": "hing, but I do say that better pay and conditions will increase the numbers in the Regular Forces. Take the allowances which have been announced for officers for instance. I have had letters already from Tripoli and one of them—this was from a Liberal, not a Conservative; he is a captain in the Armed Forces—said, \"I am now quite convinced that the Socialist Party is out to break the Regular Army.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2067.3", "colnum": "2067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "own the number of conscripts. That is the basis for a plan. The conscript element should be eliminated purely on the technical grounds of efficiency. I do not think we shall be safe in this country until the Government have done that. What worries me is that no effort is being made by the Government at all for the solution of the problem. It is no use the Secretary of State for War grinning at me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2067.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2098.1", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "ption in peace-time by the Socialist Government was a credit to the Government. I never believed that the day would come when a Labour Government would be saved by Tory support. The reason why the Leader of the Opposition is pleased with what is being done in this Bill is that, unfortunately, my right hon. Friends on the Front Bench are doing this job almost better than he would have done himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2101.1", "colnum": "2101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "There was no opportunity of dissenting, anyhow. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2104.1", "colnum": "2104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "uld there be a more illogical situation? The other cause of delays, hesitations and qualifications in the Government's defence policy is that they and their supporters hated to have to admit this most sinister fact, that there has been such a quarrel between the twin enemies of capitalism—the Soviet Communists and the Socialists—that each hates the other more than they hate the wicked capitalists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2109.1", "colnum": "2109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What for?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "It is only fair to say that I myself, on more than one occasion, have said that if we provide proper pay and conditions for the Services we should get all the men we want, but the hon. Member and Members opposite must remember that in this time of grave national emergency it is desirable to have a national Army in which all men of military age can serve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2111.1", "colnum": "2111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " have said, the issue for the purposes of this Debate is not in question. All that we are considering—it is a very narrow and limited issue—is whether or not it is desirable in present circumstances to increase the period of National Service from 12 to 18 months. On that issue the Government are convinced that, having regard to the run-down of the Army and the Air Force and the constant turn-over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2111.5", "colnum": "2111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I withdraw, Sir. If it is thought that I was referring to you, I withdraw unreservedly. If it is thought that I refer to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford equally I withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2111.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2112.4", "colnum": "2112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "If I may be allowed to say so, if the right hon. Gentleman attached a little more importance more frequently to what the Government say, it would do him a lot of good, and also his party. The right hon. Gentleman made a startling allegation about our lack of unpreparedness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2112.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2114.7", "colnum": "2114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite had better quarrel with their leader and not with me. Lack of preparation, forsooth ! The right hon. Gentleman then got on to another horse of a different kind. He complained about the frequent changes amongst Service Ministers. Whether they are frequently changed or not, the right hon. Gentleman said they were no good anyhow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2114.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2115.1", "colnum": "2115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ents, they are dictated by public considerations. The right hon. Gentleman has enunciated tonight a new doctrine which startled me. He enunciated the peculiar doctrine that a member of the Government who is connected with the Services, because he is connected with the Services, must be very particular indeed not to attack his political opponents in the country. That was the doctrine he enunciated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2120.1", "colnum": "2120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I am within the recollection of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-01", "file": "debates1948-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "9812036811d5330b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2141.3", "colnum": "2141", "heading": "BING REMOVAL, BELLSHILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary for Overseas Trade (Mr. Bottomley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary for Overseas Trade (Mr. Bottomley)", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. and gallant Member for Central Glasgow (Colonel Hutchison) rightly said that he wants an explanation, and I shall endeavour to give to his satisfaction the reason we came to the decision to use what might appear at first to be the wrong method of clearing this derelict slag heap—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-01a.2141.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-02", "file": "debates1948-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4d786a715ce231bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-02a.2151.2", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Serfdom.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Certainly not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-02a.2151.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-12-02", "file": "debates1948-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4d786a715ce231bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-02a.2173.0", "colnum": "2173", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": " Did not the Chancellor of the Exchequer claim on Tuesday that these payments were authorised where he thinks—by the exercise of his own independent judgment—that the cause of democracy was likely to be furthered? Does not this show that the Chancellor is using his own personal judgment in matters of political opinion in a way which is quite unwarranted and contrary to British political tradition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-02a.2172.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-02", "file": "debates1948-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4d786a715ce231bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-02a.2175.1", "colnum": "2175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "How much money has come from overseas to Lord Woolton's Fund to help the Conservatives?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-02a.2175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-02", "file": "debates1948-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4d786a715ce231bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-02a.2176.1", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I think the answer probably is that the application was made for£500.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-02a.2176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-02", "file": "debates1948-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4d786a715ce231bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-02a.2213.0", "colnum": "2213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILM PRODUCTION (SPECIAL LOANS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "No, the hon. Gentleman misunderstands me. The£5 million is already there to be drawn upon. The producer gets the money to finance an independent picture, and he hands it over, in turn, to the independent producer. The money must be paid to the producer for making a film.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-02a.2213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-02", "file": "debates1948-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4d786a715ce231bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-02a.2238.1", "colnum": "2238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILM PRODUCTION (SPECIAL LOANS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Fletcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Jonathan.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Fletcher", "preceding_text": "ainments Duty should now be reduced, and that there should be a rebate. Do not hon. and right hon. Gentlemen who have talked like that, realise that it would be different if this industry had not been taxed almost more than any other industry in this country, if right at the start there had not been an Entertainments Duty which, on the figure given for the film of \"My Brother—\" Jolson, was it not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-02a.2238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-02", "file": "debates1948-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4d786a715ce231bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-02a.2277.1", "colnum": "2277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILM PRODUCTION (SPECIAL LOANS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "ed in comparison with what we as Members of the House of Commons ought to insist upon. We must have our own film industry. I should like to develop the argument from another point of view. The party opposite and my own party all have interests in a lot of newspapers. We spend a lot of time making remarks here and we look in the morning to see whether our remarks have been quoted in the newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-02a.2277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-02", "file": "debates1948-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4d786a715ce231bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-02a.2277.1", "colnum": "2277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILM PRODUCTION (SPECIAL LOANS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "nvestigation into this matter has shown that the film industry has a more profound effect here inside Britain, throughout Europe and the world in influencing public opinion than any other medium we have got. I am exceedingly proud of what the British people have done during the last three years. Politicians are a little apt to call upon themselves the glories of what the ordinary people have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-02a.2277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-02", "file": "debates1948-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "4d786a715ce231bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-02a.2281.1", "colnum": "2281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILM PRODUCTION (SPECIAL LOANS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "I am entirely willing to do that, and I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his intervention. I would point out, however, that it is important that this committee should be presided over by somebody very high-powered, preferably somebody outside the industry, and not merely a civil servant. If that is accepted by my right hon. Friend, then I have nothing more to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-02a.2281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.51.3", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Old Lace.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "I have heard arguments on this Clause described as a personal conflict between \"Arsenic and Gold Lace\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.51.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.51.3", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "leman the Member for Horsham (Earl Winter-ton) and the Secretary of State for War. I do not know which is supposed to be \"Arsenic\" and which is supposed to be \"Old Lace.\" The underlying idea of this Clause is that the boys must serve for 18 months instead of 12. When this controversy began there was a very interesting article in \"John Bull\" by that well known military expert, Captain Liddell Hart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.51.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.55.3", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "d upon figures which the Minister of Defence gave to the House when the three months' delay in the demobilisation rate was announced. He told us that the three months' delay would cost us about £8 million for six months for about 80,000 men. The figure given us now is for an average of 200,000 men held for an additional six months. I work that out as coming to an annual rate of £80 million a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.55.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.65.2", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Against the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "eep them out of industry for 18 months. I can think of no argument which is relevant on the main principle of conscription which does not apply with even greater force to a proposal to extend the period by six months. 5.0 p.m. I hope that, without offence, I may refer again to my hon. Friend the Member for Eton and Slough (Mr. Levy). He made, I thought, an extremely eloquent and convincing speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.65.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are less.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " minutes in which to explain why it was necessary to increase the period from 12 to 18 months. As that was the only thing the Bill was about, it was a rather remarkable omission. At that time nobody was precluded from saying what were the commitments. I hope I am not out of Order, Sir, in saying that, so far as anybody here knows, our commitments today are not greater than they were 18 months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.81.0", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "hs period. That is my answer to the hon. Member for Eton and Slough (Mr. Levy), whose speech was perhaps the greatest curiosity of this Debate. I agree with the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman) that the hon. Member for Eton and Slough made an overwhelming indictment of the Government's policy and then proceeded to show how, on the basis of that indictment, he would support them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.81.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ve a National Service Army, is to have 18 months, but there are one or two points about it that I want to make. First, there was a cryptic reference to the Regular Army by the Secretary of State for War at the end of the Second Reading Debate, when he said that, if we had a large Regular Army, this extension would not be necessary, and even conscription itself might not have been necessary at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.91.2", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bribes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "e national interest, they are prepared to accept the burden. I have not found, and I do not believe the Secretary of State for War has found in his recent travels among the troops, any great resentment at having to perform their duties and doing what is required. I am also bound to say that there is no evidence that we should get so very many more recruits by giving large bribes of that character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.91.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.129.9", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I am not aware of that being in the report, but at any rate it is quite irrelevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.129.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Manning", "cue_text": "AnHON. MEMBER: \"Tories.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Manning", "preceding_text": "e that we were talking about \"dead-end kids\"; that they would all be criminals; that they were not boys from homes like our own, or boys of people we know in our constituencies who live in little villages and always bring up their children decently. If I continued to read this letter the Committee would realise what the difficulties of these young soldiers are. Certainly if they are not verminous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.177.8", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "I certainly will not withdraw, but I will repeat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.177.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.177.8", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "I certainly will not withdraw, but I will repeat—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\"]. I certainly will not withdraw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.177.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not France.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "tern Europe today, with the exception of Spain—and I underline that—which is carrying as we are carrying, the burden of 18 months' conscription of our young men. I hope the Government will understand the significance of that. I think I am right in saying that Holland, Belgium, France—and the principle even extends as far away as Americahave not a period of 18 months for their National Service men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "erline that—which is carrying as we are carrying, the burden of 18 months' conscription of our young men. I hope the Government will understand the significance of that. I think I am right in saying that Holland, Belgium, France—and the principle even extends as far away as Americahave not a period of 18 months for their National Service men. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not France.\"] France has not 18 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.187.3", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Except the Treasury.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "we must make ourselves responsible for the treatment of National Service men. That is the position. I turn to the submissions of the hon. and gallant Member for Carshalton. First, he maintains that if we are to build up the Regular Forces, we must make ourselves responsible for providing the highest possible pay and the very best conditions. Nobody on this side takes exception to that observation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.189.0", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "her ranks. But what is equally important, if not more important, are the conditions in the Services, such as the provision of married quarters, barrack room accommodation, provision of amenities, and I venture to repeat what I said on Second Reading, and I repeat it without apology—it is on record—happy relationships between officers and men. It is of the highest importance that they should be so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "te, a period of more than two or three years. So we must adapt ourselves to the changing circumstances. That is the scientific method of dealing with the problem. That is what we propose to do. We have been asked what we propose to do with regard to voluntary enlistment. We have been asked, \"Why not have voluntary enlistment?\" The hon. Member opposite, the second-in-command of the Liberal brigade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the rest of the statement? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ackle the problem—I will not say with greater ability, but with greater energy. What are the facts? First, the right hon. Gentleman was not sure of his own position; but I can acquaint him with it. It is on the record. In the Army Estimates for which he was responsible, he said that certain things could happen if the Regular Army were of the order of 250,000 men. I do not know what he had in mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.219.4", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "I do not want to go into it any further. That is the extent of compulsion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.219.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.220.1", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "revent anyone from changing his job. It does not prevent anyone from leaving a particular pit, or a particular farm. Take the textile industries: it does not prevent a worker going from one mill to another, or from one essential job to another. There is no restriction in that sense. The restriction is to prevent people from going into the less essential jobs. That is the degree of the restriction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.221.1", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "k the right hon. Gentleman will accept that, by and large, the workers of this country are prepared to be guided. If the Prayer succeeds tonight, the very instrument which enables us to guide them would be taken away from us. Now I come to the question of the efficiency of this order. If it is efficient and produces results, I take it that some hon. Members opposite would be prepared to accept it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-06", "file": "debates1948-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "99b2f13b75df924d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.222.7", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "riven to recruit foreign labour into agriculture under pressure from hon. Members opposite. The same thing is true with regard to the mining industry. I say that the existence of this Control of Engagement Order is enabling us to get a better balance in our labour force and to man undermanned industries, In agriculture we have supplied the need to such an extent that now we have some unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-06a.222.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-07", "file": "debates1948-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "263fa9aa795979d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-07a.262.6", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose pay roll?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "All I can say is that this soldier is not on my pay roll.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-07a.262.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-08", "file": "debates1948-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba6e48788ac871a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.362.6", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALAYA AND SINGAPORE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I asked whether the hon. Member had an interest in this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.362.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-08", "file": "debates1948-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba6e48788ac871a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AFRICAN COLONIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "preceding_text": "There are several misstatements in that supplementary question. First of all, so far as I am aware, this man was not convicted of contempt of court, although the Chief Justice thought he had been guilty of contempt of court. Secondly, he has not been appointed to any official position; he has been appointed as an unofficial member of the Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-08", "file": "debates1948-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba6e48788ac871a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.392.3", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twopence a lb.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the price farmers are receiving, of about £12 a ton, brings in only lid. per lb., whereas these onions are being sold in the market at 4d. and 6d. a lb.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.392.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-08", "file": "debates1948-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba6e48788ac871a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILM PRODUCTION (SPECIAL LOANS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " showing from the standpoint of morals, education and culture, and which should be prohibited. but which are a big box office draw. That is because of tastes that have been deliberately cultivated by certain sections of the film industry. We should remember that hon. Members on the other side of the House have never been very interested in free education for the people or in anything of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-08", "file": "debates1948-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba6e48788ac871a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.417.2", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILM PRODUCTION (SPECIAL LOANS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " of the organisations, but are prevented from doing so by lack of finance, and with that group I was more concerned than with the major producers of the big circuits. I believe I have answered the hon. Member for Bucklow, but he also asked if it was possible for Members of Parliament to be members of the Corporation. If he turns to the Schedule, he will find they are not eligible for appointment.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-08", "file": "debates1948-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba6e48788ac871a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CURRENCY TRANSFERS ABROAD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "o foreign countries. Cabinet Ministers should speak for the nation and not for a political party. I suppose it is vain to preach that doctrine to the party opposite. It is symptomatic of Socialist thought and practice, as it is of other totalitarian regimes, that they are right and everybody else is wrong, and that minorities which disagree with them have no right to have their opinions expressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-08", "file": "debates1948-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba6e48788ac871a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CURRENCY TRANSFERS ABROAD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "preceding_text": "Mr. Arthur Horner. We all know the great influence that gentleman has with Members of the Cabinet. He is perhaps the real Minister of Fuel and Power in this country at the present time. Feeling that it was inadvisable that he should devote his skill and energies to causing a lack of output in the coal mines of this country, he thought he would go over to France and try to teach them a few lessons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-08", "file": "debates1948-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba6e48788ac871a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.506.3", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CURRENCY TRANSFERS ABROAD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which gift?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "This is one of the most astounding Debates I have heard in the House since I came here. It is almost impossible to make up one's mind, after listening to the Opposition, whether the three hon. Members who have taken three different courses knew exactly why they were opposing this gift.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.506.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-08", "file": "debates1948-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba6e48788ac871a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.509.3", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CURRENCY TRANSFERS ABROAD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "nion and the right of the Scottish people to send to whom they like. The Chancellor had better remember that when the Scots signed the Treaty of Union in 1707, they did not hand over all their powers and right to somebody else. They retained certain privileges and powers and some of these fine days they may challenge some of the things which are done by others and which they are not allowed to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-08", "file": "debates1948-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba6e48788ac871a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CURRENCY TRANSFERS ABROAD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I do not want to speak at much length—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-08", "file": "debates1948-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba6e48788ac871a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CURRENCY TRANSFERS ABROAD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "f the Exchequer: that is only a short way of saying that he is the man who, parliamentarily speaking, has full responsibility for what happens in the Treasury. I cannot understand what he means by saying that he accepts full personal responsibility. Again these are considered words. By saying that he accepts full personal responsibility he, in fact, rather tends to whittle down his responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-08", "file": "debates1948-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "ba6e48788ac871a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CURRENCY TRANSFERS ABROAD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn Levy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn Levy", "preceding_text": "for Farnham (Mr. Nicholson) opened the batting. Everybody likes him. We recognise in him, if I may quote his leader's phrase, a certain honest simplicity. However, the fact that he has lent himself, as the spearhead, to this petty and foolish attempt on painfully partisan lines to discredit the Government is an indication only of the danger, even to people such as him self, of keeping bad company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-08a.516.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-09", "file": "debates1948-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a2a49d9d447bc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.566.3", "colnum": "566", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "n which is now confronting them. No one can foresee what the outcome of the present world struggle will be, but it must be the hope of the whole world that peace may soon be restored and the patient, long-suffering Chinese people, who are the victims of all these conflicts, may at last have the opportunity of restoring their shattered economy and be free from the ravages of civil and external wars", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.566.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-09", "file": "debates1948-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a2a49d9d447bc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "y promulgated on 10th November. There was no attempt, therefore, on our part to ignore the French, and I want to make that quite clear. With regard to security I should like to make it clear that there is no difference between us. France has the right—so have we and all other neighbours of Germany—to be assured that the vast resources of the Ruhr shall not again be used for purposes of aggression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-09", "file": "debates1948-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a2a49d9d447bc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.581.5", "colnum": "581", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "that the Governments will have to make their decisions as to what is the best form in which to develop this organisation. The Committee is now at work. It is really a working party. I have seen criticisms of the personnel we appointed on it but they are people with experience. It is led by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and I know that they are all working very hard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.581.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-09", "file": "debates1948-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a2a49d9d447bc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.585.4", "colnum": "585", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Spain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "There are two considerations to bear in mind. The Brussels Pact deals with defence. The Western Union may have to deal with problems which will not involve defence. Certain countries may come into the Western Union but not come into the defence pact. Therefore, at a suitable stage, we must consult Scandinavia, we must consult Italy and these other Powers around and see what is necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.585.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-09", "file": "debates1948-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a2a49d9d447bc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.585.4", "colnum": "585", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": " \"Spain.\"]—Spain would be easy if only Franco would disappear—if the thing is to be worked out constructively. I am against using any promises or facades to lead people to believe that they have something which, when the test comes, does not work. I will not comment on another international institution about the effectiveness of which all of us at the moment are gravely concerned. One other point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.585.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-09", "file": "debates1948-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a2a49d9d447bc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.597.4", "colnum": "597", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman allow me to explain? Has he forgotten that the partisan movement he has just praised was based on the Nenni Socialists and Communists?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.597.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-09", "file": "debates1948-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a2a49d9d447bc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.598.0", "colnum": "598", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is completely misinformed on all points. To start with, the guerrilla war, as we all know very well, was virtually nationwide. One of the remarkable things about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.598.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-09", "file": "debates1948-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a2a49d9d447bc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.601.4", "colnum": "601", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I ask the hon. Gentleman to look at the measure of co-operation, to take only one example, that has gone on within this Empire of ours, from countries containing entirely different political parties—I would ask the hon. Member for Eton and Slough not to wave his hands about like that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.601.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-09", "file": "debates1948-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a2a49d9d447bc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.631.4", "colnum": "631", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " learned writer on these topics. He says: The exchange of such exclusive and discriminating privileges composes the distinction between the Commonwealth and foreign nations. If you see a rabbit and a lettuce, you know where the rabbit ends and the lettuce begins: everything inside the rabbit's skin is rabbit and the rest is lettuce. The same thing, roughly speaking, is true about the Commonwealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.631.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-09", "file": "debates1948-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a2a49d9d447bc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a colonial topic.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "re than having even a wrong foreign policy, if they had one at all. I come now to foreign policy in the more general and ordinary and drawing-room sense, and I want particularly to refer—do not think this is odd when I am talking of foreign policy—to Malaya. I want particularly to refer to Malaya because hon. Gentlemen may remember that we made Malaya rather one of the topics of the short Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-09", "file": "debates1948-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a2a49d9d447bc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Fletcher", "preceding_text": "hrough China? It may well be that in the best Chinese tradition it will not be an \"iron curtain\" but a paper one, painted to look like iron with a few terrifying guns and planes on it. Whatever one may think of Communism in the Far East—and I shall come to that a little bit later—is the policy of His Majesty's Government to be nonintervention—to do nothing? I will admit that there is a difference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-09", "file": "debates1948-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a2a49d9d447bc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "t necessarily the case that they are Communist in outlook or likely to be Communist in outlook, but that they feel dissatisfied as they are, and have no alternative. It is right to try to analyse to some extent what the Northern Communist movement is. Undoubtedly at the centre of it and controlling the machine there is the pure dyed-in-the-wool, Kremlintrained, toeing-the-line Communist hard core—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-09a.669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-10", "file": "debates1948-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b9f5b582caabdde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-10a.703.5", "colnum": "703", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "gh level on these matters in the United States. But here the Government have used their victory only to ignore and brush aside all political forces not included in their own circle. I should never have believed that after the ordeals of the late war had been undergone unitedly the partly which I have the honour to lead, and the Liberal Party, should have been treated in such a high-handed fashion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-10a.703.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-10", "file": "debates1948-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b9f5b582caabdde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-10a.703.5", "colnum": "703", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ho was reported last week as saying—and I suppose this was the greatest insult he could conceive—that the policy of the Foreign Secretary was only \"Winston and water,\" adding that in later manifestations there were \"larger doses of Winston.\" I wish to come to the rescue of the Foreign Secretary. I assure the House that I have not had any conversation with him, except casually, on social occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-10a.703.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-10", "file": "debates1948-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b9f5b582caabdde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-10a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "ifferent attitude by the Soviet Union towards us. That would be a gesture in the right direction and one which would win its reward. For those reasons, I say that this Debate on foreign affairs is a deplorable Debate. I do not understand—I hope he will forgive my saying so, for I have some respect for him—what was the necessity for the contribution made this morning by the Chancellor of the Duchy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-10a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-10", "file": "debates1948-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b9f5b582caabdde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-10a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend's view about what I think virtually amounts to de facto recognition. I cannot possibly accept that. That does not mean that I have any quarrel with my right hon. Friend the Member for Warwick and Leamington. It would be natural that my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford should support him in that, because, after all, he is a self-confessed Zionist who has always been a Zionist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-10a.756.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1948-12-10", "file": "debates1948-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b9f5b582caabdde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-10a.788.4", "colnum": "788", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "Nevertheless, on the subject of Palestine, and on the subject of European unity, I think His Majesty's Government have put up a very ragged show during this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-10a.788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-10", "file": "debates1948-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b9f5b582caabdde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-10a.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "How then can the hon. Gentleman welcome Italy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-10a.789.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-10", "file": "debates1948-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b9f5b582caabdde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-10a.789.4", "colnum": "789", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Russians? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "If the Spanish people were given a free opportunity of choosing their Government, such as the Italian people have had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-10a.789.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-10", "file": "debates1948-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "b9f5b582caabdde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-10a.789.4", "colnum": "789", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "ons and we are, therefore, not in a position to agree with the right hon. Gentleman on that matter. We know how important a democratic Spain could be to the project of Western Union. We know of what value E.R.P. could be to the people of Spain in the economic recovery of their country. All these things are possible and desirable, but those who want to join the club must obey the rules of the club—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-10a.789.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-13", "file": "debates1948-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7826719e71e09c73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.843.1", "colnum": "843", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "I have said that this is a quotation from the British Ministry of Food. This was published here, in the \"Daily Mail,\" a fortnight ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-13", "file": "debates1948-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7826719e71e09c73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "luxurious living. It seems that the expensive restaurants of this country are well stocked but the larders of the small houses are very bare. There is a great inequality in this matter of food. We are told that the shortage is only temporary and that the Minister is keeping these rations low so that when a General Election is coming he can increase the ration and therefore attract some popularity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-13", "file": "debates1948-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7826719e71e09c73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.871.1", "colnum": "871", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coldrick", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In order to build up the industry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coldrick", "preceding_text": " in any desired quantities. But, of course, to have imported the vast quantities of sugar necessary to satisfy the requirements of the consumers in this country would, in certain directions, have been fatal to the farmers. Therefore, every inducement was given to the farmers to go in for sugar beet growing, and the Treasury gave millions of pounds by way of subsidies to the growers and refineries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-13", "file": "debates1948-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7826719e71e09c73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "preceding_text": "of his speech, he censured the Ministry of Food for allowing such a market in sugar. The Parliamentary Secretary pointed out that we imported raw sugar, refined it and exported it and earned money thereby. The hon. Member cannot have it both ways. If he is in favour of an open market for tea, he should also congratulate the Ministry on allowing the earnings that are being earned in refining sugar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-13", "file": "debates1948-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7826719e71e09c73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"We do like it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "preceding_text": "en. One hon. Member suggested that so much stress should not be laid on milk. Surely that hon. Member and every hon. Member knows perfectly well that the fact that so much more liquid milk is now consumed in this country, largely by children, is one of the reasons why the children are bigger and better—bigger grown and better developed—than they have ever been. That is a fact. One may not like it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-13", "file": "debates1948-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7826719e71e09c73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "preceding_text": "d Sweden, and to France and Switzerland two or three times before I realised how well off we in Great Britain were. The housewives of Norway see butcher's meat once in three months. When do they or the housewives of Sweden, France or Switzerland see bacon on the table for breakfast? The people of Sweden are facing great shortages, and are rationed even more strictly since my visit to that country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-13", "file": "debates1948-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7826719e71e09c73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.937.7", "colnum": "937", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "D; lb.; way back in 1944 it was the, ½ lb. that it is today, but that year Lord Woolton was able to produce an extra allocation of 8 oz. of fat. The right hon. Gentleman must admit that this is a pretty lean time, however cheerful the good wishes may be. But of course there is always champagne, one of the few things the price of which the Government have reduced since it has been in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.937.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-13", "file": "debates1948-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7826719e71e09c73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.937.7", "colnum": "937", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "poorest 15 per cent. of the population in 1936 ate about one and a half times as much fat, bacon, meat, and sugar as anyone could do in this country today. It is no good right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite shaking their heads. It was men like Sir William Crawford who made this investigation. I am asking hon. Members opposite to get hold of the facts, and if they do they will find that to be so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.937.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-13", "file": "debates1948-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7826719e71e09c73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.944.3", "colnum": "944", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "It does for some people and not for others. That is, of course, what an average means. I am perfectly well aware of that and I am not making a debating point at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.944.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-13", "file": "debates1948-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7826719e71e09c73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "were, to do these things and give these guarantees when they have already been given weeks ago. It is well within the knowledge of the Commonwealth producers that this guarantee has been given. I am glad of it, personally, because I think it is the right thing to do, but I must warn the right hon. and gallant Gentleman, and those of his supporters who object to it, that it is a long-term contract.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-13", "file": "debates1948-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7826719e71e09c73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.952.3", "colnum": "952", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "r of these commodities, through the C.W.S., they were getting some 1 per cent. of the imported poultry and rabbits available. Altogether including supplies from other sources they were probably getting about 4 per cent. We have raised that, and only in the imported poultry and rabbits, to about 12½ per cent. Can we be said to have shown partiality to the Co-operative movement in doing that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.952.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-13", "file": "debates1948-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7826719e71e09c73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "To earn dollars. That is the simple fact, and, I should have thought, an important fact. A number of hon. Members took up the question of the availability of feedingstuffs for this country. It is true that coarse grains in general are becoming cheaper and more plentiful in the world, and I am thankful for it. If we had sufficient dollars earned by our exports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-13", "file": "debates1948-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7826719e71e09c73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FLOOR COVERINGS (PURCHASE TAX)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Lewis", "preceding_text": "it was cheaper to lay a parquet floor with Purchase Tax on a wood block floor without it. As a result, representations were made to the appropriate Department and it was decided to exempt the parquet floor. During the course of the consultations which took place, it seems that the effect of the order on other types of floor covering was overlooked. I think that will be accepted by my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-13", "file": "debates1948-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7826719e71e09c73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FLOOR COVERINGS (PURCHASE TAX)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It cannot be a floor and a covering.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "As I have explained, the wood block floor or parquet floor is not only a floor in itself, it is a floor covering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-13a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1002.4", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I am bound to admit very few.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1002.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1009.6", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "We do not want to encourage officers under 25 to marry,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1009.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1009.6", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "We do not want to encourage officers under 25 to marry, [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] We do not want to encourage them to marry by offering this financial inducement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1009.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1017.0", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TERRITORIAL ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "Are the Government aware that the people of this country are a bit tired of carrying these 14,000 people for five years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1017.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1028.3", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "preceding_text": "els in London apply with any regularity for an extension, and they get one late night a week. However, by the device of the bottle party it is possible for drinking to go on to any hour on any day of the week without an application for an extension. The arrangement is that the guest gives orders in advance for the liquor to be delivered at the party. I am now dealing with the theory of the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1028.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1028.3", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "preceding_text": "ever, by the device of the bottle party it is possible for drinking to go on to any hour on any day of the week without an application for an extension. The arrangement is that the guest gives orders in advance for the liquor to be delivered at the party. I am now dealing with the theory of the matter—[ Laughter. ] I gather from the laughter that the practice can be best known from the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1028.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1028.3", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is in that glass?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "preceding_text": "evasions of the permitted hours are most welcome. I have also received a letter from the British Hotels and Restaurants Association assuring me that they welcome and support the elimination of the contrivance to evade the law known as bottle parties. They say that they are preparing some proposals which they will submit to me to meet any bona fide demand that there might be from the tourist trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1028.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1028.3", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Gin?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "preceding_text": "et any bona fide demand that there might be from the tourist trade. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What is in that glass?\"] I still have to appeal to the generosity of the House as have not yet recovered from the sore throat I caught at the Cenotaph on 7th November. I quite realise that in connection with such a Bill as this such an infirmity might be open to suspicion were it not for the colour of the liquid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1028.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1033.1", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " from his experience of the Licensing Planning Bills during the Coalition Government how complicated and difficult is this problem of dealing with the rearrangement of licences. If necessary I could deal with the proposal to leave things as they are and say, \"Let the licensing justices in these new areas deal with the matter as best they can and we shall hope that they will make a good job of it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " Under-Secretary of State. Apart from that, every proposal which is in this Bill is merely a re-enactment of the existing law. Of course, the criticisms are completely contradictory. In the first place, I am told that these State-managed houses are dull, dreary places. In the next column, sometimes in the next paragraph, it is said that I ought not to have powers to provide games, music, or other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " of what these places are like. Of course, the hon. Gentleman has to think of his constituents. He says: The restaurant enjoys today the patronage of farmers who come from the surrounding districts to Annan market once a week. The management has been in the hands of one family since it started and is very efficient. The meals are good and the staff pleasant and courteous. Quite an angelic picture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1041.4", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving the answer which it was impossible to give at Question Time. I would put the matter impartially. I have got some Carlisle State Brewery beer in the Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1041.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1061.1", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "ve the honour to represent. However, had the hon. Member been able, as I was, to command an unobstructed view of the expression on the face of his hon. Friend the Member for West Ealing (Mr. J. Hudson) as the hon. Member for Carlisle catalogued those various choice liquors and the prices at which they could be bought, he would, I think, have cut his catalogue short for the sake of his hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1061.1", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"During the first world war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "t Ealing had a point to make. It was only, apparently, half a point in this particular case. We who sit for constituencies in Hertfordshire do not have the glory of being in the gateway to Scotland, as in Carlisle. However, we have the compensation that we do not have the peculiar antecedents, if I may so express it, which caused the introduction of State management in Carlisle after the last war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That has nothing to do with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "It might be pertinent to ask how many times they had tendered advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1086.0", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is entirely their responsibility.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "es. The development corporation will acquire the land in the new towns. It is enabled, under the New Towns Act, to build premises, which it can let as free houses. I deplore the disappearance of the free house from this country. It has almost disappeared and for that I think the brewers have a big responsibility, because of their buying up of these houses and toisting their own beer on the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1086.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1095.3", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "ether we shall take the alternative of prohibition as advocated by his extreme temperance friends, or allow a free run to the drink trade. We do not think that the State should exercise greater and greater control over the drink trade, but we regard this Bill as a step forward in another direction. In the planning of new towns, we are taking steps to guide people in future to a better way of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1095.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1121.0", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "does not talk so much nowadays of the public house or the \"pub.\" He speaks in fact of \"my local\" with emphasis on the word \"my.\" He chooses it himself because he likes it. He likes the atmosphere, the landlord and the company and he likes the type of recreation and the refreshment that is provided. What was it in English life that struck the men who came here from overseas to fight during the war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1121.0", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "manufacturer, wholesaler or retailer of table waters, and he can provide entertainment of any kind whatsoever, so long as he sees that a snack bar is attached. This Bill envisages the State entering into competition with private traders on the widest possible scale. It is a warning to manufacturers and traders, great and small, of the Government's real intentions. It is the thin edge of the wedge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "preceding_text": "That is the thin end of the pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1136.2", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I have only four or five minutes, and if hon. Members opposite deliberately occupy that time with laughter, it will prevent me being heard. They can do that if they like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1136.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1138.0", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Licensing Bill and the by-elections, including Peckham and the Liberal allegation that every public house was a Tory Committee room. If the trade is going to revive those conditions, they will find a lot of mixed customers in their public houses and it will not be good. Secondly, I say, that if, as I hope will not be the case, this trade is going to make itself the instrument of a political party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1138.0", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "going to revive those conditions, they will find a lot of mixed customers in their public houses and it will not be good. Secondly, I say, that if, as I hope will not be the case, this trade is going to make itself the instrument of a political party—[ Interruption ]—if this trade is going to make itself, according to this declaration, a party political instrument and turn every public house into—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1138.0", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "s, they will find a lot of mixed customers in their public houses and it will not be good. Secondly, I say, that if, as I hope will not be the case, this trade is going to make itself the instrument of a political party—[ Interruption ]—if this trade is going to make itself, according to this declaration, a party political instrument and turn every public house into—[ Interruption. ]—If that is so", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1138.0", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "and it will not be good. Secondly, I say, that if, as I hope will not be the case, this trade is going to make itself the instrument of a political party—[ Interruption ]—if this trade is going to make itself, according to this declaration, a party political instrument and turn every public house into—[ Interruption. ]—If that is so [ Interruption. ] The Opposition will get this back in good time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-14", "file": "debates1948-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5bc0b8b3b3276d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1147.5", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": " well. For that reason, I think it is far more important than ever that we should get from the right hon. Gentleman in charge of this Money Resolution some estimate of what the taxpayers of this country may be called upon to hand over to this profligate Government in order to deal with this Bill which nobody wants, and which has caused such an appalling shrinkage in the brutal Government majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-14a.1147.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-16", "file": "debates1948-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "4ac9f5e3848cd07b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-16a.1430.0", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEGAL AID AND SOLICITORS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "preceding_text": "The author of that remark was a member of the legal profession, a solicitor—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Who?\"]—who told me he had been told by someone who was present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-16a.1430.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-17", "file": "debates1948-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "4fb822e30c79aa73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-17a.1519.10", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wingfield Digby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wingfield Digby", "preceding_text": "I wish to raise the question of the responsibility of the Ministry of Food for the Overseas Food Corporation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-17a.1519.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-17", "file": "debates1948-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "4fb822e30c79aa73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-17a.1539.5", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are financed out of public money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "s quite a new thing in these great industrial enterprises. It is a great advantage that these comprehensive and fairly detailed reports are made annually on these great enterprises—reports which formerly were not made at all. Formerly, there was a statement by the chairman of an undertaking and the balance sheet. Both Parliament and the country are to know much more about these great undertakings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-17a.1539.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-17", "file": "debates1948-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "4fb822e30c79aa73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-17a.1540.1", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ing these undertakings. Most of them are unaccustomed to political life and have been accustomed to running private undertakings, where they were sheltered from the blast of Parliamentary statements and the sometimes rather severe and disputable comments hon. Members make across the Floor of the House about each other and about Ministers. It would be a pity if these gentlemen were to be unnerved.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-17a.1540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-17", "file": "debates1948-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "4fb822e30c79aa73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-17a.1588.1", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "preceding_text": "m which the Certificate Examination set us free. It is the second thing which, in one form or another, they will do. They will set up some sort of examination that has to be passed in two subjects at a high level and two subjects at the ordinary level. The great danger is that it will encourage people to pseudo-specialise in some bogus subjects like history and English rather than in the classics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-17a.1588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1948-12-17", "file": "debates1948-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "4fb822e30c79aa73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-17a.1588.1", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "preceding_text": " who can do the classics is much better advised to do classics than to do history. A professor was telling me the other day that the present situation in the university world is that the quality of classical scholarship is as high as ever, but that the quantity has diminished. It would be a great calamity if more boys and girls were to move out of the classics and into history as a result of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1948-12-17a.1588.1"}