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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-18", "file": "debates1949-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "06fda6396873d3c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-18a.41.5", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "Transjordan was the first country to make an armistice; they entered into it. They have never invaded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-18a.41.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-01-18", "file": "debates1949-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "06fda6396873d3c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-18a.41.6", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "Transjordan was the first country to make an armistice; they entered into it. They have never invaded—[ Interruption. ] All the stuff which the hon. Gentleman gets is not correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-18a.41.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-01-19", "file": "debates1949-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f0225969fcce96b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-19a.147.0", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "it is necessary to prejudge the situation between principle and appeasement. I am already trying to make the point that my right hon. Friend did not wish to prejudge the situation or to precipitate one by withholding what was, I repeat, a minor balance in terms of the total tonnage, but that on the overall attitude we have held firm. We have not attempted to appease by any subsequent negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-19a.146.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-19", "file": "debates1949-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f0225969fcce96b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-19a.147.2", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "This is quite a complicated process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-19a.147.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-01-19", "file": "debates1949-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f0225969fcce96b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-19a.147.5", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, I beg to give notice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-19a.147.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-19", "file": "debates1949-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f0225969fcce96b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-19a.152.2", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HUNGARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And others.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "In view of the very widespread concern among His Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-19a.152.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-01-19", "file": "debates1949-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f0225969fcce96b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-19a.175.5", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That will stop further questions.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Roberts", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Having regard to the great uncertainty of this matter, the most unsatisfactory nature of the Minister's replies, and the anxiety felt in the House, would it be in order to suggest to you, Mr. Speaker, that you accept a Motion for the Adjournment of the House to discuss a matter of urgent and definite public importance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-19a.175.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-19", "file": "debates1949-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f0225969fcce96b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-19a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "preceding_text": "not only the driver but all the passengers will ride with very great comfort and pleasure. The hon. and gallant Member for Richmond and the hon. and learned Member for St. Ives (Mr. Beechman) referred to the question of the marketing of cauliflowers. I should like to give the House the facts about one transaction of that vegetable. A reporter from the \"The People\"—that very great weekly newspaper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-19a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-19", "file": "debates1949-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f0225969fcce96b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-19a.283.3", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Be careful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "There is nothing to prevent them. I cannot be expected to say, at this stage, what will happen to a certain proposal before it is formulated, before it has gone through the processes laid down in the Bill. The other King Charles's head is the by now rather fashionable suspicion of the Ministry of Food, the dangers and so forth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-19a.283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-19", "file": "debates1949-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f0225969fcce96b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-19a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HANDWOVEN TWEED (PURCHASE TAX)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not in the home market.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "nfortunately declined. In America, three plants making woollens have had to close down during 1948 because of the contraction in demand, the change of fashion, and the desire of people not to take woollens but to take worsteds instead. Therefore, you have to take into account the fact that the decline in selling is largely due to the fact that people now are looking not to tweeds, but to worsteds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-19a.302.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-01-19", "file": "debates1949-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "f0225969fcce96b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-19a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HANDWOVEN TWEED (PURCHASE TAX)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-19a.304.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-20", "file": "debates1949-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "37c01b2681aaeef3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-20a.313.6", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "While this organisation is doing much good work, may I ask whether the Minister's attention has been drawn to the arrangements for its Christmas Cracker Bazaar at the Mayfair Hotel which was opened by Mrs. Winston Churchill, and where the variety bazaar was presided over by Lady Woolton and Mrs. Walter Elliot?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-20a.313.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-01-20", "file": "debates1949-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "37c01b2681aaeef3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-20a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "No, I do not think that there was any political bias. As a matter of fact, if my hon. Friend had gone back to the previous year he would have found that the wife of the Prime Minister presided and the Lord Chancellor opened the bazaar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-20a.313.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-21", "file": "debates1949-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce7e300850b6c5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-21a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL THEATRE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "ed in this kind of work were greatly encouraged by their reception when they provided plays and other activities of this kind before the Forces in all parts of the world and before the people engaged in the supply industries. In Manchester we have the St. James's Hall, the Free Trade Hall, the Gaiety, the Tivoli and the Royal. Not one concert hall is left in Manchester. There are plenty in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-21a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-21", "file": "debates1949-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce7e300850b6c5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-21a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL THEATRE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "d plays and other activities of this kind before the Forces in all parts of the world and before the people engaged in the supply industries. In Manchester we have the St. James's Hall, the Free Trade Hall, the Gaiety, the Tivoli and the Royal. Not one concert hall is left in Manchester. There are plenty in London. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I mean the kind of places which can be used for that purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-21a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-21", "file": "debates1949-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce7e300850b6c5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-21a.465.3", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL THEATRE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Bellevue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "In Manchester there is no hall at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-21a.465.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-21", "file": "debates1949-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "ce7e300850b6c5ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-21a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL THEATRE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": " of a live and not a dead area. It is of the first importance that this new area should not consist exclusively of Government offices, municipal parades, a National Theatre and nothing else. There must be cafes and restaurants and shops and cinemas, and all the \"rubbish\" which helps to make the life of a district. All this should be not only allowed to proliferate, but encouraged to proliferate. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-21a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-24", "file": "debates1949-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "798d5f8ee4e925df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.545.11", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Czechoslovakia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I have read out the countries to which the Spitfires have been directed, and they do not include any behind the iron curtain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.545.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-24", "file": "debates1949-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "798d5f8ee4e925df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The fact is that there were not very many lettings of this kind during the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-24", "file": "debates1949-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "798d5f8ee4e925df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Health might well pray to be saved from his friends. The right hon. Gentleman has just disclaimed his intention of bringing in further legislation to deal with this thorny problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-24", "file": "debates1949-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "798d5f8ee4e925df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.593.0", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "post-war period as the local authorities have had to do, there might be a case. The local authorities are compelled by Statute at the moment to build houses at very high cost in order to meet the housing need. The private landlord accepts no such obligation. He can build all the houses he likes to rent. That field is open to him. No one can stop anyone in this country from building houses to rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-24", "file": "debates1949-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "798d5f8ee4e925df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Yes, I think it will, in respect of the houses that come within the Bill. I hope that in the course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-24", "file": "debates1949-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "798d5f8ee4e925df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.673.3", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "scheme in Eaton Square, as my hon. Friend the Member for The High Peak (Mr. Molson) pointed out. Flats for millionaires are perfectly all right for anyone who can pay a rent of £500 or £1,000 a year and can afford to do everything he likes; but the poor people, the people who want and ought to be getting the type of accommodation we are talking about here, are not going to have this accommodation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-24", "file": "debates1949-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "798d5f8ee4e925df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.673.3", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "industry, then threaten to nationalise it, next express astonishment because people will not invest money in it, and then say, \"Well, we had better take it over.\" It is exactly the same in housing. The present deliberate pursuit by the Government, has had the effect of driving up rents, and as they have risen, the right hon. Gentleman has had to find some scapegoat, so he turns upon the landlords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-24", "file": "debates1949-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "798d5f8ee4e925df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.673.3", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "lt on coal and that it would take an organising genius to produce a shortage of coal. Well, the Government has succeeded through the existence of the present Secretary of State for War. But the achievements of the right hon. Gentleman in housing, rival those of the Secretary of State for War. Never have so many people demanded houses. One can walk along roads and see rows and rows of empty houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-24", "file": "debates1949-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "798d5f8ee4e925df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "d be much better if they got up and said so. But if it is to make a contribution, will the hon. Gentleman, in his reply, say whether he considers any conversions are likely to take place when this Bill is on the Statute Book? The next thing I would ask is this—it has been asked on both sides of the House: If this Bill is necessary, which I very much doubt, why was it not introduced five years ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-24", "file": "debates1949-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "798d5f8ee4e925df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. John Edwards)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. John Edwards)", "preceding_text": "y, but I was not clear, even at the end, whether they were asking that we should here and now make provision for a review of the rents of eight million houses. Neither of them was precise on the point. Both of them avoided the point. I should be very happy indeed to give way if either of them would tell me if that is, in fact, what they want done. This is the kind of question I am entitled to ask.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-24", "file": "debates1949-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "798d5f8ee4e925df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. John Edwards)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. John Edwards)", "preceding_text": " of eight million houses. Neither of them was precise on the point. Both of them avoided the point. I should be very happy indeed to give way if either of them would tell me if that is, in fact, what they want done. This is the kind of question I am entitled to ask. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Do his Majesty's Opposition stand at this moment of time for a review of the rents of eight million houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-24", "file": "debates1949-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "798d5f8ee4e925df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.687.3", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "But the right hon. Gentleman must remember that these licences have been granted. Let us ask the right hon. and gallant Gentleman this—is he saying that in order to have this kind of provision and enterprise we have got to have exploitation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.687.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-24", "file": "debates1949-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "798d5f8ee4e925df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.687.10", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And will go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "ich I thought in theory held such views about property, behaving as though they are prepared to defend the present abuses of property of one kind or another. I would ask the House to consider whether people should vote against this Bill on the grounds that have been advanced. Everyone, except apparently the official Opposition, knows that a scandalous racket is going on in rents of first lettings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.687.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-24", "file": "debates1949-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "798d5f8ee4e925df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "Those hon. Members who are now in the Chamber, having kindly turned up for the Division, will appreciate, or they may not appreciate, that powers are being given to the rent tribunals under this Bill which will cost the taxpayers, their constituents, £50,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.696.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-01-24", "file": "debates1949-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "798d5f8ee4e925df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.698.2", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I think the answer is that I should be out of Order in arguing whether county court judges should be employed for this purpose. The Bill itself says that these matters should be dealt with by the tribunals, and I should not be in Order at the moment in arguing the wisdom or otherwise of employing county court judges. Therefore, I am afraid I could not answer the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-24a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-25", "file": "debates1949-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ed5ff6f81f7bc36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.717.5", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What conditions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman surprised that the recruitment of more people for the Armed Forces is so difficult when such conditions prevail?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.717.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-25", "file": "debates1949-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ed5ff6f81f7bc36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.840.4", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES, U.S.A.", "cue_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "our is co-operating to the full. It may be the opinion of some hon. Members that labour is co-operating to the full, but it is the opinion of some others that it is not, and that one of the Government's major headaches is to get labour to co-operate to the full. Therefore, this statement should not be made at the taxpayers' expense as indicating what is going on in Britain, because it is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.840.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-01-25", "file": "debates1949-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ed5ff6f81f7bc36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.842.0", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES, U.S.A.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "less mechanisation to assist them, produced 17 million tons more of deep mined coal than was produced in 1947. That is a sort of situation which could not possibly have been defined by anyone reading that ex parte statement. Finally, there is this further example: From the manifold employees of the industry in their various occupations, from the highest to the humblest, there came a real response.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.841.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-01-25", "file": "debates1949-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ed5ff6f81f7bc36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.842.2", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES, U.S.A.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is right.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "t in this 12 months there were no fewer than seven speeches by the Minister of Fuel and Power telling the miners that they were not doing well enough. That is the fact, and that is the point. There is an article in the September, 1947, issue of that magazine called \"Nationalisation.\" It contains the following statement: The scope is limited. The aim is economy and efficiency. Compensation is fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.842.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-01-25", "file": "debates1949-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ed5ff6f81f7bc36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.854.9", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES, U.S.A.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who? Names", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I could name one or two hon. Member opposite who are not even allowed inside the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.854.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-25", "file": "debates1949-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ed5ff6f81f7bc36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES, U.S.A.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "d in Washington. Obviously I cannot give the name here, but I will give it to him privately afterwards. As a result of B.I.S. propaganda, three or four of us in Washington were discussing the nationalisation of coal and this very responsible British official said to me, \"Of course, it has been a huge success.' I said, \"Do not talk such nonsense, man.\" His proof was that output had gone up so much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-25", "file": "debates1949-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ed5ff6f81f7bc36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.863.4", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES, U.S.A.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "ernment had said to him, \"Well, this means civil war.\" They obviously believed it. In 1945, when that very serious step was taken by the electors in Great Britain, many countries watched, some with alarm and some with sympathy, what would happen here. At that particular period it was generally accepted by the people who matter in the United States that the last war had made Great Britain bankrupt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.863.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-25", "file": "debates1949-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ed5ff6f81f7bc36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.869.5", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES, U.S.A.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "nd it had a very wide publication. I want to say that, despite the need for economy, we still ensure that important Debates in this House are impartially summarised and given a very wide circulation. When the Second Reading of the Iron and Steel Bill took place, we printed, I think in fitting form, keeping a balance of the speeches, a summary of the Debate and used the full resources of the B.I.S.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.869.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-25", "file": "debates1949-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ed5ff6f81f7bc36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES, U.S.A.", "cue_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So it is; too fair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "When the right hon. Gentleman asked for a specific example of bias, what more specific example could he want than the quoted statement which I gave him hat the \"compensation is fair for nationalised industries.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-25", "file": "debates1949-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ed5ff6f81f7bc36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.875.9", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES, U.S.A.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "It is because I do not want to bore the House with a speech which is not of major importance that do not give way further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.875.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-25", "file": "debates1949-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "ed5ff6f81f7bc36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY FARES", "cue_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Kinghorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Better.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Kinghorn", "preceding_text": "ind, that the railways have done a very good job since the end of the war. We on this side who put forward nationalisation have nothing to be afraid of in view of the progress made since the passage of the Act. Indeed, the hon. Member for Bucklow has given us this commendation from the \"Railway Gazette,\" that we now have sufficient locomotives and that their condition is as good as before the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-25a.883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-26", "file": "debates1949-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d1388fbbd3b3fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-26a.896.0", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "As it is obvious from the Minister's answer that this photography was an act of intervention in the war—not, of course, the fault of the Minister, but set on deliberately by the Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-26a.896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-26", "file": "debates1949-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d1388fbbd3b3fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-26a.910.2", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "I am anxious to avoid controversy on this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-26a.910.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-27", "file": "debates1949-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca52424db46ae7fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-27a.1092.9", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "It is a question of balancing the various interests concerned. We need the coal very badly. I agree that we also need food, but, in the main, the value of the coal extracted is far greater than that of the food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-27a.1092.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-27", "file": "debates1949-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca52424db46ae7fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-27a.1106.4", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I was not listening very carefully, but if the hon. Member for the Bridgeton Division of Glasgow (Mr. Carmichael) said that another hon. Member told an untruth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-27a.1106.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-27", "file": "debates1949-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca52424db46ae7fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-27a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMERICAN AID AND EUROPEAN PAYMENTS (FINANCIAL PRO VISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How does the hon. Gentleman know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": " should like to take a parallel from austerity. We all know that austerity is absolutely essential. We know that it is the one great safeguard at the moment against inflation. Yet the battle for austerity has been left to one man only, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He has received no help from the Opposition and the help he has received from his Cabinet colleagues has been disgracefully little.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-27a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-27", "file": "debates1949-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca52424db46ae7fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-27a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMERICAN AID AND EUROPEAN PAYMENTS (FINANCIAL PRO VISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "ly essential. We know that it is the one great safeguard at the moment against inflation. Yet the battle for austerity has been left to one man only, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He has received no help from the Opposition and the help he has received from his Cabinet colleagues has been disgracefully little. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How does the hon. Gentleman know?\"] I know because I read the papers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-27a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-27", "file": "debates1949-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca52424db46ae7fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-27a.1161.1", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMERICAN AID AND EUROPEAN PAYMENTS (FINANCIAL PRO VISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has been much neglected.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": " things as watersheds; facilities for transportation; harbour and railway possibilities; where cliffs are to be found, so that use may be made of the force of gravity to put produce cheaply into the holds of ships. All these things must be shown. If such a map of that area were made, it would be found that there was a possibility of real development and real success. Nothing succeeds like success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-27a.1161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-27", "file": "debates1949-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca52424db46ae7fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-27a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMERICAN AID AND EUROPEAN PAYMENTS (FINANCIAL PRO VISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "h the United States we shall maintain a very substantial armaments programme. The very great benefits which we are supposed to get from Marshall Aid are probably taken in at one pocket and go out at the other. The difficulty of all criticism of the Government at present is that we can see a great many faults in this Government, but the only alternative available has a hundred times as many faults.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-27a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-27", "file": "debates1949-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca52424db46ae7fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-27a.1228.0", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMERICAN AID AND EUROPEAN PAYMENTS (FINANCIAL PRO VISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am, but the right hon. Gentleman forgets that the terms of trade were very much more in our favour then than they are now, and those two facts cancel each other out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-27a.1228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-28", "file": "debates1949-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "b7991bb24d64fab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-28a.1247.5", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMERICAN AID AND EUROPEAN PAYMENTS (FINANCIAL PRO- VISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Eccles", "preceding_text": "ll wilt and then collapse. My right hon. Friend said yesterday that this is a problem vital for our own recovery in Britain, and indeed, it is. The plain duty of the Chancellor is to practice at home what he preaches in Europe—strict economy in private consumption and in Government expenditure. The British people, the common people, are giving a wonderful example of restraint in their daily lives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-28a.1247.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-28", "file": "debates1949-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "b7991bb24d64fab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-28a.1267.5", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMERICAN AID AND EUROPEAN PAYMENTS (FINANCIAL PRO- VISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "hall not achieve our targets. That will take some achieving. Why is it that the British public will not or cannot face the realities? I believe it is because this Government are trying to do the impossible. They are trying to pay for one war, to prepare for another, to give everybody social security, to see that everybody lives well seven days a week but works half-heartedly only five days a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-28a.1267.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-28", "file": "debates1949-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "b7991bb24d64fab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-28a.1314.1", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMERICAN AID AND EUROPEAN PAYMENTS (FINANCIAL PRO- VISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "pe that, in the end, food consumption may approach the level of 1938, which, if I remember aright, came at the end of a prolonged period of Tory misrule. Let us get therefore one thing quite clear in our minds. Any party or group of men which tries to tempt the electorate by bribes, or by holding out some agreeable picture of an automatically realisable Utopia, will incur more than ordinary guilt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-28a.1314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-28", "file": "debates1949-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "b7991bb24d64fab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-28a.1323.3", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMERICAN AID AND EUROPEAN PAYMENTS (FINANCIAL PRO- VISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "elf. Moreover, as has been said by other hon. Members, cannot American resources be used to expedite and fructify these schemes? All this requires a great sense of urgency, a powerful and imaginative leadership. Just to jog along at this ambling pace is not enough. This is a race, and time is not on our side; it is a race and not an afternoon stroll. Indeed, in many instances we are losing ground—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-28a.1323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-01-31", "file": "debates1949-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3403fd9575e6d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-31a.1412.1", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL ROADS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "In any circumstances, there would be the opinion of the authority", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-01-31a.1412.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-01", "file": "debates1949-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "e0b97afd288fabb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-01a.1500.1", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give the comparative figures between the two?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-01a.1500.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-01", "file": "debates1949-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "e0b97afd288fabb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-01a.1500.3", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "Do not the answers of the hon. Gentleman really mean that an average time could quite well be given but that that average time is very long indeed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-01a.1500.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-01", "file": "debates1949-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "e0b97afd288fabb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-01a.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "Of course, there has to be some regard to the total income of the family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-01a.1502.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-01", "file": "debates1949-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "e0b97afd288fabb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-01a.1502.3", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Byers", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the Labour Party have condemned the household means test in public for years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-01a.1502.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-01", "file": "debates1949-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "e0b97afd288fabb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-01a.1503.2", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "There are no steps my right hon. Friend needs to take to improve the procedure. These slips were small and insignificant, as I have indicated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-01a.1503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-01", "file": "debates1949-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "e0b97afd288fabb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-01a.1525.1", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JURIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "fication altogether, and for saying that anyone who is qualified to vote at an election for instance is equally fitted to serve on a jury, and in principle I must admit that I should not like to have to disagree with that proposition. I think our experience at the last General Election, and at the by-elections that have occurred since, and no doubt at the General Election which will occur in 1949—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-01a.1525.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-02", "file": "debates1949-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d4cbc26022ed3f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-02a.1663.0", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "It is whether I will cause to be reprinted in HANSARD the sentences whose publication led to the infliction of these penalties. I am quite prepared to do that, but I warn the House that it would give a most unfair and unreasonable presentation of the facts in this case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-02a.1662.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-02", "file": "debates1949-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d4cbc26022ed3f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-02a.1663.6", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "On that point of Order. It is precisely because hon. Members cannot form a judgment that I thought it wise not to comment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-02a.1663.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-02", "file": "debates1949-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d4cbc26022ed3f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-02a.1670.4", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALAYA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Were they taken in 1936?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "—or has seen photographs of the place. Some of the photographs which have been printed are grossly misleading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-02a.1670.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-02", "file": "debates1949-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d4cbc26022ed3f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-02a.1717.3", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "well. We could not expect that he would speak with Ministerial authority on the subject, but at least we should have made contact with him in his new capacity. The Minister who is here ought to convey to his colleagues the feeling of resentment which is felt in this House at this growing tendency, although we appreciate very much the way in which the hon. Gentleman has dealt with the Bill himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-02a.1717.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-02", "file": "debates1949-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d4cbc26022ed3f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-02a.1757.3", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-02a.1757.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-02", "file": "debates1949-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d4cbc26022ed3f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-02a.1764.6", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They were not influenced by the Foreign Secretary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite might like to know that Peru, which was one of the countries, like the Argentine and the others, which have recognised Spain, has made some rather interesting statements which I propose to read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-02a.1764.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-02", "file": "debates1949-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d4cbc26022ed3f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-02a.1778.1", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And against Catholic priests.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "ittee, during the civil war. I have been in touch with Catholic democrats in Spain, particularly in the Basque country and Catalonia. I tell the hon. Member for Eastbourne (Mr. C. S. Taylor) that I get my letters by ordinary post after they have reached France. I could narrate tale upon tale of drastic, brutal methods employed by Franco against the people in the Basque country and the Catalonians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-02a.1778.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-03", "file": "debates1949-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d1aa79cb34d5b8f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1821.6", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PETROL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "I never gave any such pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1821.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-03", "file": "debates1949-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d1aa79cb34d5b8f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1839.3", "colnum": "1839", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Fleming", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Fleming", "preceding_text": "In view of the right hon. and learned Gentleman's statement that the bulk of the evidence collected by this Tribunal is of no use to the Director of Public Prosecutions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1839.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-03", "file": "debates1949-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d1aa79cb34d5b8f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1839.3", "colnum": "1839", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Fleming", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Fleming", "preceding_text": "In view of the right hon. and learned Gentleman's statement that the bulk of the evidence collected by this Tribunal is of no use to the Director of Public Prosecutions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"]—because of its being intermingled so much with hearsay evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1839.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-03", "file": "debates1949-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d1aa79cb34d5b8f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1856.1", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "nto a democracy is brought to light and must be dealt with drastically, and if there is any suggestion at all, it is that, as a democratic assembly, we are bound to take action.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 11th June, 1936; Vol. 313, c. 420–1.] That is what the Prime Minister, the then Leader of the Opposition, said 13 years ago, and I must say that he has certainly lived up to his well-chosen words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-03", "file": "debates1949-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d1aa79cb34d5b8f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1876.9", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "by petition of both Houses of Parliament. That is exactly what was done in this case. Some misapprehension has arisen because the words that we use as lawyers about evidence were used every now and then in a rather puzzling way during the course of the inquiry. It seems to me that what the Tribunal were bound to do was to listen to all the things which would not be legally acceptable in the courts", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1876.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-03", "file": "debates1949-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d1aa79cb34d5b8f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1878.4", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "Mr. Turner-Samuels rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1878.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-03", "file": "debates1949-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d1aa79cb34d5b8f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1884.0", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": " deliberately corrupted, or bribed as such. They have apparently been sliding into bad company and did not realise where they were travelling. In my view, that is the principal fact that has emerged throughout the whole of these proceedings. The House of Commons cannot very well do anything but accept the report, because the two gentlemen named have admitted certain things contained in the report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1881.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-03", "file": "debates1949-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d1aa79cb34d5b8f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1884.4", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "They have resigned, because, I take it, of the things they themselves have admitted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1884.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-03", "file": "debates1949-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d1aa79cb34d5b8f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1885.1", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "rs during which I have been in the House in the quality of its personnel. I would go further and say that the average hon. Member on both sides of the House, to whatever party he belongs or if he belongs to no party and is independent, is on the whole, better informed, more in touch with the life of the country and as honourable, in the true sense of the word as when I first knew him 44 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-03", "file": "debates1949-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d1aa79cb34d5b8f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1898.1", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Muckraking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": " to the \"Review of World Affairs\" and that my name does appear upon it. I say quite frankly to the House that I did not see that particular passage before its publication. Therefore, as I gave no advice on it, I am certainly not in a position to say what, at the time it was written, was the actual evidence on which the editor referred to the question of a searching inquiry. I am making no apology—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1898.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-03", "file": "debates1949-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d1aa79cb34d5b8f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1898.5", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman know now what inquiries were made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1898.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-03", "file": "debates1949-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d1aa79cb34d5b8f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1904.1", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has been.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I think it was valuable to this Debate that the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Duchy should have intervened, because he is perfectly right when he says that rumours on this subject have been circulated. I ask him to take it from me that all hon. Members will be only too glad if this matter can be effectively and finally cleared up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-03", "file": "debates1949-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d1aa79cb34d5b8f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1909.1", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "It is not for me to usurp the functions of the Secretary of State for the Home Department. If the right hon. Gentleman is so courteous as to ask me for a suggestion, I would suggest that reference to the powers of the direction of labour in the possession of the Minister of Labour might provide a solution in this particular case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-03", "file": "debates1949-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d1aa79cb34d5b8f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1913.3", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "le. In my view, one of them, at any rate, and probably both, were not guilty at all, and I shall give a reason for that opinion in a moment. But it is at any rate to be remembered on the credit side of this unhappy story, that the most searching inquiry possible resulted in so very little, and when all the mountains had been in labour for so long it was only a ridiculous little mouse that emerged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1913.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-03", "file": "debates1949-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d1aa79cb34d5b8f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1939.3", "colnum": "1939", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "oing on. When we had the Mesopotamia inquiry in, I think, 1917, Sir Austin Chamberlain resigned as Secretary of State for India because the matter came under his Department. Here we have the second in command of the Board of Trade. Is it possible that the President of the Board of Trade never heard any of the rumours about his Parliamentary Secretary? None of us wants to be unkind or unfair today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1939.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-03", "file": "debates1949-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d1aa79cb34d5b8f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1945.1", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "eeding I would associate myself, but I should like also to say a word about the intervention of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. After he had read out the passage that he read, I appreciated his motive in intervening, but I want to say something about it. Let me say quite frankly—I may be very foolish—that I did not think that what the right hon. Gentleman read out referred to him at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1945.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-03", "file": "debates1949-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d1aa79cb34d5b8f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1951.3", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "Wait till the people hear this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1951.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-03", "file": "debates1949-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d1aa79cb34d5b8f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1951.5", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "e Government; it is a matter solely for the Attorney-General. I venture to suggest that was a rather sweeping statement. There are many prosecutions surely that involve considerations of policy on which the Government may have, and may be entitled to have, views, and the Attorney-General has to consider and to take everything into account, including any view of policy that the Government may hold—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1951.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-03", "file": "debates1949-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d1aa79cb34d5b8f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1958.1", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am glad of that, because I thought the right hon. Gentleman did not quite agree, and I thought he went a little far in his view of the position of the Parliamentary Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-03a.1958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-04", "file": "debates1949-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "54dc7895b7a6625a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-04a.2063.3", "colnum": "2063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JAMAICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "e no knowledge about it. It may be as the hon. Gentleman says. There are many occasions when I disagree with the actions and the policy of the \"Daily Express,\" as I disagree with those of most newspapers at times; but the hon. Member, who is a former editor in the group, will know that on balance there are few papers more willing to publish a case which goes against them than \"Express Newspapers.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-04a.2063.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-07", "file": "debates1949-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "e55f3b940b82ec2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-07a.15.7", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH ATLANTIC PACT (U.S.S.R.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend faces it so frankly now that this is really simply an aggressive anti-Soviet pact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-07a.15.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-07", "file": "debates1949-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "e55f3b940b82ec2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-07a.24.6", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "I have no information on the point of yardage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-07a.24.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-07", "file": "debates1949-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "e55f3b940b82ec2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-07a.32.3", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions (Mr. Simmons", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions (Mr. Simmons", "preceding_text": "f the loss of a leg while serving as a private soldier at Vimy Ridge in the First World War. As I am the first war-disabled pensioner to hold office in the Ministry charged with the administration of pensions and the welfare of pensioners, I feel it to be in the best traditions of public life to declare my interest and to relinquish my pension and allowances during the tenure of my present office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-07a.32.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-07", "file": "debates1949-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "e55f3b940b82ec2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-07a.76.4", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On, the legal right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "thout reference to the interest or the rights of the person whose property is being sacrificed. My hon. Friends have dealt with one or two types of rights—by inheritance or by the fact that a person is the owner of land—but however that right has been obtained, it is a right which we are taking over; and that right, like every other right, is measured on its value today and not 20 or 50 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-07a.76.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-07", "file": "debates1949-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "e55f3b940b82ec2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-07a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": " with the termination of the right to a supply of water on special terms and which, of course, raises the vexed question of compensation. I am glad it leaves us this evening without what I consider would have been a very wrong Amendment. Some hon. Members on the other side come to this House whenever compensation matters are raised with their minds very severely prejudiced, if not already made up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-07a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-07", "file": "debates1949-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "e55f3b940b82ec2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-07a.138.3", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESIDENT TRUMAN AND MARSHAL STALIN (PROPOSED MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "e \"Economist\" on 8th January, said, with regard to European aid: There is no means by which the Marshall countries can, even with the present scale of American aid, prevent a serious fall in their standards of living in 1952. There were several arguments set out to support that proposition. The House must be aware of the reports in the Press this weekend and today of the business slump in America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-07a.138.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-08", "file": "debates1949-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "89573d0c60506747", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-08a.190.6", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTIONS, NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have not had information of that incident. I have had news of quite a number of incidents in Northern Ireland which shows that elections there are not conducted on quite the same lines as over here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-08a.190.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-08", "file": "debates1949-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "89573d0c60506747", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-08a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POTATOES (GOVERNMENT PURCHASES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenyon", "preceding_text": " of potatoes used by the pig men and dairymen. One of the reasons for this shortage of potatoes a year ago, as the hon. Member well knows, was the tremendous tonnage of potatoes used by farmers for their cattle. Everyone knows that in planning with nature one can never be certain, no matter what one does. Therefore, in order to guarantee, potatoes for the people, it is best to err on the top side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-08a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-09", "file": "debates1949-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f2a3ae39f3aee2ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-09a.354.6", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WEST AFRICA (GROUNDNUT PRODUCTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "I should require notice of that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-09a.354.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-09", "file": "debates1949-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f2a3ae39f3aee2ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-09a.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LEEWARD ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "Is not it a fact that in the normal case of a Governor coming back for consultation the right hon. Gentleman would have no difficulty at all in giving a definite answer to the question whether he is going back or not? Does not the inability of the right hon. Gentleman to answer that question show that in fact there is something more in this than the normal recall for consultation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-09a.364.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-09", "file": "debates1949-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f2a3ae39f3aee2ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-09a.365.5", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LEEWARD ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend say whether, when a Governor comes home for consultation in the normal course, he goes back again, and whether his recall is normal in both those respects?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-09a.365.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-09", "file": "debates1949-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f2a3ae39f3aee2ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-09a.408.2", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The Minister has his sources of information and I have mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-09a.408.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-09", "file": "debates1949-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f2a3ae39f3aee2ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-09a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There were no W.A.A.F. there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "limits it achieves that speed. The increase in the calves is the answer to that, and in the main the money goes to the breeder. In Warwickshire the other day I saw a very heartening example of this. A county executive committee had been buying rejects at 50s. or less in the market, more than 10 a week, and they were kept in the W.A.A.F.'s quarters at an R.A.F. aerodrome, with pictures on the wall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-09a.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-10", "file": "debates1949-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "8b7e016d6fefc7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-10a.523.0", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "Is it not the fact that we have already agreed to reduce the price of our export coal on American instructions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-10a.523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-10", "file": "debates1949-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "8b7e016d6fefc7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-10a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN, 1951", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Under Tory rule.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "It would not be right for me to go into the first matter, but with regard to what we are celebrating in 1951, we are celebrating the centenary of the great Exhibition of 1851, and the great progress Britain has made in various fields since that time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-10a.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-10", "file": "debates1949-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "8b7e016d6fefc7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-10a.535.2", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Lewis", "preceding_text": "In view of what is obviously a widespread feeling in the House that Members of Parliament should have season tickets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-10a.535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-10", "file": "debates1949-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "8b7e016d6fefc7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-10a.536.3", "colnum": "536", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "after fighting has stopped; whether it does not constitute a major incident in our policy? If that be so, will he not arrange that at least three days shall be given to the discussion of these enormous Supplementary Estimates, representing as they do the most wild miscalculations on the part of the estimating authorities and an enormous addition to the burden of the nation at a time when taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-10a.536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-10", "file": "debates1949-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "8b7e016d6fefc7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-10a.536.3", "colnum": "536", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ion of these enormous Supplementary Estimates, representing as they do the most wild miscalculations on the part of the estimating authorities and an enormous addition to the burden of the nation at a time when taxation—[ Interruption ]—already bears so heavily on all? I can quite understand the touchiness of the Minister of Health. He need not shake his finger at me. May I say that I should like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-10a.536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-10", "file": "debates1949-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "8b7e016d6fefc7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-10a.536.3", "colnum": "536", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ask the Leader of the House whether he will undertake that three days shall be given to these Supplementary Estimates, this Thursday and the one following and another opportunity after that? It is not only the large issue of an enormous addition to our expenditure brought about by the grossest carelessness, but there are many particular details which require the careful investigation of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-10a.536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-10", "file": "debates1949-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "8b7e016d6fefc7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-10a.536.4", "colnum": "536", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I gather that this is a dress rehearsal for the Debate which will take place next week, and I can only say we have listened with great interest to the speech which the right hon. Gentleman has just made and we shall be very pleased to have a further edition of the speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-10a.536.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-10", "file": "debates1949-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "8b7e016d6fefc7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-10a.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS (FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In 1935.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "preceding_text": "ngs) very properly pointed out that the London County Council has not been wholly unaware of its responsibilities in this matter. Out of its enormous budget of, I think, some £40 million—it gets some £20 million by grant—it has £20 million to spend upon the growing and expanding population in its area and amenities for them. In 1925 the London County Council had an elaborate and satisfactory plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-10a.584.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-10", "file": "debates1949-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "8b7e016d6fefc7f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-10a.646.4", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING WORKERS, SCOTLAND (CALL-UP)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We are on the Adjournment.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Has the calling up of men from the building industry into the Armed Forces anything whatever to do with the Question under discussion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-10a.646.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-11", "file": "debates1949-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "92561c6aa6521203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-11a.655.7", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFETY OF EMPLOYMENT (EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "r eye-shields in foundries. The employer was entitled to say to the court that it is a custom that no such provision is made, and hence the worker's claim failed when it would have been perfectly easy to prevent that accident. The employer was able to sustain his argument. I have a further example. This morning I received a letter from Mr. Stanley, known to many Members on this side of the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-11a.655.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-11", "file": "debates1949-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "92561c6aa6521203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-11a.661.0", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFETY OF EMPLOYMENT (EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Put a stop to it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": " deals only with a very restricted aspect of the problem. I have discussed this question in the last fortnight or so with all kinds of people, quite apart from hon. Members—with workers, with trade unionists and with lawyers; and they all agree that this is the kind of law required. It is true that if this Bill is passed—and hope it will be passed in due course—lawyers will still be able to argue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-11a.661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-11", "file": "debates1949-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "92561c6aa6521203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-11a.716.3", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFETY OF EMPLOYMENT (EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I prefer not to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-11a.716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-11", "file": "debates1949-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "92561c6aa6521203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-11a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HAIRDRESSERS (REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "preceding_text": "f the hairdressers' register and reports by the Board, and Clause 18 extends its application to Scotland. Clause 19 lays it down that nothing in this Bill shall prevent the exercise under any other Act of any right or function by a registered medical practitioner a registered chemist or a registered qualified trichologist. Clause 20 is the inter- pretation Clause, and Clause 21 is the short Title—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-11a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-11", "file": "debates1949-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "92561c6aa6521203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-11a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HAIRDRESSERS (REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "preceding_text": "ng in this Bill shall prevent the exercise under any other Act of any right or function by a registered medical practitioner a registered chemist or a registered qualified trichologist. Clause 20 is the inter- pretation Clause, and Clause 21 is the short Title—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am very pleased that hon. Members are so delighted with the Bill that I have gone through Clause by Clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-11a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-11", "file": "debates1949-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "92561c6aa6521203", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-11a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HAIRDRESSERS (REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "preceding_text": "ditions as may from time to time come under his observation. Behind this training there must be a standard of efficiency, and a standard of ethics. Only through statutory requirements can the craft itself be safeguarded against the inefficient, the casual and the careless. With every responsibility there should he some reward; with every reward some responsibility. I commend the Bill to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-11a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-15", "file": "debates1949-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "1ca8dea440072e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " end. The hon. and gallant Gentleman is perfectly entitled to like or dislike certain newspapers. I selected Mr. King because he was a competent business man. In my judgment, this organisation needed a competent business man in the chair, and I thought that it would be a good thing, although the previous chairman was an admirable chairman. There is nothing like having a change when changes happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.944.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-15", "file": "debates1949-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "1ca8dea440072e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.952.7", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that over half the members of this union have contracted out of the political levy? Is that any reason why the remainder should be required to vote for a panel of Socialists, or be fined for not doing so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.952.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-15", "file": "debates1949-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "1ca8dea440072e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.964.2", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Binns", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Binns", "preceding_text": "r. The real criterion must be whether or not there was a housing shortage of such magnitude as to induce people to charge exorbitant rents for accommodation at any particular time. It would be very difficult to find a time much worse from that point of view than the end of the war, when men were coming back and the richer people were returning to London from which most of them fled during the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.964.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-15", "file": "debates1949-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "1ca8dea440072e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.966.0", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "In the first place, we wish to extend our sympathy to the Minister in the personal loss he has suffered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-15", "file": "debates1949-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "1ca8dea440072e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.966.0", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "he first place, we wish to extend our sympathy to the Minister in the personal loss he has suffered. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] We know how hard it is to carry on consideration of public business under such bereavement. I now pass to the clash of public business. We have seen what all of us on this side expected, and what the country expects, the Communists leading and the Socialists following.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-15", "file": "debates1949-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "1ca8dea440072e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.967.2", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "the Minister, the Government or the hon. Member for Mile End and his Government may decree retrospectively to be crimes. We have had enough experience of that in other parts of the world, and now the Minister and the Government, who hold themselves out as the bulwark and barrier against Communism, are taking exactly the same course about which in other parts of the world they complain so bitterly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.967.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-15", "file": "debates1949-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "1ca8dea440072e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.968.3", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "It is retrospective legislation in that the date given in the Bill is a date long before the Bill becomes an Act. That is retrospective legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.968.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-15", "file": "debates1949-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "1ca8dea440072e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.1008.2", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "should have a right of any kind to a free hand here. He can make good only in so far as he satisfies the tribunal, to whose reasonableness the Minister constantly makes appeal. That is agreed. In spite of all that the Minister says he will allow only a one-way traffic here, so that it is not possible to permit adjustment upward, not of the standard rent, but of a rent upwards to the standard rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.1008.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-15", "file": "debates1949-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "1ca8dea440072e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.1009.3", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "The Minister says \"Of course.\" I am really disquieted at the mood of the Committee this afternoon. I have received sheafs of letters, and hon. Members must have had many letters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.1009.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-15", "file": "debates1949-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "1ca8dea440072e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.1011.4", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Major Milner. Is it not the position that under this Amendment we are dealing with the case in which rent is asked which can reasonably be asked by the landlord. This has nothing to do with exploitation or exhorbitant rents whatever, which are dealt with in another part of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.1011.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-15", "file": "debates1949-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "1ca8dea440072e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.1017.3", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "She cannot get occupation of that house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.1017.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-15", "file": "debates1949-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "1ca8dea440072e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.1047.8", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Impossible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "I am very anxious to try to clarify my own mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.1047.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-15", "file": "debates1949-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "1ca8dea440072e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (DENTISTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "preceding_text": "ing to the law but according to the spirit of the Act, has been working hard to see as many patients as he could; he has not been turning patients away, and the result is that patients have been flocking to him and he has been making a lot of money. I do not justify his income. I think it should be cut, and he himself, on the whole, would agree that he is making too much money and wants to be cut—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.1085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-15", "file": "debates1949-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "1ca8dea440072e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.1093.3", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (DENTISTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "oduced, was the acme of good administration; it was, a boon for which all the people of this country had longed; but tonight, we have a compromise scheme and not what the Socialist Party would have done had they had a free hand. It is not at all what they want but when the hon. Member for East Wolverhampton came to his peroration, he let the cat out of the bag. What he wants is a salaried service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.1093.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-15", "file": "debates1949-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "1ca8dea440072e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.1102.2", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (DENTISTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "preceding_text": "s not been a very easy one. He is new to the job. He had a very able predecessor and if he does as well as his predecessor did in the past, he will not be doing so badly. I warn him that he may very often have to \"hold the buck\" for his Minister, as he has had to do this evening. This is not the first time we have had to complain on these very important occasions of the Minister not being present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-15a.1102.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-16", "file": "debates1949-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "68a906172e45a412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-16a.1128.6", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOLD COAST", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give an assurance that no such document as the one I hold in my hand is ever introduced again in any Colony without being signed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-16a.1128.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-16", "file": "debates1949-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "68a906172e45a412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-16a.1143.0", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And petrol.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "If it was an investigation, surely it would have been much better if the officers had ridden on the lorry instead of using Government transport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-16a.1143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-16", "file": "debates1949-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "68a906172e45a412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-16a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "This is a very important point. The hon. Member for Mile End (Mr. Piratin) has suggested that landlord and tenant can contract out of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-16a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-16", "file": "debates1949-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "68a906172e45a412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-16a.1200.3", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They are.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "rd on the merits of this proposal on the Question \"That the Clause stand part.\" I should like to make this observation about the remarks of the hon. Member for Oxford (Mr. Hogg). It seems to me to be very important that it should not emerge from this discussion that the rights of Members of the Front Bench in this respect are any greater than the rights of hon. Members in other parts of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-16a.1200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-16", "file": "debates1949-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "68a906172e45a412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-16a.1210.0", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "preceding_text": "s Acts. No lawyer in this Committee would dare to suggest that he could really understand them in their entirety. Yet we are thrusting upon the chairmen of these tribunals, not the question as to what is a fair rent for furnished premises, but the sort of problems which the House of Lords, the Court of Appeal, the judges in the King's Bench Division on appeal and county court judges cannot decide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-16a.1210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-16", "file": "debates1949-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "68a906172e45a412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-16a.1240.2", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "g, regardless of what any Statute has said, that part of the function of the tribunal is to decide whether people are living happily together or not. It is no use the right hon. Gentleman sighing. I can quite understand his sighing. I can understand anybody who is required to discharge that duty sighing very heavily. The right hon. Gentleman is going to make these tribunals into courts of morals.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-16a.1240.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-16", "file": "debates1949-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "68a906172e45a412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-16a.1256.1", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Houses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "circumstances it is not wise to insert December, 1950, in this matter. I was, of course, rather optimistic originally because I had accepted certain figures from the previous Government. As I said before, I was led to believe—not with much credulity, I was sceptical about the figure—and so was the country, that if we provided 750,000 additional homes we would meet the gross need for accommodation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-16a.1256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-16", "file": "debates1949-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "68a906172e45a412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-16a.1260.1", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "I have been very much disappointed in the Minister's last reply. He is being highly inconsistent. I think that when he advises the Committee to stick to the principal Acts on the previous Amendments, and then tells us to depart from them here, he is inconsistent to a degree. What is more, it shows a complete lack of faith in his own abilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-16a.1260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-16", "file": "debates1949-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "68a906172e45a412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-16a.1270.1", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Concede?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "The view of the Opposition is that we are disposed to concede this new Clause to the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-16a.1270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1324.7", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson Harris", "preceding_text": "In view of such a Measure being introduced before long by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1324.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1343.4", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Teeling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Teeling", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that a large number of the visitors who went to that centre complained afterwards that they were not properly entertained and should have been better entertained?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1343.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1345.7", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether his memory is not sufficiently good to enable him to state honestly that I made it perfectly clear last week that the question of whether there would be a Vote of Censure or not, could not be decided until after the three days' examination of these matters in Supplementary Estimates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1345.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1351.13", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "A large number of Scottish Members of Parliament would take very strong exception to that. That is due to the fact that immediately Scottish matters are merged into the national matters of England, the tendency is to have them completely overshadowed and ignored—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1351.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1366.3", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "I do not wonder that the Chancellor of the Exchequer thought it necessary to take a short holiday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1366.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1366.3", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "r thought it necessary to take a short holiday. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] No one grudges him a holiday, but the fact is that he took a short holiday when these Estimates came out. We thought it right to put down the Estimates for the National Health Service to be discussed first, because these are the largest Supplementary Estimates and are therefore the most alarming from the financial point of view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1366.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1367.0", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "All I can tell the right hon. Gentleman and the Committee is that in the declaration of policy which the Conservative Party put to the electorate the intention was laid down clearly to provide a comprehensive health service, and that has always been their policy. The party for whom I am speaking is as wholeheartedly in favour of the health services as it ever was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Surtax payer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": " sides of the Committee. We have also to be very careful in saying to people that this is a free service. Of course, it is free to the individual, but it places an enormous burden on every taxpayer in the country, and some means must be found of instilling a sense of responsibility into all those who use and who administer such a service. It is the ordinary wage earner upon whom this burden falls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1379.1", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "and that is what we did with the National Health Service Act when it was before the House. Nevertheless, at all stages of discussion in this House, both on the Floor of the House and in Committee upstairs, the right hon. Gentleman was never faced with any factious opposition, and ever since this scheme came into operation he has never had anything but helpful action from His Majesty's Opposition.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1399.10", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stoddart-Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stoddart-Scott", "preceding_text": "If I am wrong I will withdraw. I will challenge the Parliamentary Secretary to clear this up by this evening by producing for us if he can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1399.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1409.3", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "preceding_text": " that which I shall give in this last point I wish to make. We believe fundamentally that if we are to get a good health service we must grant independence to the professional men and women who have to work it. We believe that they must be primarily the servants of their patients and not primarily servants of the State. That is one of the three or four reasons why we divided against that Measure.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1410.1", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So did the hon. Member's party in 1929 and 1931.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "at this service is most desirable. What is more important, they, are trying to make out that they have always stood for a comprehensive National Health Service. They had unlimited power from the years immediately following the last war, with the exception of two brief intervals, right up to 1939, yet millions of our people went without these services which are so necessary to a well-run community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1415.5", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Sir Henry Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Leader of the Opposition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Henry Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": "t, the health of the people. They can argue against the Opposition and put the onus upon the Opposition to reduce the Vote or to attempt to reduce it, and so make political capital. The hon. Member for South Tottenham (Mr. Messer), whose contributions to our Debates we listen to with the greatest respect on account of his knowledge, said that this was a subject not to be considered on party lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1415.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1416.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Make it then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": " in a leading article in \"The Times,\" which can never be charged with any lack of benevolence towards this Government. The leading article enjoins the Government to bear in mind that however good the object of the expenditure may be, it should not exceed what the nation can afford. The Opposition know that quite well. On these Supplementary Estimates I consider that the Opposition can make a case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1418.6", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the name of the hospital?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": "ve lino adorns offices and board room, walls are newly painted, a three-figure sum has been mentioned as the price paid for velvet board room curtains. Several clerks have been taken on in the administrative staff, at least two at increased salaries. A supply officer has been created at, we are told, a four-figure salary. Now for the other side. Now I am going to give the Committee the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1418.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1418.6", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": "ned as the price paid for velvet board room curtains. Several clerks have been taken on in the administrative staff, at least two at increased salaries. A supply officer has been created at, we are told, a four-figure salary. Now for the other side. Now I am going to give the Committee the other side. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the name of the hospital?\"] The letter goes on: One boiler house bunker\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1418.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1421.6", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which town?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": "I do not suggest anything of the kind. I have given only one example. I am going to give another example from within my knowledge, concerning the cost of administrative services of local authorities. Let me refer the right hon. Gentleman to the ambulance service. I know of a town in the Home Counties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1421.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1422.1", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Ridiculous!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "f doing so he has made what is either a true allegation or a gross and nearly criminal libel upon the chairman of some well-known hospital in London. He has told us that it is a large hospital. He has narrowed the field to two or three people who in the public Press tomorrow morning will be pilloried as having filched radio sets from the nurses and having spent public money to their own advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1422.7", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order, Mr. Mathers. Is it not a gross violation of the decencies of this Committee that when a point of Order is put to the Chair, an hon. Member opposite should shout \"Ridiculous\" before you give your Ruling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1422.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1423.2", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": "A good deal of my speech might have been more effective had I been allowed to deliver it in my own way, and had I not had constant interruptions from the other side. It is quite clear that hon. Members opposite are somewhat hypersensitive about some of the points in my speech. I am going to conclude by referring to this instance of waste under local, authority administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": " forward Estimates. We all know that the resources which the nation has to spend are low and that drafts must be carefully measured one against the other. The simplest example is the housing programme, where the Minister has said time and again that if it were possible to take the controls completely off and throw the reins on the horse's neck, houses could be built more rapidly than they are now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is this on the Vote?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": " other. The simplest example is the housing programme, where the Minister has said time and again that if it were possible to take the controls completely off and throw the reins on the horse's neck, houses could be built more rapidly than they are now. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The argument has been put forward that if, for instance, it were possible to purchase a much larger amount of timber abroad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Even if hon. Members ask for them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "iend the Member for Denbigh (Sir H. Morris-Jones) found himself at loggerheads with hon. Members opposite because he did exactly what one wants to do in the examination of administration—he went into considerable detail. I thought it was a little ungenerous of hon. Members opposite first to interrupt him and, secondly, to demand that the details which he was not desirous of giving should be given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1441.1", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I appeal to any of my professional colleagues. The two are what we might call pretty closely connected. When we speak of a bed we do not mean something on which to lie down, but somewhere that one can get treatment for illness. When I say that so many beds have been opened I do not mean that somebody has laid down a number of sheets, but that there should be staff ready—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "lace till the doors of Number 10 Downing Street opened to a Labour Prime Minister and hon. Members took up their seats on that side of the House. What I am saying is that the fall which has taken place in the vital curve is in many cases a fall which is paralleled by similar falls taking place during the period which hon. Members opposite are fond of referring to as \"Twenty years of Tory misrule\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1445.3", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Housing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "associated with old age and which is admitted to be one of the diagnostic curves of public health in general, the curve of tuberculosis. The Minister will know that while the curve in general in this country is satisfactory it shows a very strange slope. While it is satisfactory in the south, as one moves northwards it becomes stationary, and as one crosses the Border, it turns sharply against us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1445.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1445.3", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "he diagnostic curves of public health in general, the curve of tuberculosis. The Minister will know that while the curve in general in this country is satisfactory it shows a very strange slope. While it is satisfactory in the south, as one moves northwards it becomes stationary, and as one crosses the Border, it turns sharply against us. [AN HON. MEMBER: \"Housing.\"] No, housing has not got worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1445.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1445.3", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "he Minister will know that while the curve in general in this country is satisfactory it shows a very strange slope. While it is satisfactory in the south, as one moves northwards it becomes stationary, and as one crosses the Border, it turns sharply against us. [AN HON. MEMBER: \"Housing.\"] No, housing has not got worse. [ Laughter. ] Is the contention of the Government that housing has got worse?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1445.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1446.1", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "0 unoccupied beds in the tuberculosis hospitals and a movement upwards in some areas of the mortality curves. As I say, in one case the deaths have moved up in 10 years from under 3,000 to 3,400. These are movements which it is certainly necessary to take into account when the Minister is asking for money he has expended on the health services. I do not desire to detain the Committee for too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1448.1", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Prime Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "preceding_text": "I think I am entitled to start off what I want to say by a protest, and that is a protest against the absence of the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1452.1", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ot to do so. I think every man who has had any experience of negotiations knows very well that if they could read in the Estimates what I estimated I was going to spend upon those services they would know at once what to ask for and what to expect. It is essential, therefore, that in such circumstances the Minister of the Crown, whoever he might be, whatever party he represents, should be able to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1452.3", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Thursday was the frivolous irresponsibility of the behaviour of the Opposition, and especially of the Leader of the Opposition in saying what he did, because this hospital administration and health administration is carried on in this country by 11,000 devoted volunteers drawn from all parties in the State. What the Opposition were actually doing was accusing all those bodies of maladministration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1452.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-17", "file": "debates1949-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "f4332cf67f97b2fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1457.3", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "f against it the enormous sum of misery we have already alleviated, the general hopes we have already created, and the good health that already starts to flow from what we have done. Why do not right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite start ceasing to be so sour? Why is it that as the health of the population goes up, their spirit goes down? The Tory Party used to represent itself as a jocund party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-17a.1457.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-21", "file": "debates1949-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "60454ef281b49819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-21a.1595.7", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "The decisions of the Ministry of Food are being taken by my Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-21a.1595.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-21", "file": "debates1949-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "60454ef281b49819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-21a.1598.6", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "For how many years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-21a.1598.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-21", "file": "debates1949-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "60454ef281b49819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-21a.1600.1", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister telling the House that the Atlantic Pact is outside the terms of the United Nations Charter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-21a.1600.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-21", "file": "debates1949-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "60454ef281b49819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-21a.1604.3", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food (Dr. Summerskill)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not only creamy milk.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food (Dr. Summerskill)", "preceding_text": "k. So far as the child population is concerned, the percentage of deaths is 10 times greater in rural areas where, of course, more milk is drunk raw than in London. This may surprise many hon. Members who are proud of the milk covered with cream which is obtained straight from the cow in rural areas. Many are ignorant of the fact that in that thick creamy milk lurks the virulent tubercle bacillus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-21a.1604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-21", "file": "debates1949-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "60454ef281b49819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-21a.1625.1", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": " depends on what one wants to get. What this Bill sets out to get is clean pasteurised milk. What I want to get is something different; it is clean unpasteurised milk. For, while it may be true that pasteurisation destroys the bacillus of bovine tuberculosis, it is also true in my experience—and, I believe, in the experience of every country—that it destroys half the food value of the milk itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-21a.1625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-22", "file": "debates1949-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b6d523ccabb340a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-22a.1680.4", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Major Guy Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Guy Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that by a large majority the members of this Federation consider the Government have betrayed them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-22a.1680.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-22", "file": "debates1949-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b6d523ccabb340a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-22a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "The charge in first-class hotels is not much less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-22a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-22", "file": "debates1949-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b6d523ccabb340a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-22a.1698.5", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "Is the Financial Secretary to the Treasury aware that that is quite unjust and untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-22a.1698.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-22", "file": "debates1949-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b6d523ccabb340a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-22a.1728.1", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL NAVAL DEFENCE BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Captain Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Marsden", "preceding_text": "er reserves to the best of the Colonies' ability. On top of that, they can go for training in our own Royal Naval ships. When war comes, as we hope it will not, there will be a pretty solid lot of efficient sailors on which we can fall back and who will help to man our Fleet. I do not know who is going to reply to the Debate. I see the Civil Lord there with a large bundle of briefs under his arm.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-22a.1728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-22", "file": "debates1949-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b6d523ccabb340a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-22a.1783.6", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "rt. The Railway Hotel at Holyhead, too, is remarkable for lack of courtesy and tact in dealing with stranded passengers. I hope the Select Committee will be quite stern in this matter before passing Clause 37. I now wish to turn to several general aspects of railway affairs at the present time. I think that on the passenger side the greatest single cause for complaint today is lack of punctuality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-22a.1783.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-22", "file": "debates1949-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b6d523ccabb340a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-22a.1817.3", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "cerned, hon. Members are aware that they are dealt with by the conditions attached by the licensing authorities, who are quasi-judicial authorities, when they grant a road passenger service licence, and neither the Minister nor the House nor the British Transport Commission can at the present moment deal with the problem of existing bus fares. I want to make it perfectly plain that in this period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-22a.1817.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-23", "file": "debates1949-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "a305c8b5f84aba53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-23a.1844.3", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paling", "preceding_text": "I am told that that happens on very few occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-23a.1844.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-23", "file": "debates1949-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "a305c8b5f84aba53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-23a.1857.1", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, but the hon. Gentleman sees only a little of the barley while we see it all, and we know exactly how much we have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-23a.1857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-23", "file": "debates1949-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "a305c8b5f84aba53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-23a.1857.3", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Certainly, Sir, the interests of the taxpayers of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-23a.1857.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-23", "file": "debates1949-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "a305c8b5f84aba53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-23a.1867.4", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "ORDER OF QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not this week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "May I say that at all times both the Chair and I are perfectly willing to consider readjustments for the general convenience of the House. As it is, I understand that Foreign Office Questions are first on one day and stand a fair chance of being reached on the second day", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-23a.1867.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-23", "file": "debates1949-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "a305c8b5f84aba53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-23a.1871.2", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "COURTS MARTIAL PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "The naval case was not examined at all by the Lewis Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-23a.1871.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-23", "file": "debates1949-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "a305c8b5f84aba53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-23a.1871.6", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "COURTS MARTIAL PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "Would it not have been better to foresee at the time that these difficulties would arise and not to confine the recommendations of the Lewis Committee to two Services, which, we are told, cannot be implemented until the third Service is separately considered?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-23a.1871.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-23", "file": "debates1949-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "a305c8b5f84aba53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-23a.1872.6", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "COURTS MARTIAL PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "It is not merely that. The Government, when they considered questions of very great importance to the future discipline of the Forces, came to a decision that they would prefer to wait for a statement on the Navy before they made up their minds on three important issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-23a.1872.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-23", "file": "debates1949-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "a305c8b5f84aba53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-23a.1967.1", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH ARMY (SPECIAL RESERVES)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Shinwell)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Shinwell)", "preceding_text": "d, hon. and gallant Members opposite frequently castigate me for activities for which I am in no way responsible. For example, the hon. Member for Blackpool (Mr. Low), who made the opening speech in this Debate, declared that hon. Members opposite were highly suspicious of the Secretary of State for War. That is a serious allegation, and my reply is that there is no reason why I should be suspect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-23a.1967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-23", "file": "debates1949-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "a305c8b5f84aba53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-23a.1990.0", "colnum": "1990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COURTS MARTIAL PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "It would be difficult to say exactly how that was dealt with then because in that particular year I was absent from London for most of the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-23a.1990.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-24", "file": "debates1949-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "4815cc1e1a6b8726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2013.3", "colnum": "2013", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that, apart from the figures speaking for themselves, the Principality much appreciates this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2013.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-24", "file": "debates1949-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "4815cc1e1a6b8726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2020.4", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that he is, in effect, condoning and conniving at discrimination when he gives that answer? Can he not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2020.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-24", "file": "debates1949-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "4815cc1e1a6b8726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2027.4", "colnum": "2027", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-SERVICE MEN (EIRE NATIONALITY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Well, then, we will go on to the next Question. Mr. Dodds-Parker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-24", "file": "debates1949-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "4815cc1e1a6b8726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2028.6", "colnum": "2028", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-SERVICE MEN (EIRE NATIONALITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. It will be recalled that when the Prime Minister made a statement on this matter he said that in agreement with the other Governments of the Commonwealth it was recognised that Eire had left the Commonwealth, but we were not to regard it as being foreign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2028.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-24", "file": "debates1949-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "4815cc1e1a6b8726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2037.0", "colnum": "2037", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT DEBATES (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I wish to put it on record that I think it would be grossly unfair if the Adjournment were regarded absolutely in the way in which my hon. Friend has put it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2037.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-24", "file": "debates1949-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "4815cc1e1a6b8726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2145.1", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "That may be so. I think that the reason is well known to all Members of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2145.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-24", "file": "debates1949-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "4815cc1e1a6b8726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2149.5", "colnum": "2149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member cited \"Members' Secretaries.\" They are quite unofficial persons. Can the hon. Member tell us why Members' Secretaries are entitled to have canteen facilities here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2149.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-24", "file": "debates1949-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "4815cc1e1a6b8726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2149.6", "colnum": "2149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haydn Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haydn Davies", "preceding_text": "are far too high. I think that Members of Parliament are paying more for their meals than anybody outside pays in a comparable place. We have found, as a Kitchen Committee, that as prices have gone up, our takings have gone down. We are now faced with this Supplementary Estimate and, as the Financial Secretary has indicated, the amount asked for is modest in view of what may he required next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2149.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-24", "file": "debates1949-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "4815cc1e1a6b8726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2151.1", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Out of the American subvention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-24", "file": "debates1949-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "4815cc1e1a6b8726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2152.3", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "be such that there is no obligation to pay towards their meals. Let us face up to the fact that 1,100—I think my arithmetic is right—of these people ought to be carrying their full share of these overhead expenses. I believe that it can and ought to be arranged. I do not think that it is right to say that the prices charged for food in this place are as high as prices in comparable places outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-24", "file": "debates1949-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "4815cc1e1a6b8726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2155.1", "colnum": "2155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McEntee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McEntee", "preceding_text": "ish tipping. It cost the Committee £11,000—it was reported in 1946 and every hon. Member knows it, it is in the report issued by the Kitchen Committee in 1946—to pay the staff all the year round and not one solitary Member protested. I should have been very sorry indeed if there had been one protest. Members of this House and those who get their meals here had lived on the staff sufficiently long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-24", "file": "debates1949-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "4815cc1e1a6b8726", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2157.2", "colnum": "2157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, there is\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "I think we might have more explanation from the Government because it seems to me that this is one of the occasions which before we either object or approve of the Bill, we should have something more from the Government. But as apparently there is no representative of the Ministry of Agriculture present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-24a.2157.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-25", "file": "debates1949-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "afd026f3719223b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2167.7", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS (HUNTING AND COURSING PROHIBITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "depicted in a recent \"Punch\" cartoon coming to the Table of this House and appealing for protection against the thoughtless cruelties of man. I am also speaking for thousands of people all over the country, humanitarians of all classes, including such distinguished leaders of thought as the Dean of St. Pauls, the Rev. A. D. Belden, Professor Gilbert Murray, George Bernard Shaw and Professor Laski—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2167.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-25", "file": "debates1949-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "afd026f3719223b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2167.7", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS (HUNTING AND COURSING PROHIBITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "supposed to prohibit angling, shooting, rabbiting, beagling and fox hunting, indeed all country sports in which the death of animals is involved. The Bill that I am moving today does none of these things. Hon. Members on all sides, whatever their views may be, will agree that it would be unfair that the progress of the Bill through the House, this moderate, reasonable and easily adaptable Measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2167.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-25", "file": "debates1949-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "afd026f3719223b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2172.1", "colnum": "2172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS (HUNTING AND COURSING PROHIBITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "where a badger was chased over the fields, savaged by dogs and beaten with sticks for about a quarter of an hour before he was finally killed. This also should be stopped, because the badger is one of the pluckiest animals alive, and he deserves a better end than that. People have asked me, \"What would you do in the case of a rogue badger which kills fowls or other poultry?\" I think they are rare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-25", "file": "debates1949-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "afd026f3719223b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2177.3", "colnum": "2177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS (HUNTING AND COURSING PROHIBITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "those points, if the hon. and gallant Member will be patient. If it is said that at present farmers only pepper and wound the deer and that it goes away wounded and perhaps dies an agonising death, I would mention that I have heard it suggested that that is due in many cases to the fact that the farmers do not want to get into the bad books of the hunt and, therefore, do not want to kill the deer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-25", "file": "debates1949-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "afd026f3719223b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2177.3", "colnum": "2177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS (HUNTING AND COURSING PROHIBITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "d books of the hunt and, therefore, do not want to kill the deer. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Well. that is the argument I have heard. I have heard it suggested that because it would be unpopular to kill the deer they only want to drive it away. If the farmers knew they could kill the deer and have the venison, they would much rather kill the deer because of the venison and they would not let it escape.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-25", "file": "debates1949-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "afd026f3719223b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2177.3", "colnum": "2177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS (HUNTING AND COURSING PROHIBITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "f laughter, but I am not proposing to take a park of artillery to Exmoor. There is no reason why, during a certain week or fortnight during the year, advertisements should not be placed in the local newspapers saying that certain areas in Exmoor would be dangerous in those weeks because at that time deer were being shot by expert riflemen, by crack shots sent down from Aldershot or somewhere else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2177.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-02-25", "file": "debates1949-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "afd026f3719223b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2178.0", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS (HUNTING AND COURSING PROHIBITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They trained them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "should not be placed in the local newspapers saying that certain areas in Exmoor would be dangerous in those weeks because at that time deer were being shot by expert riflemen, by crack shots sent down from Aldershot or somewhere else. [ Laughter. ] The only reason I can suggest for this laughter is that hon. Members opposite have not a very high opinion of the firing accuracy of the British Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-25", "file": "debates1949-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "afd026f3719223b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2183.1", "colnum": "2183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS (HUNTING AND COURSING PROHIBITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Webb", "preceding_text": " the whole House would wish to applaud the hon. Member for the Isle of Thanet (Mr. Carson) on his great courage in opposing his constituents on this matter on the ground of conscience. Surely the House has seen, in the kind of treatment which was meted out to the hon. Member for the Isle of Thanet, a graphic but quite alarming indication of the strength of feeling on this issue in the countryside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-25", "file": "debates1949-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "afd026f3719223b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2187.1", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS (HUNTING AND COURSING PROHIBITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "I am not sure. When I was a boy I have a recollection that I did see it. I have a recollection of going to a coursing meeting, but my memory is not at all certain. It is so far back that I would not put it forward as an argument. I have not been recently, and I do not pretend to know, but I have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-25", "file": "debates1949-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "afd026f3719223b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2187.1", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS (HUNTING AND COURSING PROHIBITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "ke me shudder. They are just as horrible as the cries of wounded animals about which we have all been moved this morning. I have read with deep feeling and anger of foxes and other animals being caught in traps and gnawing off their legs in order to escape from these beastly things. We have to face these facts. That is cruelty and inhumanity and that is the alternative to this business of hunting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-25", "file": "debates1949-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "afd026f3719223b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2219.5", "colnum": "2219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS (HUNTING AND COURSING PROHIBITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Boles", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Boles", "preceding_text": " paddock alongside the hounds. When the hounds are out to exercise they probably go through the paddock in which the deer lives, but there is no attempt at all to chase the animal. The deer is taken to the meet in a van, and there let out. He may go, and if he runs the hounds are laid on; but I have seen the deer just stand there and eat grass. They tried to persuade him to move by cracking whips—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2219.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-25", "file": "debates1949-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "afd026f3719223b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2219.5", "colnum": "2219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS (HUNTING AND COURSING PROHIBITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Boles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sport\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Boles", "preceding_text": "imal. The deer is taken to the meet in a van, and there let out. He may go, and if he runs the hounds are laid on; but I have seen the deer just stand there and eat grass. They tried to persuade him to move by cracking whips—[ Interruption ]—yes, persuade him to move by cracking whips. He jumped over a fence and stood eating grass in the other field. So he was put back into the van and taken home—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2219.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-25", "file": "debates1949-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "afd026f3719223b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2219.5", "colnum": "2219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS (HUNTING AND COURSING PROHIBITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Boles", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Boles", "preceding_text": "ied to persuade him to move by cracking whips—[ Interruption ]—yes, persuade him to move by cracking whips. He jumped over a fence and stood eating grass in the other field. So he was put back into the van and taken home— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sport\"!] Oh, yes, he enjoyed it; he got a bite of good grass. What happens supposing he runs? He runs until he feels inclined to stop, until he gets tired—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2219.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-25", "file": "debates1949-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "afd026f3719223b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2219.5", "colnum": "2219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS (HUNTING AND COURSING PROHIBITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Boles", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Boles", "preceding_text": "home— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sport\"!] Oh, yes, he enjoyed it; he got a bite of good grass. What happens supposing he runs? He runs until he feels inclined to stop, until he gets tired—[ Interruption ]—yes, and then he stops, and the hounds never touch him. The van comes up, he is put back into the van and taken home. In fact, it is on record that after one hunt the deer trotted home with the pack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2219.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-25", "file": "debates1949-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "afd026f3719223b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2227.1", "colnum": "2227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS (HUNTING AND COURSING PROHIBITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "preceding_text": " remain in the out of the way places; you are no doubt aware that it is already difficult enough to get shepherds for hill farms. A very large proportion of farm workers in this county have signed the petition of the British Field Sports Society. … We hear a great deal about the lack of amenities and opportunity of recreation for country people, and if these Bills are passed and become law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-25", "file": "debates1949-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "afd026f3719223b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2227.1", "colnum": "2227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS (HUNTING AND COURSING PROHIBITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "rts hunting—I have had letters from N.U.A. branches against it and for it—any more than, for instance, every townsman supports greyhound racing, horse racing, fishing, football, or boxing, it is obvious from my contacts and correspondence that a very large number of them do. Another disquieting feature is the feeling in the rural areas that this is a townsman's attack upon the life of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-25", "file": "debates1949-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "afd026f3719223b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2244.4", "colnum": "2244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS (HUNTING AND COURSING PROHIBITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "preceding_text": "mber for Broxtowe said that hunting the red deer was revolting cruelty. In my submission this is not a Bill to abolish hunting but a Bill for the promotion of cruelty to wild animals. My hon. Friend also said that 99 per cent. of the people of this country were against it. So far as my judgment and correspondence are concerned 95 per cent. of the people in my constituency are opposed to this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2244.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-25", "file": "debates1949-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "afd026f3719223b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2244.4", "colnum": "2244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS (HUNTING AND COURSING PROHIBITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "preceding_text": " Exmoor. The deer were at the mercy of everyone, and in the Hungry 'Forties they were not exterminated but deer were found in frightful conditions in the countryside. Then there was the experiment of shooting with buckshot at Cannock Chase, which caused such a public outcry in 1934 that it was stopped. I am surprised that no one has mentioned the fact that the R.S.P.C.A. is opposed to these Bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2244.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-25", "file": "debates1949-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "afd026f3719223b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2246.1", "colnum": "2246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF ANIMALS (HUNTING AND COURSING PROHIBITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "preceding_text": " Society, who ought to be worried about hunting and the damage it has done if anybody is. They say: If this Bill becomes law it will seriously affect the prosperity of Exmoor. and they sincerely hope that everything possible will be done against it. I have also a letter from the Dulverton Rural District Council which is in my area and covers most of Exmoor. They have passed a unanimous resolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-25a.2246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-28", "file": "debates1949-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "9da2d8e04f6dd321", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-28a.85.15", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(EXEMPTION FOR COLONIES IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "onditions is quite unnecessary. If the West Indies have money to throw away, let us remember the facts given to us by the hon. Member for Maldon that 27 per cent. of the people live in a state of illiteracy. The Under-Secretary of State suggested that this would not incur any great measure of expenditure. His idea was that we should put at the disposal of these Colonies old ships and old officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-28a.85.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-28", "file": "debates1949-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "9da2d8e04f6dd321", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-28a.121.3", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST BROMWICH CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who won?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin", "preceding_text": "y, who is a candidate at the next Election and who is to oppose me on behalf of the Conservatives, to a debate. The meeting was held in the public baths which hold about 2,000 people. So popular was the debate that there had to be an overflow meeting in a building on the same premises to which the speeches were relayed. Something like 500 people crowded into the second building to hear the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-28a.121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-28", "file": "debates1949-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "9da2d8e04f6dd321", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-28a.128.5", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (CHARGES FOR DUSTBINS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crowder", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crowder", "preceding_text": " explanation we cannot see why this 100 per cent. increase is necessary, unless the real idea behind the scheme is to enable local authorities to charge for the whole service of removal of refuse and the disposal of the same, in addition to providing the actual dustbins. One can buy a dustbin nowadays, I am told, quite well and easily at 25s., and that the life of such a dustbin is about 10 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-28a.128.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-02-28", "file": "debates1949-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "9da2d8e04f6dd321", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-28a.161.2", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEMOBILISATION (CLOTHING ALLOWANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that in due course. I am glad the hon. Member has supported what I have said about the Admiralty who at that time were putting up their case against the establishment of clothing stores, because a great many men in the Navy were asking for what they called the freedom of choice of their own tailors. My hon. Friend the Member for Coatbridge (Mrs. Mann)—my lady friend from Glasgow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-02-28a.161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-01", "file": "debates1949-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "b46f529ffbbc3777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.187.6", "colnum": "187", "heading": "ECONOMIC RECOVERY (MINISTER'S SPEECH, U.S.A.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "While thanking the right hon. Gentleman for his reply, may I ask whether he is aware that during the past five or six days no fewer than seven more or less conflicting statements on the subject have been made, consciously or unconsciously, by members or representatives of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.187.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-01", "file": "debates1949-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "b46f529ffbbc3777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.188.0", "colnum": "188", "heading": "ECONOMIC RECOVERY (MINISTER'S SPEECH, U.S.A.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that, had it not been for the prompt repudiation of the Minister's statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the whole of our recovery programme might have been in danger? What steps is the Prime Minister going to take to see that the future of the British people is not jeopardised by irresponsible statements of Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-01", "file": "debates1949-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "b46f529ffbbc3777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "ECONOMIC RECOVERY (MINISTER'S SPEECH, U.S.A.)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Has it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the matter has now been dealt With—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-01", "file": "debates1949-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "b46f529ffbbc3777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "ECONOMIC RECOVERY (MINISTER'S SPEECH, U.S.A.)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the matter has now been dealt With—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Has it?\"]—I should deprecate further questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-01", "file": "debates1949-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "b46f529ffbbc3777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.196.3", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "sence of the responsible Minister, one's task is more difficult. To have a Minister who perhaps does not know the subject taking down notes, is not the same thing as having the Minister concerned present. I feel that very strongly. However, there is no alternative. The Debate has to continue, but we are placed in a most difficult position. This is not the first occasion on which this has happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.196.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-01", "file": "debates1949-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "b46f529ffbbc3777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.196.5", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "requires one employee to work for a year to carry five passengers at a cost of £345. The total cost of the civil aviation industry has been admitted in another place to be approximately £25 million. I believe that it is for this Committee to consider how this money is being spent, and whether it is a wise investment to sink so much money when the country is in such grave difficulties economically.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.196.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-01", "file": "debates1949-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "b46f529ffbbc3777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "I will come to that, and perhaps give the hon. Member and the \"Sunday Express\" a little information on that particular point. The staffs of these nationalised industries have been built up since the war unlike the mining industry which was largely handed over as a ready-made concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-01", "file": "debates1949-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "b46f529ffbbc3777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.227.4", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "I wish to make it perfectly clear that there was no personal disagreement between my noble Friend and Mr. d'Erlanger. The correspondence published tells the whole story. My noble Friend had to make a decision. Mr. d'Erlanger's period of appointment finished in June, and my noble Friend had to decide whether he would reappoint him or make another appointment. He decided to make another appointment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.227.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-01", "file": "debates1949-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "b46f529ffbbc3777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "Apparently I know more about these things than some of those who claim to have expert knowledge. I thought he was receiving half pay, and £1,750 is very nearly half pay. As far as the Opposition are concerned, if it is a Tory appointment it is a nonpolitical appointment, but if it is a Socialist appointment then it is a political appointment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.229.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-01", "file": "debates1949-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "b46f529ffbbc3777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.229.2", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "tion Front Bench who when they lost their ministerial jobs in 1945, immediately became railway directors. After all, Lord Douglas has reached the highest rank in a glorious Service. Do the Opposition claim that his appointment to marshal of the Royal Air Force was a political appointment? He was Commander-in-Chief of Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain in 1940, those dark days of the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-01", "file": "debates1949-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "b46f529ffbbc3777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Cooper", "preceding_text": "es. I think we have to place emphasis on commercial experience. That automatically suggests that those who are in positions of responsibility in these Corporations, who have to lead them, must primarily have commercial experience. I do not think we shall ever get a successful airline operating if we do not place emphasis on commercial practice and the commercial requirements of airline operations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-01", "file": "debates1949-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "b46f529ffbbc3777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "en considering the leadership of these air-line Corporations. Some hon. Members on this side of the Committee had great hopes of the present Minister when he was appointed to office. We saw that he had made a good job of the Pakenham Report. It was got out very quickly and it was an able report. Now that the Minister is in a position of responsibility, perhaps he will see whether he can emphasise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-01", "file": "debates1949-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "b46f529ffbbc3777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. L. Gondar Dower", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. L. Gondar Dower", "preceding_text": "n Scotland. What was this airline operation? One went to a district, selected a large grass field, persuaded the Ministry of Civil Aviation to give it their blessing and accepted responsibility for using the airfield with safety. One obtained a car, with which to run the passengers to the nearest village, and one man acted as telephone operator, booking clerk, ticket collector and everything else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-01", "file": "debates1949-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "b46f529ffbbc3777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.316.5", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "arter companies to operate under these agreements. These applications, as I have said, will be only for good routes, between large centres of population and certain holiday resorts at certain periods of the year. They do not provide a transport service for the people of the country. If there is to be a full transport service there must be regularity and it must operate on all the days of the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.316.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-01", "file": "debates1949-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "b46f529ffbbc3777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "ointment; if a Socialist is appointed, then it is a political appointment. Lord Douglas has a record of which he and everyone else is entitled to be proud. For hon. Gentlemen opposite to assert, as they have asserted today, that experience within the Royal Air Force completely unfits one for any function whatever in civilian life is rather surprising when it comes from gentlemen, such as they are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-01a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-02", "file": "debates1949-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "96750d708e69bde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-02a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is it going?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman still has left the impression that the company is being wound up, which is very far from the case. It is a going concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-02a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-02", "file": "debates1949-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "96750d708e69bde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-02a.347.3", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does the hon. Member suggest?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman further realise that this wretched Cardinal has now been for quite a long time in prison, and is this to go on indefinitely? The same position exists as regards the Archbishop in Yugoslavia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-02a.347.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-02", "file": "debates1949-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "96750d708e69bde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-02a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH NORTH AMERICA BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If they wanted it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "e, unshakable and undeniable fact and that is what the minority—I agree that it is a minority—in Newfoundland feel is a bitter blow. They have been faithful and loyal to this country and have accepted our word. They gave up self-government but they were promised, or at least believed it was a promise, that the process would be self-government to Commission Government, then back to self-government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-02a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-02", "file": "debates1949-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "96750d708e69bde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-02a.482.4", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE COMPETITION (GERMANY AND JAPAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Free enterprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "ink the Government are taking an altogether too complacent attitude in this most important matter. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is reported as having said a fortnight ago to some visiting Germans that he was not alarmed by the reappearance of German competition. He certainly should be alarmed, though he need not be panic-stricken. There is plenty of cause for sober alarm at the trend of events.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-02a.482.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-02", "file": "debates1949-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "96750d708e69bde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-02a.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE COMPETITION (GERMANY AND JAPAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "I will not give one just now. There are hon. Members opposite who wish to speak. In any case, I do not wish to anticipate the very satisfactory answer which I hope the Minister will give on 17th March when I have a Question on that very subject. Let us take one thing at a time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-02a.488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-02", "file": "debates1949-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "96750d708e69bde4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-02a.488.5", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE COMPETITION (GERMANY AND JAPAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "red to contemplate certain areas of possible local unemployment resulting from the Government's policy in regard to competition from ex-enemy countries? Are the unions prepared to accept that as part of the price of getting our ex-enemies on their feet again, because the competition is going to be strong, and may well result in orders for certain important commodities not coming to Britain at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-02a.488.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-03", "file": "debates1949-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcae49bfdf69ed67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.512.7", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The two supplementary questions, of course, go substantially outside the original Question. There are more general practitioners taking part in the administration than we estimated for at the beginning. There is, of course, a general overall shortage. Perhaps there is a shortage of doctors in some places and a surplus in other places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.512.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-03", "file": "debates1949-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcae49bfdf69ed67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.514.8", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stoddart-Scott", "preceding_text": "Is not this a direct attempt to slash our hospital services?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.514.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-03", "file": "debates1949-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcae49bfdf69ed67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.540.6", "colnum": "540", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Isle of Wight?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I should not think so. It is not particularly customary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.540.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-03", "file": "debates1949-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcae49bfdf69ed67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Taxed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "n behalf of the Services a special addition of £12 million last November for pay conditions, these are described, at the very time when we want to improve recruiting, as being derisory increases. I cannot accept that an average increase of £110 per annum in one increment to the marriage allowances of officers of 25 years of age and over can be regarded as a derisory improvement in their standards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-03", "file": "debates1949-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcae49bfdf69ed67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "Yes, consideration has been given to that, but there are three things to understand. First, the Service Departments were certainly late in the years 1945–46 in getting in with a prepared programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-03", "file": "debates1949-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcae49bfdf69ed67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Communist Members are not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "that there should be a delay in the completion of the training of units and the building up of more formations. Now that stabilisation is being reached in the numbers of our personnel, efforts are being made to remedy that position, and I believe with good prospects of success. I now come to the other Amendment on the Paper, which urges the reduction of the numbers in the provision for the Forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-03", "file": "debates1949-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcae49bfdf69ed67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And yours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "f ways whether we can revise the organisation of our Forces, but I do not think any of us needs the support of hon. Members opposite in that task. I do not think anything would be gained by passing confidential information to hon. Members opposite. Why should they have it? I think it is an impudent request. Before we trust them with information, we should look at their record in regard to defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-03", "file": "debates1949-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcae49bfdf69ed67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "onsist of youths under 20. I do not see how we are ever to get operational efficiency if that is the position. Again, in the R.A.F., 35 per cent. or more will be youths under 20. This is the direct result of conscription and of relying upon the National Service principle. I cannot relieve the party above the Gangway of their responsibility for the conspiracy they entered into with this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-03", "file": "debates1949-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcae49bfdf69ed67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman see that he is giving the game away? Every three years we try to catch up with industry. How can we expect to attract more people into the Army in that way? We have to be ahead of industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-03", "file": "debates1949-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcae49bfdf69ed67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "preceding_text": "Minister of Defence to bring to the House on that expenditure which we have just voted to him. It is an even poorer present when he gives no reasons for those small numbers. I believe that this situation in our defences should cause to the House and to the public the greatest concern. I do not believe it does. I think that very often people say, \"Oh. that is just the Tories who are in Opposition.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-03", "file": "debates1949-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcae49bfdf69ed67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.649.4", "colnum": "649", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "nd ambitions, all our policies, all our dreams—all depend on the issue of this immense world struggle in which we are involuntarily but ineluctably engaged. We need, therefore, not the leisurely approach of the Minister of Defence, but a sense of urgency and of drama, for we cannot conceal from ourselves in any true appreciation of the position how much we have lost ground in the last three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.649.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-03", "file": "debates1949-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcae49bfdf69ed67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.649.4", "colnum": "649", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": " which, indeed, if it becomes permanent becomes perilously near appeasement. He would see in the Middle East a situation in which we have no friends left—in which respect I am indeed sorry for the Minister of Defence, for never was a Minister of Defence more handicapped by a colleague than he is in the sphere of the Middle East, for the policy of the Foreign Secretary has left us without a friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.649.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-03", "file": "debates1949-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcae49bfdf69ed67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.649.4", "colnum": "649", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "a friend. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] We know that, and hon. Members opposite know it, and were the first to say it. Similarly in the East and in the Far East: Burma is in a state of anarchy; Malaya is held in the grip of Communist-directed mass murder; and, perhaps the most significant even in the whole century, China has fallen into Communist hands. But what does the White Paper say of all this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.649.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-03", "file": "debates1949-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcae49bfdf69ed67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.649.4", "colnum": "649", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "f the situation. That is all we have, this jejune paragraph, to tell us of the greatest world situation that has ever been faced. What are our objects? Surely they are, first of all, and above all, as has been said in every part of the House, to avoid a shooting war. But our second object, and just as important, is to avoid further gains by the aggressor, and then gradually to recover lost ground—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.649.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-03", "file": "debates1949-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcae49bfdf69ed67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I have been at war, yes, and I know something of war, and I say that a third war would be fatal to a civilisation which has, with great difficulty, survived the first two. How do we avoid war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-03", "file": "debates1949-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcae49bfdf69ed67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ". I know the amount which was given and the limitation on the amount given, because I was Leader of the Opposition for some long time before the war. Perhaps it has escaped his attention that the Leader of the Opposition gave me notice that he would like to come to see me on defence and I am prepared to receive him at any time, but so far he has not notified me of the time when he wants to see me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-03", "file": "debates1949-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcae49bfdf69ed67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.661.5", "colnum": "661", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"America.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "on. Last year I looked especially into this matter at the request of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Eden), and I wrote to him in due course, pointing out that I did not see how we could release more information at present. I am always prepared to look at it again, and perhaps if an example could be set in other countries, we might get a little more information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-03a.661.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-04", "file": "debates1949-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "305fe864d129def2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-04a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANALGESIA IN CHILDBIRTH BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Whiteley)", "preceding_text": "No. I think that is a very unfair statement. I said nothing of the kind. I said that the Government were accepting the principle of the Bill, but that they were doing all they can to advance this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-04a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-04", "file": "debates1949-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "305fe864d129def2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-04a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCKING AND NICKING OF HORSES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braddock", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braddock", "preceding_text": "s and all the rest of the things which probably our fathers and grandfathers thought had gone for ever. It is only too obvious that if those people who are in the business of horse dealing in future think that there is anything to be made from bringing in a new fashion, they will undoubtedly do so unless it is illegal. We must remember that the horse is rapidly becoming a purely decorative animal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-04a.760.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-07", "file": "debates1949-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "217fdab26075a1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-07a.794.4", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "Is that the wish of the House? If there is any objection it cannot be done. Is there any objection?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-07a.794.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-07", "file": "debates1949-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "217fdab26075a1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-07a.896.3", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Schedule.—(PROVISIONS AS TO PREMIUMS PAID TO A PREDECESSOR OF THE LANDLORD.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "ncy with very great care, and I have also experience of rent tribunal work through cases that have arisen for my consideration at various times. I should like to quote from a letter written to me by the chairman of the tribunal at Leicester. It reads as follows: It is astonishing the number of people who have already signified their intention of making applications as soon as the Bill becomes law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-07a.896.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-07", "file": "debates1949-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "217fdab26075a1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-07a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL DIRECTORSHIPS (APPOINTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "As they were under the Tories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-07a.930.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-07", "file": "debates1949-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "217fdab26075a1a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-07a.931.1", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL DIRECTORSHIPS (APPOINTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "nst the Socialists; we must remember that—the appointments to the boards which are to run those industries will be made with absolute impartiality. I believe that that has very largely been done, but there have been appointments—that is where we have to think of persons—in the last two years which have led to a grave suspicion in the public mind that all is not well in this matter of appointments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-07a.931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-08", "file": "debates1949-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d2348c7d3798f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1949–50 AND NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "t to make it clear that if at any time we should find that there is not enough naval work to be done in our dockyards we shall give immediate consideration to the resumption of repayment work. I turn now to the conditions of our sailors. It is not often that Jane Austen finds a place, either in the Navy or, indeed, in politics, though it is a curious and interesting fact that my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-08", "file": "debates1949-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d2348c7d3798f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1027.3", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "BRITISH FLYERS MAKE IDLEWILD GASP", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": " there are to be additions to the Fleet? I hope that the Civil Lord will tell us something about that. Then it goes on: to the welding of the new Royal Navy, that has now emerged, into an effective fighting instrument. Will the Civil Lord tell us what is this new Royal Navy? I have not the fog- giest idea. We have not a new Royal Navy. We have the bits and pieces which are left after the last war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-08", "file": "debates1949-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d2348c7d3798f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "BRITISH FLYERS MAKE IDLEWILD GASP", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "stress here is that the Admiralty should make more use of these two naval organisations for all their naval welfare work. There would then be little or no need for them to make use of these \"private\" organisations, such as the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families' Association, the Forces Help Society and similar organisations. Representatives of these organisations are relics of a bygone age—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-08", "file": "debates1949-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d2348c7d3798f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "BRITISH FLYERS MAKE IDLEWILD GASP", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "is family were in trouble, he had no alternative but to apply for private charity. Today, with better emoluments, the sailor reckons to provide his own funds, to abhor private charity and hold his head high as a true Britisher, independent of every one and of all charity. The representatives of these \"private\" organisations are usually women taking a leading part in Tory propaganda and activities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-08", "file": "debates1949-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d2348c7d3798f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "BRITISH FLYERS MAKE IDLEWILD GASP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They cost a lot of money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "uate. Obviously, its inadequacy could not be measured against the Russian fleet because there is no Russian fleet. Eventually, we got it; it was inadequate to carry out proper fleet manoeuvres. That is an attitude of mind which, I am afraid, does carry weight in naval circles. Battleships are such lovely toys; they are so useful for naval manoeuvres, and they tend to be kept on that sort of basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-08", "file": "debates1949-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d2348c7d3798f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "BRITISH FLYERS MAKE IDLEWILD GASP", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "preceding_text": "a speech without using the language of the gutter. His references to the hon. and gallant Member for South Paddington (Vice-Admiral Taylor) were most unfortunate, to say the least, and I should be proud to be associated with objects which are abused by the hon. and gallant Member for East Hull (Commander Pursey), because his language is the manure upon which others flourish. To return to the Navy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-08", "file": "debates1949-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d2348c7d3798f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "BRITISH FLYERS MAKE IDLEWILD GASP", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Increased wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "preceding_text": "rs being there, because the percentage increase is very small indeed. We are told in the White Paper that the number of people employed there has decreased by 600, but the amount of money has gone up by £500,000. The cost is now running at over £5 million per year, where before the war it was about £1½ million. What has produced this vast increase in the expenditure of the Admiralty Office?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-08", "file": "debates1949-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d2348c7d3798f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "BRITISH FLYERS MAKE IDLEWILD GASP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": " better equipped for that office. That was a noble decision. However, he got a consolation prize. His opportunity came when he sank the Scharnhorst, and he would regard that as a much greater accomplishment than that of holding for years the office of First Sea Lord. Having paid a compliment to the Admiralty on this wise choice of the new First Sea Lord, I must now draw attention to the Estimates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-08", "file": "debates1949-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d2348c7d3798f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "BRITISH FLYERS MAKE IDLEWILD GASP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Gentleman will join with me in saying that if character and ability are tests of statesmanship, Mr. Forrestal may certainly be described as one of the first statesmen of our time. He will of his modesty repudiate that description, but nevertheless we here in Britain, recognising his very great services to our country, ought to say on his going out from great office how much we owe to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-08", "file": "debates1949-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d2348c7d3798f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "BRITISH FLYERS MAKE IDLEWILD GASP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's intervention was not a happy one. I shall explain the reason why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-08", "file": "debates1949-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d2348c7d3798f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "BRITISH FLYERS MAKE IDLEWILD GASP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "he tiles and thereby greatly commend his colleagues to the public. I do not think that that was a helpful or even a relevant interruption. My hon. Friend the Member for Hereford complained about the cursory references to naval aviation. I hope the Civil Lord will reassure us tonight that naval aviation is equipped with plenty of the fastest modern aircraft. I cannot go on too long tonight because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-08", "file": "debates1949-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d2348c7d3798f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "BRITISH FLYERS MAKE IDLEWILD GASP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "blic. I do not think that that was a helpful or even a relevant interruption. My hon. Friend the Member for Hereford complained about the cursory references to naval aviation. I hope the Civil Lord will reassure us tonight that naval aviation is equipped with plenty of the fastest modern aircraft. I cannot go on too long tonight because—[ Interruption. ] I know that hon. Gentlemen want to go home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-08a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-09", "file": "debates1949-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "d2be76c41360d19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH NORTH AMERICA BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "s available. I say \"the limited time which remains available\" because unless this Bill is passed into law before the end of March, the Canadian Statute will cease to be operative. The problem was therefore to get the Privy Council appeal brought on before the end of March. That seems to be quite impossible. Indeed, the appellants, who have already delayed their proceedings until the eleventh hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-09", "file": "debates1949-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "d2be76c41360d19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1275.4", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH NORTH AMERICA BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "Unfortunately our newspapers are too small—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1275.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-09", "file": "debates1949-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "d2be76c41360d19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1291.3", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH NORTH AMERICA BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "bout this. I do not know why. I have no justifiable reason to offer. I have never been to Newfoundland, although I have met a number of Newfoundlanders; but I feel in my conscience that I cannot support this Bill. I feel it to be wrong. Possibly other hon. Members have taken the same line on other Measures, because of their consciences and their judgments. There- fore, I must say what I am saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-09", "file": "debates1949-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "d2be76c41360d19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1301.3", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY UNDERTAKINGS (STAFF COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "ns were produced for this House to consider. And these are regulations which vitally affect a number of men. It may be that the Parliamentary Secretary will say that there is only a small number concerned. Personally, I do not care whether there is one, 100 or 1,000. It is the task of this House to look after the interests of all sections, big or small, and to see that justice is done impartially.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-09", "file": "debates1949-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "d2be76c41360d19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1309.0", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY UNDERTAKINGS (STAFF COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "I am trying to make a serious case, and I am sorry the hon. Member has deliberately tried to make fun of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1309.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-09", "file": "debates1949-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "d2be76c41360d19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1314.0", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY UNDERTAKINGS (STAFF COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "I must interrupt the hon. Gentleman because he has made the gravest of accusations. An engineer—the House must listen to this—who had spent a long time in the employment of an electricity company was dismissed on the telephone one morning—this is the tale. Let us have his name and the name of the company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-09", "file": "debates1949-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "d2be76c41360d19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1317.6", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY UNDERTAKINGS (STAFF COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "preceding_text": "were given by my right hon. Friend that directors with executive functions should be compensated. To enable this to be done a minimum of 30 hours full-time service is laid down as an essential requirement for the payment of compensation. The danger now is that some local authority or holding company staff may be excluded from receiving compensation precisely because of this provision. For example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1317.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-09", "file": "debates1949-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "d2be76c41360d19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1322.1", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY UNDERTAKINGS (STAFF COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": " for compensation. Paragraph 18 deals with interpretation, and gives certain definitions. I agree that the definitions of pensions, pension rights, and pension schemes are fairly wide, but I do not believe that they include any discretionary cases. They do not include the class of case where, within the discretion of the Board, a man might be expected to receive a gratuity or pension of some sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-09", "file": "debates1949-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "d2be76c41360d19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1338.3", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY UNDERTAKINGS (STAFF COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "I think it is very unfair to a comrade to prejudge that issue. Hon. Members must have heard with some astonishment that these regulations contain the phrase \"a 30-hour week test.\" It is very hard to estimate how a director, who has many duties to perform—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-09", "file": "debates1949-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "d2be76c41360d19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1338.3", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY UNDERTAKINGS (STAFF COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "I think it is very unfair to a comrade to prejudge that issue. Hon. Members must have heard with some astonishment that these regulations contain the phrase \"a 30-hour week test.\" It is very hard to estimate how a director, who has many duties to perform—[ interruption. ] I am glad of the risibility of hon. Gentlemen opposite because it is hard work. Most directors take a bag of work home—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-09", "file": "debates1949-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "d2be76c41360d19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1338.3", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY UNDERTAKINGS (STAFF COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"They never do any.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "ption. ] I am glad of the risibility of hon. Gentlemen opposite because it is hard work. Most directors take a bag of work home—[ Interruption. ] Hon. Gentlemen opposite do not like that metaphor, but I actually took it from the mouth of the Attorney-General when he was recently giving an interview about the responsibilities of his office. It is quite right that directors do take their work home.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-09", "file": "debates1949-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "d2be76c41360d19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1340.1", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY UNDERTAKINGS (STAFF COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "Like most authors of fiction, the hon. Member for Wimbledon forgot the embroidery which surrounded his statement. He said this gentleman was rung up on the telephone by a brutal director—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-09", "file": "debates1949-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "d2be76c41360d19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1341.7", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY UNDERTAKINGS (STAFF COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member will forgive me, it is necessary for me to make a rambling speech, in view of this Debate, just as it was necessary for the hon. Gentleman to become a rambling politician.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1341.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-09", "file": "debates1949-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "d2be76c41360d19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1343.1", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY UNDERTAKINGS (STAFF COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "at they do after they receive their pensions. If a man has earned a pension, let him have it; what he does afterwards is nobody's business, and if he has the good sense to help the country by working, we ought to praise him and not do as the Minister says, and take away his pension. It is a very wicked thing, and it will shake to the core any sense of permanency which the Lord Chancellor may have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-09", "file": "debates1949-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "d2be76c41360d19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1343.1", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY UNDERTAKINGS (STAFF COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "drawn up by himself; they were probably lying around in the office when he got there. When I was a Minister I found I had to deal with stuff left by worthy servants of the State—people who had not had the same contact with the public as we brutalised politicians who have to stand for election before the public. I do ask the Minister to look at these regulations again. There is no tremendous hurry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-09a.1343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1401.2", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (BUDGET DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "If I may say so, this is very premature. My hon. Friend has not seen the Pact, as far as I know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1401.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1402.4", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "CRUELTY TO WILD ANIMALS (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairhurst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairhurst", "preceding_text": "In view of the reply of my right hon. Friend, which, I am sure, will give intense satisfaction to millions of people up and down the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1402.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1402.4", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "CRUELTY TO WILD ANIMALS (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairhurst", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairhurst", "preceding_text": "In view of the reply of my right hon. Friend, which, I am sure, will give intense satisfaction to millions of people up and down the country—[ Interruption. ] If hon. Members had only seen the correspondence I have had on this matter they might think differently. In view of the satisfactory reply of the Lord President, it might be for the convenience of the House if I stated now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1402.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1407.0", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50, AND ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not a point of Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "Do I understand that the right hon. Gentleman refuses to give way? Then I raise a point of Order. It is most unusual when a question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1429.1", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50, AND ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "preceding_text": "ere is every reason for taking drastic action. I do not think that we have all the time in the world to play with, and I believe that our future prospects under the present scheme are very dim. I beg of the right hon. Gentleman to re-examine all this as a matter of urgency. Not long ago I went down to a command and gave a lecture to some officers and N.C.O.s—not about politics, but about planning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1456.1", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50, AND ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander Millington", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander Millington", "preceding_text": "firm the establishment of a Director-General it might be possible to by-pass the Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Associations by depriving them of some of their administrative functions. It seems that the hon. and learned Gentleman is asking for two things which are not parallel. A case can be made out—it is the one to which I personally give most weight—for the complete revision of the T.A.F.As.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1458.1", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50, AND ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander Millington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander Millington", "preceding_text": "hat hope, and that they must be recast on an entirely new basis. The chain of administration must be direct, from the War Office down to the serving unit—or else the personnel of the county association must be changed so that far more weight is given to the word of present commanding officers of Territorial units and the feeling of the association is much more in keeping with the demands of today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1475.1", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50, AND ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "ti-conscriptionists now, and I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Westhoughton (Mr. Rhys Davies) had some reason for giving himself a pat on the back, in view of the general spirit of this Debate today and of Services Debates recently. Not very long ago, practically everybody agreed that conscription was a necessity, and a large majority of people suggested that it was a permanent necessity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1502.0", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50, AND ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ty-Speaker, this Debate is very much contracted and we are circumscribed by the rules of the House. Therefore, it is quite impossible for me to follow up every one of the points raised by the hon. Member for Leominster (Mr. Baldwin) and the hon. and gallant Member for Worthing. When we have returned to the general Debate, my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary for State will provide a complete reply.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1502.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1506.1", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50, AND ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "There is no registration for the Z Reserves. The men I have described are in the Class Z and the Class W Reserves. We have been able to keep track of a large number of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1508.1", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50, AND ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "d what we are doing about it, and also about questions of strategy, a subject which I do not understand at all. I make no claim to any knowledge of military strategy. I leave it to hon. Members opposite, who are fully acquainted with the subject, and I have no doubt that the Chiefs of Staff Committee, who will read the Debate, will avail themselves of the knowledge which has been laid before them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1508.1", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50, AND ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "osite, who are fully acquainted with the subject, and I have no doubt that the Chiefs of Staff Committee, who will read the Debate, will avail themselves of the knowledge which has been laid before them. [ Interruption. ] There is no humour in that at all. This I would say. The Chiefs of Staff Committee, which comprises high ranking officers of high calibre, probably as good as any we can produce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1511.2", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50, AND ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "untry. He would not dream of giving the strength of British bombers in this country. We have got into a most extraordinary position. The hon. and learned Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget), with all the sense of responsibility of a Member speaking in this House, got up and told the world what he thinks the Belgians and the Dutch have, but he would not dare to tell the world what he thinks we have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1511.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1526.1", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50, AND ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1948–49", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about 1939?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "ampton (Mr. Paget). I think that the way in which he put the matter was perfectly accurate. So far as Western Europe is concerned, the only enemy we have to consider is Soviet Russia. I say this with all earnestness and sincerity: in all the long years I have been in the House I have never been in a sense more perturbed about our military defences than I am at the present time, because four years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1542.6", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Finland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " by the way things are going, it looks as if there may be another war in Transjordan. From my political judgment—not from any inside information, but from what happened in the last war—I say that there is not a country in the world which has a greater need for and a greater desire for peace than the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union will never under any circumstances participate in an aggressive war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1542.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1542.6", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell us what they have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ember for Horsham? no information; no knowledge of any of the forces we have. Nearly every hon. Member who has spoken has said \"No information.\" There is in the House the amazing situation that nothing is known about the strength or character of the British forces, but everything is known about the forces of the Soviet Union—the number of divisions, the number of bombers, the number of submarines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1542.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1542.6", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "r who has spoken has said \"No information.\" There is in the House the amazing situation that nothing is known about the strength or character of the British forces, but everything is known about the forces of the Soviet Union—the number of divisions, the number of bombers, the number of submarines. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell us what they have.\"] Hon. Members opposite have been telling us all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1542.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1542.6", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " bombers, the number of submarines. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell us what they have.\"] Hon. Members opposite have been telling us all the time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You tell us.\"] I am not an authority. Why am I being asked? The right hon. Member for Bournemouth (Mr. Bracken) gave the number of submarines the other night. The hon. and learned Member for Northampton has given the number of divisions they have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1542.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1547.0", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is going to make it so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "completely divorced from the realities of contact with the people, could make a statement like that. Never would one get a working man, anywhere making a statement of that kind. Do let us think about it. What does it mean? Malta, with its scattered population, and this country, with the greatest industrial population in the world, and yet it is to become as Malta; millions decimated and desolated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1547.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1547.0", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "uld one get a working man, anywhere making a statement of that kind. Do let us think about it. What does it mean? Malta, with its scattered population, and this country, with the greatest industrial population in the world, and yet it is to become as Malta; millions decimated and desolated—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is going to make it so?\"]—I am only talking of the conception in the mind of a lunatic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1547.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1548.8", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I hope you will excuse me, Mr. Bowles, but hon. Members wanted to know where the aggression was coming from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1548.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1570.2", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the name?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "disagree with the idea that Russia is entirely blameless. The Russian Government must share the responsibility of all Governments; but if we conscript people in this country, we cannot logically object to people being conscripted in Moscow or anywhere else. Let us get this Russian argument in some kind of proper perspective. I have a statement here by a marshal of the Soviet Union—Marshal Govorov—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1570.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1573.3", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I am in some difficulty about this matter, and it ought to be cleared up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1573.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1574.1", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He has gone.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "t recruits for the Army. He is against the Army—and why should he concern himself in this matter at all? That is the position as far as he is concerned. He is either for the Army or against it. Apparently he is against it. Then why worry about recruits? He can leave the matter to us. I propose to address my remarks to the hon. Member for West Fife rather than to the hon. Member for South Ayrshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1578.0", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "There is a very simple explanation for that. If the Minister cares to look at the map, he will see that America has offensive bases in every part of the world, completely surrounding the Soviet Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1584.2", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "Milner, but I must point out that it is in entire conflict with the Ruling of your predecessor. I wish to turn to the subject I really intended to discuss, courts martial. I want to say to the Minister of Defence that I think the hon. Member for Orpington (Sir W. Smithers) might now go into permanent retirement. Here we have a Committee, the Lewis Committee, of which I was an insignificant member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1584.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1584.4", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "ill see that there shall be no conviction of a person for a crime unless every member of the court concerned with the case is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that he is guilty. I ask that seriously, even at this late hour. After all, once the time has passed midnight there is little reason, from the point of view of many hon. Members on this side of the Chamber, why time should worry us so much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1584.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-10", "file": "debates1949-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "edb0f5c2f84d74f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1586.3", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1949–50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "May I finish upon this statement?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-10a.1586.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-11", "file": "debates1949-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bf6d32030e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-11a.1607.1", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPELLING REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "d \"phantom.\" Both come from the same classical Greek word, so why should we spell one with an \"f\" and the other with \"ph?\" Why not go right over to \"f,\" the same as the Italians and Spaniards? What is wrong with that? We should not be interfering with etymology, but reinforcing it. Therefore, I say that the argument on etymology is a false one. I hope I am not boring the House by going on so long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-11a.1607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-11", "file": "debates1949-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bf6d32030e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-11a.1607.1", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPELLING REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "hich I want people to listen. It concerns our Commonwealth and Empire. We have noticed in the Union of South Africa that slow moving away from Britain. I was there in 1906, and never heard a word of Cape Dutch or Afrikaans: it was all English. That was shortly after the Boer War. I was there again in 1939 with the hon. Member for Moseley (Sir P. Hannon). I said to him, \"Sir Pat, it is very funny\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-11a.1607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-11", "file": "debates1949-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bf6d32030e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-11a.1622.2", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPELLING REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "preceding_text": "e one has lost it in the meantime. This is a good instance of the sort of fact into which the Minister will have to look if the Bill is passed. It is something which ought to be looked into. If on examination the Minister finds that, as I am alleging, it is the spelling which is at fault, surely the whole object of the Bill is justified hundreds and hundreds of times. If I am not boring the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-11a.1622.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-11", "file": "debates1949-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bf6d32030e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-11a.1672.2", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPELLING REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "hat is worth while, and that the people upon whom the experiment is to be made, and who will of necessity be subject to its influence for ever afterwards, approve of it. It must not be forgotten, as an hon. Member has pointed out already today, that if, by some means, this simplified spelling were accepted, it would mean that the whole of the literature of this country would have to be re-written.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-11a.1672.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-11", "file": "debates1949-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a9c8bf6d32030e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-11a.1678.1", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPELLING REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": "ng should ultimately be given effect to. The Minister says that we have to wait until public opinion is on our side. Well, all sorts of movements throughout my lifetime have been making public opinion, and why we should suddenly become utterly negative on a problem which perhaps the leading Socialist of our day regards as of extreme urgency and importance I do not know. Are we losing the old fire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-11a.1678.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-14", "file": "debates1949-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "92567c51ff51d98c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1701.5", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Hannon", "preceding_text": "May I, Mr. Speaker, as one of the senior Members of the House, express, on behalf of hon. Members in all quarters, our delight at seeing you back in the Chair this afternoon?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1701.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-14", "file": "debates1949-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "92567c51ff51d98c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1744.3", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS (REFERENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In view of your Ruling, I raise a question upon a hypothetical case in this way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1744.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-14", "file": "debates1949-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "92567c51ff51d98c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1744.3", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS (REFERENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What issue?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In view of your Ruling, I raise a question upon a hypothetical case in this way—[ Interruption. ] We have been through all this before when they were nearly all on the side of Ribbentrop. May I proceed by saying that in my view this country's democratic rights are at stake in this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1744.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-14", "file": "debates1949-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "92567c51ff51d98c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1757.3", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EAST AFRICAN GROUNDNUT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " in line with the development which was envisaged and which was, I suppose, one of the greatest acts of faith which this country and this Parliament ever showed; that was, when we started finding the funds for Colonial development at the very worst moment of the war in 1940. And what a terrible calamity it would be that it should go down to be one more scandal connected with the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1757.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-14", "file": "debates1949-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "92567c51ff51d98c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1802.3", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EAST AFRICAN GROUNDNUT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": " be. The blame lies with the Government. The right hon. Gentleman ought to have borne all these considerations in mind before he launched such a half-baked and ill-considered scheme. Let us look for a moment at the original White Paper. The right hon. Gentleman repeated what was said in the White Paper, that the estimates put forward in the White Paper were on a strictly business basis. Were they?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-14", "file": "debates1949-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "92567c51ff51d98c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1842.1", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EAST AFRICAN GROUNDNUT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smiles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smiles", "preceding_text": " malaria, and with D.D.T., things are much easier than they were 50 years ago. A European on a plantation can look after a thousand Indians, although I admit that they are too many and that 500 would be a much easier number to look after. With 500 men, women and children it is possible to know their names and look upon them as human beings, and not as mere units coming and going from their kraals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-14", "file": "debates1949-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "92567c51ff51d98c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1845.1", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EAST AFRICAN GROUNDNUT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There were no interjections.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Hare", "preceding_text": "at we have just listened to a very important speech from my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Down (Sir W. Smiles), who has spent many years of his life, in tropical conditions, developing the outlying parts of the Empire. Despite many of the interjections in tones of surprise from the benches opposite we must all agree that we have listened to one who has spoken with considerable experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-14", "file": "debates1949-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "92567c51ff51d98c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1845.1", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EAST AFRICAN GROUNDNUT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Hare", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Hare", "preceding_text": "ble difficulties. The right hon. Gentleman has done his best to break their hearts. I feel that this House owes them a great debt of gratitude, and a great respect for what they have so far succeeded in doing. I also feel that, as far as the right hon. Gentleman is concerned, he has never given them a fair deal. We on this side of the House are certain that the time has come for us to think again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-14", "file": "debates1949-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "92567c51ff51d98c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1845.1", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EAST AFRICAN GROUNDNUT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Hare", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Hare", "preceding_text": "ilding up a proper communication system, one is able to develop a country and give any development scheme a proper chance. I have attempted to give the reasons why we on this side of the House intend this evening to go into the Lobby and vote against the right hon. Gentleman for his disastrous and clumsy handling of a scheme which, in its aims, has had and always will have our undivided approval.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-14", "file": "debates1949-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "92567c51ff51d98c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1861.4", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EAST AFRICAN GROUNDNUT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "ay well not be the last word; it may be changed; as we go forward many changes in production or new crops may be brought in. I have never suggested for one moment anything else. But I do suggest that this idea of the Corporation pausing for a year, and that private organisations would do it, is very far from the possibilities of the case. A private business would be ruined if it paused for a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1861.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-14", "file": "debates1949-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "92567c51ff51d98c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1864.0", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EAST AFRICAN GROUNDNUT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "After all, shortly after I gave these reports the Army in which he was a gallant officer did go forward and take Tunis. And so the reports I gave when I returned were not so overoptimistic. In that case, just as with this scheme, Tunis was taken all right after many checks and difficulties; in the same way the groundnut scheme and the men working on the scheme will also accomplish their objective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-14a.1864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-15", "file": "debates1949-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "2334802213635d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-15a.1913.1", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "ANALGESIA IN CHILDBIRTH", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " a bad one because if it became law it would give such a priority to the mothers and the analgesia service that it might wreck the National Health Service? I understand that the right hon. Gentleman's case today is that he is going to do by regulation what would be done by the Bill. It seems to me that whatever may be said for either of those arguments, they are quite inconsistent with each other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-15a.1913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-15", "file": "debates1949-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "2334802213635d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-15a.1913.2", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "ANALGESIA IN CHILDBIRTH", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "d so forth—but that Act does not prescribe a duty to provide an analgesia service. How can anyone by regulation turn a permissive power into a public duty? Arising out of that, I want to ask the Minister about the Burton-on-Trent case. That scheme was produced in June of last year and amended and approved by the Minister, and yet as a result of all that, only 20 women got that relief out of 1,100.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-15a.1913.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-15", "file": "debates1949-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "2334802213635d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-15a.1917.1", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "ANALGESIA IN CHILDBIRTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to select out from a general service one matter for priority. It might easily be asked, why should I not give priority to research in cancer, why should I not give priority to research in rheumatism. In other words, this is not aimed to give the best possible Health Service but to exploit human pain as a political stunt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-15a.1917.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-15", "file": "debates1949-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "2334802213635d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-15a.1918.0", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "ANALGESIA IN CHILDBIRTH", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "islation, since the Minister claims that he has this power, and he has been asked already by my hon. Friend the Member for South Aberdeen (Lady Tweedsmuir) to give the figures to show how far this power has been exercised in Scotland, or that, if that is not a question for the Minister, then the Secretary of State for Scotland should answer. These things can be explored now if the Government dare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-15a.1918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-15", "file": "debates1949-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "2334802213635d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-15a.1921.3", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "ANALGESIA IN CHILDBIRTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the mothers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "I am hoping so, but if the anxiety exists it is curious that the matter has not been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-15a.1921.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-15", "file": "debates1949-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "2334802213635d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-15a.1922.1", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "ANALGESIA IN CHILDBIRTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "As I stated earlier, the hon. Member is more concerned about the Bill than about the mothers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-15a.1922.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-15", "file": "debates1949-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "2334802213635d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-15a.1922.3", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "ANALGESIA IN CHILDBIRTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "Not at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-15a.1922.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-15", "file": "debates1949-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "2334802213635d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-15a.1971.1", "colnum": "1971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Perhaps they have sold them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "ve battle aircraft of the last war? Why cannot they have Ansons, Harvards, and so forth? Why cannot they have Oxfords—why cannot they have a few Spitfires and Hurricanes? Why cannot they be given aircraft which at any rate look something like service aircraft? It is rather like training a man to drive a tank on an Austin Seven. Why, when there is apparently a large surplus of obsolescent aircraft—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-15a.1971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-15", "file": "debates1949-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "2334802213635d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-15a.2001.3", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In Wales?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "Air Forces. They are also designed to maintain the interest of universities in flying and flying problems. This scheme is considered to have been very successful; it taps a valuable reservoir, and has provided some first-class material for the Air Force, both Regular and Reserve. So successful has it been that we are now about to form a further three squadrons at three universities in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-15a.2001.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-15", "file": "debates1949-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "2334802213635d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-15a.2013.1", "colnum": "2013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "on. The right hon. and learned Gentleman dealt most sympathetically with the question of the lack of married quarters, and the too frequent postings. I welcome what he said, and I fully agree and understand that he will do his best about it. But it is this question of pay, on which he did not touch, which seems to me to get right down to the guts of the personnel problem. He did not touch on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-15a.2013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-16", "file": "debates1949-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "815816abf7a50799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2135.1", "colnum": "2135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "ed to the point that since the Minister had chosen to make this general review outside the Bill, it was most remarkable and regrettable that he had chosen to leave out the one object which is uppermost in the minds of the people and which is of foremost importance in this sphere today. I think I need perhaps hardly say to the House that we on this side, of course, do not intend to oppose the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-16", "file": "debates1949-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "815816abf7a50799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2135.1", "colnum": "2135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "e did, considering that we have been pressing for the encouragement of the improvement and conversion of dwellings for the three and a half years of this Parliament. As far as many of the provisions are concerned it would be quixotic yet again, because we should be voting against provisions which are already in the Statute Book and which were put there by a Government with a Conservative majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-16", "file": "debates1949-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "815816abf7a50799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2135.1", "colnum": "2135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "ional duty to do—pass it through the sieve of criticism and see that a better Bill emerges as a result. I say straight away that the claims for the Bill made by the right hon. Gentleman, and the claims made in certain sections of the Press on its behalf, are undoubtedly exaggerated, because this Bill will not of itself add one superficial foot to the amount of housing accommodation in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-16", "file": "debates1949-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "815816abf7a50799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2139.3", "colnum": "2139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "00 is the right figure or whether it is too high I must confess that I feel a little doubtful, but I hope that side of the question will be explored by some of my hon. Friends who are better financiers than I can ever hope to be. The right hon. Gentleman chose to repeat the expression which he made as long ago as 1945 about the building societies, and once again stigmatised them as \"moneylenders.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-16", "file": "debates1949-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "815816abf7a50799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2143.4", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "going to suffer? There can be no doubt that immediately it will be the agricultural worker who will suffer. He will suffer because he is living in a house covered by a contract of service which is a perfectly legal method of occupancy. I say that it is wrong that the Minister, in order to oppress the freeholders, should oppress the agricultural worker. It may be Socialism but it sounds like spite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2143.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-16", "file": "debates1949-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "815816abf7a50799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2145.3", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " specialist labour and on the specialist skill of architects, surveyors and so on. That being so, we may well find that if conversion is pressed on with today, as it was not but ought to have been in 1947, it may be done at the expense of the provision of new housing accommodation, of which the country stands primarily in need, although of course there is also the need for converted accommodation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-16", "file": "debates1949-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "815816abf7a50799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2146.1", "colnum": "2146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "during those years in war damage repairs. The answer to the question is to be found in the Silkin Report—I do not know whether the Minister has read it—which states in paragraph 54: Special opportunities occur in the case of houses which are uninhabitable as the result of serious war damage, but are capable of repair. It advocates that war damage repair and conversion be simultaneously undertaken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-16", "file": "debates1949-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "815816abf7a50799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2162.1", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alpass", "preceding_text": "The local authority will get assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-16", "file": "debates1949-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "815816abf7a50799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2190.2", "colnum": "2190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": " arrangements rather than be tied down in that way. The right hon. Gentleman must carefully consider the fact that a great many of the applications will be made by people who have raised a considerable amount of money on their houses by way of mortgage and perhaps want to pay off a few of their outstanding debts. In conclusion, I would like to say that I am going to trust the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-16", "file": "debates1949-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "815816abf7a50799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2229.2", "colnum": "2229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "ded shall be properly provided, with the natural and proper amenities attached to it. I was very glad that hon. Members referred to the question of the use of special building materials and in particular to the use of stone, which, unfortunately, has been referred to only in connection with the Cotswolds. As a North Country man, I hope that the use of stone will not be restricted to the Cotswolds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2229.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-16", "file": "debates1949-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "815816abf7a50799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2246.1", "colnum": "2246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PETROL SUPPLIES (EASTER HOLIDAY)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Robens)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Robens)", "preceding_text": " we went from there to introduce the standard ration. It was small, but we introduced it, and that allowed 90 miles a month for all motorists from 1st June. Now, from 1st May, and this is the second step we make, there are allowances irrespective of the supplementary issues which are made. So that it will be seen that there is a steady improvement in the situation. The hon. Member for Bournemouth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-16a.2246.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-17", "file": "debates1949-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "2b0953dc39178d67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2268.6", "colnum": "2268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE INQUIRIES, WANDSWORTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I do not think that is a fair comment on the action of the police. This man has, in fact, been bound over on one occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2268.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-17", "file": "debates1949-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "2b0953dc39178d67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2280.2", "colnum": "2280", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "Is it not disgraceful that assessments of a tax on which interest has to be paid after 1st January should not have gone out by the middle of March, and that the right hon. Gentleman can give no information as to when all the assessments will have gone out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2280.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-17", "file": "debates1949-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "2b0953dc39178d67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2280.4", "colnum": "2280", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bossom", "preceding_text": "Could the Minister say if all the cheques received already have been deposited with the banks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2280.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-17", "file": "debates1949-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "2b0953dc39178d67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2280.12", "colnum": "2280", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "How does the Financial Secretary justify this reservation money when the Chancellor told us the other day that less than 50 per cent. of Park Street had been occupied during the last 12 months?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2280.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-17", "file": "debates1949-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "2b0953dc39178d67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2283.2", "colnum": "2283", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And Russia.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiffany", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend prepared to widen the list of countries he has mentioned, if possible to include Yugoslavia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-17", "file": "debates1949-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "2b0953dc39178d67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2289.1", "colnum": "2289", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No, questions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "Now that the position is somewhat clearer, do we understand that we are to have about half an hour during which the Foreign Secretary will make a statement and during which such hon. Members as catch your eye may be able to make their statements?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-17", "file": "debates1949-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "2b0953dc39178d67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2297.6", "colnum": "2297", "heading": "MEAT RATION (REDUCTION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Would you, Mr. Speaker, accept a Motion for the Adjournment, in order to Debate this matter? In support of that, may I submit that we are bandying across the Floor of this House political and party arguments which are shameful in view of the nation's perilous position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2297.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-17", "file": "debates1949-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "2b0953dc39178d67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2300.1", "colnum": "2300", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scholefield Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scholefield Allen", "preceding_text": "So far as the facts are concerned, six months later this boy was released. He was not released as a result of my intervention, and I am informed by the Home Office that he was not released even on their representation, but the release was by the managers of the school entirely on their own authority Those are the full facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2300.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-17", "file": "debates1949-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "2b0953dc39178d67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2336.3", "colnum": "2336", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that what the right hon. Gentleman is proposing now is amounting to a subsidy on the food and the services?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2336.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-17", "file": "debates1949-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "2b0953dc39178d67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2354.0", "colnum": "2354", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "contributed nothing distinctively British. So far as some poorer guests were concerned, they were rather shocked because they thought it was unnecessarily plutocratic. I suggest that we ought to have in London and in the countryside or at the seaside—the right hon. and gallant Member talked derisively about sub-branches of Park Street—guest houses equipped with the best types of English furniture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-17", "file": "debates1949-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "2b0953dc39178d67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2365.0", "colnum": "2365", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "proposal. It is quite obvious from what the hon. Member for Cannock said, and from some of the speeches made in the country, that some supporters of the Government think it a good thing that hotels should be run by the Government. It is easy to see that a subsequent Government might go further and say, \"We have made a success of these hotels; we will now take over all the luxury hotels in London.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-17", "file": "debates1949-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "2b0953dc39178d67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2399.1", "colnum": "2399", "heading": "CLASS VI", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "I did not take the right hon. Gentleman to be opposing the Vote. I am trying to explain to him how it came about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2399.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-17", "file": "debates1949-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "2b0953dc39178d67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2404.3", "colnum": "2404", "heading": "CLASS VI", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2404.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-17", "file": "debates1949-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "2b0953dc39178d67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2407.9", "colnum": "2407", "heading": "CLASS VI", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport(Mr. Barnes)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport(Mr. Barnes)", "preceding_text": "l on this occasion would be to charge the British Transport Commission with a responsibility of this character. However, I would state in reply to any suggestion of that description that I consider that at the present moment, and probably for some time to come, the British Transport Commission will be pre-occupied with much graver problems than carrying through these services to the Western Isles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2407.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-17", "file": "debates1949-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "2b0953dc39178d67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2409.1", "colnum": "2409", "heading": "CLASS VI", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption. s", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "pany has already placed an order with the Ardrossan Dockyard Company for a new cargo ship, to supplement their fleet. They have purchased a further cargo vessel which they hope to have in service at the end of this month. From 28th March there will be a considerably improved service to Colonsay; instead of one call a week, there will be a service four times a week in summer from Colonsay to Islay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-17a.2409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-18", "file": "debates1949-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd8a7fde0dd89804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2492.1", "colnum": "2492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": "use much deteriorated. I know of many poor people in my Division, who are not very literate, who were not able to get expert advice and have suffered very badly. Let the Government and the country realise that we were all compulsorily insured under a compulsory premium. Many of us think the premium was rather high. It might have been put to open competition among the different insurance companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-18", "file": "debates1949-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd8a7fde0dd89804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2496.3", "colnum": "2496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "preceding_text": "Far from it. The hon. and gallant Member says that the War Damage Commission have not been attacked. Here is a Bill which proposes to supersede them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-18", "file": "debates1949-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd8a7fde0dd89804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2497.3", "colnum": "2497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "preceding_text": "arrangements'? I was surprised to hear from various hon. Members about the notification of claims not having been made. In Islington and elsewhere in London we had the same procedure of the local authorities doing first-aid repairs, but that did not prevent people from putting in their claims. They got information on the subject and put in their claims. Very few people did not put in their claims.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2497.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-18", "file": "debates1949-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd8a7fde0dd89804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2515.1", "colnum": "2515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": "so unless they pay some regard to the point of view taken by the Commission on particular cases, and it is to that point of view that the promoters of the Bill object. For it is only in particular cases about which trouble has arisen that further discretion will be needed. If the Treasury use that discretion, they have to go to the very people who have already made up their minds about the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-18", "file": "debates1949-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd8a7fde0dd89804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2519.1", "colnum": "2519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "They are rather different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-18", "file": "debates1949-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd8a7fde0dd89804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2521.3", "colnum": "2521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "The number which Members bring to the attention of the War Damage Commission is not very great.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2521.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-18", "file": "debates1949-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd8a7fde0dd89804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2521.3", "colnum": "2521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "so, because this thing has to come to an end at some time. A certain amount has been said today—and very properly, because it has been one of our difficulties—about cases where notification was made to the local authority, the local authority came in and did a certain amount of repair work, and then went away and never came back. The War Damage Commission have taken these areas into consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2521.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-18", "file": "debates1949-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd8a7fde0dd89804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2523.0", "colnum": "2523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": ". If it is possible to get them, I will see that they are obtained and that he receives them. He also made the point that these claims should be acceded to because they are few in number—in his view perhaps no more than 5,000. The answer is that whether the numbers are large or small, it the claims are and can be shown to be war damage claims, quite obviously under the law they should be accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-18", "file": "debates1949-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd8a7fde0dd89804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2523.0", "colnum": "2523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "own to be war damage claims, quite obviously under the law they should be accepted. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"] Then I do not know what we are arguing about. The difficulty of the War Damage Commission is that it is now quite impossible, owing to the effluxion of time and often to the procrastination of individuals who should have known better, to say what is war damage and what is wear and tear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-18", "file": "debates1949-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd8a7fde0dd89804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2538.1", "colnum": "2538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH ATLANTIC PACT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "understand the support of hon. Members opposite for this Pact because it indeed represents the fulfilment of the aims of the right hon. Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill). But there is on these Government benches a body of opinion which, while strongly upholding the Government in its democratic Socialist aims, nevertheless regards this Pact as being incompatible with the fulfilment of those aims.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-18", "file": "debates1949-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd8a7fde0dd89804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2538.1", "colnum": "2538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH ATLANTIC PACT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "oodford (Mr. Churchill). But there is on these Government benches a body of opinion which, while strongly upholding the Government in its democratic Socialist aims, nevertheless regards this Pact as being incompatible with the fulfilment of those aims. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak for yourself.\"] I am speaking for myself in this matter, and I can say that there are other hon. Members who share my view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-18", "file": "debates1949-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd8a7fde0dd89804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2538.1", "colnum": "2538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH ATLANTIC PACT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "e other hon. Members who share my view. [An HON. MEMBER: \"How many\".] We have asked for a Debate on this question while the Foreign Secretary is here. Some of us hold the view that this Pact represents a fundamental change in policy, not only a departure from the pre-war policy of the Labour Party, but from the policy on which we were elected in 1945, from the policy of the United Nations Charter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-18", "file": "debates1949-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd8a7fde0dd89804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2539.2", "colnum": "2539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTH ATLANTIC PACT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Lawson", "preceding_text": "In view of what has been said by one Member from these benches, I think someone ought to say clearly that there is no doubt whatever that the people of this country will welcome the statement made today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-18a.2539.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-21", "file": "debates1949-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "60af316b1ff82a8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-21a.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — C.O.I. (PHOTOGRAPHIC LIBRARY)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Is the Lord President aware that the recent pamphlet of the Conservative Party for Wales and Monmouthshire makes use of C.O.I. photos for three out of four of its illustrations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-21a.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-21", "file": "debates1949-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "60af316b1ff82a8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-21a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1949–50— REPORT [8th March]", "cue_speaker": "Colonel-Crosthwaite Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel-Crosthwaite Eyre", "preceding_text": "s arrived a minute before time. Those who have been in His Majesty's ships would agree with me that far from the hon. Gentleman's experience being a matter of surprise, it would be a matter of surprise if anything else happened. It seems to me that a matter for surprise here is that this Royal Marine Commando Brigade, which is a new departure, was completely ignored by the Parliamentary Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-21a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-21", "file": "debates1949-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "60af316b1ff82a8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-21a.54.3", "colnum": "54", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1949–50— REPORT [8th March]", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": " that point. I was in the Service then, and at that time the hon. and gallant Gentleman opposite was non est. Apparently, the significance of that is taken up by former naval officers opposite who were also in the Service. Now I come to the second point about married quarters. We never heard anything from the Conservative Government about married quarters, because they never did anything about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-21a.54.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-21", "file": "debates1949-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "60af316b1ff82a8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-21a.56.3", "colnum": "56", "heading": "NAVY ESTIMATES, 1949–50— REPORT [8th March]", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "d at all. It was fixed when continuous service was introduced after the Crimean and Baltic wars of 1854, and it remained static for over half a century. Today, hon. and gallant Gentlemen opposite have the cheek to argue that pay has not been increased. I am not going to waste any more time on that point, except to say that pay today is better, actually and relatively, for the majority of the Navy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-21a.56.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-21", "file": "debates1949-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "60af316b1ff82a8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-21a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "VOTE A. NUMBER FOR AIR FORCE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Kinghorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Kinghorn", "preceding_text": "ough I did not, of course, tell them that. They said, \"They came from the north.\" I replied, \"Yes, do you know whence they came?\" The reply I got was, \"No, but I think they came from Sheffield.\" So far as I know there were and still are few aerodromes within 50 miles of Sheffield. Our great bombing aerodromes are situated all along the eastern part of England from Newcastle down to Cambridgeshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-21a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-21", "file": "debates1949-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "60af316b1ff82a8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-21a.144.3", "colnum": "144", "heading": "VOTE A. NUMBER OF LAND FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is a photograph.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "an efficient force, at the same time bearing in mind this point of view, we shall do so. The hon. and gallant Member also mentioned the Women's Royal Army Corps. I have not seen the evening paper in which, if it is correct, this unfortunate episode was reported. When I see certain reports in the papers I am in the habit of first checking up on their accuracy and then commenting on them afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-21a.144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-22", "file": "debates1949-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "e703880e692e9fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-22a.199.8", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this is a matter of the greatest concern to all of us—at any rate on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-22a.199.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-22", "file": "debates1949-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "e703880e692e9fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-22a.203.2", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — REFERENDUM (PROPOSED INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Lord Balfour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "May I assume from that answer that the democratic device initiated by Graham Wallas, Robert Blatchford, Sidney Webb—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-22a.203.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-22", "file": "debates1949-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "e703880e692e9fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-22a.211.8", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "question. What the right hon. Lady said was that we had only paid for what we had received, whereas the Agreement was that we should pay in advance for everything which was covered by the Agreement. I understand that the hon. Gentleman now says that we did in fact pay in advance for all that was covered by the Agreement. Therefore, the right hon. Lady was wrong, and that is what we want corrected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-22a.211.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-22", "file": "debates1949-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "e703880e692e9fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-22a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH TELEGRAPHS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " Post Office. There is no doubt that these lightning changes have caused a great deal of misgiving. I do not share the views of the hon. Member for East Harrow, who said that he did not know what would happen. He should have no doubt at all. Those who were employed by Cable and Wireless will have their wages reduced when they join the Post Office. Nationalisation means lower wages for the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-22a.250.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-22", "file": "debates1949-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "e703880e692e9fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-22a.253.0", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH TELEGRAPHS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "preceding_text": "ple in the country that it is not the intention of the Tory Party, if they are ever in office again, to withdraw nationalisation of these services. Therefore, the only thing that one can deduce is that hon. Gentlemen opposite are either dishonest, which I would not like to suggest, or that in their own minds they are accepting nationalisation of the basic industries as having been a great success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-22a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-22", "file": "debates1949-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "e703880e692e9fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-22a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH TELEGRAPHS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" You have done it before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is usually very fair, but I would point out that he is now behaving like a Socialist, rather than a proper Englishman. We have opposed practically every nationalisation Measure because we do not believe in them, but once they have been passed and nationalisation has been accomplished—I know this is political A.B.C. —we cannot sell the industries back to the owners again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-22a.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-22", "file": "debates1949-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "e703880e692e9fb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-22a.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH TELEGRAPHS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "and Wireless, as a private concern, was able to maintain cable stations in foreign countries without involving diplomatic disputes or, what is more embarrassing, creating trouble in the case of war, when a country's neutrality might be impinged upon. The Government have not made a case for the nationalisation of Cable and Wireless, but I am glad that they have maintained the position of the staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-22a.254.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-23", "file": "debates1949-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a858a26fe92cd4a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "That statement is, of course, quite untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-23", "file": "debates1949-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a858a26fe92cd4a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.374.6", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "In his first question the hon. Gentleman drew a distinct inference and imputation which, after all, is not in Order in a supplementary question. We had better get on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.374.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-23", "file": "debates1949-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a858a26fe92cd4a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.375.10", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND EASTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "That is the same speech as the right hon. Gentleman made last time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.375.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-23", "file": "debates1949-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a858a26fe92cd4a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.379.5", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND EASTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"War.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "l and contractual rights, all these excuses were swept away; they were no longer necessary. It became no longer \"You cannot pass,\" but \"You may not pass.\" It is true that we got over this by hopping over the top, but have we solved the problem? I often wonder what history will say of that decision in June last year. Were we right or wrong? Would we have done better to face the issue squarely then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.379.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-23", "file": "debates1949-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a858a26fe92cd4a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.379.5", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND EASTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Americans.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "stronger counter-measures such as the economic boycott of the Eastern zone? That has been very slow in getting under way. We wasted month after month in interminable and quibbling negotiations about the currency, and everybody knew that the currency was not the real cause of the dispute. The currency was merely the excuse for the dispute. It was a trial of wills between the Russians and ourselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.379.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-23", "file": "debates1949-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a858a26fe92cd4a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.390.2", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND EASTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was not in his place when I developed this matter earlier, so it is of no use for him to say \"nonsense\" now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-23", "file": "debates1949-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a858a26fe92cd4a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.391.3", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND EASTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the questions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "I thought that the right hon. Gentleman was complaining in the body of his speech rather that we did not give full weight to the declarations made at Fulton and Zurich. I thought he was claiming for the Leader of the Opposition full credit for the stage we have now arrived at, and criticising the Government for their action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.391.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-23", "file": "debates1949-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a858a26fe92cd4a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.391.3", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND EASTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What else can one do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "ld be decided afterwards that we were right to institute the air lift in mid-summer of last year. The inference was quite plain. He said—I think in an aside—that he thought that there would not have been war if we had adopted other methods. I am sure that he will not claim that any Government have a right to base their policy upon the speculation of what the other fellow on the other side will do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.391.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-23", "file": "debates1949-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a858a26fe92cd4a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND EASTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": " attempts to base one's policy on the fullest intelligence available to one. One attempts to exhaust every other method before one commits oneself to a method from which there is no withdrawal. Is 1938 offered as an example of how a Government should conduct its policy? The difference between 1938 and the present day is that we do not ask anyone else to carry the burdens that are properly our own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-23", "file": "debates1949-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a858a26fe92cd4a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND EASTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": " to the right hon. Gentleman for the care with which he addressed himself to almost every aspect of his speech. In these circumstances, we are reluctant to enter into a party Debate on the subject; but if the right hon. Gentleman or any of his hon. Friend seek to taunt us too far, there are replies that we can properly make, and we might make them if we were not so careful of our responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-23", "file": "debates1949-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a858a26fe92cd4a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.443.2", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND EASTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Member that I have certainly read the book. I have advised many others to read the book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.443.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-23", "file": "debates1949-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a858a26fe92cd4a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND EASTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ov at that time, but Molotov refused to make a concession of any kind to Hitler. What happened? Instead of the mighty German war machine being concentrated across the Channel and being directed against Britain it was steadily built up in the East, to be used against Russia. That is what saved the Government of this country from having to leave Britain and go to our great Dominions across the seas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-23", "file": "debates1949-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a858a26fe92cd4a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.455.3", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND EASTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So do we\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ment added that other people in London checked the records and used every source of information, probably including Scotland Yard. A foreign Government can use Scotland Yard against our own citizens. What a shameful business. How is it that Members of this House can glory in their shame and bow low before the dollar god mammon. I appeal as a worker. I want to see this country free and independent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-23", "file": "debates1949-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a858a26fe92cd4a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.455.3", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND EASTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "rce of information, probably including Scotland Yard. A foreign Government can use Scotland Yard against our own citizens. What a shameful business. How is it that Members of this House can glory in their shame and bow low before the dollar god mammon. I appeal as a worker. I want to see this country free and independent. [An HON. MEMBER: \"So do we\"] The Eastern countries are free and independent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-23", "file": "debates1949-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "a858a26fe92cd4a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.490.3", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND EASTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": " Europe and the Western world and to create a situation where the West could never unite. In a word, what has happened? Western Germany, with the majority of the population, is saved. I do not believe that they will ever go Communist now. That is my view. They will not stand red tooth and claw capitalism there, but they will stand an ordered democratic Socialism. That, I believe, they will accept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-23a.490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-24", "file": "debates1949-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2f393ac96512210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.529.7", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "Will he permit me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.529.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-24", "file": "debates1949-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2f393ac96512210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.530.8", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who are \"we\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": ". There is a statement in this Question which is outside the bounds of fact completely. The statement I refer to is in the last part of the Question which reads: haying regard to the repeated breaches of the Peace Treaties committed by all these Powers. That, Sir, includes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. To my knowledge we have no peace treaty with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.530.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-24", "file": "debates1949-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2f393ac96512210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.531.4", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Langford-Holt", "preceding_text": "Is it not in Order for an hon. Member of this House to put down Questions based on facts presented to him by the Foreign Secretary and by the Minister of State. Can I point out to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-24", "file": "debates1949-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2f393ac96512210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.550.2", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rude.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The inference contained in the question of the hon. and gallant Member for Pudsey and Otley a week ago was that transport was not available at Newport. The facts now show that he is as incorrect as usual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-24", "file": "debates1949-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2f393ac96512210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.554.4", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH ATLANTIC PACT", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister whether he will really study a little more—as I do—the Communist Party? Does not he realise his sympathy with Soviet methods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.554.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-24", "file": "debates1949-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2f393ac96512210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.554.4", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH ATLANTIC PACT", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister whether he will really study a little more—as I do—the Communist Party? Does not he realise his sympathy with Soviet methods—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\"]—his sympathy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.554.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-24", "file": "debates1949-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2f393ac96512210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.554.6", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH ATLANTIC PACT", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker. May I ask for your protection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.554.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-24", "file": "debates1949-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2f393ac96512210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.554.7", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH ATLANTIC PACT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker. May I ask for your protection—[ Interruption ]— for the protection of the Chair when I am trying to ask a supplementary question, for as much protection as hon. Members on the other side of the House get—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.554.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-24", "file": "debates1949-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2f393ac96512210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.563.7", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH OFFICIAL, PRAGUE (EXPULSION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I do not understand what the Minister means by \"in his own interests.\" Surely this officer had diplomatic status and immunity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.563.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-24", "file": "debates1949-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2f393ac96512210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.585.7", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": " which sat under the chairmanship of my right hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour. They have concentrated mainly on the cotton and wool industry and they have instituted a number of measures which have had good results. What do those measures cover? They include the provision of day nurseries for women with young children, to enable the women to work in the industries", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.585.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-24", "file": "debates1949-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2f393ac96512210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.606.4", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "The war had nothing to do with it, because this took place over the whole inter-war period, and it could not account for the devastation in the Welsh mining valleys between the years 1920 to 1940. However, this has been a most useful and interesting Debate on an important subject. I thought that the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for West Fife—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.606.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-24", "file": "debates1949-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2f393ac96512210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": " in which we must carry the diehards who still live in the past under the old capitalist system and on the other side of the House these will be progressive people who see very much further than their party can see, people of a studious character who are prepared to explore every avenue for the benefit of the whole people. Do not forget we carry our quota of Conservatives on our side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-24", "file": "debates1949-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "d2f393ac96512210", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "had been done in Scotland and they never gave me an answer. May I say to the Parliamentary Secretary that I do not expect him to reply to all the Questions I put. I can assure him that the Prime Minister has dodged it, the Chancellor has dodged it, the President of the Board of Trade has dodged it so I do not see why the Parliamentary Secretary should take the matter up. May I say this in closing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-24a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-25", "file": "debates1949-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df195ec7f8275a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-25a.734.0", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENSORSHIP OF PLAYS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Caprice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": " are plays such as \"No Orchids for Miss Blandish,\" plays dealing with artificial insemination in the human field, about venereal diseases, and the more difficult aspect of the consequences of those diseases, and so on. These plays have been passed in our own time, within recent years. Can it be said that the Lord Chamberlain's office is motivated by intolerance or narrowmindedness? Certainly not.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-25a.734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-25", "file": "debates1949-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df195ec7f8275a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-25a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENSORSHIP OF PLAYS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "o not want this Bill. Members have not been lobbied about this matter in the course of the past few weeks or years. One would imagine from the speeches in favour of this Bill that there was public fury against the tyranny of the Lord Chamberlain's office and the lack of freedom on the stage. We have more freedom on the stage than any other country,. with the possible exception of the French stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-25a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-25", "file": "debates1949-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "df195ec7f8275a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-25a.769.1", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENSORSHIP OF PLAYS (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Delargy", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Index?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Delargy", "preceding_text": "I should hate to arrogate to myself the duties of Mr. Speaker, but I must inform the hon. Gentleman that we are not discussing the censorship of books. Unlike the hon. Gentleman, I prefer to keep to the matter before the House. At the moment, we are discussing the censorship of plays which, I repeat, is non-existent in Eire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-25a.769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-28", "file": "debates1949-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "040b0754b69aae41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.830.4", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRUSSELS TREATY (CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL'S MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that a usually reliable newspaper has stated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.830.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-28", "file": "debates1949-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "040b0754b69aae41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.832.3", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VEGETABLE IMPORTS (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There is no undermining.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.832.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-28", "file": "debates1949-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "040b0754b69aae41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Porter", "preceding_text": "Surely the hon. Member will agree that the operation under subsection (5) is subsequent to action taken in this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.865.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-28", "file": "debates1949-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "040b0754b69aae41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.865.4", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "hy some breakaway unions are popular and why there are unofficial strikes; it is because the men are dissatisfied with their own union officials. There is great disquiet among many trade unionists who remember the glorious record of trade unionism that is being thrown away because top union officials prefer to work in harmony with the Government instead of putting the interests of their men first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.865.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-28", "file": "debates1949-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "040b0754b69aae41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.873.2", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "Maybe helped and maybe hindered, but it is no good the Minister thinking that there is no concern here about unofficial strikes, and his offensive remarks in regard to my hon. Friend were unworthy of him and of the Government. I regret that he should have engendered heat over this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.873.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-28", "file": "debates1949-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "040b0754b69aae41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.893.4", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "I did not say that at all, if the hon. Baronet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.893.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-28", "file": "debates1949-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "040b0754b69aae41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "I am saying that what we are securing is the efficient development of the coalmining industry in this country and not the efficient development of the coalmining industry abroad. If, on the other hand, the Nigerian Government said, \"Come and work some coalmines for us\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-28", "file": "debates1949-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "040b0754b69aae41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.895.4", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Eccles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Eccles", "preceding_text": "g coal with native labour somewhere or other in an overseas territory. Personally, I would leave it to the National Union of Mineworkers to restrain the pace at which the right hon. Gentleman starts winning coal abroad. I do not think that they would wish to have large new sources of coal opened up by the right hon. Gentleman. I am content to leave it with the trade union to put a brake upon that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.895.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-28", "file": "debates1949-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "040b0754b69aae41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "wipe that out. We are not going to pledge ourselves to give 'benefits not less advantageous.'\" That is a disgraceful thing to do, if I am right. I feel confident that I am right as no answer is forthcoming from the Government Front Bench. That being so, a pledge has been disgracefully broken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.940.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-28", "file": "debates1949-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "040b0754b69aae41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " not agree with Sir Charles Reid that anybody on the National Coal Board should be sacked. So we do not know where we stand on this matter. We are looking forward on this side of the House, with the greatest interest, to the replies to be given by right hon. Gentlemen to these questions. While they are making up their minds, perhaps I may say a few words myself on this subject of decentralisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-28", "file": "debates1949-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "040b0754b69aae41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Lancaster", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Lancaster", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not tell the hon. Gentleman what the entities are. This is not the appropriate moment to go into details of that sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-28", "file": "debates1949-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "040b0754b69aae41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. and gallant Gentleman will look at the graph of coal production, whilst there are rises and falls throughout the period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-28", "file": "debates1949-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "040b0754b69aae41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.987.3", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. and gallant Gentleman does not like to see the facts the way I have put them, that is his fault. The facts are clear to me at all events, and clear to all those connected with the industry. It was not until 1945 and nationalisation that we had an upwards tendency in all the factors I have mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.987.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-28", "file": "debates1949-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "040b0754b69aae41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "I see the hon. and gallant Gentleman agrees. No wonder the industry went down under such leadership. But if one must have a change there must be a change of a gradual character. One cannot immediately wipe out the present structure and immediately put up another. The same applies to the question of a functional board. Over half of the Board are non-functional. My right hon. Friend spent some time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-28", "file": "debates1949-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "040b0754b69aae41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": " qualified than those people appointed by the Minister as members of the National Coal Board to work out the correct and best way for decentralisation to take place? They are doing that, and they are doing it with some success, but hon. Gentlemen opposite and their friends have never lost a single opportunity of running down the National Coal Board. They have been most unpatriotic in this respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-28", "file": "debates1949-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "040b0754b69aae41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.993.6", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Clause 3.—(CITATION, EXTENT, INTERPRETATION AND DURATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "bstitute and sheriff principal, who will have a largely increased burden of responsibility to bear owing to the passage of this quite small Bill, will be glad that the right hon. Gentleman, no doubt on the advice of the Lord Advocate, has lightened their load of responsibility even by this very slight Amendment. We on this side of the House, indeed the House as a whole, will welcome the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-28a.993.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1014.5", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Under a Socialist Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member would read Article 29 (2) of the Declaration he will find there an explanation of this scheme; and it refers to the Charter requiring to meet the just requirements of morality, public order, and the general welfare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1014.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1015.0", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "If it is possible to twist what I have said in answer to a supplementary question —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1015.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1016.7", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "In view of the complaints, of which the right hon. Gentleman is aware, about dampness in the aluminium houses in Fife, will he be good enough to send me a copy of the information which he proposes to send to the hon. Lady?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1016.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1022.2", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman is completely misinformed.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1022.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1022.3", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "them had had six months' service before disembarkation in Malaya and a further two and a half months' and nine months', respectively, since disembarkation. Of the remaining two, one who was 23 had had four and a half years before disembarkation and a further two and a half months in Malaya, and the other, who was 19½, had 13 months' service before disembarkation and another 13 months after.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1022.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1023.8", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "I have already done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1023.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1048.2", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 4.—(POWER TO KEEP PERSONS SENTENCED TO DETENTION UNDER ARMY ACT IN AIR FORCE CUSTODY, AND CORRESPONDING PROVISION FOR AIR FORCE ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for War (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for War (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "preceding_text": "it, the Army Act is gone through every year, and we discover by experience that amendments made in the past make certain further consequential amendments desirable. This is merely a consequential amendment on the power taken some time ago for reciprocity in detention barracks. There is the further point, which links up with what was said by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for South Ayrshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1048.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1077.0", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(TRANSFERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must realise perfectly, when he speaks about the Durham Light Infantry, that it is a Durham regiment and that nine out of ten people who enlist in the Army in the County of Durham join that regiment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1077.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1078.0", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(TRANSFERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "rritorial connection. I must now attempt to dispose of another fantastic conception, for which I am afraid the noble Lord opposite was responsible, although only partly, since contributions were made by other hon. and gallant Members on this subject. It is that this matter affects the Territorial Army. It has nothing to do with the Territorial Army at all, and the Territorial Army is not affected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1078.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " British Army. I reject that sug- gestion emphatically. There is more spirit in the British Army, I believe, than in any other army in the world. That spirit is being manifested today in Malaya in most difficult circumstances. It is also being expressed in other parts of the world. The spirit of the British Army is all right. I hope that no one will traduce that spirit but will seek to fortify it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can sit down after saying that I have had experience of working with the so-called brass hats for the past 18 months and I had some experience of working with them in 1929. I have also had the experience of working with other people, and I would rather work with the brass hats at the War Office than with some of the brass faces in other spheres of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1125.7", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (NORTHERN IRELAND)", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": " the Government view, as expressed in this statement, must be that a citizen of Eire means a citizen of an independent sovereign non - Commonwealth Republic which did not then exist at all. But that does not seem to me by any means clear. That is the opinion of an ex-Solicitor-General, ex-Attorney-General and ex-Lord Chancellor, namely, Lord Simon, whose views surely command respect in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1125.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (NORTHERN IRELAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Freely?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "preceding_text": "I want to ask the Secretary of State to bear this point in mind. I have been one of the victims of these regulations. I have an electorate of 85,000 voters. I want the Secretary of State to guarantee that these regulations will give the right to every one of those voters to go to the polling station and cast his vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (NORTHERN IRELAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "preceding_text": "electorate of 85,000 voters. I want the Secretary of State to guarantee that these regulations will give the right to every one of those voters to go to the polling station and cast his vote. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Freely?\"] Yes, freely. I am going to allow the same rights to my opponent as I do to my supporters, but I tell this House that my voters cannot go to the polling stations to cast their vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1131.1", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (NORTHERN IRELAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "preceding_text": "hat. I want the administration of these regulations to be retained in the hands and under the authority of this House. I know that the regulations will become so much waste paper after they leave the authority of this House and that no protection of any kind will be given to the electorate under the Representation of the People Act. I could give you two or three examples if you wished, but I fear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1132.4", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (NORTHERN IRELAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Translate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "preceding_text": " in Great Britain, for carrying out elections if the same authority is not controlling those elections. I am pleading with the Secretary of State to ensure the carrying out of the elections, on behalf of this House, under his authority and his authority only. That is all that I am trying to convey. I am delighted, and wish to say to the hon. Member for the Queen's University \" Cead Mille Failte .\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1132.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1147.1", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "EXTERNAL EXAMINATIONS (GRANT-AIDED SCHOOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dryden Brook", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dryden Brook", "preceding_text": " If there is a problem of the bright child in the grammar school, that is an indictment of the school and not of the child, nor of this system of examinations. The grammar school is not the only school which has to deal with this problem of the bright child. It is universal throughout our educational system. In particular, the rural school has it, as have the infants' school and the junior school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "EXTERNAL EXAMINATIONS (GRANT-AIDED SCHOOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "better and get better grammar school teachers as well as others, otherwise the teachers will not be capable of doing this individual work. It is not a question of taking classes of 30 or 40. More individual work will be needed under this scheme than for the higher certificate. I hope very much that the most important English institution which we have—the sixth form—is not to be in any way injured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "EXTERNAL EXAMINATIONS (GRANT-AIDED SCHOOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson Harris", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson Harris", "preceding_text": "er-specialising for examinations. I do not share the view which seems to be prevalent, that examinations are a bad thing in themselves, that they should he as few as possible and put off as long as possible. I believe they are valuable in getting people working and keeping them on their toes. I passed the higher certificate examination when I was 15, when I was 16, when I was 17 and when I was 18.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "EXTERNAL EXAMINATIONS (GRANT-AIDED SCHOOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson Harris", "preceding_text": "hing in themselves, that they should he as few as possible and put off as long as possible. I believe they are valuable in getting people working and keeping them on their toes. I passed the higher certificate examination when I was 15, when I was 16, when I was 17 and when I was 18. [ Laughter .] When hon. Members contemplate the result, I am sure they will feel any further words are unnecessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1174.0", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "EXTERNAL EXAMINATIONS (GRANT-AIDED SCHOOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And a Scottish expression.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": " in accordance with the curriculum laid down. If it is suggested that the success of that individual in meeting the requirements determines the success of his school I would say—not in any offensive way, because it is true not only of education but of other walks of life—that what are called \"pot hunters\" are not always the best representatives of their profession. That is a Lancashire expression—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-29", "file": "debates1949-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a48c938a52aabb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "EXTERNAL EXAMINATIONS (GRANT-AIDED SCHOOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Not universities.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "In laying it down that a child must begin to attend school at five years one can be accused of interfering with the freedom of the parent. I am amazed that it has been suggested that this is the first step on the road to totalitarianism. An hon. Member suggested that this is in some way intended to strengthen the iron hand of Whitehall, enabling someone to clamp down on schools and universities.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-29a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-30", "file": "debates1949-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f2744388d78884f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-30a.1211.6", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "As that was some time ago, perhaps the Minister would be kind enough to repeat the reason he gave on that occasion, particularly in view of the fact that No. 509 Long-Range Bomber Group of the United States Air Force is a bomber group specially trained in atomic bomb technique?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-30a.1211.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-30", "file": "debates1949-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f2744388d78884f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-30a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS (QUOTAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "Twickenham is closed, Viking is closed, Welwyn has one picture, and Windsor is closed. That is a damning indictment of the inability of British producers and the the British film industry as a whole to co-operate and to use the facilities and advantages which my right hon. Friend has given in the last year or two. The facts speak for themselves. That is partly the result of the 45 per cent. quota.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-30a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-30", "file": "debates1949-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f2744388d78884f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-30a.1371.1", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "NEW DEVELOPMENT AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What newspaper was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I was simply saying that I should have thought industrial qualifications would be necessary. With regard to the development council, there the situation is different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-30a.1371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-31", "file": "debates1949-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5687f978f6e3a91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-31a.1445.0", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Member does not quite realise that if we can buy additional feedingstuffs with sterling, we shall not be in a position to buy less food as a result. If we spend more dollars on feedingstuffs we shall have less food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-31a.1445.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-03-31", "file": "debates1949-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5687f978f6e3a91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-31a.1445.4", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Any of them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "I am not quite sure which requests my right hon. Friend has in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-31a.1445.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-31", "file": "debates1949-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5687f978f6e3a91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-31a.1455.5", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I must say this is the quaintest argument I have yet met. I never dreamed that this had anything to do with the local government elections. This question has put thoughts in my mind that had far better not be there. I never thought of it. I really cannot conceive that people who are voting at county council elections are voting about the Chancellor's Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-31a.1455.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-03-31", "file": "debates1949-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5687f978f6e3a91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-31a.1539.1", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL PARKS AND ACCESS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ayrton Gould", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, the 1st.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ayrton Gould", "preceding_text": "nglish people abroad have felt the sentiment expressed by those words? When they have come back to England and have wanted to get to the countryside, they have found that they were always being kept out because so much of the countryside was private. I believe that those words will become much more apt now than they have ever been before. I know that April is not here yet, but it will be tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-03-31a.1539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-01", "file": "debates1949-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "d9c582639d1034c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-01a.1586.3", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL PARKS AND ACCESS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ate—claims for housing, claims for industrial development, claims of the Service Departments—have all to be, admitted to be, within their limits, reasonable claims. Everybody who is not a pacifist has got to admit that we must have somewhere to train the Armed Forces which this House provides. We must have somewhere to train them, and yet wherever it is proposed to train them there is a complaint,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-01a.1586.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-01", "file": "debates1949-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "d9c582639d1034c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-01a.1605.1", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL PARKS AND ACCESS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "should be cleared up. The Chancellor of the Duchy should admit that there has been a change of policy because we are living in a more austere age, that this £50 million National Land Fund is not going to be used, for national parks and that all the expenditure will be divided between the Exchequer, on the annual Votes, and the local authorities. I am afraid that I have kept the House all too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-01a.1605.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-04", "file": "debates1949-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca17b24ed6cfd979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1683.6", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The Minister is just coming.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. May I move that the Serjeant at Arms be instructed to send for the Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1683.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-04", "file": "debates1949-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca17b24ed6cfd979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1711.3", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "New Clause.—(PENALTIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Manning", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And lawyers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Manning", "preceding_text": "We can do what is much worse than fine them; we can turn them out of the union, and that for many people, especially for doctors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1711.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-04", "file": "debates1949-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca17b24ed6cfd979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1734.0", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "Clause 1.—(COMPOSITION OF MARKETING BOARDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "at the right hon. Gentleman will look at the interests of the Housewives' League, which, I believe, is far better as represent- ing the consumers. The housewives of the League represent their own sex. It is not a \"household husbands league.\" Members of the League represent their sex rather better than the Co-operative Societies, which are partly mixed up in politics and partly engaged in commerce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-04", "file": "debates1949-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca17b24ed6cfd979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1734.0", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "Clause 1.—(COMPOSITION OF MARKETING BOARDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Housewives' League?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "e.\" Members of the League represent their sex rather better than the Co-operative Societies, which are partly mixed up in politics and partly engaged in commerce. [ Interruption. ] If hon. Members object to my saying \"partly,\" I will say wholly mixed up in politics. I thought I was being as fair as I usually am, when I suggested they were partly mixed up in politics and partly engaged in commerce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-04", "file": "debates1949-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca17b24ed6cfd979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1735.1", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "Clause 1.—(COMPOSITION OF MARKETING BOARDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of the organised consumers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "preceding_text": "The Amendment interests me because of the arguments which I have heard from hon. Members opposite. It is suggested that the only representatives of the consumers of this country are the Co-operative societies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-04", "file": "debates1949-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca17b24ed6cfd979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1735.1", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "Clause 1.—(COMPOSITION OF MARKETING BOARDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "preceding_text": "The Amendment interests me because of the arguments which I have heard from hon. Members opposite. It is suggested that the only representatives of the consumers of this country are the Co-operative societies—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Of the organised consumers.\"]—and we have heard the statement made that they represent 10 million families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-04", "file": "debates1949-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca17b24ed6cfd979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1741.0", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Clause 1.—(COMPOSITION OF MARKETING BOARDS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I had not intended to say anything more, but I really think that the explanation given by the right hon. Gentleman has left matters just as confused as they were before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1741.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-04", "file": "debates1949-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca17b24ed6cfd979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1749.0", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Clause 4.—(TEMPORARY DIRECTIONS BY MINISTERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. York", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. York", "preceding_text": "lean so far as market gardeners are concerned. 6.0 p.m. Does anybody in this House really believe that it would now be possible, after the machinations of the Ministry of Food, for a board covering the onion industry ever to be set up? Of course it would not. That is impossible today. There will be no market in this country in the future for home-grown onions, so there cannot be a marketing board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1749.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-04", "file": "debates1949-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca17b24ed6cfd979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1754.3", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Clause 4.—(TEMPORARY DIRECTIONS BY MINISTERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": " economy for him. Perhaps it would give him a reasonable return, and it may be a modest percentage of profit on his year's activity as a whole. It is only by taking the swings and the roundabouts together that farmers can live, in any event. It is not as though all their activities were so abundantly profitable that they must never be allowed to make a shilling on anything with a bit of good luck.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-04", "file": "debates1949-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca17b24ed6cfd979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1759.3", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Clause 4.—(TEMPORARY DIRECTIONS BY MINISTERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Manning", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They always have had it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Manning", "preceding_text": "May I point out that the consumers have the power in their own hands to prevent that? They need not buy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1759.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-04", "file": "debates1949-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca17b24ed6cfd979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1760.3", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Clause 4.—(TEMPORARY DIRECTIONS BY MINISTERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "bjected to unreasonable imports put in by the Minister of Food, have not sufficient security. It is that type of case which the Government are hitting under Clause 4. It is the commodities of the small men, who have high costs in labour, material and the price of land, who are being hit especially by Clause 4. I ask hon. Members not to jeer at these men. Hon. Members on the other side have jeered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1760.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-04", "file": "debates1949-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca17b24ed6cfd979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1760.3", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Clause 4.—(TEMPORARY DIRECTIONS BY MINISTERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": " in labour, material and the price of land, who are being hit especially by Clause 4. I ask hon. Members not to jeer at these men. Hon. Members on the other side have jeered—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—Oh, yes. Mr. Speaker, if you had been here at the time, you would have heard the defence put up by the hon. Member for Lonsdale (Sir I. Fraser). It aroused the jeers and sneers of hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1760.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-04", "file": "debates1949-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca17b24ed6cfd979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1767.1", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Clause 4.—(TEMPORARY DIRECTIONS BY MINISTERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "modities of other nationalised industries? What is wrong, within modest and well-controlled limits, with a horticulturist, in time of scarcity, getting a little more for his products? When labour is scarce, do not trade unionists try to get higher prices for their labour? Are modest returns for horticulturists very immoral? We are in danger of losing both our perspective and our sense of fairness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-04a.1767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1873.1", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "yndham to the Kimberley Ranges, alone would be 1¼ million Australian pounds. That is a small part of the project which, I see, Lord Bruce estimates is to cost £50 million, a very large capital expenditure. In all the circumstances, it is not unreasonable that Australia should look for certain guarantees of our willingness to take meat supplies produced by the new scheme over a given period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1881.5", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "—in Belgium it was 43.9 kilos; in Italy it was 13.7 kilos and in the Netherlands 23.6 kilos. I think the Committee will agree with me that this is the latest report which we have from the F.A.O.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1881.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1882.1", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Hon. Gentlemen opposite may not like these figures, but I think they should welcome the fact that their country is living better than these other countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1885.5", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Then it takes two and a half to three and a half years to fatten.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1885.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1886.1", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "mpany, but no meat has reached us, and I am afraid that that meat may be going in the same direction as the other. We made an arrangement with Uruguay, but local consumption has been high and I am sorry to tell the Committee that considerable quantities have been sent to the United States in the can, and some has gone to Europe, despite the fact that Uruguay has a contract with us to send us meat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1889.4", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Mexico?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": " our representatives have told us that there is no exportable surplus. In regard to Southern Rhodesia, when the Prime Minister of that country came over here, we asked him whether production could be increased, but at the moment he holds out no hope. It is clear from what I have said that the sources of supply which seem to us to be the most profitable in the near future will be France and Mexico.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1889.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1894.7", "colnum": "1894", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Milk and eggs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "eman gives the matter a little thought I am sure he will appreciate the point. I want to say something about the nutritional implications of this cut, because this aspect concerns me considerably. The Committee should remember that the two ounces of meat is more than compensated in its nutrient value by half a pint of milk and one egg. Therefore, in view of the increased supplies of meat and eggs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1894.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1909.1", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "preceding_text": "terprise and freedom—private enterprise, forsooth! I want to devote the last part of my speech to making a few suggestions. In long-term policy we have to concentrate on home production as never before. I believe that we have to give more feeding-stuffs to the British farmer. At the same time, I believe that we must ask the British farmer to rise to the occasion, which he has failed to do so far.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1922.1", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenyon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not the Ministry of Food.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenyon", "preceding_text": "g upon agriculture, cold shivers run down my back, but when I heard the Parliamentary Secretary today say that they had extended the period of gestation for the cow by two months, I almost fainted. That simply shows that we cannot separate the Ministry of Food from the Ministry of Agriculture. They are inter-related and must work together. I have asked often that they should be under one Ministry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1951.3", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": "That is one of the arguments against State trading. They did not keep their bargain, and we have no sanction, short of going to war—which no one proposes that we should do—to force them to their bargain. If the bargain had been between private traders it would have been possible to enforce it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1951.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1969.1", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This is a bad past.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "There are some pasts and there are some other pasts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1971.1", "colnum": "1971", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "he went off to the Coal Board. I do not know what the ultimate destination of the right hon. Gentleman may be, but if tonight is his swan-song I am sure there will be a sigh of relief throughout the country. If there is one thing which is quite certain—and I am afraid it must have come to his own notice as well as to mine—it is that the country as a whole has lost confidence in his administration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1976.1", "colnum": "1976", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "No. I said that it was 8s. a pound or 4s. a kilo, which is the same thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1976.3", "colnum": "1976", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "I had alleged that the price of meat in France was 8s., and the right hon. Gentleman said that it was only 4s. That is exactly what I have been repeating here. There are two pounds to a kilo, are there not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1976.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1976.3", "colnum": "1976", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "I had alleged that the price of meat in France was 8s., and the right hon. Gentleman said that it was only 4s. That is exactly what I have been repeating here. There are two pounds to a kilo, are there not? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] I said that the price of meat was 8s. a pound. The right hon. Gentleman says that I am wrong and that it was 8s. a kilo or 4s. a pound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1976.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1976.3", "colnum": "1976", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two years ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "ittle to them, though it is a desperate matter for the housewives of this country. My right hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary was perfectly correct when she showed from the figures of the Food and Agriculture Organisation that, as a matter of fact, low as is our meat level, and no one denies it, the actual level of consumption in those unrationed countries of Europe has been very much lower.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1976.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1977.1", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": " hon. and hon. Members opposite have endeavoured to give to the Committee of the position of animal feeding-stuffs? They have tried—and it is within the recollection of the Committee—to paint a picture of a supine Government which was simply, for some strange reasons of its own, refusing to take any steps to buy feedingstuffs in anything like adequate quantities for the farmers and stock-breeders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1977.1", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "year after that? Have they forgotten that at that time a great part of the British Commonwealth, India, was in a position of semi-starvation, desperately importing cereals on a scale far greater than normal because her supplies of rice were almost completely cut off? The Committee has been given this picture of a lazy, useless Government which will not import coarse grains to feed British animals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1980.2", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman appears to be replying to me. The fact is that on this side of the Committee no one mentioned 1945 and 1946.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1980.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1980.4", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "Mr. Strachey rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1980.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1985.4", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Mosleyite.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "If the people of this country had such a lack of confidence of my administration of my present office, they would certainly have shown it at the by-elections. That is the reason I was about to say that it is in speeches from hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite that their political prejudice always emerges so much stronger than their patriotism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1985.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1985.6", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Lindsay", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is it in Order for an ex-member of the Fascist Party to cast aspersions on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1985.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1986.3", "colnum": "1986", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member for Norwich did make any accusation that a Member of this House, whether on one side or the other, was telling a lie or was a liar, then, of course, he should withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1986.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1986.8", "colnum": "1986", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect to the Chair, Major Milner, I made my observation after a wholly false accusation that a Minister of the Crown was a Fascist had been made from the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1986.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1987.2", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I call on Mr. Strachey to continue and I must decline to hear the hon. Member for Oxford again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1987.14", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "Earl Winterton rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1987.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1988.1", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "This little interlude has, I am afraid, made it impossible for me to refer to a great many points raised by hon. and right hon. Members opposite and many on this side of the Committee. There is one thing which I think I should say in this Committee this evening and that is to refer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1988.1", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "This little interlude has, I am afraid, made it impossible for me to refer to a great many points raised by hon. and right hon. Members opposite and many on this side of the Committee. There is one thing which I think I should say in this Committee this evening and that is to refer—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"]—This is entirely uncontroversial. This is to refer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1988.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1988.2", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": " made it impossible for me to refer to a great many points raised by hon. and right hon. Members opposite and many on this side of the Committee. There is one thing which I think I should say in this Committee this evening and that is to refer—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"]—This is entirely uncontroversial. This is to refer—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"]—to the present negotiations going on in Buenos Aires—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1988.3", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members must permit the Minister to finish his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1988.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1988.4", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members must permit the Minister to finish his speech. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] It is not in Order continually to repeat the word \"Divide.\" I must ask hon. Members to permit the Minister to continue for the moment or two remaining.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1988.5", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": "ou were giving your Ruling, Major Milner, and were suggesting to the House that the Minister should be allowed to continue, there were loud cries from the other side which seemed to me to indicate that there was no intention to allow the Minister to make his speech. I want to ask you whether an arrangement can be made that the facts which the Minister was undoubtedly about to present to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1988.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1988.7", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "The Opposition have succeeded in one thing, and in one thing only—they have prevented me from speaking on the subject of the present negotiations in Buenos Aires.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1988.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1988.7", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "The Opposition have succeeded in one thing, and in one thing only—they have prevented me from speaking on the subject of the present negotiations in Buenos Aires. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"] I am glad to say that the facts and figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1988.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1988.7", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "The Opposition have succeeded in one thing, and in one thing only—they have prevented me from speaking on the subject of the present negotiations in Buenos Aires. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"] I am glad to say that the facts and figures—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"]—had been fully given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1988.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1988.7", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "ing, and in one thing only—they have prevented me from speaking on the subject of the present negotiations in Buenos Aires. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"] I am glad to say that the facts and figures—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"]—had been fully given—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"]—before they began to make the inarticulate noises which, apparently, are the only form of Debate which they can now allow themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1988.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1993.2", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "GAS ACT, 1948 (VESTING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-upon-Thames)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-upon-Thames)", "preceding_text": "inister of Fuel and Power in order to fix the vesting date for the nationalisation of the gas industry. Under the Gas Act, which, as the House recollects was passed last year, the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Fuel and Power was given a certain discretion as to the fixing of the date for nationalisation to come into effect, and by this order, he has fixed 1st May, 1949, as the vesting date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.1993.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.2007.4", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "GAS ACT, 1948 (VESTING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "From the point of view of correctness, perhaps the hon. Member will look at the OFFICIAL REPORT tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.2007.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.2007.4", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "GAS ACT, 1948 (VESTING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "ps the hon. Member will look at the OFFICIAL REPORT tomorrow. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"] I cannot when hon. Members on the Front Bench opposite mutter instead of standing up and speaking. I have not had some of the advantages of hon. Members, but at least I always learned to be quiet when somebody else was speaking and others wanted to hear. All I was saying is that when the hon. Gentleman reads—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.2007.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-05", "file": "debates1949-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "17aea16fd0e52b0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.2008.5", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "GAS ACT, 1948 (VESTING DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "I am not lacking in courage, I can assure the right hon. Gentleman. And it is not any use the hon. Gentleman saying that I said that. I am prepared to repeat what I said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-05a.2008.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-06", "file": "debates1949-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "5c90fa0d1eb38f8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-06a.2062.1", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "EXTERNAL ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "h the greatly improved methods of grass conservation fully developed and applied, we should be able to increase our livestock and yet decrease our dependence upon imported feedingstuffs. There should be a small improvement in the supply of foodstuffs generally, with the exception of meat, on which the supply difficulties have been reported to the House by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-06a.2062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-06", "file": "debates1949-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "5c90fa0d1eb38f8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-06a.2062.2", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "EXTERNAL ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Not yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e for very many years the value of the goods and services we receive from the rest of the world is being matched by the total of the goods and services which we export to or perform for the rest of the world. To have reached that state of affairs should give us honest satisfaction, and should make us determined not to go back from a position which we have won with such great and sustained efforts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-06a.2062.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-06", "file": "debates1949-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "5c90fa0d1eb38f8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-06a.2076.2", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Free?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ocial services rising rapidly, in response very often to the demands of the same people, I sometimes rather wonder whether they appreciate to the full the old adage that \"we cannot have our cake and eat it.\" This last year the people of this country have enjoyed an unexampled national dividend in the form of a free Health Service, at the cost, for the nine months of its operation, of £208 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-06a.2076.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-07", "file": "debates1949-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "38811bed79096f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2203.4", "colnum": "2203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "It would be much more helpful if the hon. Gentleman, when he had evidence, had sent it to me, so that I could investigate it, instead of his making a wide allegation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-07", "file": "debates1949-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "38811bed79096f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2215.1", "colnum": "2215", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "hich would take perhaps 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour. I should have thought that was the more convenient course because, I am sorry to say—and this is the criticism I have to make of what the right hon. Gentleman has proposed—I consider, and it is my honest opinion, that the terms of the Motion were justified, and that there was a deliberate refusal to enforce the laws of Order of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-07", "file": "debates1949-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "38811bed79096f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2218.8", "colnum": "2218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "largely due, at least in my opinion, to two things. First of all, of course, there is the Marshall Aid and its effect, both financial and psychological. We must remember the second part as much as the first. It has had a great effect, not only in our own economy but throughout Europe. The second factor which we must not lose sight of is the amazing resilience of private enterprise in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2218.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-07", "file": "debates1949-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "38811bed79096f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2230.1", "colnum": "2230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "iterion is what the country is accustomed to. Any increase in taxation, no matter at what level, is always resisted, and had we not had the war-time level upon which to work, we never could have carried out this revolution in social services of the last four years. The right hon. and gallant Gentleman's complaints about high taxation are not original. I suspect that he knows that. Of Sir Stafford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-07", "file": "debates1949-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "38811bed79096f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2230.1", "colnum": "2230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"The Chancellor.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "med to. Any increase in taxation, no matter at what level, is always resisted, and had we not had the war-time level upon which to work, we never could have carried out this revolution in social services of the last four years. The right hon. and gallant Gentleman's complaints about high taxation are not original. I suspect that he knows that. Of Sir Stafford—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"]—Sir Stafford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-07", "file": "debates1949-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "38811bed79096f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2250.1", "colnum": "2250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter>", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Smith", "preceding_text": "200 million of consumer goods. In other words, the capital formation programme swells the cost of living by 2¾d. in the £owing to the operation of the price system. Although this is a financial Debate, neither my right hon. and learned Friend nor the right hon. and gallant Member for Gainsborough discussed the question where the money comes from and how the counters get into the Committee.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-07", "file": "debates1949-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "38811bed79096f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2254.1", "colnum": "2254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "at is how the business of financing capital equipment out of a Budget surplus works. Real money is taken from the people, it is destroyed by repaying floating debt, and the banks change something which brings them in one half per cent. to something which brings them in four per cent. That is very good business for the banks. No wonder my right hon. and learned Friend is highly popular in the City.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-07", "file": "debates1949-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "38811bed79096f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2259.1", "colnum": "2259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "nd learned Friend that the businesslike way of doing this thing—and, after all, the right hon. and gallant Member for Gainsborough was quite right today when he said that there is not so much money about as there was; publicans, shopkeepers, and everybody in my constituency, tell me that there is a shortage of purchasing power—is for the Treasury to have a really first-rate statistical department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-07", "file": "debates1949-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "38811bed79096f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2259.1", "colnum": "2259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " ought rightly to carry out. It is high time the commercial banks were nationalised; and it is high time that we had a National Credit Account. The Labour Party is in the extraordinary position of having actually enacted the whole of the policy on which it fought the last Election, and which it has enunciated from time to time. This party is now in the position of having to think of something new.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-07", "file": "debates1949-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "38811bed79096f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2287.0", "colnum": "2287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Blackpool.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "withdraw my remark. Nevertheless, I do not take Lord Hyndley and deliberately associate him with something which would be regarded by the majority of Members in this House as unpleasant. I take him as a creature at the top of the Socialist structure; I take Mr. Sydney Stanley as a creature at the bottom of that structure, and I stick to that. The hon. Member for Stoke will, I hope, go to Brighton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-07", "file": "debates1949-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "38811bed79096f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2287.0", "colnum": "2287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What ways?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "ill. After what the Chancellor said yesterday about the representatives of the people acting on the side of the people against the Executive, I would not be at all upset if a number of hon. Gentlemen opposite were to join me in the Lobby when I come to move my Amendments. Let me first give them a shock by saying that I would cut subsidies by £100 million and make it up to the people in other ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-07", "file": "debates1949-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "38811bed79096f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2299.1", "colnum": "2299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "preceding_text": "e such quarrels as may exist between the hon. Member and the Chancellor of the Exchequer or any other Member of the Government Front Bench. But, without turning this into a foreign affairs Debate or a Services Debate, surely with all moderation we can protest that it is an absurd view to imagine that the British Government are entirely responsible and to blame for the existence of those armaments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-07", "file": "debates1949-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "38811bed79096f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2313.4", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "es before. It will be found that wages have not gone up as much as profits have. Such increases in wages as there have been are eaten up by indirect in addition to direct taxation. We now have the Chancellor expressing in economic language what the Lord President has often said, that the rich cannot be squeezed any more. It seems to me clear, therefore, and this should be clear to my hon. comrade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2313.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-07", "file": "debates1949-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "38811bed79096f23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2348.5", "colnum": "2348", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS [9th March]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "There is one to every 50,000 of the population. Probably these men are more vulnerable to attack, as we have seen tonight, than any other officials in my Department. Whatever tact these men exercise, however delicately they handle a given situation, there are people who will criticise them, people who will perhaps feel irritated and annoyed for one reason or another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-07a.2348.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-08", "file": "debates1949-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "5042e324b1f02ea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-08a.2428.1", "colnum": "2428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAST PROTECTION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "d. We might also ask, had we had a Scottish Bill, what part of the £1 million is going to be spent in Scotland. That is what the hon. Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Emrys Hughes) asked. In other words, how much is Scotland going to get out of this? As a Scottish Minister is to reply, we ought at least to know that. England has been told this afternoon, quite properly, what she is to get out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-08a.2428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-11", "file": "debates1949-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a39ea91f83f8b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2463.0", "colnum": "2463", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You think so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I think so, yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-11", "file": "debates1949-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a39ea91f83f8b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2474.8", "colnum": "2474", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too hasty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Anderson", "preceding_text": "oderate the speed of our advance in the extended application of the existing Social Services to our progressive ability to pay for them by an increase in our national income.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 6th April, 1949; Vol. 463, c. 2092.] How much better it would have been if that lesson had been driven home two and a half or three years ago. I said much the same thing repeatedly, and no notice was taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2474.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-11", "file": "debates1949-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a39ea91f83f8b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2474.8", "colnum": "2474", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not repeat it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Anderson", "preceding_text": "een driven home two and a half or three years ago. I said much the same thing repeatedly, and no notice was taken. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Too hasty.\"] I said, \"Too hasty\"—out of keeping with the development of our economy, out of keeping with our progressive ability to pay for what we were promised. Not only was no notice taken, but a great structure of misrepresentation was based on what I had to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2474.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-11", "file": "debates1949-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a39ea91f83f8b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2480.2", "colnum": "2480", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "We should not have allowed things to get completely out of hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2480.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-11", "file": "debates1949-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a39ea91f83f8b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2496.0", "colnum": "2496", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benson) does not agree with the hon. and gallant Gentleman, but I was not talking about the Public Accounts Committee. In the speeches of right hon. Gentlemen opposite since last Wednesday, there has not been the slightest suggestion of any alternative policy to compare with the one which we have put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-11", "file": "debates1949-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a39ea91f83f8b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2497.3", "colnum": "2497", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " compares them with the steady fall year by year before 1945—and the cancer of manpower wastage in the industry before nationalisation, we can realise the disaster which was averted. On all the probabilities, what was going on in the industry before nationalisation, means that if the Government had not taken the step they did, production last year would have been little more than 150 million tons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2497.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-11", "file": "debates1949-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a39ea91f83f8b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2520.1", "colnum": "2520", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "preceding_text": " right direction to prevent any further increase by the Treasury note which he told us he was issuing, but it strikes me that this is rather a case of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. When we criticise the Government on the fact that there has been no reduction in Government expenditure, we are naturally asked, \"What would you do?\" Until one is in receipt of all the information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-11", "file": "debates1949-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a39ea91f83f8b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2534.2", "colnum": "2534", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "That is the Conservative point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2534.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-11", "file": "debates1949-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a39ea91f83f8b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2537.3", "colnum": "2537", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "does not spread to the West of Europe and to this country, but the real answer to it and the defence against it is not that of holding it back with Defence Services, but by building up resistance to it with social services. In the county council elections the Communists did not win a single seat. Do hon. Members think that would be so if the Conservative Party had won the General Election of 1945?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2537.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-11", "file": "debates1949-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a39ea91f83f8b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2541.1", "colnum": "2541", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member for Stockport (Sir A. Gridley), are not in control of the situation. We are only in control of the situation at home. If hon. Members opposite had their way, we should not be in control even at home, but we are in control here and propose to remain in control. We are not in control, for instance, of the economies of the United States of America and that is a very important matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-11", "file": "debates1949-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a39ea91f83f8b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2541.5", "colnum": "2541", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Certainly, I always do. The point I am making is that if the United States of America had controlled inflation in that country, even to the extent—which is by no means complete—that we have in this country, there would be no dollar shortage today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2541.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-11", "file": "debates1949-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a39ea91f83f8b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2542.1", "colnum": "2542", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I think the exact opposite is the truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-11", "file": "debates1949-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a39ea91f83f8b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2543.3", "colnum": "2543", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "ly three points out of the many which he made. He began by saying that private enterprise always tried to slide out of any blame when things went wrong. He quoted 1947. Things went wrong in that year purely because of the Government. No one else was to blame. For instance, it would be quite impossible for any blame for the fuel crisis to be placed on anyone but Members of the Front Bench opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2543.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-11", "file": "debates1949-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a39ea91f83f8b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2567.5", "colnum": "2567", "heading": "ATTLEE WARNS 'SLACKERS'", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "There is a summary published in \"The Recorder\" this week of a speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2567.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-11", "file": "debates1949-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a39ea91f83f8b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2568.1", "colnum": "2568", "heading": "ATTLEE WARNS 'SLACKERS'", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "is century from £23 million in 1900 to £2,100 million in 1949—nearly 100 times as big. The other day, I spoke to a very prominent Socialist and gave him those figures. He said, \"That is the only way of distributing wealth.\" When I pointed out to him that by doing that we took away all incentive and all initiative, and soon there would be no wealth to distribute, he said, \"I never thought of that.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-11", "file": "debates1949-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a39ea91f83f8b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2568.1", "colnum": "2568", "heading": "ATTLEE WARNS 'SLACKERS'", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "age claims and strikes we are simply heading straight for Communism. I see that there are 12,000 dockers out on strike tonight. I wonder whether they realise the desperate situation of this country. What a wonderful gesture it would be if the dockers and others, instead of striking, would say, \"Yes, we realise the country is in danger and we will put in half a day's work a week for no pay at all.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-11", "file": "debates1949-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a39ea91f83f8b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2574.1", "colnum": "2574", "heading": "ATTLEE WARNS 'SLACKERS'", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "g class. Refuse to make armaments and the capitalists are powerless. The right hon. and learned Gentleman also said: God, king and country, which, being translated, means capitalist, property and profits.… If we are plunged into war I devoutly hope that the workers of this country will use it for the purpose of revolution. I, as a citizen of this country, want to know where he stands today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-11", "file": "debates1949-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a39ea91f83f8b99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2574.1", "colnum": "2574", "heading": "ATTLEE WARNS 'SLACKERS'", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "on. I, as a citizen of this country, want to know where he stands today. [ Interruption. ] I gave the Chancellor notice that I was to make this attack on him, but he has not found courage to come and sit on the Front Bench. I want to know where he stands. Does he want an increased Army to carry out his fell wishes when the revolution comes? I wish to conclude with a quotation from Rudyard Kipling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-11a.2574.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-12", "file": "debates1949-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54fa17b1c7e31046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2631.3", "colnum": "2631", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, if the Chancellor will look at Question No. 34, there is no such suggestion there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2631.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-12", "file": "debates1949-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54fa17b1c7e31046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2659.0", "colnum": "2659", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is putting the matter so fairly that I just wanted to suggest to him that he is leaving out inadvertently one very serious point. He says that after the first World War we received no financial income from America, whereas after the last war we did, and that this is new money. That is how he distinguishes it from an unpaid loan. However, is that quite true?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2659.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-12", "file": "debates1949-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54fa17b1c7e31046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2660.0", "colnum": "2660", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "One sometimes gets a glimpse of how the right hon. and learned Gentleman made that great reputation at the Bar. We rest on a very simple thing. If any fair-minded man who does not belong to any of the parties in this House reads the circular, and if he does not think that this is a suppressioveri or suggestio falsi, then my name is something quite different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-12", "file": "debates1949-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54fa17b1c7e31046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2685.4", "colnum": "2685", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Should have been reduced.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson Harris", "preceding_text": "tion of greater social value than the telephone. The one aim should be not to make the telephone dearer but to make it cheaper, and it could have been made cheaper. Last December the Postmaster-General told the hon. Member for Worcester (Mr. G. Ward) that in the preceding year the telephones had made a profit of £10,500,000. Obviously the price to subscribers could have been substantially reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2685.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-12", "file": "debates1949-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54fa17b1c7e31046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2687.1", "colnum": "2687", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Colonel J. R. H. Hutchison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel J. R. H. Hutchison", "preceding_text": " view, but I call in support of my contention not Parliamentarians or politicians but the following papers and individuals: first, the \"Economist,\" \"secondly, \"The Times,\" thirdly, \"Lloyds Bank Review,\" fourthly the Chambers of Commerce and the Federation of British Industries. Those are august bodies which cannot be claimed to be strongly political and which have a deep knowledge of this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-12", "file": "debates1949-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54fa17b1c7e31046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2723.2", "colnum": "2723", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": " the cash to buy the pick of the world's wools. Continental imitators had to be content with what we did not want, so they fashioned their plant and their trade according to the wool they could get. For many years we were pre-eminent in the wool industry and in wool cloth manufacture because of our national skill and resources, and also because we had available to us the best of the world's wools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2723.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-12", "file": "debates1949-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54fa17b1c7e31046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2727.3", "colnum": "2727", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who created the wealth?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "m that that era is past. This is a milestone, and it is a very important one. The doctrine and teaching of the Labour Party for the last 50 years have been along that road; for higher wages, better conditions and care of the poor and injured, there were the savings of the capitalist efforts of the 19th century. The inherent wealth and riches were there to sustain the raid. But that era has passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2727.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-12", "file": "debates1949-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54fa17b1c7e31046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2731.1", "colnum": "2731", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is germane.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "It is quite an irrelevant question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-12", "file": "debates1949-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54fa17b1c7e31046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2732.1", "colnum": "2732", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "Profits are simply the difference between the cost of doing a thing and the price at which it can be sold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-12", "file": "debates1949-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54fa17b1c7e31046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2742.1", "colnum": "2742", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I am in the position of someone who has been sitting watching the clock all the afternoon and who is called upon at the last minute with very little time at her disposal and who, therefore, has to jettison half her speech. For that reason, as far as I am concerned the Chancellor has been saved by the gong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2742.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-12", "file": "debates1949-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54fa17b1c7e31046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2745.0", "colnum": "2745", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ll accept as a reliable source. This is what he said with regard to the decision of the Chancellor not to allow the food subsidies to rise: In future it is the housewife who will pay directly in the increased cost of food for any mistakes which the Minister of Food makes. Many of you already think him a luxury; I am afraid that you are going to find in the future that he's a very expensive luxury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2742.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-12", "file": "debates1949-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54fa17b1c7e31046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2755.0", "colnum": "2755", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A hundred million.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "preceding_text": "at the irresponsibility and at the falsity of that particular broadcast. Let me cite just one passage to show how gross was the misrepresentation. This quotation is from the copy issued by the Conservative Central Office: except that he went a good deal further\"— that is, speaking of myself— for not only did he say no more increases\"— dealing with the subsidies— but he slashed a thousand million\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-12", "file": "debates1949-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54fa17b1c7e31046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2790.2", "colnum": "2790", "heading": "New Clause.—(FOR MUTUAL PROTECTION OF THE COMPANY AND THE COR PORATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "s. What does this promise amount to? Does it mean that there is a clear period of six months for the local authorities in consultation with the Ministry of Fuel and Power, and, as an act of grace, with the Minister of Town and Country Planning, to have an opportunity to try to find another site? If that be the case, I think it may make some impression upon the hon. Member for Worcester (Mr. Ward)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2790.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-12", "file": "debates1949-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "54fa17b1c7e31046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2792.3", "colnum": "2792", "heading": "New Clause.—(FOR MUTUAL PROTECTION OF THE COMPANY AND THE COR PORATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "This is highly unsatisfactory. It looks very much as if the fate of Worcester is to be settled owing to the personal pique of the Parliamentary Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-12a.2792.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-13", "file": "debates1949-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "2f1e5904be03a575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2814.2", "colnum": "2814", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALAYA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I want to ask the Minister if in view of the statement that has been made by his own Department on the deliberate shooting of these two women, one of whom was killed and the other seriously injured, he will condemn this action in a statement to the authorities there and condemn it as an act of murder? Will he also bring the police to trial?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-13", "file": "debates1949-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "2f1e5904be03a575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2814.6", "colnum": "2814", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALAYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "preceding_text": "In the very enclosed situation that we have in Malaya, they were getting away. The police then fired—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2814.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-13", "file": "debates1949-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "2f1e5904be03a575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2814.7", "colnum": "2814", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALAYA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Murder.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "preceding_text": "In the very enclosed situation that we have in Malaya, they were getting away. The police then fired—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"]—and as a result one woman was killed and the other died later in hospital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2814.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-13", "file": "debates1949-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "2f1e5904be03a575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2821.1", "colnum": "2821", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": "But in view of the fact that my hon. Friend is prepared to look into this matter, and that the mother is dying at the moment and may not last out that time, will he not take steps to try to help in this case?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-13", "file": "debates1949-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "2f1e5904be03a575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2827.0", "colnum": "2827", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "In view of that reply, may I ask if the Minister's attention has been drawn to the advertisement inserted in the popular Press by the Co-operative Wholesale Society in these terms: Register all your ration books at the Co-op—you'll get a bigger share of scarcer goods that way!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2827.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-13", "file": "debates1949-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "2f1e5904be03a575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2867.1", "colnum": "2867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "w,\" I believe that both hon. Members would have done so, and that the conclusion of that Debate would not have been one which most of us, for whatever reasons, now regard with feelings of regret. I believe that the refusal by the Chair to enforce the Rules of Order always leads to disorder, and I believe that the responsibility for the disorder on that occasion rests with the conduct of the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-13", "file": "debates1949-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "2f1e5904be03a575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2869.2", "colnum": "2869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I am certainly taking note of that warning, Mr. Speaker. I was not raising any case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2869.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-13", "file": "debates1949-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "2f1e5904be03a575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2869.2", "colnum": "2869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "the Rules of this House. But when the rebuke, the decision, the authority, is replaced by the subjective criterion of the feeble joke or the sneer, then I submit that the House is going down the slippery slope. In putting down this Motion I want the right hon. and gallant Gentleman whom I have criticised in plain terms to believe that I was not actuated by any feelings of personal malice or spite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2869.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-13", "file": "debates1949-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "2f1e5904be03a575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2910.1", "colnum": "2910", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Poorer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllister", "preceding_text": " to whom reference has been made, did not preach class war in the sense that he wanted to set class against class. He merely saw in Society, as a great Tory leader, Disraeli also saw, acute class divisions and he wanted to abolish them. The whole object of Socialism and the whole object of our legislation in the end is to produce a society in which class divisions disappear and in which we are all", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2910.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-13", "file": "debates1949-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "2f1e5904be03a575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2934.3", "colnum": "2934", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "t Committee. They found that local authorities were not carrying out their duties; that money was being wasted on houses that were not worth repairing. We found in Ayr County after 1937, when the responsibilities were acted upon and when conditions were tightened up, that the farmers' interest in modernising tied houses suddenly disappeared. We should strengthen the hands of the local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2934.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-13", "file": "debates1949-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "2f1e5904be03a575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2969.2", "colnum": "2969", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lord William Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lord William Scott", "preceding_text": "That is what I thought. A great many were started a year before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2969.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-13", "file": "debates1949-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "2f1e5904be03a575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2973.1", "colnum": "2973", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "I did not say there were no waiting lists. I said that if there were two or three millions of unemployed, there would be no waiting lists. The small waiting lists before the war were due to the fact that a number of people could not afford to ask for new houses, and some did not think that they were entitled. A new psychology exists among the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-13a.2973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-14", "file": "debates1949-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "cece7344f924d3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-14a.3028.0", "colnum": "3028", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, is it in Order for an hon. Member, or a Minister of the House, to refer to another hon. Member's remark as biased?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-14a.3028.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-14", "file": "debates1949-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "cece7344f924d3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-14a.3045.1", "colnum": "3045", "heading": "HORTICULTURAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "preceding_text": " foodstuffs and then not to be assured, as reasonably as we can assure them, of a proper market. No good is done to the horticultural industry however by painting this exaggerated picture or by using the very fortunate fact of a plentiful supply as political propaganda. Before the war, it was, in the main, true that the Tory policy was designed to grow richer and richer by producing less and less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-14a.3045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-14", "file": "debates1949-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "cece7344f924d3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-14a.3047.5", "colnum": "3047", "heading": "HORTICULTURAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A grapenut.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "preceding_text": "a Debate on horticulture, if the Minister of Agriculture is replying, most of what is said is addressed to the Minister of Food, and vice versa . There we have the real crux of the problem, because there is the question of a division of responsibility. Some people say that the thing to do is to amalgamate the two Ministries. I say that is nonsense, that it is using a steam hammer to crack a grape.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-14a.3047.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-14", "file": "debates1949-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "cece7344f924d3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-14a.3052.5", "colnum": "3052", "heading": "HORTICULTURAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Co-op.?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "preceding_text": "bers opposite that never in the whole of its history has the glass-house industry of this country made such fantastic profits as they have made during the past few years. If that is an implied criticism of the Minister of Food, I am quite prepared to make it. Cucumbers have been sold during the last 12 months at five times the pre-war figure and tomatoes at over 2¾ times the pre-war figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-14a.3052.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-14", "file": "debates1949-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "cece7344f924d3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-14a.3071.1", "colnum": "3071", "heading": "HORTICULTURAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture (Mr. George Brown):", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture (Mr. George Brown):", "preceding_text": "ollowing year, and that in almost every case the amendments that the producers wanted were made. On hardly any issue at all have we deviated from that 1946 Agreement. Indeed, the Netherlands Agreement does not infringe it at all. Therefore, if we have had consultations with the producers on the broad issues, if we have got as near as damn it—I beg your pardon, Sir—if we have as nearly as possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-14a.3071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-14", "file": "debates1949-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "cece7344f924d3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-14a.3080.1", "colnum": "3080", "heading": "HORTICULTURAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "her parts of the country when Cornishmen were expecting the market to be theirs alone, that caused the difficulty. My hon. Friend the Member for East Ham, North (Mr. Dames) is entitled to his views. The hon. Member for Mid-Bedford, who tried to make a little mischief about this, will perhaps understand that we are a party which believes in the individual rights of Members to hold individual views—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-14a.3080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-14", "file": "debates1949-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "cece7344f924d3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-14a.3082.0", "colnum": "3082", "heading": "HORTICULTURAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am glad to have the ready admission of the hon. Member that my speech has been quite sufficient to demolish the case which has been put up. There is nothing in Conservative past or Conservative present policy that leads one to believe that they would deal with this any differently.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-14a.3082.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-14", "file": "debates1949-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "cece7344f924d3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-14a.3082.0", "colnum": "3082", "heading": "HORTICULTURAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "esent policy that leads one to believe that they would deal with this any differently.—[ Laughter .]—To say they would deal with it no differently is not to say that they would not do it worse—the two things can be true at once. In the Conservative Charter they say that fruit and vegetables are perishable and that it is therefore impracticable to guarantee prices for them, and that is what we say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-14a.3082.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-14", "file": "debates1949-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "cece7344f924d3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-14a.3099.1", "colnum": "3099", "heading": "JERUSALEM (INTERNATIONALISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "em. Moreover, I go so far as to say that the leaders of Israel were not the only parties to the acceptance of the United Nations Resolution. Indeed, this country was a very important party once that Resolution had been passed. It always seemed to me that once that Resolution was passed and agreed by the United Nations, we in this House and the Government should have accepted it, and we did indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-14a.3099.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.14.11", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLOURED PEOPLE (DISCRIMINATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "May I be allowed to continue my question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.14.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.38.5", "colnum": "38", "heading": "ATTACKS ON H.M. SHIPS. CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister said that the Consulate at Nanking was short of supplies, but is he not aware that during the period of the truce both the road and rail were open and could have been used, had it been desired, for sending in supplies? In joining with the expression of sympathy with the friends of those who have been lost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.38.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.40.3", "colnum": "40", "heading": "ATTACKS ON H.M. SHIPS. CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister consider that the main reason for our subsequent inability to extricate the \"Amethyst\" was largely due to the absence of any air support whatever? Is that not very unusual in modern conditions of warfare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.40.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "ATTACKS ON H.M. SHIPS. CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": "I will point it out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.44.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.45.10", "colnum": "45", "heading": "ATTACKS ON H.M. SHIPS. CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No aircraft at Shanghai.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.45.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.46.10", "colnum": "46", "heading": "ATTACKS ON H.M. SHIPS. CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The Tory Party want war.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the country can draw only one inference from his answers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.46.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "I will deal with that in one moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "I certainly think so, and I will mention a few in a moment. There is certainly the belief that if an inquiry were held, it would result in a recommendation for improved pensions and possibly allowances. I do not want to detail various matters which those of us in favour of an inquiry think the tribunal should investigate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.56.4", "colnum": "56", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "aid, there has been a substantial increase in supplementary allowances. For example, there was an increase in four months from 17,000 to 24,000, or 7,000 altogether. What is exercising my mind is—would these have been introduced earlier if an inquiry had been held in 1946? Would these 7,000 people have had the allowances they are now receiving in 1947 instead of 1949 if we had had an inquiry then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.56.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.56.6", "colnum": "56", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "In the next 12 months, no doubt there will be some improvements in supplementary allowances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.56.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.58.5", "colnum": "58", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is interrupting now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Cardigan (Mr. Bowen) has had more than his fair share of interruptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.58.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I cannot give those precise figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.59.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Stand up.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "Why not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.64.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.71.5", "colnum": "71", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "preceding_text": "Get back on the quarter deck, will you?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.71.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.76.0", "colnum": "76", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that the demand for an inquiry is making someone a pawn in a political game?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.76.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a moment, but I am not going to be interrupted in the middle of a sentence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.88.3", "colnum": "88", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "money is available to the hard cases, in particular to those who cannot work and thus earn-an income. We on this side of the House wholeheartedly support that policy. As regards the proposal for a Royal Commission, all I would say about it is that this is the worst possible moment to have chosen for suggesting it in the whole 30 years of war pensions and disablement, and I will tell the House why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.88.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.88.3", "colnum": "88", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "tion, rehabilitation, training, and the employment of all war pensioners. It must also include industrial injuries because these are co-related with the same basic disability pensions and numerous similar allowances. In fact, not only would the Ministry of Pensions factor have to be investigated, but also that of the Ministries of Health, National Insurance and Labour. It just does not make sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.88.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "Then there was Mr. Rogerson, a Conservative, who said in the same Debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.95.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.95.4", "colnum": "95", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Who wrote all this?", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "Good stuff, is it not? Lap it up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.95.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": " Amendment cannot be accepted. That was well known by those who put it down.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 20th February, 1923; Vol. 160, c. 982.] A Division was called. Among the 307 Tory supporters who voted against both the Select Committee and an increase in pension, there were half a dozen who are still Members of this House, and who now have their names on the Order Paper asking for a Select Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.102.8", "colnum": "102", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": " no time to go into the political racket, because that is what it is. I wrote an article six months ago in \"The Fleet,\" entitled \"British Legion disability pension campaign facts—no case for Select Committee,\" which I circulated to all Members. Every argument there has been proved correct, particularly by the Sowerhy by-election where the Tory candidate tried to cash in on this subject and failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.102.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.109.0", "colnum": "109", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "aper and by writing to various people about it, and blamed the Legion for having neglected the man before he had made any inquiries as to whether the Legion had done anything for the man. The Legion had, in fact, helped the man twice when he was in trouble with his rent, and it was the Legion which got him the pension about which the hon. and gallant Member was so proud, and about which he talked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "There is no question of a withdrawal. I made up my mind not to interrupt the hon. Gentleman, but this is a personal charge. What I have done is on public record. The letter I wrote to the paper saying that the pension had been got by the British Legion was not published, but that was not the point I wrote to the paper about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.109.2", "colnum": "109", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "e. The trade unions are composed of ex-Service men and non ex-Service men, and they take as much interest in one as in the other. They are a patriotic body of citizens, skilful in bargaining and carrying great influence. The Government of today is based upon their electoral strength and largely financed by them. They have, therefore, enormous political power and during the past two or three years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.109.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.109.2", "colnum": "109", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "rvice men, and they take as much interest in one as in the other. They are a patriotic body of citizens, skilful in bargaining and carrying great influence. The Government of today is based upon their electoral strength and largely financed by them. They have, therefore, enormous political power and during the past two or three years—[ Interruption. ] I hope I have not said anything controversial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.109.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.109.2", "colnum": "109", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "ay is based upon their electoral strength and largely financed by them. They have, therefore, enormous political power and during the past two or three years—[ Interruption. ] I hope I have not said anything controversial. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] During the past two or three years they have obtained great concessions in addition to social security measures, which have a common origin in all parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.109.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.114.3", "colnum": "114", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "However, I do not make a party point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.114.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": " I challenge the assertion of the hon. and gallant Member that the cost of living has not changed in that time. So much has it changed that the Government themselves have thrown over the old cost-of-living index as being unrepresentative. Therefore, any reference back to the old cost-of-living index is now beyond proof, incapable of proof or of relevance or assimilation to the present-day argument", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.122.2", "colnum": "122", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "illion. I just want to give these figures, and then I have finished. In the year 1919 the cost of war pensions represented 3.6 per cent. of the Budget of that year; the year before last it represented 1.65 per cent.; last year, 1.6; next year, according to the Estimate, it will be 1.5 per cent. It is rather interesting that in a Budget which is twice as big as in 1919 we are spending half as much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.122.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-26", "file": "debates1949-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2d91b60359f590ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "preceding_text": " become almost historic, and continues: Our present rulers seem to forget that Parliament is essentially the council of the nation; it is not a mere legislative conveyor-belt. The problems, the anxieties, the strains and bewilderments of our time should be openly and fully discussed in Parliament—not relegated to learned committees and august commissions. That is the opinion of the \"Evening News.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-26a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-27", "file": "debates1949-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "c45272089cf885c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-27a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "New Clause.—(APPOINTMENT OF CONSUMERS' COUNCIL AND COMMITTEES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswilek", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswilek", "preceding_text": "ite other people. I am quite prepared to admit that, when we come to set up an alternative system of electing representatives to the Consumers' Council, we meet many technical difficulties. I do not profess tonight to put forward an ideal scheme. All I know is that sometime, somehow we have to devise such a system of election to this Consumers' Council. We shall have to work it out as we go along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-27a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-27", "file": "debates1949-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "c45272089cf885c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-27a.280.4", "colnum": "280", "heading": "New Clause.—(APPOINTMENT OF CONSUMERS' COUNCIL AND COMMITTEES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why nationalise it then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "benefit of the whole people and not for the benefit of any individual interests. To suggest that the present set-up in the industry will be so altered as to create the system suggested by the hon. Member for Flint is a libel both on the management in the industry and on the grand men who are doing what they are doing at the present, and whose performances have earned the admiration of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-27a.280.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-27", "file": "debates1949-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "c45272089cf885c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-27a.282.0", "colnum": "282", "heading": "New Clause.—(APPOINTMENT OF CONSUMERS' COUNCIL AND COMMITTEES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": " party probably would like to see happen. The noble Lord should not worry one tiny bit about it. The noble Lord also said that there will cease to be competition. I could talk for a long time about competition. Members of the Opposition, and all who are well versed in the industry, know that the word \"competition\" has been eliminated for many years from the iron and steel industry in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-27a.282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-27", "file": "debates1949-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "c45272089cf885c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-27a.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "New Clause.—(ESTABLISHMENT OF IRON AND STEEL PRICES BOARD.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order Mr. Deputy-Speaker. Although I quite understand that it is not within the power of the Opposition to move a dilatory Motion, would it not be within the power of the Leader of the House, in view of the circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-27a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-27", "file": "debates1949-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "c45272089cf885c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-27a.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "New Clause.—(ESTABLISHMENT OF IRON AND STEEL PRICES BOARD.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. There are vast interests outside this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-27a.295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.351.7", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The administration of the hospital is responsible for providing the medical services of the hospital. If the administration have additional work to do they cannot do their medical administration as they should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.351.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.368.3", "colnum": "368", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I did not think we had been ungenerous about the Report stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.368.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "INDIA (COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " and which I have asked myself, is: Do we wish India to remain of her own free will and desire within the Commonwealth or not? I have no doubt whatever that nearly all of us in all parts of the House would answer that question \"Aye.\" I do not in any way retract or regret the views I have expressed over so many years, and I am very glad not to be responsible for much that has been done in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "INDIA (COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ay for the well being and happiness of all the peoples of India, of whatever race, religion, social condition or historic character they may be. We must wish them all well and do what we can to help them on their road. Sorrow may lie in our hearts but bitterness and malice must be purged from them, and in our future more remote relations with India we must rise above all prejudice and partiality\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "INDIA (COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "te relations with India we must rise above all prejudice and partiality\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I said this six months ago— and not allow our vision to be clouded by memories of glories that are gone for ever.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 28th October, 1948; Vol. 457, c. 251.] The present attitude of India seems to me more favourable to continued association than it did when those words were spoken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "INDIA (COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"This is out of Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ither the majesty of the Crown or the personal dignity of the King is impaired by the conditions under which India remains in the Commonwealth. On the contrary, the final significance, the vital significance and value of the Monarchy, seems to be enhanced both by the latest proofs of its enduring importance to the other Dominions, as testified by their responsible Prime Ministers, and to the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "INDIA (COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "no doubt that the Adjournment could be moved if that were desired by the Government. It seems to me that the personal dignity of the King is not impaired by the conditions under which India remains in the Commonwealth. The final significance and value of the Monarchy seems to be enhanced by the way in which the King is acknowledged by the Republic of India and by the Commonwealth monarchies alike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.387.0", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Clause 5.—(SUBSIDY IN RESPECT OF IMPORTED MATERIALS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He could not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "riate circumstances. Not so the hon. Member for Keighley. He is against it altogether. He does not want the Clause or the subsidy. He is against it on broad public grounds. He says that wherever a subsidy is payable people are under a temptation. In saying that, he says something that I should not have expected him to say, of all Members; he says that where there is a temptation nobody resists it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.387.0", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Clause 5.—(SUBSIDY IN RESPECT OF IMPORTED MATERIALS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": " there. I am not so cynical myself. I do not think that everybody who is entitled to a subsidy always cheats. Let us assume, nevertheless, that the hon. Gentleman is right and that therefore there ought to be no subsidy. Then, of course, what we have to do is to examine whether the position is better under the Bill or better without it. Subsidies were paid without it. Subsidies are being paid now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.389.2", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Clause 5.—(SUBSIDY IN RESPECT OF IMPORTED MATERIALS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member should not show more ignorance about our Debates on steel than is necessary. He must be aware that we on this side of the House ask for the ending of subsidies upon the steel industry and that the Minister has now obliged us, except in the case of subsidies upon imported materials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.389.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.393.0", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Clause 5.—(SUBSIDY IN RESPECT OF IMPORTED MATERIALS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan", "preceding_text": " of knowledge. These subsidies have been paid year after year, and similar subsidies have been paid, and it is not true to say that if this Bill fell to the ground, or if for some reason vesting date never took place, or if there was a change of Government the new Government, whatever its complexion, whether of the right hon. Gentleman's hon. Friends or of my hon. Friends or of all of us together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Clause 5.—(SUBSIDY IN RESPECT OF IMPORTED MATERIALS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "are to the whole of this argument and to the speech of the hon. Member for Harborough (Mr. Attewell). I hope he will excuse me and not think me discourteous if I do not go into the very complicated points of the steel subsidy. I rise for two purposes. First, it is only fair in a matter of this sort that some representative of the South-West of England should put the point of view of the taxpayers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Clause 5.—(SUBSIDY IN RESPECT OF IMPORTED MATERIALS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "mity, which so often attends their affairs in the House. I hope that the hon. Member who is now the leading Member of the great Liberal Party will have a few words to say on this matter of subsidy. I am, of course, bound to put the Liberal point of view as well as my own, for the very simple reason that in my constituency and in many other parts of the West I have very great support from Liberals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.419.5", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Clause 11.—(TRANSFER TO CORPORATION OF SECURITIES OF SCHEDULED COMPANIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "I would not agree with that. I am not trying to prejudge the action of another place. I do not know what the action in another place will be. Their Lordships have not communicated to me their views on the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.419.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.419.5", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Clause 11.—(TRANSFER TO CORPORATION OF SECURITIES OF SCHEDULED COMPANIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is Labour Day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "its interelations, in the period of, say, between January-February and 1st May. I think I can carry hon. Members opposite as far as that. The hiving-off proposition is a subsidiary one. So I say that on all practical grounds, 1st May is much too early. Before I go on to what I may call the constitutional aspect of the question, I should like to know why the Government attach importance to 1st May—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.419.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.419.5", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Clause 11.—(TRANSFER TO CORPORATION OF SECURITIES OF SCHEDULED COMPANIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "ition is a subsidiary one. So I say that on all practical grounds, 1st May is much too early. Before I go on to what I may call the constitutional aspect of the question, I should like to know why the Government attach importance to 1st May—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It is Labour Day.\"]—beyond the purely frivolous one that it is Labour Day. If they are going to lose the General Election—as I think they will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.419.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.421.2", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Clause 11.—(TRANSFER TO CORPORATION OF SECURITIES OF SCHEDULED COMPANIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, I missed that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.421.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Clause 11.—(TRANSFER TO CORPORATION OF SECURITIES OF SCHEDULED COMPANIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was 25 years too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": " six months more and have a proper and smooth transfer, if transfer there must be, than to have a hasty ill-prepared transfer which will cause subsequent dislocation and great harm to the industry. In the case of the National Coal Board, it was clear that 1st January, 1947, was too soon and that it would have been better deferred to April after the winter coal cutting target period had been fixed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Clause 11.—(TRANSFER TO CORPORATION OF SECURITIES OF SCHEDULED COMPANIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "s of the country by coming into the nationalisation scheme, or best serve the interests of the country by staying with their own companies at the present time, and waiting to see how this thing goes. If they leave their companies today and accept the invitation of the right hon. Gentleman, and the General Election produces a very different result from the last, they will have lost their positions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Clause 11.—(TRANSFER TO CORPORATION OF SECURITIES OF SCHEDULED COMPANIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "nthusiasm for iron and steel nationalisation anywhere in the country at the moment. I do not know of any exuberant and exhorting resolutions about to be passed at the Blackpool Conference of the party opposite, congratulating the Government on the speed and zeal with which they are proceeding to nationalize. There have been no workers' demonstrations, so far as I know, in the iron and steel world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Clause 11.—(TRANSFER TO CORPORATION OF SECURITIES OF SCHEDULED COMPANIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept that argument as valid, for the reason that all the by-elections have shown a progressive decline in the Labour vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.448.5", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Clause 11.—(TRANSFER TO CORPORATION OF SECURITIES OF SCHEDULED COMPANIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name some.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "going to be chosen to be members of this Corporation. If we are to take as an example some of the appointments made in the nationalised industries—and I say this quite boldly—they are further arguments for a longer period than nine months. As I am sure hon. Members on the other side of the House will agree, they have not turned out as well as was hoped. Some have been very bad appointments indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.448.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Clause 11.—(TRANSFER TO CORPORATION OF SECURITIES OF SCHEDULED COMPANIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "use he has been in charge of the Ministry of Supply for so long.\" On a subject about which he should know a great deal, as the descendant of a long and distinguished line of metal merchants, I can only say that the present situation of the nonferrous metal prices in this country is absolutely disastrous. As he has made such a mess of that, what kind of mess can we expect him to make in the future?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.465.2", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Clause 11.—(TRANSFER TO CORPORATION OF SECURITIES OF SCHEDULED COMPANIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You cannot win a by-election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "discussion. The hon. and learned Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison), with a certain disingenuousness, which is his major charm, put his finger on the spot. He said that the real reason we are all arguing about the date is a political reason. There is a certain truth in that. Hon. Members opposite are absolutely determined so to use the last hours of their crumbling power with complete disregard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.465.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Clause 11.—(TRANSFER TO CORPORATION OF SECURITIES OF SCHEDULED COMPANIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "preceding_text": "We must go on some principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.484.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-04-28", "file": "debates1949-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5848a4cb9a92e276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.500.3", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Clause 13.—(DISCLAIMER OF AGREEMENTS AND LEASES.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "There was a Socialist Prime Minister.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. and learned Gentleman does not take the allusion, may I remind him that the judges had their salaries reduced, and all the men in the Navy, too, and that they were sacred contracts in each case?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-04-28a.500.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-02", "file": "debates1949-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a7a0831254e86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-02a.700.3", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Clause 29.—(ACTIVITIES IN SECOND SCHEDULE NOT TO BE CARRIED ON EXCEPT UNDER LICENCE.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I shall say in a moment. The Minister has power to refuse such an application or to impose certain conditions. I use the word \"naturally,\" because it is the policy of His Majesty's Government to see that our resources are not wasted and that they are properly planned in the best possible way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-02a.700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-02", "file": "debates1949-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a7a0831254e86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-02a.700.3", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Clause 29.—(ACTIVITIES IN SECOND SCHEDULE NOT TO BE CARRIED ON EXCEPT UNDER LICENCE.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "s not accepted by the Opposition. They think that the policy is all wrong and that there should be no planning. They say, \"Let everybody pull their weight and we shall have the same happy situation as we had in the pre-war years.\" That is not our policy. We are determined to plan our resources and to see that they are not wasted. We have not sufficient resources to be able to afford to waste them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-02a.700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-02", "file": "debates1949-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a7a0831254e86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-02a.718.3", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Clause 29.—(ACTIVITIES IN SECOND SCHEDULE NOT TO BE CARRIED ON EXCEPT UNDER LICENCE.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attewell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attewell", "preceding_text": " tons without being taken over. I submit that such activities will be enough to show whether the State concern is being operated efficiently or not. The value of these small undertakings will be that they will be able to fit into the national scheme. Were we to allow those firms to grow and to produce more than the maximum amounts laid down, the time spent in passing this Bill would go for nought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-02a.718.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-02", "file": "debates1949-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a7a0831254e86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-02a.734.3", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Clause 29.—(ACTIVITIES IN SECOND SCHEDULE NOT TO BE CARRIED ON EXCEPT UNDER LICENCE.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has gone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "y can survive, and I have never heard anyone on this side of the House who understands industry or, for that matter, does not, making complaints about a balance on the right side. What we complain about is paying it out the wrong way. Having dealt more or less with the hon. and learned Gentleman I should like to say something about the speech of the hon. Gentleman the Member for Flint (Mr. Birch)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-02a.734.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-02", "file": "debates1949-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a7a0831254e86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-02a.736.0", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Clause 29.—(ACTIVITIES IN SECOND SCHEDULE NOT TO BE CARRIED ON EXCEPT UNDER LICENCE.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman walks right into the rat trap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-02a.736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-02", "file": "debates1949-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a7a0831254e86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-02a.752.0", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Clause 29.—(ACTIVITIES IN SECOND SCHEDULE NOT TO BE CARRIED ON EXCEPT UNDER LICENCE.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No power.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": " support a tariff policy which was calculated to allow the industry to recover from the pressure of war, and without which, he said, it would not be able to do so. Which party supported and which opposed that? Who voted against that policy, and what was the result? In succeeding years the situation grew so grave that when the great world calamity of 1931 came after two years of Socialist planning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-02a.752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-02", "file": "debates1949-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a7a0831254e86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-02a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Clause 29.—(ACTIVITIES IN SECOND SCHEDULE NOT TO BE CARRIED ON EXCEPT UNDER LICENCE.)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "s a matter of right under the next Clause. No real case has been made out for this change. The Minister can decide these things as the Clause stands; if he thinks it appropriate that a new entrant should be allowed to come in he can give him a licence which would make it possible for him to carry on his undertaking. If the terms offered were so unattractive to the new entrant he would not come in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-02a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-02", "file": "debates1949-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a7a0831254e86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-02a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Clause 29.—(ACTIVITIES IN SECOND SCHEDULE NOT TO BE CARRIED ON EXCEPT UNDER LICENCE.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "he remainder of his profession. I suggest that litigation would not be more likely but less likely were these words inserted. There is another reason behind it. The right hon. and learned Gentleman was put up with the object of placing the case before the House in his usual courteous manner, but the plain fact of the matter is that the Government do not desire new entrants into the steel industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-02a.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-02", "file": "debates1949-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a7a0831254e86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-02a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Clause 29.—(ACTIVITIES IN SECOND SCHEDULE NOT TO BE CARRIED ON EXCEPT UNDER LICENCE.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "preceding_text": "This Amendment seems to me to be redundant. It is implicit in the Clause that if a licence is granted it is in the national interest that it should be granted. Following on from that, a licence would be granted for a sufficient time to enable the people to recover their capital outlay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-02a.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-03", "file": "debates1949-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "81b9641bb577eb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.926.2", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Clause 54.—(PROVISIONS AS TO PROSE- CUTIONS AND AS TO OFFENCES BY CORPORATIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "The Solicitor-General said that a director could quite well put himself into the position of not knowing what was going on, but how can that possibly take place without an accusation being successfully held against him? We had all this argument yesterday in connection with another Clause, that somehow a man could be isolated from the Bill and maintain that he had no knowledge of what was going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.926.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-03", "file": "debates1949-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "81b9641bb577eb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.928.0", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Clause 54.—(PROVISIONS AS TO PROSE- CUTIONS AND AS TO OFFENCES BY CORPORATIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Presumed guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harrison", "preceding_text": "If I understood the Solicitor-General correctly, he tried to prove that collectively the Corporation had been proved guilty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.928.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-03", "file": "debates1949-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "81b9641bb577eb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.930.3", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Clause 54.—(PROVISIONS AS TO PROSE- CUTIONS AND AS TO OFFENCES BY CORPORATIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "Now hon. Members opposite are getting their answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.930.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-03", "file": "debates1949-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "81b9641bb577eb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Clause 54.—(PROVISIONS AS TO PROSE- CUTIONS AND AS TO OFFENCES BY CORPORATIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " without the slightest protest of any kind from any of them. I was the chairman of a committee which owned a paper, \"The Worker,\" up in Glasgow. The editor of the paper published an article which I had never seen. The editor was arrested, and I was arrested and I got 12 months, as art and part, utterly regardless of whether I was innocent or guilty so far as knowledge of the article was concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-03", "file": "debates1949-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "81b9641bb577eb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Clause 54.—(PROVISIONS AS TO PROSE- CUTIONS AND AS TO OFFENCES BY CORPORATIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "irman of a committee which owned a paper, \"The Worker,\" up in Glasgow. The editor of the paper published an article which I had never seen. The editor was arrested, and I was arrested and I got 12 months, as art and part, utterly regardless of whether I was innocent or guilty so far as knowledge of the article was concerned. [ Interruption. ] Do not hon. Members know anything about \"art and part\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-03", "file": "debates1949-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "81b9641bb577eb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Clause 54.—(PROVISIONS AS TO PROSE- CUTIONS AND AS TO OFFENCES BY CORPORATIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "When all the directors of companies are put inside, one thing will be clear, and that is that the hon. Member for West Fife (Mr. Gallacher) will be almost alone on those benches. I look around and I see, except on the Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-03", "file": "debates1949-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "81b9641bb577eb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Clause 54.—(PROVISIONS AS TO PROSE- CUTIONS AND AS TO OFFENCES BY CORPORATIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "No. If it is not in the minutes, it is very unlikely that the director gave the information. It may have been the accountant or somebody else. In any case, it is not at all difficult for him to prove, because there must be a document and some officials with knowledge of it. The hon. and learned Gentleman talks about limited companies as if they were a sort of razor gang on Brighton racecourse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-03", "file": "debates1949-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "81b9641bb577eb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Sixth Schedule.—(ACQUISITION OF CERTAIN ASSETS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": " by the issue of Iron and Steel Corporation stock. I am advised that it is right that the recovery of assets under Clause 23 should be similarly compensated, particularly as the purchase and disposal of the assets must have been made at the time when the provisions of Clause 23 and the Sixth Schedule had been made public. We are very anxious, where possible, to meet the Opposition on small points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-03", "file": "debates1949-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "81b9641bb577eb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.955.0", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Clause 15.—(COMPENSATION TO HOLDERS OF SECURITIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose fault is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for North Leeds (Mr. Peake) has made some very serious charges and, unfortunately, he has not left me very much time in which to refute them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.955.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-03", "file": "debates1949-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "81b9641bb577eb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.955.0", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Clause 15.—(COMPENSATION TO HOLDERS OF SECURITIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask the Lord President for more time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for North Leeds (Mr. Peake) has made some very serious charges and, unfortunately, he has not left me very much time in which to refute them. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose fault is that?\"] I will, however, do my best in the time at my disposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.955.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-03", "file": "debates1949-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "81b9641bb577eb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.957.5", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Clause 15.—(COMPENSATION TO HOLDERS OF SECURITIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "Both of them. They said that as and when the iron and steel industry was nationalised those concerns which ploughed back, which developed and rehabilitated their equipment, would find that, when nationalisation of the industry took place, that would be taken into account. The charge is that that promise has not been implemented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.957.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-03", "file": "debates1949-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "81b9641bb577eb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.957.5", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Clause 15.—(COMPENSATION TO HOLDERS OF SECURITIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "d that as and when the iron and steel industry was nationalised those concerns which ploughed back, which developed and rehabilitated their equipment, would find that, when nationalisation of the industry took place, that would be taken into account. The charge is that that promise has not been implemented. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am here to say that it has been implemented up to the hilt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.957.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-03", "file": "debates1949-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "81b9641bb577eb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.957.5", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Clause 15.—(COMPENSATION TO HOLDERS OF SECURITIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "stion of my right hon. and learned Friend, and had ploughed back into the industry much of the profits they had made, to the tune of £15 million, in fact. Let me put it to hon. Gentlemen opposite that what has happened has been this, that where a particular concern has thus put its reserves to a good use, and has installed new equipment, that is now obviously reflected in the Stock Exchange price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.957.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-05-03", "file": "debates1949-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "81b9641bb577eb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.957.7", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Clause 15.—(COMPENSATION TO HOLDERS OF SECURITIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Langford-Holt", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman call that honouring a pledge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.957.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-03", "file": "debates1949-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "81b9641bb577eb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.957.8", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Clause 15.—(COMPENSATION TO HOLDERS OF SECURITIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "Where one of the companies listed in the Third Schedule has gone in for rehabilitation, the money for such rehabilitation must have come from one of two sources, either from reserves or from borrowing. If it has been borrowed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.957.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-05-03", "file": "debates1949-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "81b9641bb577eb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.958.2", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Clause 15.—(COMPENSATION TO HOLDERS OF SECURITIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Gag! Resign! [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman (Mr. Bowles)", "preceding_text": "The Question is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-03", "file": "debates1949-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "81b9641bb577eb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.958.2", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Clause 15.—(COMPENSATION TO HOLDERS OF SECURITIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Gag! Resign!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.958.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-03", "file": "debates1949-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "81b9641bb577eb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.958.6", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Clause 15.—(COMPENSATION TO HOLDERS OF SECURITIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "I thought that I saw an hon. Member standing up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.958.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-03", "file": "debates1949-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "81b9641bb577eb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.963.10", "colnum": "963", "heading": "GAS (CO-PARTNERSHIP) REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": ", I should like to call the attention of the House first to Regulation 2 (1), because that makes it quite plain why the existing co-partnership schemes can carry on until 31st March, 1951, but no new entrants will be permitted to come into the scheme. What does that mean? It means, in the first instance, that a distinction is drawn between the old entrants and the new entrants into co-partnership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.963.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-03", "file": "debates1949-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "81b9641bb577eb8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.963.10", "colnum": "963", "heading": "GAS (CO-PARTNERSHIP) REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "rom coming in under the profit-sharing schemes. It might well be that if new entrants were permitted to come in a number of persons, realising the popularity—the popularity of the old copartnership schemes has been great—would be prepared to come in, even knowing that the schemes were to end in 1951, in the hope—the ever-growing hope—that between now and 1951 there would be a change of Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-03a.963.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-04", "file": "debates1949-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7e6a5dc761a7adab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend at least make clear that whatever the legal position may be, it is regarded as an insult to the Mother of Parliaments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.997.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-05-04", "file": "debates1949-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7e6a5dc761a7adab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1015.7", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UGANDA (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "Are we to understand from the Under-Secretary's reply that he has no definite information until the Commission reports? Are we, therefore, to infer that the Governor is not prepared to make a statement because, perhaps, the Governor himself was involved in certain matters of which he is ashamed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1015.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-05-04", "file": "debates1949-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7e6a5dc761a7adab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UGANDA (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is clearly out of Order to make inferences of that kind and accuse the Governor of being implemented. The hon. Gentleman is very wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1015.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-05-04", "file": "debates1949-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7e6a5dc761a7adab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1035.8", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MID-NORTHAMPTONSHIRE WATER BOARD ORDER CONFIRMATION (SPECIAL PROCEDURE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "While I do not wish to be in any way unreasonable, I do think this is a somewhat difficult point. This is the first example of a new procedure, and, while we are perfectly willing to concede the necessities of Government to the Minister, I think something a little more explicit than the rather perfunctory words of the Parliamentary Secretary would be desirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1035.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-04", "file": "debates1949-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7e6a5dc761a7adab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Schedule.—(THE MID-NORTHAMPTONSHIRE WATER BOARD ORDER, 1948.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "happening, so far as I can see. The Minister has decided that he will put forward certain Amendments on the Report stage of this Bill. I do not see that any accusation can be made against him that he is delaying the fulfilment of the Order or that he is indulging in any practice that can, by any stretch of imagination, be called a sharp practice. So far as I can judge, he is following the regular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-04", "file": "debates1949-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7e6a5dc761a7adab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1057.0", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Schedule.—(THE MID-NORTHAMPTONSHIRE WATER BOARD ORDER, 1948.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": " on that occasion accepted the Clause; that is why it is there. The pledge he gave had nothing whatever to do with this particular Clause. It was concerned with the other point, the question of whether the machinery of annulment by Prayer—Section 4—should be used as a bulldozer. If anyone looks at column 2180 of Volume 415 of HANSARD, they will find the words which have been so extensively quoted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-04", "file": "debates1949-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7e6a5dc761a7adab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1069.3", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Schedule.—(THE MID-NORTHAMPTONSHIRE WATER BOARD ORDER, 1948.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I suggest that that is a perfectly legitimate interpretation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1069.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-04", "file": "debates1949-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7e6a5dc761a7adab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1109.4", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "BOLTON CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "ave been come to. That is the suggestion made in all seriousness by hon. Members opposite. I cannot take so low a view of the elected representatives of the people, as they apparently do, as to believe that those representatives would come to a different decision from that to which their consciences and reason impelled them by reason of the fact that the public galleries were either full or empty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1109.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-04", "file": "debates1949-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7e6a5dc761a7adab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "BOLTON CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "All I can say is that I have not received any telegram of that type and it is a rather remarkable fact that the senior Member for the Borough has not received it. It is rather late to hand it to me now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-05-04", "file": "debates1949-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7e6a5dc761a7adab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1123.2", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "BOLTON CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson (Farnham) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-04", "file": "debates1949-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7e6a5dc761a7adab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1123.6", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "BOLTON CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Lewis", "preceding_text": "e referred was 9th November. At this meeting of the town council the Bill was unanimously passed with the hotel Clause in it, and the town clerk rose in his seat, and said, \"Members of the council, this is a completely unanimous vote, and the Bill is a good one.\" It was arranged that the ratepayers should have an opportunity to approve this Bill at a town's meeting on the following Thursday night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1123.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-04", "file": "debates1949-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7e6a5dc761a7adab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1135.8", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "MID-NORTHAMPTONSHIRE WATER BOARD ORDER CONFIRMATION (SPECIAL PROCEDURE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "on. Members would agree that water is a commodity which everyone needs and for which everyone expects to pay. That has always been the principle under which all water undertakings have so far worked, whether they have been local authority undertakings or private enterprise undertakings. I think hon. Members would agree that if they go to a butcher to buy some meat they expect to pay for that meat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1135.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-04", "file": "debates1949-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7e6a5dc761a7adab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "MID-NORTHAMPTONSHIRE WATER BOARD ORDER CONFIRMATION (SPECIAL PROCEDURE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "ry in the case of a Water Bill—The Water (Scotland) Bill—passed through this House as recently as November of last year and which, by a strange coincidence, is coming down for consideration from another place this very night. It is true that we have been a little delayed by the Bolton Wanderers. but that delay is now over. Home is the sailor, home from the sea. And the wanderer home from the hill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-04", "file": "debates1949-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7e6a5dc761a7adab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1165.5", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "MID-NORTHAMPTONSHIRE WATER BOARD ORDER CONFIRMATION (SPECIAL PROCEDURE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Opted?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": " of this principle. The hon. and learned Gentleman who initiated the discussion from the Opposition side of the House pointed out that there was a precedent for the option and also for the professional auditor so far as water boards were concerned. He named two, but he omitted to go further and point out that out of 47 water boards in England there are 37 which have opted for the district auditor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-04", "file": "debates1949-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7e6a5dc761a7adab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "MID-NORTHAMPTONSHIRE WATER BOARD ORDER CONFIRMATION (SPECIAL PROCEDURE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": " audit done by professional auditors. I will not reiterate the arguments already adduced, but authority after authority has been cited and power after power given where professional auditors are concerned. I have already made the point in answer to the right hon. Member for Linlithgow that there is no distinction in impartiality and professional capacity between district and professional auditors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-04a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-05", "file": "debates1949-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fcc377bd26f4ff40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-05a.1204.5", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": "e in the endeavour to get work for the officers and the men. As the Parliamentary Secretary is replying to two Questions at once I hope I shall be allowed to put two supplementary questions. First, with regard to the officers. The Parliamentary Secretary has explained that there is great difficulty so far as the skilled men are concerned. They have not carried out manual labour during their lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-05a.1204.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-05", "file": "debates1949-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fcc377bd26f4ff40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-05a.1223.2", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "BERLIN BLOCKADE (REMOVAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "In the negotiations in New York we did not go into every one of those details. I am afraid that if we did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-05a.1223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-05", "file": "debates1949-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fcc377bd26f4ff40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-05a.1242.2", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "CHINA (BRITISH POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "It was exceedingly helpful to the Embassy, because, if the ship had not been there, there would have been a load of other general wireless traffic to be carried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-05a.1242.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-05", "file": "debates1949-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fcc377bd26f4ff40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-05a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "CHINA (BRITISH POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "was most likely due to an accident or misunderstanding and, as far as we have been able to get with our inquiries so far, all the evidence goes to show this. In any event, the naval officer in that position could not remain inactive without trying. The situation of the wounded in \"Amethyst\" was desperate, but the use of air support with \"London\" and \"Black Swan\" would have been a clear act of war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-05a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-05", "file": "debates1949-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fcc377bd26f4ff40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-05a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "CHINA (BRITISH POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "arrying out a delicate and at times dangerous assignment. I must remind myself—because I may overlook it in coming to deal with other matters later—that I would like on behalf of the Defence Services, as the Prime Minister spoke for everybody last week, to say how much we appreciate the grand behaviour, the loyal conduct and the splendid service which the men who were involved in the actions gave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-05a.1245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-05", "file": "debates1949-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fcc377bd26f4ff40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-05a.1295.3", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "CHINA (BRITISH POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "hey will find that wireless is one of the reasons for which the presence of a ship is always requested. A further reason is that the ship may conduct wireless communication with the Navy, separate from that of the Embassy with the Foreign Office and other places. What happens to wireless when the electric power supply fails and it is necessary to be self-sufficient for long-distance transmissions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-05a.1295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-05", "file": "debates1949-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fcc377bd26f4ff40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-05a.1343.0", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "CHINA (BRITISH POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It did not get there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "have an operation of war for the silencing of batteries with aircraft of various sizes, either land-based or from aircraft carriers, up 220 miles of river, has proved to be absolute moonshine. I think it was quite wise of the right hon. Member for Bromley that he turned away from that and dealt with why it was a wise thing or a foolish thing that the \"Amethyst\" should have gone to Nan king at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-05a.1343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-05", "file": "debates1949-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fcc377bd26f4ff40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-05a.1355.1", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "PETROL ALLOWANCES (RURAL AREAS)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Robens)", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Robens)", "preceding_text": "I must confess that after listening to the speech of the hon. Member for Dumfries (Mr. N. Macpherson) I had a feeling that he had spoiled his case by gross exaggeration of the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-05a.1355.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-09", "file": "debates1949-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "b3248099cf9cb259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1503.3", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ourth Sitting he will see that the hon. Member for Keighley said that much more time would be taken on the later stages of the Bill than on the earlier stages. However, I wish to pay tribute to the fact that, generally speaking, the proceedings in Committee were conducted in an atmosphere of good will. There was, on all sides, a desire to improve the Bill wherever improvements were found possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1503.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-09", "file": "debates1949-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "b3248099cf9cb259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1505.1", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "he past, of rising right from the bottom. It is not my intention to use the time of the House to deal with the details of the Bill. Very few details of any consequence have been left without debate and consideration, and it is because I believe that this Bill is in the best interests of the country that I support it. There has been some criticism of the Bill from one of the major unions concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-09", "file": "debates1949-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "b3248099cf9cb259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1527.3", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "lt problem of the relations of management and workers in a great in- dustry. I do not put it higher than that at the moment. I trust that I am keeping in Order, as I do not propose to elaborate examples of nationalised industries, but the content of this Bill is to nationalise the steel industry, and I am trying, as fairly as I can, to present the case against allowing this Bill to be implemented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1527.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-09", "file": "debates1949-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "b3248099cf9cb259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1529.1", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. L. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. L. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "pposition to this Bill, are not relying entirely upon the efforts of hon. Gentlemen opposite, gallant though those efforts have been—especially when making a loud noise about the Guillotine. They are relying rather more upon the hope that they will be able to persuade the country to turn this Government out of office at the next General Election, and thereby prevent this Bill from operating fully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-09", "file": "debates1949-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "b3248099cf9cb259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1536.5", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "An hon. Gentleman opposite has said that he would debate this matter with any Member of another party, but not with a Member who had been thrown out of a party. Well, believe me, it is quite a distinction, because all the other Members whom I can remember in my lifetime as having been thrown out of the party, are now in the Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1536.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-09", "file": "debates1949-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "b3248099cf9cb259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1543.1", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "r. Deputy-Speaker. I have been addressing so many public meetings recently. I ask the Minister, if he questions that figure, to say that the State are not getting what the Socialists always wanted. Where does the £500 million come for the food subsidy, if it does not come from this profit? If the Government turn this profit into a loss they will do nothing except impose a lower standard of living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-09", "file": "debates1949-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "b3248099cf9cb259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1576.7", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "machinery for settling terms and conditions of employment. We have frequently heard, and we on the Committee heard until we were tired, the Parliamentary Secretary saying that the workers of the industry were doing this grand job of work in the hope of nationalisation. Will they keep up the grand job of work after the industry has been nationalised, because the coal miners have not been doing So?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1576.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-09", "file": "debates1949-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "b3248099cf9cb259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So it has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "r in the speeches made by those who speak for the iron and steel workers, of any sense of bitterness or frustration similar to that which existed in the coal industry with regard to which we were so constantly assured that nationalisation would resolve—it would resolve the sense of bitterness and do away with the sense of frustration; it would have a most wonderful effect on production and output.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-09", "file": "debates1949-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "b3248099cf9cb259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And no Guillotine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "either whole-time and functional or part-time and non-functional. I cannot believe that seven or eight amateurs, who are non-functional and who have no executive or administrative jobs to do themselves, will put in full-time work as members of the Board of this Corporation. Apparently, they are to have a continuous Board meeting, which will go on for eight hours every day for five days every week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-09", "file": "debates1949-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "b3248099cf9cb259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1605.1", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I invited the Federation and the leaders of the industry to put any point to me, but they have not done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-09", "file": "debates1949-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "b3248099cf9cb259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1605.1", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I invited the Federation and the leaders of the industry to put any point to me, but they have not done so. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] The fact that they have not put any points before me is regrettable, and however hostile—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-09", "file": "debates1949-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "b3248099cf9cb259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1606.5", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I am just coming to that. It was alleged, and has been alleged again today, that the Government prevented adequate discussion of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1606.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-09", "file": "debates1949-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "b3248099cf9cb259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1607.1", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, I understood we were dealing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-09", "file": "debates1949-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "b3248099cf9cb259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1607.4", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Send him out\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members kept quiet they would be able to hear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1607.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-09", "file": "debates1949-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "b3248099cf9cb259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1607.8", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I only want to say a few words about this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1607.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-09", "file": "debates1949-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "b3248099cf9cb259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1608.9", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I only want to say that, on any reckoning and any comparison with any previous nationalisation Measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1608.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-09", "file": "debates1949-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "b3248099cf9cb259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1610.0", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "member that on Report stage agreed Amendments, which had been agreed by the Opposition, were discussed for hours after the agreement had been declared. Finally, my answer to the charge that some sections of this Bill have not been adequately discussed in Committee and on Report is the undeniable and regrettable fact that it is wholly and solely due to the tactics pursued by the Conservative Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-09", "file": "debates1949-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "b3248099cf9cb259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1610.1", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas", "preceding_text": "And the Lord President goes to Paris and talks about Parliamentary democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-09", "file": "debates1949-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "b3248099cf9cb259", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1610.2", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. While the hon. Member below the Gangway was making an interruption, an hon. Gentleman called out \"Judas\" and I should like to ask whether the term \"Judas\" is in Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-09a.1610.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-10", "file": "debates1949-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5c44a033d6cdae2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1673.1", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "New Clause.—(PROVISION OF ALTERNATIVE ACCOMMODATION WHERE LICENSED PREMISES ACQUIRED.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimston", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimston", "preceding_text": "That is an entirely different point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-10", "file": "debates1949-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5c44a033d6cdae2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1687.1", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "New Clause.—(PROVISION OF ALTERNATIVE ACCOMMODATION WHERE LICENSED PREMISES ACQUIRED.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Football pools.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": " constituency for a moment—was that in the areas scheduled for the new towns, there happen to be Socialist publicans, and I hope that the Government do not intend to carry out the present brewers' system under which publicans will be forced to do what they have to do now, in the way of exhibiting notices and posters which are completely repugnant to their consciences and to those of their patrons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-10", "file": "debates1949-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5c44a033d6cdae2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1723.3", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "New Clause.—(SPECIAL HOURS CERTIFICATES FOR CERTAIN CLUBS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I should have thought not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1723.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-10", "file": "debates1949-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5c44a033d6cdae2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1727.1", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "New Clause.—(SPECIAL HOURS CERTIFICATES FOR CERTAIN CLUBS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "saying that if these facilities are to be given at all, hotels and restaurants are certainly entitled to consideration. I cannot imagine anyone—I am not saying this at all jocularly—who would be more capable of providing facilities of this sort on a very substantial and proper scale than well-known catering firms. They could then be reputably and well conducted, and could still be made attractive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-10", "file": "debates1949-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5c44a033d6cdae2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1764.1", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Clause 5.—(ACQUISITION OF LAND.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a minute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1764.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-10", "file": "debates1949-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5c44a033d6cdae2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1765.6", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Clause 5.—(ACQUISITION OF LAND.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said nothing of the kind.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "e into being at a later date. That is where he misled those who voted for the Second Reading of this Bill. I want to come to the argument, such as it was, which the Home Secretary put up just now. He said that it was necessary for him to have these powers of compulsory acquisition, for he could not have a position where there were other licensees in the new towns operating in competition with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1765.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-10", "file": "debates1949-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5c44a033d6cdae2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1765.6", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Clause 5.—(ACQUISITION OF LAND.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "ot say it, it is what he meant. If he did not say it, I will say it for him. That can be the only possible interpretation of the action of the right hon. Gentleman in insisting on these powers of compulsory acquisition. He could not stand up to the competition of free enterprise. The right hon. Gentleman must have a monopoly, and if he has not, he will be beaten by the private enterprise licensee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1765.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-05-10", "file": "debates1949-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5c44a033d6cdae2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1770.4", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Clause 5.—(ACQUISITION OF LAND.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braddock", "preceding_text": "I would point out that that letter was in connection with my own constituency where, owing to the attitude of the publicans, agitation was being promoted to suggest that we were out to take over all public houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1770.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-05-10", "file": "debates1949-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5c44a033d6cdae2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1771.1", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Clause 5.—(ACQUISITION OF LAND.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braddock", "preceding_text": "o bring this up—it must have been planned—to give me notice of it. I am a new Member of this House but I thought that it was ordinary courtesy when matters of this sort are being brought up to give notice to that effect. I repeat again that the agitation in this matter was a local one, there was fear in my own constituency that this would happen to them, and I was dealing with my own constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-10", "file": "debates1949-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5c44a033d6cdae2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1771.5", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Clause 5.—(ACQUISITION OF LAND.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "position clear to the House, but he should make his position equally clear to his own constituents. However, I willingly leave that matter to his own conscience. To turn to the general aspect of the matter, it is perfectly clear that many hon. Members opposite were honestly in the position of misunderstanding the contents of this Bill. They were honestly misled by the speech of the Lord President.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1771.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-10", "file": "debates1949-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5c44a033d6cdae2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1771.5", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Clause 5.—(ACQUISITION OF LAND.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Contacting agents for the brewers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "e contents of this Bill. They were honestly misled by the speech of the Lord President. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"] Oh yes, and that was reflected even as lately as in the proceedings upstairs on the Committee stage. I think now that when they reconsider their position, having been misled so far, hon. Members opposite will find themselves in conscience bound to abstain from voting tonight on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1771.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-10", "file": "debates1949-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5c44a033d6cdae2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1771.5", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Clause 5.—(ACQUISITION OF LAND.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": " lately as in the proceedings upstairs on the Committee stage. I think now that when they reconsider their position, having been misled so far, hon. Members opposite will find themselves in conscience bound to abstain from voting tonight on this matter. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Contacting agents for the brewers.\"] There is one other aspect of this matter with which I would ask the Home Secretary to deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1771.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-10", "file": "debates1949-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5c44a033d6cdae2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1771.5", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Clause 5.—(ACQUISITION OF LAND.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "emarks sitting down, it is rather difficult to understand what they mean. If they have anything to say worth listening to, I suggest that they take the trouble to get to their feet, when I would willingly give way, but unless they do that, they might hold their peace for a moment. I would ask the Home Secretary to consider this matter. Let us assume for one moment that the Home Secretary is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1771.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-10", "file": "debates1949-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5c44a033d6cdae2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1773.4", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Clause 5.—(ACQUISITION OF LAND.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman himself has used the argument—I am sure I am not distorting his argument—that the Bill could not be made to function in this respect unless compulsory powers were available. We are seeking to omit \"compulsory purchase\" and to use the method of \"agreement\" only. Am I not entitled, therefore, to argue that, even if the Home Secretary is right, the compulsory powers need not be in his—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1773.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-10", "file": "debates1949-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5c44a033d6cdae2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1806.0", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "First Schedule.—(STATE MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "n my view, it is still so great that a Secretary of State in the future may need to have the opportunity of acting very quickly if he should be threatened with a boycott. It would be part of his administrative duty to deal with it. It is not the kind of thing that can be done in a corner, and if it were felt that he was acting unjustly or oppressively, he would always be accountable to this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-10a.1806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-11", "file": "debates1949-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7ecaba3b86f15e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1822.2", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — U.K. VISAS (MEMBERS OF LEGISLATURES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend, in view of the fact that he once said that he would like to be able to go to Victoria and take a ticket to where the hell he liked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1822.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-11", "file": "debates1949-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7ecaba3b86f15e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1856.3", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Deplorable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " then was as follows: The view of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom has always been that no change should be made in the constitutional status of Northern Ireland without Northern Ireland's free agreement.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 28th October, 1948; Vol. 457, c. 239.] I have received representations from the Government of Eire and I have noted speeches that were made yesterday in the Dail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1856.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-11", "file": "debates1949-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7ecaba3b86f15e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1856.3", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " in the United Kingdom has always been that no change should be made in the constitutional status of Northern Ireland without Northern Ireland's free agreement.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 28th October, 1948; Vol. 457, c. 239.] I have received representations from the Government of Eire and I have noted speeches that were made yesterday in the Dail. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Deplorable.\"] I am very much surprised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1856.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-11", "file": "debates1949-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7ecaba3b86f15e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1878.1", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. O'Neill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "It has been said that this guarantee to Northern Ireland perpetuates partition. I do not know whether it does or not, but at any rate, in view of the violent reaction. in Southern Ireland, and the spate of propaganda that they have been putting forward, I must ask the indulgence of the House while I remind hon. Members for a few minutes of the history of partition, how it began—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-11", "file": "debates1949-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7ecaba3b86f15e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1878.1", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. O'Neill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "Northern Ireland perpetuates partition. I do not know whether it does or not, but at any rate, in view of the violent reaction. in Southern Ireland, and the spate of propaganda that they have been putting forward, I must ask the indulgence of the House while I remind hon. Members for a few minutes of the history of partition, how it began—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and on what authority it rests�ž", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-11", "file": "debates1949-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7ecaba3b86f15e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1878.1", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. O'Neill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. O'Neill", "preceding_text": " must ask the indulgence of the House while I remind hon. Members for a few minutes of the history of partition, how it began—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and on what authority it rests�ž[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I should have thought that at a time when partition is being violently assailed it was not unreasonable to give the House some details of its origin and the authority on which it rests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-11", "file": "debates1949-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7ecaba3b86f15e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1893.3", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Professor Gruffydd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Gruffydd", "preceding_text": "land has not been put very effectually, because it is quite obvious that the hon. Member for the Platting Division of Manchester (Mr. Delargy) was speaking from a very sincere but hot feeling. I think it could be coolly said that the one objection Southern Ireland has to this Bill is to the words \"Parliament of Northern Ireland.\" The Prime Minister was not quite as disingenuous as he generally is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1893.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-11", "file": "debates1949-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7ecaba3b86f15e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1919.1", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "preceding_text": " of the Bill, if I have that assurance from the Lord President of the Council, then I shall be compelled to go into the Lobby against the Government, and those who wish to follow me will be very welcome. Even if it is one man and one man only, I shall go into the Lobby against the Government because of the injustice which I see inflicted upon a country of which I am proud to call myself a citizen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-11", "file": "debates1949-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7ecaba3b86f15e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1925.2", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read all of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "preceding_text": "ssion to examine Ireland's North-Eastern area. It may be embarrassing to acknowledge British responsibility for the state of affairs there, but at least it will enable British spokesmen to point out motes or beams in other eyes without feeling that they have one planted in their own. Here is one of these beams. I have in my hand a register of a school polling station in my own division in Belfast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1925.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-11", "file": "debates1949-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7ecaba3b86f15e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1925.2", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "preceding_text": "e is one of these beams. I have in my hand a register of a school polling station in my own division in Belfast. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Read all of it.\"] Oh, no. On the pages of this book is a surprising number of names of people who are on the register but have no local government vote. Out of 5,000 names on that register, 3,000 people do not qualify for the vote, although they are over the age of 21.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1925.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-11", "file": "debates1949-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7ecaba3b86f15e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1927.3", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "preceding_text": "es, when the Chancellor is looking for money, whether he should not look towards the elimination of the allocation of that monew for political purposes in Northern Ireland. Surely, when after more than a quarter of a century this state of affairs still continues, there is grave suspicion of the wisdom of giving support to such a junta and of endorsing the partition which brought it into existence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1927.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-11", "file": "debates1949-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7ecaba3b86f15e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1936.5", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "preceding_text": "That is what the Bill says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1936.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-11", "file": "debates1949-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7ecaba3b86f15e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1940.6", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "preceding_text": "to be friendly to this country. Within six months of being elected on that pledge the present Prime Minister of Eire announced that he was going outside the Commonwealth, which seems to me to be a betrayal of those who voted for him. When he makes sneering observations about our Prime Minister, he might at all events learn the simple lesson that we have a Prime Minister who is true to his pledges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1940.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-11", "file": "debates1949-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7ecaba3b86f15e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1955.1", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "mbered that at the moment legally the Republic of Ireland is a foreign State, and Irish folk in this country are foreigners. I can assure the House that my experience of Irish folk in this country is that they do not want to be foreigners. Indeed, the Republic of Ireland does not want to be in the Commonwealth but it does not want to be foreign—it is as far as I know quite sincere, on both points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-11", "file": "debates1949-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7ecaba3b86f15e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1955.1", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "at was the view of the Irish Labour Party, but he will be aware that some developments have taken place in Northern Ireland. As a result of the Irish Labour Party coming into Northern Ireland a new Northern Ireland Labour Party has been established, and it is only fair to inform the House that the Northern Ireland Labour Party has, for the first time, made a very clear declaration about partition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-11", "file": "debates1949-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7ecaba3b86f15e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1955.1", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "use that the Northern Ireland Labour Party has, for the first time, made a very clear declaration about partition. [ Laughter. ] I am not making any humorous or sarcastic observations because although this is a new organisation it is an organisation of substance. This is what they have said, on the recommendation of the executive. It was passed at their conference on a card vote, by 20,000 to 700.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-11", "file": "debates1949-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7ecaba3b86f15e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1955.1", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "s to be squeezed and coerced on a matter which ought not to be a deciding factor in British politics. I have co-operated, and so have my right hon. and hon. Friends, with Irishmen in many good causes for many years. The Labour Party has been a good friend of Irish freedom from the old Home Rule days, and many Irish folk in this country vote heavily for Labour candidates for various public offices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-11a.1955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-12", "file": "debates1949-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d55e9777149b461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-12a.1997.6", "colnum": "1997", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEVISION ADVISORY COMMITTEE (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. H. Morrison)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. H. Morrison)", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. Lord Trefgarne, who has served as chairman for well over three years, now feels compelled by pressure of his other commitments to ask to be relieved of his post.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-12a.1997.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-12", "file": "debates1949-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d55e9777149b461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-12a.2009.3", "colnum": "2009", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I had said that we hope to complete the Ireland Bill by 6.30 p.m.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-12a.2009.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-12", "file": "debates1949-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d55e9777149b461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-12a.2074.1", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "ve taken some kind of anti-Pelman course which has induced a condition of political amnesia. Whatever the position is, at any rate they have lived to repeat the performance of the Merovingian chieftain who burned the things he adored and adored the things he burned. But he was converted from paganism to Christianity. My hon. Friends have been converted from the collective system to power politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-12a.2074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-12", "file": "debates1949-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d55e9777149b461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-12a.2098.1", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "hn Hope), does not want war. I would, however, make two comments: first, that he goes a queer way about proving it, in view of what he has been saying in the last 15 minutes; and second, that we should recall what his leader, the right hon. Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill), said in October last at the Conservative Party Conference, that we should drop the atom bomb on Russia before they had it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-12a.2098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-12", "file": "debates1949-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "3d55e9777149b461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-12a.2109.1", "colnum": "2109", "heading": "NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington-Lodge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has been done already.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington-Lodge", "preceding_text": "n is anathema to me, and I know that it is the same in the case of a great many of my hon. Friends on this side of the House. In stating that the Spanish question is a European family matter, Mr. Acheson, the Secretary of State in the United States of America, has most accurately analysed the Franco Government for us. I should like to quote to the House his words which appear in \"The Times\" today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-12a.2109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERHARDT EISLER (ARREST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "It is not an improper insinuation; it is God's truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.28.7", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERHARDT EISLER (ARREST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order. As the matter is of great importance to everyone in this House who is concerned with the tradition of Great Britain in protecting political refugees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.28.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.28.7", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERHARDT EISLER (ARREST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Czechoslovakia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order. As the matter is of great importance to everyone in this House who is concerned with the tradition of Great Britain in protecting political refugees—[ Interruption. ]—on this side and I believe some on the other side as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.28.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.28.7", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERHARDT EISLER (ARREST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "t point of Order. As the matter is of great importance to everyone in this House who is concerned with the tradition of Great Britain in protecting political refugees—[ Interruption. ]—on this side and I believe some on the other side as well. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Czechoslovakia.\"] There is not a single example of this sort of business in Czechoslovakia. Can hon. Members opposite give a single example?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.28.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ct of this is to show that the initiative is not with this Parliament. This is very odd. It seems to me extraordinarily odd if the normal formula is, \"It is said\" and then suddenly, once, after 600 years, instead of saying \"It is said\" you say \"Postlethwaite said\" and, when challenged, you say \"Of course I put it that way in order to make it clear that Postlethwaite was not taking the initiative.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.48.2", "colnum": "48", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Beattie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nefarious work?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Beattie", "preceding_text": "thing appertaining to the welfare of the Irish nation. They will not do that because they have no interest in Ireland. All their interests are over here in this country. Government after Government have handed it down as a legacy that Northern Ireland must not be allowed to join with the rest of Ireland, and these people are encouraged to continue the nefarious work of keeping the country divided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.48.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "preceding_text": "is Committee, Mr. Bowles, I withdraw that remark. I quite agree that it is unparliamentary, but it came out unknown to myself. I should have used the word \"Hades\"; that would have made all the difference. I do not want this Debate to be typical of some which we have had when Irish representation has been discussed. We are not all built the same way; but we can be serious and try to be intelligent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "remember the statement of my hon. Friend the Member for Penistone (Mr. McGhee) about a Cabinet mission going to Ireland. It could meet our friends in Ireland and come to some sort of agree- ment with them whereby this problem at any rate could be brought nearer solution if in the first stages it cannot be solved. I ought to stop now, because I do not want to speak too long. I am convinced of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is on your side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "h them whereby this problem at any rate could be brought nearer solution if in the first stages it cannot be solved. I ought to stop now, because I do not want to speak too long. I am convinced of this—[ Interruption. ] I am not going to speak about South Africa. That is one of the stupid observations which some back benchers on this side of the House who are supporting the Bill like to introduce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.92.5", "colnum": "92", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "a majority of Nationalists. There have been a great number of statements to the effect that this bit or that bit ought to be \"hived off\" and that the present position is a hardship to some part of Fermanagh or Tyrone. It is exactly the same hardship as that suffered by the county of Hampshire, which longs to be out of the administration of the present Socialist Government but is not allowed to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.92.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.108.7", "colnum": "108", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why was that essential?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "d to pass the law which they did and which came into effect on 18th April, but that being the position, and particularly in view of the name that Mr. Costello chose for his country under the new constitution, it was essential that some statement should be made first to the people of Northern Ireland and secondly, to the world as to the position in which we see the people of North Ireland standing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.108.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Tory Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ut the North of Ireland refused to send a member and, in fact, the member who was supposed to represent Northern Ireland was nominated by the Government of the United Kingdom. While it would be easier to argue that the Act of 1925 was not very welcome to North Ireland, there could no doubt about the full participation of South Ireland in all the negotiations that led up to the passing of that Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.111.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.121.2", "colnum": "121", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. There appears to be some confusion. I understood that we were voting on the Amendment to delete paragraph ( b ), with the result that many of those who support the next Amendment, in line 11, did not vote or voted with the Government; whereas now we are told that we were voting on the second Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.133.2", "colnum": "133", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairhurst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairhurst", "preceding_text": "May I point out, Mr. Bowles, that you allowed a certain licence prior to my speech and that I do not see why you should not allow it to me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "preceding_text": "I have complete confidence in the people of Northern Ireland. They are represented by their Parliament, and the sooner hon. Members opposite get that into their heads the better.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.135.4", "colnum": "135", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "preceding_text": "There was only one exception to that, and that was a member of the party of the hon. Member for West Fife (Mr. Gallacher) who sacrificed his deposit, and so there was in every constituency but one a straight fight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.135.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Bowles. Two speeches have been made from the other side of the Committee of a most controversial character. There was not a single interruption from this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.136.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.140.2", "colnum": "140", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "preceding_text": "It is difficult when these suggestions have been thrown out by the proposer, that one should be very considerably gagged in trying to answer them——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilfrid Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilfrid Roberts", "preceding_text": "em. I am not so sure that the Government of Northern Ireland are as representative as some people have said. An hon. Member made a great claim that the Northern Ireland Parliament was more representative than this country's Parliament. I ask why, if they are so anxious to be fully representative and have minorities properly represented, did Northern Ireland do away with proportional representation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilfrid Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilfrid Roberts", "preceding_text": "laim that the Northern Ireland Parliament was more representative than this country's Parliament. I ask why, if they are so anxious to be fully representative and have minorities properly represented, did Northern Ireland do away with proportional representation [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members may laugh but Southern Ireland has not done that. There may be many objections to proportional representation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ertained. My hon. Friend the Member for Oldham (Mr. Hale) talked about the Socialist way of ascertaining opinion. As far as I know, the social democratic way of ascertaining opinion is through a representative Parliament. That is the doctrine the Government have included in the Bill—a representative Parliament. The hon. Member for North Cumberland (Mr. W. Roberts) suggested that in some other way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "union movement in Northern Ireland. That was done in a speech of exceptional clarity, not by an Ulsterman, by a member of the Tory Party or by a Government speaker who had to follow his brief for the day, but by the hon. Member for Wycombe (Mr. Haire) from his own knowledge. I can, if necessary, quote his remarks, but I will not do so as I have no desire to take up any great time of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.181.2", "colnum": "181", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Like the Scots.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "erent names. 11.30 p.m. Erse has survived, not only in the South, but in the North, and it survived all the Anglicisation which was tried from the days of Cromwell, right down to 1916. Right to the present day, the original native language survives in the North. One finds in the South of Ireland that the people there are always perfect English speakers—better English speakers than the English are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.181.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.189.3", "colnum": "189", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I think we have now discussed the major controversial issues of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-16", "file": "debates1949-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7b6a6837838b81aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.201.2", "colnum": "201", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": ") asked about the speech of my right hon. Friend the Lord President. All I can think is that the Lord President had come fresh from reading the view of the noble and learned Lord who, as we know, differed from my noble Friend in another place, but he was not seeking to give legal advice to the House. Had I noticed what he said at the time, I might have taken the opportunity of correcting it, but——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-16a.201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir David Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir David Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "id propound that solution, and that it is no mere blank negation which we have put forward against the right hon. Gentleman's proposals. I come now to the point at which I started in opposing this Bill. I believe it is quite intolerable that in a democratic country in time of peace there should be interference with the right of the ordinary man to choose the type of draught beer he wants to drink.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir David Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir David Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "ite intolerable that in a democratic country in time of peace there should be interference with the right of the ordinary man to choose the type of draught beer he wants to drink. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I believe that is an essential basis of liberty, taking into account the ordinary range of human nature as we know it, and I am sure that there is practically entire agreement on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "lt of it. In the discussions which took place during the Second Reading of the Bill I felt that hon. Members generally spoke as though they were dealing with something like a water board. The pride that was expressed by some of my hon. Friends in the capacity of a public authority to put out the right sort of beer gave me the impression that they were discussing the matter as though it were water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": " Home Secretary has now given the opportunity for all their good work to be negatived, and Kensington will lose its earlier hours, and must take the later hours of other contiguous areas. I believe that further slipping will overtake even this good Home Secretary, who is a teetotaller in his heart, because he has managed to believe that good can be done in London by boozing until 2 in the morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "d liberty of the subject in this country. I oppose it because I believe, not that it is a general threat for the nationalisation of all public houses in the country, but because I believe it to be one of those laboratory experiments to which Governments of the type under which we now suffer are committed, and of which they appear to be so fond. They would put human beings under experimental tests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the by-elections?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": " that this Bill is chiefly desired in order to extend still further the frontiers of patronage by His Majesty's Government. After all, the General Election is beginning to cast its shadow over the House and without making any reference to the events of last Thursday, which may be unwelcome on the benches opposite, whatever happens in that Election there are hound to be heavy Government casualties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.306.4", "colnum": "306", "heading": "LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "d address he has given us. He has also given a number of other cases, and I am willing to give way if he wishes to help me by saying to which case this name is attached. I think that that is a sufficient demonstration of the hon. Gentleman's methods. I will now proceed to reply, as he is entitled to a reply, to the hon. Member for Mitcham (Mr. Braddock), who took exception to certain observations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.306.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Be fair.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braddock", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman mind reading the exact words? He has them there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.309.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.313.2", "colnum": "313", "heading": "LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": "s, the hon. Member took to task my hon. Friend the Member for Mitcham (Mr. Braddock), and he did so in what I considered a rather unfair way. He produced a part of a letter. He had not got the original letter by him. I put to him this direct question: Was the snippet of the letter which the hon. Member for Kingston-upon-Thames quoted supplied to him by the Brewers' Society or one of its officials?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.313.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.313.2", "colnum": "313", "heading": "LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": "er unfair way. He produced a part of a letter. He had not got the original letter by him. I put to him this direct question: Was the snippet of the letter which the hon. Member for Kingston-upon-Thames quoted supplied to him by the Brewers' Society or one of its officials? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I am putting a perfectly fair question to the hon. Member, and I will give way for him to answer it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.313.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "rtunate to regard the public house as necessarily a place of iniquity and temptation. The public house of this country is peculiarly an English invention. There is nothing like it in the rest of the world. I can tell the House that when the Canadian and American soldiers got back to their own country, the institution which they have missed most and which they talked about most was the English pub—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has been quoted twice already.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "ates that there should be presto and not adagio. One or two hon. Gentlemen opposite have proclaimed with great confidence that this Bill does not threaten the nationalisation of the beer industry. I see that my good Friend the hon. Member for Bilston nods his head. I would remind my hon. Friend that this is what the Lord President of the Council said in this House during the Second Reading Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": " my hon. Friend that this is what the Lord President of the Council said in this House during the Second Reading Debate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It has been quoted twice already.\"] Then I shall quote it again. Perhaps on the third time it will penetrate even the skulls opposite. He said: 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/1949-05-17a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "quoted twice already.\"] Then I shall quote it again. Perhaps on the third time it will penetrate even the skulls opposite. He said: 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/1949-05-17a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "hall quote it again. Perhaps on the third time it will penetrate even the skulls opposite. He said: 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/1949-05-17a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "even the skulls opposite. He said: 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/1949-05-17a.325.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.336.2", "colnum": "336", "heading": "LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "Precisely. During the whole of the proceedings in Committee documents were being passed about headed \"The Brewers' Society.\" They were being passed from one hon. Member to the other on the opposite side——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "preceding_text": "izens—we are all agreed on that—but most of us realise that because of the juxtaposition of the two countries and because of the economic links which unite them, it is the only sensible policy to adopt. This House is wise in having decided to accept the Government's proposal to that effect. I should have been quite prepared to treat the Irish Republicans as aliens; it would be reasonable to do SO.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the world.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "lending it the support of groups which never gave it support before. For that reason, they say, it makes the progress of united feeling in Ireland more difficult. I saw placards on the walls in Dublin in connection with their recent elections. One of them was a quotation from James Connolly, who was executed in 1916. The quotation was only one sentence: The cause of labour is the cause of Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.360.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "preceding_text": " each other and saying one to the other, \"God bless you.\" The Tories have now declared that they have won a great victory through the influence of the Front Bench which is representative of the great Labour movement outside. I am sorry that the day has arrived when I have seen this Tory and Socialist combination getting together with the one common thought of the defeat of the Irish working class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.368.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": "I am not going to say anything to disturb the harmony of the proceedings which has hitherto prevailed. In fact, I can honestly say that I never said anything in this House to cause bitterness in any way whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-17", "file": "debates1949-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1b49d94f35f0f876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.373.2", "colnum": "373", "heading": "IRELAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We always do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": "izen of Eire who resides in the United Kingdom—this is a Clause in the Bill—on 31st October can be at once put on the Spring register, or if he resides for one night here on 30th April, can be immediately put on the Autumn register. You are giving them an immense concession. If you are willing to take the risk, that is your affair. All I can say is that we have acted with extraordinary generosity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-17a.373.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-18", "file": "debates1949-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "53a9bb973256636f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "As usual, the hon. Gentleman's information is incorrect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.418.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-05-18", "file": "debates1949-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "53a9bb973256636f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.420.6", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "No, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.420.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-18", "file": "debates1949-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "53a9bb973256636f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "on. Members that, although they may not agree with my views, the evidence that I shall produce at least merits consideration and deep thought. Possibly and, in my opinion, probably, we are rapidly approaching another crisis worse than that of 1931. It will be a worse crisis because in 1931 our external position was not threatened. It was chiefly our internal affairs that brought about that Crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-18", "file": "debates1949-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "53a9bb973256636f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.468.1", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "gainst this Budget, but I see a logical argument against it, in that as a Member of this House I have agreed to the Estimates, and having done so it is illogical to vote against the methods proposed for raising the money with which to pay for them. We must reduce expenditure on a large scale. There must be no tinkering, but a reduction next year of expenditure to the tune of at least £500 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-18", "file": "debates1949-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "53a9bb973256636f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wadsworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wadsworth", "preceding_text": "of its freedom and a lot of its enterprise. In the last 25 years dividends, not efficiency, have been the target, for in this period we have seen an amazing and unhealthy growth of monopolies, price rings, cartels, and so on which have protected the shareholder and his dividends at the expense of efficiency and the pockets of the people. My colleagues and I passionately believe in free enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-18", "file": "debates1949-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "53a9bb973256636f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin", "preceding_text": "ar a further increase without difficulty. I speak not as a working-class critic of business, but as one who has emerged from the working class and become a director of a business. I am still a director and the business, in the post-war boom, is doing very well. I have no controlling interest and I have not a great deal to do with its administration but, as far as I am aware, it is doing very well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-18", "file": "debates1949-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "53a9bb973256636f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sidney Shephard", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What chance did he ever have?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sidney Shephard", "preceding_text": " to expand their business because it is not worth their while. The Economic Survey for this year says: Our recovery can never be complete unless we can develop a keen and adventurous spirit in management. How can we expect a young man to have a keen and adventurous spirit? What chance has he of becoming a Nuffield, or of building up a big business? Very little compared with when I was a young man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-18", "file": "debates1949-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "53a9bb973256636f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "e they do not want to charge more than they need. They want to keep a good market in the export trade, against the day when exports drop off. The cheaper they are able to sell their goods, the better their future prospects. Suppose they were highly patriotic; suppose they said: \"We know we can get 50 per cent. more\"; what would happen? There is today a terrible stigma attaching to making a profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-18", "file": "debates1949-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "53a9bb973256636f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.538.2", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " rate, I do not mind if the consumption drops. I should be glad if we exported only half the amount if we doubled the price, because then we should get the same amount of dollars and more whisky would be available here. I believe—this may be why some hon. Gentlemen are a bit sensitive on the matter—that there is a tie-up between the distillers in this country and the distributing trade in America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.538.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-18", "file": "debates1949-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "53a9bb973256636f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.557.1", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ntil we recreate the belief that thrift is worth while. What are the real remedies which the Chancellor could have applied? The first is a reduction in the present level of national expenditure. The minute one says that one expects hon. Members opposite to ask where we would make that reduction. I would say first of all that we desire to preserve the present range and scope of the social services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-18", "file": "debates1949-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "53a9bb973256636f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.557.1", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "een built up on the detestation of Capitalism and \"Labour Believes in Britain\" talks in its third paragraph of seeking freedom from the enslaving material bonds of capital. The hon. Member for West Renfrew (Mr. Scollan) said in the Budget Debate: The capitalist system is effete, useless and dangerous and ultimately will create absolute chaos.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 6th April, 1949; Vol. 463, c. 2151.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-18", "file": "debates1949-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "53a9bb973256636f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.570.3", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "What I am asking the hon. and gallant Gentleman is, does he think this nation ought to invest a greater proportion of its gross national income than it is doing at the present time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.570.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-18", "file": "debates1949-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "53a9bb973256636f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.573.3", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "They are all inefficient, produce at a high cost and at a low rate. The main point which most of my hon. and right hon. Friends have made is the great danger which faces this country because prices and costs are rising here whereas they are falling in the rest of the world. What is the right hon. and learned Gentleman's answer to that? It is perfectly simple—he says you have to reduce the profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.573.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-18", "file": "debates1949-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "53a9bb973256636f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.575.2", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "Of course, we have to honour an agreement when we make one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.575.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-05-18", "file": "debates1949-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "53a9bb973256636f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.575.10", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "There is no question of dishonouring an agreement at all. It was all arranged with the Canadian suppliers, who came over here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.575.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-05-18", "file": "debates1949-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "53a9bb973256636f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.576.5", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman asked me what it was, and I have told him; and there were other cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.576.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-18", "file": "debates1949-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "53a9bb973256636f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.576.8", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the trouble.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "I do not know the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.576.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-18", "file": "debates1949-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "53a9bb973256636f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.576.9", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "I am sticking to the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-18a.576.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-19", "file": "debates1949-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fe4e9eafb08873e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.597.0", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALIENS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": " from the United States Embassy, attend with the British officers on the boat? Did they come over on the tender which took the police officers and did they get aboard the vessel with the police officers; were they, in fact, introduced as aliens to the captain of the ship, or were they assumed to be part of the entourage together with the other police officers? Further, may I ask the Home Secretar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.597.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-05-19", "file": "debates1949-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fe4e9eafb08873e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.597.1", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALIENS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "e British officers on the boat? Did they come over on the tender which took the police officers and did they get aboard the vessel with the police officers; were they, in fact, introduced as aliens to the captain of the ship, or were they assumed to be part of the entourage together with the other police officers? Further, may I ask the Home Secretar—[ Interruption. ] May I respectfully point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-19", "file": "debates1949-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fe4e9eafb08873e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.637.4", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What Government were in power then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "e best currencies in the world. I think that as the years go on and we have a change of Government, it will be one of the hardest. The American oil magnates seem more lucky than the film magnates in Britain. Hon. Gentlemen opposite know that for many years the American oil companies have made immense profits here. They got into this market before the British really woke up to the future of petrol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.637.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-19", "file": "debates1949-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fe4e9eafb08873e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "saction to which the hon. Gentleman referred, I must remind him of an old poem, actually composed by a Prime Minister, one of the few who could write reasonable poetry—not that this an outstanding example in poetry In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. I am not talking at the moment of the Dutch; I am talking of the great American oil companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-19", "file": "debates1949-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fe4e9eafb08873e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.670.0", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glanville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glanville", "preceding_text": "There is a simple answer. The coal owners flogged the pit seams during the period they were in possession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-19", "file": "debates1949-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fe4e9eafb08873e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.673.4", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Minister of Health is here now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": " is to be the general staff of the new independent Labour Party, but until it becomes that, it is being the general staff of the Labour Party. I know the Minister of Health has the highest admiration for the Fabian Society and I am sorry he did not hear the right hon. Gentleman when he spent about 12 minutes of his speech attacking the pamphlet on the ground that it was inaccurate and superficial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.673.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-19", "file": "debates1949-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fe4e9eafb08873e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "It does not matter when.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-19", "file": "debates1949-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fe4e9eafb08873e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "It does not matter when. [ Interruption. ] If hon. Gentlemen are going to start the game that has been accorded to winding-up speakers on this side, of making the Debate a free-for-all we can start right away. I am asked when those estimates were made, and I say that they were made by the United States Bureau—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-19", "file": "debates1949-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fe4e9eafb08873e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "is afternoon. The right hon. Member also asked if absenteeism was due to the introduction of the new social security scheme and loose certification by doctors. I do not know; that may have some effect. I know that when the man injured at the pit was examined by the insurance doctor, he was usually given a note to get back to work much quicker than his private doctor would have told him to go back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-19", "file": "debates1949-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fe4e9eafb08873e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.733.3", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "I did not interrupt the hon. and gallant Gentleman, and if I give way it will be impossible for me to say something more about the matter. I am making a statement, and there will be plenty of opportunities, for example, on the Adjournment Motion, for the hon. and gallant Gentleman to refute it if he considers that I am wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.733.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-05-19", "file": "debates1949-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fe4e9eafb08873e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.733.5", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Lancaster", "preceding_text": "ook the example of 50 to 80 feet of overburden in both cases, and I explained precisely the difference, the nature of the overburden, the method being employed, the restoration of the surface—in fact the whole cost of \"getting.\" I can assure the Parliamentary Secretary that if he will read HANSARD tomorrow, instead of making these wild statements, he will see that what I have just said is correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.733.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-19", "file": "debates1949-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fe4e9eafb08873e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.734.6", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "ste time in replying to the points which he made. There was a general allegation that there had been one common factor in relation to all the nationalised undertakings. That common factor brought great cheers from the Opposition, as I suppose it will bring great cheers again when I mention it. It was that every time there had been a vesting, or an industry had been nationalised, up went the price—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.734.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-19", "file": "debates1949-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1fe4e9eafb08873e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "Obviously if prices go up there is a reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-19a.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-20", "file": "debates1949-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ab97e3b4749c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-20a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA FISH INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Evans", "preceding_text": "ginning. The Bill is also disappointing because it does not provide for a unified marketing scheme. The Bill is designed to assist the near-water section of the industry by integrating it with distant-water fishing. It fails to impose quantitative restriction and it does not provide a homogeneous marketing scheme. But in spite of what has been said from the other side, what is in the Bill is good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-20a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-20", "file": "debates1949-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ab97e3b4749c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-20a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA FISH INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He told us 40 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "y fish for herring sometimes, and then sometimes they go trawling in near waters. Very few individual fishermen will, in present circumstances, be inclined to commit themselves to the huge outlay required either to build new ships or even to recondition ships. The Minister has not told us of the percentage of total cost of rebuilding or of new building or of reconditioning that is to be available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-20a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-20", "file": "debates1949-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ab97e3b4749c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-20a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA FISH INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "hat will give me an opportunity of bringing in my favourite subject—the dyed kipper. Why does the Minister perpetually run away from this question? If he will go to the Isle of Man, he will see that the Government there are making loans for curing sites. While we suffer from slumps in the kipper trade, they go ahead like a house on fire. This \"painted lady of the underworld,\" as it has been called", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-20a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-20", "file": "debates1949-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "8ab97e3b4749c25d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-20a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA FISH INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wants to raise a question of the Business of the House, let him address his question to the Leader of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-20a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-23", "file": "debates1949-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5836c0f57588ab2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.918.3", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEPHONE CHARGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "n of this increase is a queer way of encouraging that extension. I say that this increase for the telephone service is not justified. Perhaps I shall be told that it is. I will deal with that later. If the increase is made solely in order to increase the revenue of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is using this service as an instrument for fiscal policy, then I dislike it and am opposed to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.918.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-23", "file": "debates1949-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5836c0f57588ab2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.979.5", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "erning this country which otherwise would not be told. These people would not know where we stand on the major issues of the day without these news services. If these news services were of no value, surely the Embassies would have reported back that no one was using them and would we please discontinue them. This is not the case; they are asking for them more and more because of their great value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.979.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-23", "file": "debates1949-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5836c0f57588ab2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "man will see that further down the page there is a list of films with an asterisk against them, which denotes that they were made primarily for showing overseas. What use is it to this country that overseas audiences should see films on farming in South-East England, or the job of a country policeman in Scotland? Obviously, these films are unnecessary, and money should not have been spent on them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-23", "file": "debates1949-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5836c0f57588ab2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.987.4", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": " may use that word, in quoting that tribute by the Minister of State to the British Press, in view of the right hon. Gentleman's own grossly exaggerated, as I thought, and quite irresponsible recent attack on the British Press generally and on its accuracy. I personally take a much higher view of the British Press than did the right hon. Gentleman last week on the occasion to which I am referring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.987.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-23", "file": "debates1949-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5836c0f57588ab2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "ll of us have to pay. It seems to me that it is an important indirect incentive to greater production if that can really be understood. We all know—hon. Members opposite as well as hon. Members on this side of the House have repeatedly told Chancellors in recent years—that no single item is such a drag on production as the Income Tax payable on overtime. That has to some extent been put right now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-23", "file": "debates1949-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5836c0f57588ab2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.993.0", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": " does wrong, and I think that we should look at what the Government have achieved in that direction. If one took that case, it would be very difficult to defend the actions of the Central Office of Information. Why, for example, has the pamphlet \"Labour Believes in Britain\" been circulated in America under the auspices of the Foreign Office? That seems to me the most extraordinary thing to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.993.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-23", "file": "debates1949-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5836c0f57588ab2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.994.4", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "I do not think the hon. Gentleman has in the least answered the point that I was trying to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.994.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-23", "file": "debates1949-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5836c0f57588ab2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.1006.2", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "It is a misrepresentation, but what I said, if I remember aright—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.1006.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-23", "file": "debates1949-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5836c0f57588ab2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.1006.7", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "economic education. I say with absolute earnestness and sincerity that if serious economic education into the economic facts of life and the difficulties through which the country has passed during the transition had not been undertaken by the Economic Information Unit and the Central Office of Information, I believe that the welfare of our country would have been gravely damaged as a consequence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.1006.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-23", "file": "debates1949-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5836c0f57588ab2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They should vote Tory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ports and exports, and the need for production. It is no good assuming that the country was educated in a first-class manner at the beginning to understand these things, and if the country had not understood them the conduct of the average citizen would have been materially different from what it has been. We have got through to a great extent precisely because of the good conduct of the citizen.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-23", "file": "debates1949-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5836c0f57588ab2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "is all very well to say that it is a pound a snoop, as the hon. Member for Twickenham (Mr. Keeling) said. A pound a snoop is cheaper than private enterprise in this sphere, with one exception which uses voluntary people. As a whole it is materially cheaper than private enterprise, and it is not a pound a snoop because in addition to the interviews a lot of other things have to be done and paid for", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-23", "file": "debates1949-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5836c0f57588ab2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The P.R.O's.\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ke it clear. The Central Office of Information does not spend £16 million. That figure—it is slightly diminished in the present Estimates, I am glad to say—is the overall cost of the information services—C.O.I., Overseas Service, British Council, B.B.C. subventions for certain overseas affairs, and for all the Departments, including the Foreign Office, the Dominions Office and the Colonial Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-23", "file": "debates1949-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5836c0f57588ab2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " It is perfectly true that it is a wider business, but, if the Central Office of Information were abolished, it would mean that the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Labour, the Foreign Office, and all the rest of the Government Departments would each be making films and would each be producing magazines, and the cost would be infinitely more than if the C.O.I. did it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-23a.1011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-24", "file": "debates1949-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "69625555f908bc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1030.3", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Property owner!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "I have a form in my possession at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-24", "file": "debates1949-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "69625555f908bc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1090.4", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and gallant Gentleman will have plenty of opportunity and I have no doubt that he will take advantage of it. The Conservative Party must make up their minds exactly where they stand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1090.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-24", "file": "debates1949-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "69625555f908bc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1090.4", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "ure is introduced, Questions appear on the Order Paper. I can remember the Question which was put immediately on one occasion by the hon. Member for Oxford (Mr. Hogg): \"Will the Minister reconsider any cuts which he is proposing to impose on the Oxford Regional Hospital Board?\"—and so on. When we come to look at the development of the scheme, we shall have to face the fact that it will cost money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1090.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-24", "file": "debates1949-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "69625555f908bc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1090.4", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "t it will cost money. [ Interruption .] It is all very well for the lunatic fringe of the Conservative Party to act in this way. I would rather be without a policy than be saddled with theirs. We must seriously face up to the fact that this scheme will seldom be likely to cost less than it is costing today. We have got to face that. Any economies which are made in the administration of the scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1090.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-24", "file": "debates1949-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "69625555f908bc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": " he will follow the precedent he has set today by having a right hon. and learned Gentleman next to him, and that he will not try to pass Clauses which he is assured by all the lawyers present in the Committee are legally obscure, by saying that he thinks that there is nothing obscure in them and insisting that they should go on the Statute Book as they stand. Having said that, I welcome the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-24", "file": "debates1949-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "69625555f908bc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "would not be fitting, to consider steps of the order suggested by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Undoubtedly, prune and trim as we will, the cost of the services is on the rise and is still rising. It is vitally necessary that the health services should be rounded off, for them to be as the nation desire them to be. That is the position of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen on this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-24", "file": "debates1949-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "69625555f908bc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Subsection 7.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "With all respect, we did a most original thing here. Because the propaganda had confused the minds of the doctors we did not even wait for the courts to interpret the Act of Parliament. Yet the courts might have decided that the Act of Parliament was clear and have interpreted it in our sense. Although there are between 17,000 and 18,000 G.Ps. in the country, this Bill affects only 50.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-24", "file": "debates1949-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "69625555f908bc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1173.3", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Yes, because that is the matter I am discussing at the present time. We ought not to be reproached on the ground that an amending Bill proves that we made a mistake. If making a change, if making an improvement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-24", "file": "debates1949-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "69625555f908bc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1176.3", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "g after a patient? If it be the fact—and it is a fact—that the limitation on the provision of hospital accommodation is the lack of trained nurses, I cannot get trained nurses by letting half the country go blind. Hon. Members must make up their minds. I cannot reduce any of these services, or make a charge for any of these services without an amendment of the law. I cannot do it administratively—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-24", "file": "debates1949-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "69625555f908bc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1212.4", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(AMENDMENT OF 9 & 10 GEO. 6. c. 34.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Nothing at all, but it is usual in this House, especially in circumstances like these, that the interests shall be disclosed. I am not sure how far Privilege is involved but if it had been anybody on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1212.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-24", "file": "debates1949-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "69625555f908bc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1213.0", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(AMENDMENT OF 9 & 10 GEO. 6. c. 34.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "Of course, the Minister of Health was bound to explode some time. He has been putting an undue strain on himself all night. We do not complain; we like these demontrations. They are very interesting and very useful. If one were to look for an attitude of bias against the middle class, one would not look at the right hon. Gentleman's past speeches but at his present speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1213.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-05-24", "file": "debates1949-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "69625555f908bc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1222.5", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(MINOR AMENDMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and gallant Gentleman has exhausted his right to speak. He can speak again only by leave of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-24a.1222.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-25", "file": "debates1949-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "33e264805987a9fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-25a.1242.5", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JAPAN (REPARATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "As the effect of what is already a decision by the American Government to end reparations from Japan will be to restore Japanese industry as German industry has been restored in the West and so once again undercut Britain in her overseas markets, and as the smallest of the satellites, the Philippines have made a vigorous protest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-25a.1242.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-25", "file": "debates1949-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "33e264805987a9fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-25a.1306.1", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDS TRIBUNAL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGhee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is not much development either.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGhee", "preceding_text": "roper comparison. There is not much hardship yet, at any rate—I cannot resist mentioning this; I am sorry to see that no representative of the Ministry of Town and Country Planning is here—because the great Act which was going to collect £300 million in five years has at the moment, collected less than £750,000. Therefore, there cannot be very much hardship in the collection of development charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-25a.1306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-25", "file": "debates1949-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "33e264805987a9fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-25a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Third Schedule.—(REMUNERATION OF PERSONS GIVING LEGAL AID UNDER PART I.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joynson-Hicks", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And caviare.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joynson-Hicks", "preceding_text": "e will understand, they may be translated in this way: Those various scales give to the solicitor remuneration upon the following basis: the party and party scale gives him his bread; the solicitor and client scale gives him bread and scrape; the solicitor and client scale when paid out of a common fund gives him bread and butter; the solicitor and own client scale gives him bread, butter and jam.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-25a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-25", "file": "debates1949-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "33e264805987a9fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-25a.1384.1", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Third Schedule.—(REMUNERATION OF PERSONS GIVING LEGAL AID UNDER PART I.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price-White", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price-White", "preceding_text": "remain unnamed, that is, those within the Bar Society and the Law Society. A tremendous amount of work has been done and a tremendous amount of contact has been achieved with those whom the Bill will affect. It is through those efforts that this Bill should prove a success. I would issue this warning. The tonsorially-perfect Member for Oxford warned against litigation. Litigation is an evil thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-25a.1384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-25", "file": "debates1949-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "33e264805987a9fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-25a.1392.7", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "MEAT (RETAIL PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "The effect of these orders is that Order No. 778 increases the maximum retail prices of meat and edible offal by an average of 4d. a lb. Order No. 783 extends these increases to Northern Ireland. I regret that Members from the Northern Irish counties are not present to take an interest in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-25a.1392.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-25", "file": "debates1949-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "33e264805987a9fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-25a.1398.1", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "MEAT (RETAIL PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "t want to make speeches on the other orders affecting the other foods. We want to bring the principle home that the Minister of Food and his Parliamentary Secretary should make a stand against the issuing of such orders. I am not quite certain myself that the responsibility for the orders rests entirely with the Minister of Food and the Parliamentary Secretary, who have been doing a very good job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-25a.1398.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-05-25", "file": "debates1949-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "33e264805987a9fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-25a.1400.3", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "MEAT (RETAIL PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I would hang the hon. Member if I got the chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-25a.1400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-25", "file": "debates1949-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "33e264805987a9fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-25a.1402.1", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "MEAT (RETAIL PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose canteens?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "preceding_text": " prices in many industrial canteens which seem to bear no relationship to the increases to be found in these orders. In order to support this, I shall give certain figures for what is known as \"A\" category canteens, that is to say, canteens which serve the needs of heavy workers. The meat in these canteens now costs three-farthings per meal more than it did before these orders came into operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-25a.1402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-25", "file": "debates1949-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "33e264805987a9fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-25a.1408.2", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "MEAT (RETAIL PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "If I may point it out, I did have an understanding with you, Mr. Speaker, not to mention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-25a.1408.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-05-26", "file": "debates1949-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "bff79d833e1bc899", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1419.0", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALIENS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend say who decided that? Were the Americans given this technical advice by some Department of the British Government to enable them to put the thing across in a way most convenient to them; and if Bow Street is normally the court used for applications, why was this done in a sort of under cover way at Southampton?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-26", "file": "debates1949-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "bff79d833e1bc899", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1503.1", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT BULK BUYING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "could be solved by Imperial Preference, and it was up to them to disabuse that idea entirely. So one of the resolutions was passed in the strongest possible terms saying that the people of the West Indies and the primary producers regarded the maintenance of this system as being absolutely vital to the economic life of the country. I think it is really time the Conservative Party made up its mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-26", "file": "debates1949-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "bff79d833e1bc899", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1503.1", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT BULK BUYING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "bsolutely vital to the economic life of the country. I think it is really time the Conservative Party made up its mind. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak up.\"] You have to shout in order to be heard, sometimes, and in order to get these things across. After three years the Conservative Party has steadily refused to declare what is its policy on this subject of major interest to people throughout the Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-26", "file": "debates1949-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "bff79d833e1bc899", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1522.1", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT BULK BUYING", "cue_speaker": "Major Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Bruce", "preceding_text": "rong in a whole series of instances. It put in this pamphlet one or two things which have been incorrectly done, such as: Persisted in bulk purchase of food and other commodities although involving taxpayer in heavy losses. In one transaction the Argentine Government made over £8 million profit. (You pay.) That was reproduced in a rather larger pamphlet sent out by the Conservative Central Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-26", "file": "debates1949-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "bff79d833e1bc899", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1524.3", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT BULK BUYING", "cue_speaker": "Major Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Bruce", "preceding_text": "l, which bears out the hon. Gentleman's contention. The hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Wirral (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd) at the Conservative Party Conference spoke on bulk buying, the resolution in regard to which was passed unanimously, as happens at all Conservative conferences. It is amazing the degree of unanimity that the Conservative conferences reach. The hon. and learned Gentleman said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1524.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-26", "file": "debates1949-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "bff79d833e1bc899", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1554.1", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT BULK BUYING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "he most serious criticism is that under rising prices British costs tend to be artificially low, whereas under falling prices they are too high, that is, too high at a time when competition is all the more keen. That is really the greatest condemnation from a thoroughly impartial source, quoted with glee on many occasions by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, of the system of bulk purchase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-26", "file": "debates1949-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "bff79d833e1bc899", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1562.1", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT BULK BUYING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Mr. Strachey)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Mr. Strachey)", "preceding_text": "really been said from the other side of the Committee comes down to this, that there has been no attempt to deny seriously that bulk buying in the four years since the end of the war has been immensely successful in saving this country many hundreds of millions of pounds and in securing enormous supplies of raw material and food for this country which could not have been supplied in any other way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-26", "file": "debates1949-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "bff79d833e1bc899", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1566.4", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT BULK BUYING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "I am not going into a fragment of a document read out to this Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1566.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-26", "file": "debates1949-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "bff79d833e1bc899", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1568.5", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT BULK BUYING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about quantity?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "ract 70 per cent. above the pre-war price. For the meat we bought from New Zealand we also paid 70 per cent. above the pre-war price and for the meat we bought from the Argentine we paid 86 per cent. above the pre-war price. Hon. Members on both sides of the Committee will agree that if we could get all our imports on the basis of such a moderate price rise as that, we should be very happy indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1568.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-26", "file": "debates1949-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "bff79d833e1bc899", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1571.2", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT BULK BUYING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "s the justification for them. A number of smaller points have been made. I will take one of them as an example of the reiterated accusation that our bulk buying of raw materials on a falling market handicaps the British exporter because he pays a higher price for his materials. I entirely agree that that is something which we must watch most closely, and something which we must do something about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1571.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-26", "file": "debates1949-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "bff79d833e1bc899", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1579.6", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MID-NORTHAMPTONSHIRE WATER BOARD ORDER CONFIRMATION (SPECIAL PROCEDURE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": " pointed out to the Parliamentary Secretary that the date suggested by the Government was, of course, ridiculous. The Parliamentary Secretary, the orphan of the storm on that occasion, abandoned by his Minister, was, of course, unable to manœuvre in any direction so as to accept any Amendment, however slight. Consequently the time of the Committee was wasted. The Committee was kept sitting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1579.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-26", "file": "debates1949-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "bff79d833e1bc899", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1584.4", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MID-NORTHAMPTONSHIRE WATER BOARD ORDER CONFIRMATION (SPECIAL PROCEDURE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "e discretion to these public bodies, as it was inserted by the Joint Committee of both Houses in the original Bill. The distrust of popularly-elected bodies is a feature of the policy of this Government and their preference for decisions taken by Ministers in camera is well known. All we shall do is take note of it. We ask the country, as well as the River Nene Catchment Board, to take note of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-26a.1584.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-30", "file": "debates1949-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "798db09c563a7e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-30a.1713.3", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "The principal ingredient of imitation honey is invert sugar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-30a.1713.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-30", "file": "debates1949-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "798db09c563a7e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-30a.1730.5", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERHARDT EISLER (COURT DECISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that this man was forcibly dragged off a Polish ship, kept in prison for three weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-30a.1730.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-30", "file": "debates1949-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "798db09c563a7e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-30a.1868.4", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Gurney Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Gurney Braithwaite", "preceding_text": " fill this post with conspicuous success, but if not in the Post Office establishment, surely throughout the Civil Service establishment as a whole. After all there are now 694,000 from whom to choose. In any case, how long is the present Public Relations Officer to continue in this appointment—unto three score years and ten or unto four score years? I end as I began. This is no personal vendetta—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-30a.1868.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-30", "file": "debates1949-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "798db09c563a7e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-30a.1872.3", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "This is no personal vendetta. I hope I shall not be told by the hon. Gentleman that I am attacking a distinguished civil servant unable to defend himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-30a.1872.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-31", "file": "debates1949-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "2b435d9d777496b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-31a.1898.6", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "I am satisfied that there need be no sense of injustice and that no unnecessary difficulties will be put in the way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-31a.1898.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-31", "file": "debates1949-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "2b435d9d777496b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-31a.1942.4", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPERANNUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who started it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ch that Members opposite will also contend for it and use words to persuade the right hon. and learned Gentleman, and that if their words are of no avail they will use their votes. I do not think that anyone in private life with a servant who had served him faithfully for 20 years would turn round and tell him that he will get less pension because part of his service was on an unestablished basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-31a.1942.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-31", "file": "debates1949-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "2b435d9d777496b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-31a.1942.4", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPERANNUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "t his service should count for only half, is a position we cannot maintain. Of course, the position would be much easier if Governments before had taken a different line. But all reforms would be unnecessary if previous Governments had already carried them into effect. Of course it would be easier if there were no unestablished civil servants, but there always will be unestablished civil servants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-31a.1942.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-05-31", "file": "debates1949-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "2b435d9d777496b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-31a.1955.1", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPERANNUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What Member?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "It is a letter of which I have seen a copy. If hon. Members want it to be read, I do not mind. It says: The Committee stage was taken, not on the Floor of the House, but by a Standing Committee of which I was unfortunately not a member. I replied accordingly, but promised …", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-05-31a.1955.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-06-01", "file": "debates1949-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "5b583e53ca8fb8f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-01a.2096.1", "colnum": "2096", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "To return to the question——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-01a.2096.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-06-01", "file": "debates1949-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "5b583e53ca8fb8f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-01a.2101.2", "colnum": "2101", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORWAY (BRITISH TRAWLER, ARREST)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Surely it is understood in this House that the position of a Member of Parliament overrides whatever private position he may hold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-01a.2101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-01", "file": "debates1949-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "5b583e53ca8fb8f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-01a.2144.1", "colnum": "2144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1949–50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You would not like to farm it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "id, marginal land exists all over Great Britain. It is not land which lies at the foot of hill country; it is land which exists in every county in the country. I was rather surprised to see a statement by, I think, the president of the Red Poll Society a short time ago to the effect that within 40 miles of Ipswich there were 100 square miles of marginal land which could be brought into production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-01a.2144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-01", "file": "debates1949-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "5b583e53ca8fb8f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-01a.2202.1", "colnum": "2202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RURAL WATER SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": "his summer, far from every cottage having a water tap, many villages will have no water at all. This is not due to neglect in the past, but to the fact that the consumption of water is going up quickly each year. In the years from 1938 to 1948 the consumption of water in London, I understand, went up from 30 gallons a head to nearly 60 gallons. It has gone up in the same degree in the countryside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-01a.2202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-01", "file": "debates1949-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "5b583e53ca8fb8f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-01a.2226.1", "colnum": "2226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RURAL WATER SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In urban areas.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "t indeed. Hon. Members opposite have tried to defend it on the ground that enough was not done before. I should have thought that was an argument they might have been very chary of using. Water engineering in this country is one of the great glories of the social services of the whole world. An unrivalled amount of water supply was put into force in years before the Labour Party was ever heard of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-01a.2226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-01", "file": "debates1949-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "5b583e53ca8fb8f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-01a.2226.1", "colnum": "2226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RURAL WATER SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "thought that was an argument they might have been very chary of using. Water engineering in this country is one of the great glories of the social services of the whole world. An unrivalled amount of water supply was put into force in years before the Labour Party was ever heard of—[An HON. MEMBER: \"In urban areas.\"]—in the urban areas it is true, but the rural areas also were coming under review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-01a.2226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-01", "file": "debates1949-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "5b583e53ca8fb8f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-01a.2226.1", "colnum": "2226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RURAL WATER SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "rruption. ] Yes, it is true. When we were building 380,000 houses a year there was a call on water supply which is not present now when the Government have allowed the number to be cut down to 200,000. The Labour Party ought to be very careful about casting animadversions upon the achievements of water engineering, or on any subject connected with the development of the countryside before the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-01a.2226.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-06-02", "file": "debates1949-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "7464edc15385b58e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-02a.2293.3", "colnum": "2293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may be allowed to give a personal explanation. The coroner's jury said that this person was killed by another patient, which must have been murder. The fact remains that the patient was killed owing to inadequate supervision, which is a most serious charge against the hospital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-02a.2293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-02", "file": "debates1949-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "7464edc15385b58e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-02a.2332.0", "colnum": "2332", "heading": "COUNCIL OF EUROPE (BRITISH DELEGATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister say how he justifies excluding a party which got 2½ million votes at the last election? Will he say why he has allowed the Lord President of the Council to abandon all the accepted bases for nominating people, such as were accepted for broadcasting and for Coalition Governments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-02a.2332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-02", "file": "debates1949-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "7464edc15385b58e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-02a.2333.3", "colnum": "2333", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to detain the House from the important Business with which it has to deal today, especially as I understand that within a short time we shall have to go to another place, but I cannot allow the Motion, so eloquently moved by the Prime Minister, to pass without some comment. I have been in the House 25 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-02a.2333.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-02", "file": "debates1949-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "7464edc15385b58e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-02a.2333.3", "colnum": "2333", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "s opposite came in, and I shall still be here after many of them have gone out. I do not recollect that in those 25 years we have ever been asked to adjourn at Whitsuntide for such a long Recess as we are now taking. I must admit that in making that statement I am trusting my memory and have not indulged in any research. Although there are many matters on which my memory is not wholly trustworthy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-02a.2333.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-02", "file": "debates1949-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "7464edc15385b58e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-02a.2342.8", "colnum": "2342", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oily.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": "I was gratified that the right hon. Gentleman who opened for the Opposition, in what I thought was one of his usual charming, able, admirable and witty speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-02a.2342.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-02", "file": "debates1949-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "7464edc15385b58e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-02a.2342.8", "colnum": "2342", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": " of the right hon. Gentleman have maintained that course consistently over a century of Parliamentary history. The right hon. Gentleman was perfectly right to refer to the interest he has in Blackpool. The right hon. Gentleman has a great interest in Blackpool. I once had occasion years ago to draw up a survey of the municipalities within a radius of 50 miles of Blackpool where land had been sold—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-02a.2342.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-02", "file": "debates1949-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "7464edc15385b58e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-02a.2348.6", "colnum": "2348", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": " to decide on party policy. I think that I have quoted his words accurately. In other words, it is in order to enable the Socialist Party to decide whether they are a Marxist party or a Social Democratic party. In order to enable them to decide that, we have to have a 14 days' Recess instead of a seven days' Recess. If that really is the argument, it seems to me a most incredible state of affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-02a.2348.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-02", "file": "debates1949-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "7464edc15385b58e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-02a.2360.1", "colnum": "2360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUXILARY AND RESERVE FORCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "cing the prospective introduction of the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces Bill of that year, said that the present procedure for the mobilisation of the Forces was antiquated in character and quite unsuited to modern conditions, based as it was upon the hypothesis that war could only come after such a period of warning as would give time to change from a peace to a war footing. That Act having lapsed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-02a.2360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-02", "file": "debates1949-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "7464edc15385b58e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-02a.2389.0", "colnum": "2389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUXILARY AND RESERVE FORCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At a sacrifice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "old the opposite view strongly, that war settles nothing and that this Bill is part of the war machine. It is a conception commonly held that in order to ensure peace you must be prepared for war, but, even from the military point of view alone, what has happened in the last two wars contradicts all that. The nations that were least prepared for war were the nations that won those wars militarily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-02a.2389.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-02", "file": "debates1949-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "7464edc15385b58e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-02a.2440.3", "colnum": "2440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUXILARY AND RESERVE FORCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "e proposal in the Bill. I hope that will be satisfactory. Now I come to a few general propositions. One is the criticism levelled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Basset-law (Mr. Bellenger). It was a friendly criticism and quite proper in the circumstances. I make no complaint. Then the hon. and gallant Member for Barkston Ash (Colonel Ropner) and the hon. and gallant Member for Legge-Bourke", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-02a.2440.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-21", "file": "debates1949-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "6d504a1e3ebcf5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-21a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOURIST INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "I have not made any such suggestion. It is not for me to make suggestions; I hope we shall receive those from the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-21a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-21", "file": "debates1949-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "6d504a1e3ebcf5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-21a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOURIST INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Kinghorn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Kinghorn", "preceding_text": "s propaganda to persuade our people to spread their holidays throughout the summer months. I believe that, with the work the R.A.F. has done in meteorological survey we know that there can be no guarantee that the best sunshine will occur in the usual holiday months; we are just as likely to get the good weather, as we did this year, at Easter as in the Bank Holiday week when the resorts are full.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-21a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-21", "file": "debates1949-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "6d504a1e3ebcf5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-21a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOURIST INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Kinghorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yarmouth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Kinghorn", "preceding_text": "ess of the Conservative Party and the democratic way in which they now elect delegates, they will get so many delegates that there are only two places in the country in which they can hold conferences — Blackpool and London. Evidently some of the delegates are getting tired of Blackpool; many of them come from London, and I have no doubt that they would like to go to some other place for a change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-21a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-21", "file": "debates1949-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "6d504a1e3ebcf5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-21a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOURIST INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "be, but I feel pretty certain that if we were in power we should take some authority in the matter and see that the needs of Scotland were met. For the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour to produce that highly theatrical warning to us that we must not in any circumstances discuss in this House what was happening in the Catering Wages Commission was, I think, a little below the belt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-21a.153.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.190.2", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN (TERRITORIAL CLAIM)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.190.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.190.4", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN (TERRITORIAL CLAIM)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact—it is within your recollection, Sir—that I was prevented from raising this matter on another occasion earlier, I beg to give notice that I shall raise it again on a suitable occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.192.3", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HUNGARY (CARDINAL MINDSZENTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "Really, I ought not to be asked to answer these questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.192.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.205.4", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"He has done so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "Is there not an easy solution? Would not the right hon. Gentleman permit the trade to have a further small quantity of ingredients with which to increase supplies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.205.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "There may be another reason why the amount of beer consumed is falling. It may be that the amount was artificially increased during the excitement of the war and that we are now naturally quietening down and the amount is decreasing. It would be appalling if the Chancellor endeavoured fiscally to try to get us back to the artificially excitable state there was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I must ask the Committee to reject this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Phossy jaw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Oh, yes, and the match workers were getting nearly as much as they are getting now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.304.2", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "t his disposal, many of which have been mentioned today, the Chancellor appears to welcome it with open arms. There is not only an increase of 7d. a gross, but he puts another 5s. 5d. on as well; and then he puts up the cost of lighters as well in an attempt to be fair all round. In such circumstances, to say the Chancellor of the Exchequer is trying to depress prices and costs is utter hypocrisy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.304.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "to profits. The Chancellor cannot really be very surprised that hon. Members on his side of the Committee should get up and protest, because he really started the riot when he recently used the expression \"Frightfully high profits\" during his speech on the Second Reading of the Finance Bill. I am quite convinced that the right hon. and learned Gentleman must since have regretted using those words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "inly he ought by now to have been provided. Surely the Chancellor cannot think it right that that question should not be answered. It is clearly relevant, and it clearly ought to be before us. Are we not to be given an answer upon that point. There is a second question of fact which I wish to put. I apologise if I am mistaken; I put the question because I think I am helping the Economic Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.335.3", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They might not light.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "ople who used to evade very high duties—smugglers—were anything like as bad as some of the professions which exist today, but on this occasion I believe that we are asking for trouble. These devices can very easily be made out of cartridge cases by reasonable mechanics, and I have no doubt that a number of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite might be able to make adequate lighters of their own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.335.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.343.2", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Niall Macpherson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Niall Macpherson", "preceding_text": "ow proposing, that is to say a small borough with a population not exceeding 2,000, and a district or parish with a population not exceeding 640 to the square mile, and a seating capacity not exceeding 400. The reason for putting down this Amendment is that there are in a number of areas, where the population is thin, halls which were built at a time when the population was a good deal more dense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.343.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He walks back.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "is imposition of 30 per cent., the investor, before he makes his bet, has to lay out money in postage for his coupons and poundage on the postal order he sends. That, the promoters tell us, is an extra tax on those who invest in their pools. What the football pool promoters forget is that when an individual goes to the dog track it almost always costs him a considerable fare to get there and back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tax them all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "I think that really is different, because it is the Entertainments Duty one pays for the entertainment, whether one gambles or not. We are discussing the extra tax for gambling. Although I am not prepared to oppose this tax, I am very sorry that the right hon. Gentleman did not find it possible to wait until we had the report of the Royal Commission on Gambling before he acted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haworth", "preceding_text": "ou have been so quiet about this that we have no feeling that we are doing anything you do not like.\" That is an invitation to try to kick up a row if they want this rake's progress of increasing taxation on football pools to stop. I have received 782 letters on this subject, sent to my private address. In my constituency I have two of the largest football pool factories or offices in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haworth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haworth", "preceding_text": ";\"] I do not know what all that is about, for because of those letters, if there is a Division tonight. I am going into the Government Lobby in favour of this tax. I have tried to examine the situation as dispassionately as possible, and I have one or two criticisms. The first, as I have said, is of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He is lacking in psychology on this as on a number of other things", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "preceding_text": ". for the winners and the tax. I understand that the Treasury accepts the arrangements as satisfactory in that they are receiving the actual tax necessary; and all these figures are signed by accountants—and, I would add, accountants of distinct reputation. If, of course, it is said, as it may well be said, that the 2·2 per cent. which goes as commission represents an enormous sum of money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "preceding_text": "rcentage that matters and it is obviously not a possibility to make 10 per cent. out of 2–2 per cent. Already 21 of the lesser pools, not members of the Association, have gone out of business on the 20 per cent. levy, and are likely to be joined by others; no less than two of the pools belonging to the Association are making no profit at all and are likely to go out during this coming year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.391.0", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "n agitation and did take steps to see that it was adequately expressed on the Floor of the House of Commons, nothing would be held against them for that action by the Treasury. In perfectly good faith, I am empowered to say that there is no suggestion at all, no intention at all, and no desire at all on the part of the football pool promoters in any way to lead an agitation against the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.391.0", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What do you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": " pool to divide among those who win, so that if it is a question of taxation for the purpose of putting the pools out of operation it is not actually doing that; it is preventing the people who like to bet. I do not think I have ever filled in a pools coupon in my life. I do not go to races, I do not drink, and I do not smoke, so the Financial Secretary to the Treasury does not get much out of me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "d 14 people out of one small village. They were protesting against this extra 10 per cent. because they were convinced that it was going to stop their pool betting. They feel that the rich man's gambling comes off cheaper than the poor man's betting and they feel it is an injustice. I urge that until we have all the relevant facts we cannot satisfy the working man that he is getting a square deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "preceding_text": "an awfully big mistake. They should have concentrated on educating Members of the House as to what takes place in football pools—and a lot of them do not know. A lot of information has been given about the pools. There has, however, been a great deal of nonsense talked about the amount that is kept in commission. I believe the pool promoters themselves have admitted that they have kept 5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.405.2", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "We have been discussing this matter for several hours and there are further Clauses which we have to dispose of before we separate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.405.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-22", "file": "debates1949-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "748624aa0c9792c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.415.8", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "preceding_text": "manent. We are always dependent on the wishes of those following after, and I have never previously seen it stated in any Act of Parliament that any provision should be made permanent. It seems quite unnecessary for us to use such language in this case. I do not know whether I am going to have the unusual privilege of the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport replying to this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-22a.415.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "As it is now generally recognised that in our country we are facing an economic disaster unparalled in our history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "Is not this a most unfortunate attitude on the part of the Financial Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.450.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.453.1", "colnum": "453", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "al porters employed in and about the Palace of Westminster is not in accord with present day conceptions of industrial relationships, and is a matter for regret. ] When I raised the matter previously, the Leader of the House said that he would be good enough to consider it, but in view of the obdurate refusal of the Lord Great Chamberlain to recognise the trade union to which all these men belong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.454.5", "colnum": "454", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. Somehow we must finish it on Wednesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.454.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.459.5", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nine shillings.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Eccles", "preceding_text": "and if we look round the world we find in no country where freedom is valued are the people asked to carry anything like the British burden. I can speak only roughly, but to the best of my information the comparable rates are about 5s. in the £ in the United States, and in such different countries as Sweden, South Africa and France, they are between 4s. and 5s. in the £. That compares with our 8s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.459.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.463.0", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "d upon the volume of production. That is a serious point which deserves our attention. During the last four years, output, exports, and the revenue have all moved to higher levels. Why, we are asked, do the Opposition continue to cry \"wolf\" when it is clear by now that the wolf does not exist? Is it not time for the Tories to admit that their forebodings always were wrong and always will be wrong?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.463.0", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are the wolves?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "s year's inflation. But how long can that deceptive process go on? It depends on the duration and pace of the upward swing in the trade cycle. Socialist finance begins to resemble the old story of the heavily laden sleigh pursued by the wolves of the forest. Unless a considerable amount is thrown overboard, the wolves will catch us up, pull us down and tear to pieces horses, passengers and driver.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Lewis", "preceding_text": "That, of course, would be a very serious matter because if, as the trend indicates at the moment, our export markets in the sterling area are becoming more restricted because of import restrictions in those countries and for other reasons, and if there is as a result a widening of the gap in our dollar account, it means that without the slightest doubt we shall have to face increased unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.480.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.496.0", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Very important consumers. Very rich men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.495.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.497.3", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " which is an essential part of the same policy, has already been tried in a country visited by the hon. Member for Chippenham. He went and contemplated Rome, and his mind ranged over the great work of Gibbon. On that I would only say that I wish he had read Gibbon instead of merely talking about him. He suggested that Gibbon told us the Roman Empire declined because of large-scale social services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.497.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.501.3", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "e faced with a crisis today. We are faced with a crisis which within six months may make it essential to cut and cut ruthlessly our imports. The real things we have to cut are not the social services but unessential imports. They are the luxuries, and they are the things we cannot afford. We can and must afford education, but there are certain imports which may have to go. We may have to eat less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.501.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "et it by seeing that our exports and imports balance. We cannot face the crisis by the method of giving to those who have and taking away from those who have not. It cannot be done. If we are to tighten our belts, it must be by an austerity of fair shares for all and it will have to be a great deal fairer than it is today. Members opposite who are proposing symbolic Amendments to benefit the rich—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.502.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ee, we ought not to attribute things which have no resemblance to what has been said. I did not claim that we have a permanent right to Marshall Aid. On the contrary, I think it is absolutely essential for this country to get into its head that it has got to be independent of America as soon as possible. That is why cuts in Income Tax are insane. To do this is to reduce purchasing power at a time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.507.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": " Chippenham (Mr. Eccles), with his usual wisdom and skill. Our object here is to centralise our whole complaint against the burden of taxation and Government expenditure in what has rightly been called this token or symbolic Amendment. It is symbolic of the desire of the Conservative Party steadily to get away from the planned economy, the regulations and controls backed by the force of the police", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "fits, dividends, rents and currency and upon the passage of goods into and out of the country. This Amendment states in legislative terms our desire to restore what we understand by the progressive free society of Britain. We have moved to reduce the Income Tax by 6d. this year. I hope that next year it will be 1s., and 1s. more after that. This is not a class or particular income group Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": " expenditure and still to branch out with new items and new designs of thought. No one under the Socialist Government is working within a strict budget. All down the line staff are being taken on—Departments at home, sub-departments, the British Council, the Arts Council, Embassies, and Colonial establishments are now filled with people who are doing jobs which were never done before in peacetime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "atus, but other sections have fallen severely in the last few years—clergymen, teachers, retired Service officers, elderly spinsters, widows and university professors. These and many others are in poor circumstances today, and the mother of children is the most harshly hit of all. There never has been a Government which has acted with so little restraint against liberal-minded and educated people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "ng circumstances a reduction of direct taxation—I am not saying the amount or the particular form which it should take—should have a priority, if not the greatest priority, in any tax reduction. One which might share it, and in my view would certainly share it, would be the Purchase Tax, but that, owing to the trickery—I call it that—of the Treasury we are not able to discuss on this Finance Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.523.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.525.2", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Leave it alone.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "If that is so, will the right hon. Gentleman say why it was that his right hon. Friend the Member for North Leeds (Mr. Peake), in winding up the Debate that night, after one of his own back benchers had pointed out the fact, made no reference whatever to this point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.566.0", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do not know either.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "xt moment they are not, because we have to have this inquiry as to whether they had been correctly computed. The Economic Secretary said yesterday that the profits of the match industry were not very high and that they needed the assistance proposed. Then he indicated to us that their profits were high after all. We do not know where we are or what is the attitude of the Government in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.566.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I think my right hon. and learned Friend gave a perfectly straightforward answer to this query. He said that he could give no undertaking on this matter, and by that he implied that the matter would be considered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.611.0", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How are you going to collect it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": ", no doubt accidentally, what I said. I in no way suggested that these people should have the best of both worlds. I said that the Inland Revenue were entitled to collect Income Tax from the recipients of those benefits if they qualified at Income Tax levels. I further said that the Inland Revenue were not entitled to a contribution weekly from people who may never be in receipt of those benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.611.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-23", "file": "debates1949-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7d6fb1043677d990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.614.0", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "ance, but he has really asked for it. The benefits which are received under the National Insurance Act are very largely paid for by the contributions made by the insured contributors and are a form of insurance which they pay out of their income. They are perfectly well aware of that. Socialists are not going about the country telling them that the benefits they receive are received entirely free.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-23a.614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-27", "file": "debates1949-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ea4a8a222a6cab77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.755.7", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE (ABDUCTED CHILDREN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that these children were evacuated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.755.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-27", "file": "debates1949-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ea4a8a222a6cab77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that the hon. Member would realise that the Chancellor would have been here if he had not been detained for a moment elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-27", "file": "debates1949-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ea4a8a222a6cab77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dinner time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I should like to get this straight; it was not eight o'clock but seven o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-27", "file": "debates1949-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ea4a8a222a6cab77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Astor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not with this Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Astor", "preceding_text": "matter whether the law has been rightly interpreted or not. Are we to understand that the Committee are not able to decide that matter? The Economic Secretary referred to remuneration; the whole matter hangs on remuneration or gift. I maintain that this is a gift. Let us take the case, which presents a certain parallel, of the gift which Parliament makes to a prominent general at the end of a war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-27", "file": "debates1949-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ea4a8a222a6cab77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.890.3", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"An old crock?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "I consider this is a very sensible proposal. I also have an interest in the matter; my car is a 1913 vintage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.890.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-27", "file": "debates1949-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ea4a8a222a6cab77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.894.1", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are doing so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "We do not want to perpetuate this if we can help it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.894.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-27", "file": "debates1949-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ea4a8a222a6cab77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"How does the hon. Member do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Foster", "preceding_text": "I have a 1939 30-horsepower car which pays only £10 a year tax. It is very unfair that people with 10 or 15-horsepower cars, also dated 1939, should pay £18 or £20.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.898.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-06-27", "file": "debates1949-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ea4a8a222a6cab77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "d constructive suggestions made to him for easing the burden without completely accepting our proposal. May I also, with due respect to the officials concerned, ask that this very surprising estimate of £5½ million as the cost of conceding the proposal be carefully scrutinised and the basis on which it has been reached carefully examined. I therefore beg to ask leave to withdraw the Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.901.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-06-27", "file": "debates1949-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ea4a8a222a6cab77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Taylor (Lord of the Treasury)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.927.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-27", "file": "debates1949-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ea4a8a222a6cab77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.928.0", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "asonable explanation—one which will seem reasonable to all reasonable men. As I think it is no secret that some of the Clauses on the Order Paper will, for one reason or another, not be called, I put that as the first point. The second is that, on this side of the Committee at any rate, if we sit much beyond midnight, we might as well sit throughout the night. I say that deliberately, and mean it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.928.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-27", "file": "debates1949-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ea4a8a222a6cab77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "ds of the Government. That could only be the case where one had a totalitarian Government. I am sure it would not be the wish of this Government, in its present stage of development at any rate, to take such charge of the House of Commons. There are necessary protests at times about all-night sittings. The House gets to the point where, for the sake of keeping things going, people talk needlessly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-27", "file": "debates1949-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ea4a8a222a6cab77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "art work again at 9 a.m. or 10 a.m. To do that two or three nights running is a thing which strong men can stand; whereas all-night sittings are very detrimental to the next day's work. I should not have thought that it was really the best course to curtail discussion tonight with the deliberate intention of running an all-night sitting tomorrow night. That does not seem to be a sensible division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-27a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.957.0", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman recollect the categorical assurances he gave during the passing of the National Insurance Act that the officials of the approved societies would as far as possible be absorbed and given every consideration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.957.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.960.9", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "Information was obtained through the usual channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.960.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.961.4", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask for it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker, I really want to find out the source of the information which the Minister of Labour had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.961.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.961.4", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker, I really want to find out the source of the information which the Minister of Labour had. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask for it.\"] On a point of Order, Sir—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.961.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.961.8", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the particular union involved in this struggle was and is the Canadian Seamen's Union, how is it that the Minister of Labour does not find out from the Canadian Seamen's Union in Canada what are the problems, but consults an organisation which is opposed to it, and on that basis how dare he speak in the name of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.961.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.970.5", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that Field-Marshal Lord Montgomery holds rank in the British Army and that, I believe, he draws a salary from His Majesty's Government, the Secretary of State must take some responsibility; and is my right hon. Friend aware that among other things the Field-Marshal on this occasion said that the Army is fighting Communism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.970.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.974.2", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that a comrade of mine had three medals sent to him last week. Would I be in order in telling him to throw them in Montgomery's teeth?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1023.0", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do not export tobacco\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "d, and the hon. Member for East Aberdeen (Mr. Boothby) has underlined it since, that the duty on whisky is very high. No doubt there are some people who do not drink it, even if they could get it, because the duty is so high. The fear has been expressed that people will lose their taste for whisky. That may be so, but it applies equally to tobacco. The manufacturers of tobacco are equally fearful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1023.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "t Member for Barnstaple (Brigadier Peto) who said that whisky distillers had indicated to him that the consumption in this country was going down. From our Revenue returns, however, we have no figures to show that that is so. On the contrary, our figures show that the Revenue in this matter is—I hesitate to use the word—buoyant; that all the whisky that can be put on the home market is snapped up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1047.0", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Foster", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the foreign tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Foster", "preceding_text": "ign country and he is assessable to British Income Tax, he is entitled to set off the amount of tax he paid in the foreign country against his British tax, but, following the line of British Dominion tax relief in relation to Section 131 of the United States Code, he does not get the whole of it; he gets either the British standard rate or another alternative which I have forgotten for the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I should hate to get into a bi-sectional argument on this matter, but I really do not understand why the hon. Lady puts that as an intervention rather than as a speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I do not say there is no variety in the State system. What I do say is that if there is a single system, we have no guarantee that variety will continue to be allowed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, you did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "Quite honestly, the hon. Gentleman ought really not if I may say so, to intervene on such very slight authority, for this reason: That I did not say that people were compelled to send their children to the maintained schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1072.2", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "much nonsense. I guarantee that in that secondary school, as in others, the finest possible education is being given; none better will be found in any fee-paying or boarding school. Why do parents send their children to the fee-paying schools and the boarding schools? Is it to get better education? It has nothing to do with education. What the other side want us to do is to subsidise little snobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1072.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "That is typical of Cambridge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1098.7", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In every respect.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "e days that they will embark on such projects unless protected by the Companies Act, unless they are in the form of limited liability companies. This new Clause deals only with limited liability companies and it will provide a direct incentive to the smaller type of company, because I suggest that hon. Gentlemen opposite and the Government are completely blind to the facts of life in this respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1098.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1105.0", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "I hope that by now it is apparent to Members opposite how restrictive this Budget of the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been. For four days now we have pleaded for concessions to be made to different classes of the community, and many of these classes are classes with which Members opposite have the greatest sympathy. They now see that the Chancellor of the Exchequer who has deserted the Debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1105.0", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "ellor of the Exchequer has been. For four days now we have pleaded for concessions to be made to different classes of the community, and many of these classes are classes with which Members opposite have the greatest sympathy. They now see that the Chancellor of the Exchequer who has deserted the Debate—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—has left to go to Paris where he may or may not do this country any good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1105.0", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "ed for concessions to be made to different classes of the community, and many of these classes are classes with which Members opposite have the greatest sympathy. They now see that the Chancellor of the Exchequer who has deserted the Debate—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—has left to go to Paris where he may or may not do this country any good—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"]—has left this Debate and gone to Paris—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1105.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1105.1", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "d many of these classes are classes with which Members opposite have the greatest sympathy. They now see that the Chancellor of the Exchequer who has deserted the Debate—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—has left to go to Paris where he may or may not do this country any good—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"]—has left this Debate and gone to Paris—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"]—leaving the Treasury with the instructions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1105.2", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has nothing to withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "Since the noble Lord does not seem likely to withdraw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1105.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1108.0", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "hat we on this side attach great importance to this new Clause. It may seem very small upon the Order Paper, but it is very important. We cannot make a success of the British economy and of our drive for production unless some incentive and encouragement is given to the small businesses of this country. During the Debate I heard a remark passed from the Government Benches \"What about the workers?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1109.0", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairhurst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairhurst", "preceding_text": "I am disturbed about the impending disaster which we are told is awaiting the small traders. The Opposition have suggested that 60, or may be 70 per cent. of the businesses carried on in this country are small businesses, and that taking this £3½ million will almost ruin them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1122.0", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ompany—and which itself has received compensation in the form of Government stock. In the case of colliery companies, the way in which it works is that they get their compensation as at 1st January, 1947, and therefore receive interim income. The only amount in respect of which they could be charged Profits Tax in the event of liquidation—and that is the case contemplated primarily in this Clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1122.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1149.1", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "New situation?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "How is it that this new Clause was put down as recently as this new situation arose?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1160.0", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE 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": "age used by the noble lord last night, it would appear that they are beginning to lack Parliamentary guts. The right hon. Gentleman and his friends will no doubt do their best. I do not advise my hon. Friends to help them, because I do not share the late Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's passion for a Council of State. The best thing to do is to conduct the Debate in the usual way and see how well we get on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1160.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1161.2", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You ran away from him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "For an ex-Chief Whip to call the allusion I made to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald \"throwing mud\" shows a quite new definition of Parliamentary controversy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1166.0", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "tes of his speech he spent six minutes crying stinking fish. He talked about the depression which was coming with every appearance of joy, and about the ever-darkening atmosphere. It is hardly necessary to say that the proposal is utterly impracticable. The suggestion that one could ante-date claims for loss in a time of high taxation when one can look forward to a period of reduction in taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1166.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1188.3", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "It is not an objection. I want something made clear about the machinery imported—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dependent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "ich the departments are operating. It seems that in practice they classify static equipment such as a chemical bath as constituting plant, and do not consider such equipment for exemption. This arbitrary distinction between a machine with moving parts and one without, seems to be unreal because both these types are equally necessary to industry and in some cases they are dependent in their action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1189.3", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "the hon. Member for Harborough to sit there and sneer he is not treating me in particular, or the Committee in general, in the proper way. It is quite true, I have here very heavy annotations in order to support this case, and I do not think, if the hon. Gentleman was endeavouring to deal with this matter, he could do it out of his head and without notes. As regards this question of machine parts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-28", "file": "debates1949-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e0dfc8649821259e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "To oblige the right hon. Gentleman, of course. The right hon. Gentleman said in reply: It can hardly be described as a moderate reform, but the point is, if people who owe arrears of tax do not pay, then those who have paid might feel it would be very unfair to them.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 23rd June, 1949; Vol. 466, c. 51–2.] I do not know why the right hon. Gentleman wanted me to read that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-28a.1226.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-06-29", "file": "debates1949-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "580596310b042024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-29a.1291.5", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must remember that Erskine May says that epithets and controversial or offensive expressions are out of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-29a.1291.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-29", "file": "debates1949-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "580596310b042024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-29a.1325.1", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRWAYS CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "t about 12 Constellations in accidents which have never been fully explained, one or two in the same area in which the Tudors were lost. Why is it that this country always gets the bad end of the stick in connection with accidents? I believe that this is the answer. K.L.M., within an hour or two of the recent accident, came out with an announcement that there was a bomb in the baggage compartment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-29a.1325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-29", "file": "debates1949-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "580596310b042024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-29a.1352.1", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRWAYS CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if I have misunderstood the hon. Member. Other hon. Members have expressed this sentiment, and I understood him to have approved the idea of one big Corporation. If I am mistaken, of course I withdraw at once; but I repeat that the party opposite have always had a hankering for one big Corporation. In fact, the Labour Party always falls for the fallacy of size.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-29a.1352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-29", "file": "debates1949-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "580596310b042024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-29a.1357.1", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRWAYS CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was not chairman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "airmanship of Air Vice-Marshal Bennett. The only occasion on which the industry has had an engineering dispute which has not been settled without going to the Industrial Court, with all its panoply, has been in the case of B.S.A.A.C., under the chairmanship of Air Vice-Marshal Bennett, which does not in the least suggest that staff relationships are better there than in the other two Corporations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-29a.1357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-29", "file": "debates1949-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "580596310b042024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-29a.1399.3", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRWAYS CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members rejoice when there are little difficulties with regard to a nationalised industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-29a.1399.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-29", "file": "debates1949-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "580596310b042024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-29a.1405.6", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "AIRWAYS CORPORATIONS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "eable, and ends by referring to the borrowing powers of the British Overseas Airways Corporation. I should like some idea of the limits which there are likely to be on borrowing, because here again we are up against the Chancellor's problem of getting enough money, and I feel it my duty to try to protect him against any demand from the Minister of Civil Aviation which may upset his Budget balance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-29a.1405.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-29", "file": "debates1949-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "580596310b042024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-29a.1465.5", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "POLICE PENSIONS REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": " House at any time, and certainly not under the conditions in which the Government brings forward these regulations now. We expect an apology from the Secretary of State for Scotland for bringing Scottish business before the House at all at this time. For what reason does he bring on important Scottish business at 20 minutes to 1 o'clock in the morning dragged at the tail of an English discussion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-29a.1465.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-29", "file": "debates1949-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "580596310b042024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-29a.1467.3", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "POLICE PENSIONS REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is keeping the Scottish Press out?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "on to the country at large is going to have the same force just now, as it would if the Secretary of State for Scotland had brought on this business for discussion when the papers, both here and in Scotland, could observe and report our Debate, and when those important individuals who have approached us could be sure that their representations were receiving adequate consideration from this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-29a.1467.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-06-29", "file": "debates1949-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "580596310b042024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-29a.1468.0", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "POLICE PENSIONS REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "ould observe and report our Debate, and when those important individuals who have approached us could be sure that their representations were receiving adequate consideration from this House? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is keeping the Scottish Press out?\"] The Secretary of State for Scotland is keeping the Scottish Press out, and he is being supported by hon. Members of the majority party of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-29a.1467.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-30", "file": "debates1949-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f1fadadb0540161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-30a.1521.0", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAY WORKERS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nationalisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "preceding_text": "inancial difficulties that confront the Railway Executive Committee at present, and in view of the feeling, very genuine and very widespread amongst the railwaymen, that they have a clear case for an advance in wages and that that advance of wages might be denied them on the grounds of the financial condition of the railway industry, which has arisen as a result of long years of past difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-30a.1521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-30", "file": "debates1949-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f1fadadb0540161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-30a.1522.5", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I anticipated that the House might wish to debate that report, and I think that there ought to be a Debate, because there is much to be said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-30a.1522.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-30", "file": "debates1949-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f1fadadb0540161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-30a.1546.1", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (AGRICULTURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "is. I am glad to say from my information that Scottish agriculture is now running at approximately 30 per cent. above pre-war. Therefore, far from depreciating what the farmers have done, I give them every credit for the spendid response they have made. It is true to say that Scottish output in beef is 27 per cent. below prewar, but, as I have explained, this is due to fewer imported Irish cattle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-30a.1546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-30", "file": "debates1949-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f1fadadb0540161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-30a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (AGRICULTURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Robertson", "preceding_text": "nk all Scottish Members have, and I am sure we must have rejoiced at the figures he quoted showing the progress which is being made. I would just remind him that this is due primarily to the hunger of the people of this country, and when he said that no Government in history had ever done as much for Scottish agriculture as the present Government, surely no Government ever had such an opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-30a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-06-30", "file": "debates1949-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f1fadadb0540161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-30a.1589.1", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (AGRICULTURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They did not do it before the war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "answer to this problem. The general structure of the guaranteed price must in all circumstances be retained. But, if the Government will not give an adequate premium for quality, there is something to be said for letting the wholesalers bid for it. They know a good piece of meat when they see it and they might bid to a point which would encourage the farmers to go in for breeding the best quality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-06-30a.1589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-01", "file": "debates1949-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "aea8830d0be786af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-01a.1667.2", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 12.—SAVING FOR DOCTORS, CHEMISTS, TRICHOLOGISTS AND OTHERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Paton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And women\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Paton", "preceding_text": "favour of this Amendment—have now apparently communicated with the sponsors of the Bill in a contrary sense, I cannot accept that statement as being in any way decisive on this point. We are dealing here not merely with the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists but with another body of physiotherapists, the Physiotherapists Association of Great Britain, which is composed largely of ex-Service men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-01a.1667.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-01", "file": "debates1949-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "aea8830d0be786af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-01a.1677.0", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 12.—SAVING FOR DOCTORS, CHEMISTS, TRICHOLOGISTS AND OTHERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "In fact, what the Amendment does is to say that all those who are in these two bodies practising physiotherapy will be protected against the operation of the Bill, but that all others practising it will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-01a.1677.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-01", "file": "debates1949-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "aea8830d0be786af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-01a.1679.1", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 12.—SAVING FOR DOCTORS, CHEMISTS, TRICHOLOGISTS AND OTHERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "en the first Amendment was being dealt with, because then we might have had the advantage of what he has just said. However, advantage or not, with great respect, I doubt very much whether in practice it amounts to very much. I am now satisfied that these two organisations are responsible for physiotherapists, and that anyone outside these two bodies is probably a person with no competence at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-01a.1679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-01", "file": "debates1949-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "aea8830d0be786af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-01a.1680.4", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 12.—SAVING FOR DOCTORS, CHEMISTS, TRICHOLOGISTS AND OTHERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "I hazarded a guess, but because four-fifths of my colleagues did not know what it was, I do not include myself in the majority. The first Clause has been dropped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-01a.1680.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-04", "file": "debates1949-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8db9f9a805f05dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1792.4", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": " have refused to work merely one boat calling on some three dozen workers; and that they have been prepared to work on any other boat? Will he also acknowledge that in the case of certain food boats they have worked them and the money they have earned has gone to the Manor House Hospital? Will he also say whether he or any other Minister encourages Labour Members of Parliament to be stool-pigeons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1792.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-04", "file": "debates1949-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8db9f9a805f05dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1793.0", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "On your guidance, Sir, I am prepared to withdraw wholeheartedly; but I must say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1793.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-04", "file": "debates1949-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8db9f9a805f05dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1802.1", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "e enormous out-turn of houses which was being secured by the Conservative Governments before the war. The second argument of the Minister was, \"We are doing better than anybody else.\" Let me take the war argument. In 1918 the post-war Governments had to work up housing from the rate of 64,000 houses a year to which it had been allowed to drop in 1910–15 by the then Liberal-Labour Coalition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-04", "file": "debates1949-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8db9f9a805f05dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1823.1", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " to know where the right hon. and gallant Gentleman is. I have asked him this question before. I mentioned the last time that we discussed housing in Committee that the Opposition had not yet made up its mind what was to be ratio of houses for sale and houses for rent. Now the right hon. Gentleman has let the cat out of the bag. He wants to set them free. He says they are in fetters. What fetters?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-04", "file": "debates1949-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8db9f9a805f05dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1827.1", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " right hon. Member for the Scottish Universities (Sir J. Anderson) said another, and the right hon. and gallant Member himself said a fourth. What kind of ratio does he think would be reasonable? What should be the length of the chain there? It really is rather awkward if we cannot get an answer to these questions. Should the proportion be one in five, or four, or three, or two? What should it be?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-04", "file": "debates1949-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8db9f9a805f05dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1861.1", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "I want to see economies in all of them. I sincerely want to see economies in the cost of materials. If hon. Members make these dark innuendoes about rings, why do they not go to the Commission which has been set up to investigate monopolies? We supported the Government in that Measure, and if they had not brought it in we should have brought it in ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-04", "file": "debates1949-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8db9f9a805f05dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1880.1", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitzroy Maclean", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitzroy Maclean", "preceding_text": "I wish to detain the Committee for only a very few minutes to make a point which I think is important. I want to draw attention to the perfectly unscrupulous way in which the Government have misled the public over the housing question from the outset, even before they came into office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-04", "file": "debates1949-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8db9f9a805f05dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1880.1", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitzroy Maclean", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitzroy Maclean", "preceding_text": "I can tell him that there is very strong feeling on that point in my constituency, and particularly among people who voted Labour at the last General Election. I should like to start by recalling some of the election promises made four years ago. For instance, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said: If the Labour Party is returned to power the housing situation would be clarified within a fortnight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-04", "file": "debates1949-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8db9f9a805f05dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1907.1", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "r, had he not been the Minister responsible, dealing with the situation for which he is now responsible. I should have liked to hear his great capacity for invective dealing with this situation of the long and increasing waiting lists, and the claim by a Minister that his housing record is satisfactory in spite of them. The Opposition have always been careful not to try to make political capital.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-04", "file": "debates1949-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8db9f9a805f05dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1907.1", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "rable than its counterpart in 1919. In any event, I would remind the Committee, we are passing beyond the immediate post-war phase, and if hon. Members will have regard to the figures of housing progress in 1923–29—because 1923 is the same period after the first war as 1949 after the recent war—they will see that the figures then were very greatly improved in regard to housing construction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1907.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-04", "file": "debates1949-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8db9f9a805f05dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1909.1", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He has not been here at all.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to be discourteous, but it is now 25 minutes past nine o'clock. My hon. Friend has been speaking since 10 minutes past nine, and the Minister whose Vote is being spoken to, has not appeared. For the winding up Debate on a Supply Day it is usual form that the Minister in charge at least listens to the closing speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1909.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-04", "file": "debates1949-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8db9f9a805f05dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1909.3", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He should have been here before eight o'clock. [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "It might be of assistance if I say that my right hon. Friend is on his way to the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1909.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-04", "file": "debates1949-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8db9f9a805f05dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1909.3", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "preceding_text": "He should have been here before eight o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1909.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-04", "file": "debates1949-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8db9f9a805f05dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1909.4", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "Debates, the Minister of Health sat down without the usual loud and somewhat sychophantic cheers which normally accompany the end of his orations. He referred to the possibility of the Leader of the Opposition landing us in for something—I think that was his elegant phrase—when he makes his speech at the end of this month, but it is the Minister of Health who has landed his party in for something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1909.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-04", "file": "debates1949-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8db9f9a805f05dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1909.4", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "good the Minister discoursing on the added amenities of houses today if the effect is to put them beyond the reach of those for whom they are intended. Costs are, furthermore, an indication of efficiency of construction. It is quite clear that the policies of the Minister of Health have not led to the most economical form of construction. What he has always done is to confuse the technical aspect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1909.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-04", "file": "debates1949-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8db9f9a805f05dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1911.0", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I ought perhaps to explain that there is no obligation on me to be here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1911.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-04", "file": "debates1949-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8db9f9a805f05dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1911.0", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I ought perhaps to explain that there is no obligation on me to be here—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"] The Parliamentary Secretary is here to reply. I am here to do a courtesy to the hon. Member for Hertford (Mr. Walker-Smith)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1911.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-04", "file": "debates1949-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8db9f9a805f05dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1911.0", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "act I have informed, through the usual channels, the chief Whip of the Opposition that, because of their discourtesy on Friday morning in insisting that a Parliamentary Secretary is not good enough for them, and in Committee upstairs that a Parliamentary Secretary is not good enough for them, I shall not in such circumstances accept the obligation of being on the Bench to listen to a back bencher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1911.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-04", "file": "debates1949-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "8db9f9a805f05dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1912.4", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "using the people is probably the most responsible task in the domestic field which can be entrusted to any Minister of the Crown, and the people of this country like to feel that that Minister, whoever he may be, is animated only by a desire to carry on the great task which has been given to him. If they feel that the Minister puts that as a secondary consideration to such petty considerations as—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-04a.1912.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-05", "file": "debates1949-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "ddae2f73e77622b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-05a.1998.1", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "preceding_text": "e were assured by the right hon. Gentleman that this change had not been introduced to bring about that bogey of parity of esteem. I put a Question to the Minister recently asking him whether the name of the type of school which a child had attended would be shown on the general certificate, and I gather that he intends it should not be shown. I think that is entirely wrong and slightly dishonest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-05a.1998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-05", "file": "debates1949-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "ddae2f73e77622b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-05a.1998.1", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "preceding_text": "nistry: When we get a good supply of new modern schools we believe a lot of the prejudices in favour of little Johnny going to the grammar school will disappear, especially after 1951 when the new general certificate of education will be introduced. That certificate will show what sort of a record the pupil had, but will not specify whether he or she attended a grammar, technical or modern school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-05a.1998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-05", "file": "debates1949-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "ddae2f73e77622b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-05a.2003.1", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "d on the tripartite class system. The grammar schools have been directly related to a privileged class. What is the central theme of the 1944 Act? It is to be found in the fact that it has stated—in legalistic terms, if that expression is preferred—that all education above the age of 11 shall be secondary education. For the first time, poor old Plato has been wiped off by an English Education Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-05a.2003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-05", "file": "debates1949-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "ddae2f73e77622b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-05a.2108.1", "colnum": "2108", "heading": "ROAD HAULIERS (PERMITS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "preceding_text": " know, have not his intellectual grasp nor his passion for nationalisation. The hauliers I know are persons very much of my own mental calibre and the document I have looked at seems a very incomprehensible one even to persons who have some familiarity of documents of that kind. The Minister is aware of the kind of men he is addressing in this order. They are men who live hard and laborious lives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-05a.2108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-06", "file": "debates1949-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6845d8dab2fe5987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2139.4", "colnum": "2139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Paling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, read it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Paling", "preceding_text": "As the answer is rather long, I will, with permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2139.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-06", "file": "debates1949-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6845d8dab2fe5987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2158.6", "colnum": "2158", "heading": "BALANCE OF PAYMENTS", "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": ", and although I appreciate—nobody more—the great importance of the matter, my right hon. and learned Friend will be engaged in conversations with the Commonwealth Finance Ministers. As it is, this Debate will come in the middle of those discussions, and I am sure that the House will appreciate that it would be very difficult for him to give more than a day's attention in the House to this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2158.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-06", "file": "debates1949-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6845d8dab2fe5987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2161.2", "colnum": "2161", "heading": "BALANCE OF PAYMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Whitsun Recess?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I think the right hon. Gentleman knows the difficulties under which we are working.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-06", "file": "debates1949-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6845d8dab2fe5987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2161.2", "colnum": "2161", "heading": "BALANCE OF PAYMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I think the right hon. Gentleman knows the difficulties under which we are working. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Whitsun Recess?\"] Does the Leader of the Opposition want to be controversial? I am not seeking to be controversial and what I suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-06", "file": "debates1949-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6845d8dab2fe5987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2161.2", "colnum": "2161", "heading": "BALANCE OF PAYMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give an answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I think the right hon. Gentleman knows the difficulties under which we are working. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Whitsun Recess?\"] Does the Leader of the Opposition want to be controversial? I am not seeking to be controversial and what I suggest—[ Interruption ]—if the House does not want an answer I will sit down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-06", "file": "debates1949-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6845d8dab2fe5987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2164.5", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I do not think that that would help the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2164.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-06", "file": "debates1949-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6845d8dab2fe5987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2184.0", "colnum": "2184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "It would not be fair to allow the Clause to pass—I hope it will pass and will not be withdrawn at this stage—without a word of thanks from this side of the Committee, particularly as this Clause virtually accepts a Clause standing in my name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-06", "file": "debates1949-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6845d8dab2fe5987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2193.3", "colnum": "2193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "ments are not included because they are not instrumental—since one can hardly say that blowing is instrumental. So, I want the Financial Secretary to be quite certain that \"instrumental\" does include all wind instruments such as bagpipes. While the right hon. Gentleman is considering the Cornish and Welsh institutions, I hope he will also consider whether Highland games should be included as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-06", "file": "debates1949-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6845d8dab2fe5987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2235.0", "colnum": "2235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "by the danger of foreign dumping in this country. The Import Duties Act of 1932 and the Ottawa Agreements which followed were all part of an economic structure to meet the danger with which the country was then confronted. What a different picture today. We see the closing of doors all over the world against our goods, as a consequence of Socialist extravagance leading to high costs of production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-06", "file": "debates1949-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6845d8dab2fe5987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2277.0", "colnum": "2277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members go on talking like this they will imperil this concession", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-06", "file": "debates1949-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6845d8dab2fe5987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2278.2", "colnum": "2278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "axation affects them very seriously. I would not have adopted that line had it not been for the speech of the hon. Member. I appreciate the concession the Chancellor has made, on a day when he has had many grave and important things to consider. At the same time, when the Chancellor says that the claims already made will be the subject of discretion, I would ask who is to exercise that discretion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2278.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-06", "file": "debates1949-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6845d8dab2fe5987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2291.0", "colnum": "2291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "verything possible to prevent mining development. It is no argument to say that one can deal with mining in the same way as other industries. They are quite different. Here one is dependent on the life of the mine and on the amount of metal in it, on innumerable circumstances which cannot be judged in the same way as a factory, a coal mine or a quarry. Some of these mines run right out to the sea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-06", "file": "debates1949-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6845d8dab2fe5987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2291.0", "colnum": "2291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "l with mining in the same way as other industries. They are quite different. Here one is dependent on the life of the mine and on the amount of metal in it, on innumerable circumstances which cannot be judged in the same way as a factory, a coal mine or a quarry. Some of these mines run right out to the sea—[ Interruption. ] At any rate they have done so, and are quite likely to do so in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-06", "file": "debates1949-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "6845d8dab2fe5987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2298.6", "colnum": "2298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I might be allowed to make this observation. I quite agree with what the right hon. Gentleman has just said, because somewhere about here would be a convenient place to stop, but as you, Mr. Speaker, have said you have called on me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-06a.2298.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-07", "file": "debates1949-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "43568e83a7cf2b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-07a.2340.5", "colnum": "2340", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC SURVEY (STATISTICS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A White Paper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "As far as possible, we will make it available in the same form as it was given in the Economic Survey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-07a.2340.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-07", "file": "debates1949-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "43568e83a7cf2b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-07a.2350.8", "colnum": "2350", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "lso completely and absolutely silent on how the costs of construction are working out in relation to the estimates, or what the final cost may be. But what it lacks in matter it makes up in art. I wonder how many Members have seen this precious document. This is the document and this is the cover; there is plenty of gold. It is produced on the most beautiful art paper and is magnificently printed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-07a.2350.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-07", "file": "debates1949-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "43568e83a7cf2b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-07a.2385.1", "colnum": "2385", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "preceding_text": "still living in the days maybe of the White Paper and the sellers' market. There is grave concern in Scotland with regard to the situation. There is grave disillusionment; there is undoubtedly an increasing number of people who are deeply upset when they contemplate the future—and extremely sceptical when they contemplate the present. Why does the White Paper make no mention of that kind of thing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-07a.2385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-07", "file": "debates1949-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "43568e83a7cf2b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-07a.2435.1", "colnum": "2435", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "onditions. The trouble is that we are usually so anxious to get at new wealth that we tend to ignore the wilderness we create in the process of getting that new wealth. I am glad to see on page 16 of the Report that the right hon. Gentleman has done something to clear derelict land and remove unsightly bings. How much better it would have been if this work of rehabilitation had not been necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-07a.2435.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-07", "file": "debates1949-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "43568e83a7cf2b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-07a.2459.1", "colnum": "2459", "heading": "SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Major Lloyd rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-07a.2459.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-08", "file": "debates1949-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "660bcf195daa5498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2532.6", "colnum": "2532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAW REFORM (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It has been amended.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "Read the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2532.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-08", "file": "debates1949-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "660bcf195daa5498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2570.1", "colnum": "2570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANALGESIA IN CHILDBIRTH BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way for a moment. I do not know what Mrs. Savage can do in her humble way; perhaps her letter will influence some hon. Members to think again before they oppose this Measure. As I have said, I am not concerned with party politics in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-08", "file": "debates1949-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "660bcf195daa5498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2573.0", "colnum": "2573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANALGESIA IN CHILDBIRTH BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "preceding_text": "n assume that the Minister of Health knows what he is talking about. There is not the slightest doubt whatever on that subject. I can quite understand that it is galling to the hon. Member for Monmouth when he has with great trouble, great enthusiasm and great perseverance, promoted a Bill for an excellent object, to find that it is now no longer necessary because it is being done in another way.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-08", "file": "debates1949-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "660bcf195daa5498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2579.5", "colnum": "2579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANALGESIA IN CHILDBIRTH BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Quite untrue; she said she did not believe in analgesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2579.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-08", "file": "debates1949-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "660bcf195daa5498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2579.5", "colnum": "2579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANALGESIA IN CHILDBIRTH BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Quite untrue; she said she did not believe in analgesia. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] I will certainly quote it if I can find my way through the report of those proceedings. I am afraid I cannot find it, and I will not weary the House with it. I believe I am right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2579.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-08", "file": "debates1949-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "660bcf195daa5498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2579.6", "colnum": "2579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANALGESIA IN CHILDBIRTH BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Quite untrue; she said she did not believe in analgesia. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] I will certainly quote it if I can find my way through the report of those proceedings. I am afraid I cannot find it, and I will not weary the House with it. I believe I am right. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] I see that I shall have to find it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2579.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-08", "file": "debates1949-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "660bcf195daa5498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2580.0", "colnum": "2580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANALGESIA IN CHILDBIRTH BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady said it repeatedly. I was present at the second and third Sittings of the Committee. She said that she was completely indifferent to whether an analgesia service was supplied in her constituency. I said that I deduced from her remarks that she did not think it necessary or desirable that analgesia should be provided, and she did not contradict me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-08", "file": "debates1949-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "660bcf195daa5498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2587.3", "colnum": "2587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANALGESIA IN CHILDBIRTH BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is no statutory duty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "This new provision is merely a repetition of what already exists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-08", "file": "debates1949-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "660bcf195daa5498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2595.6", "colnum": "2595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS (EMERGENCY POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "preceding_text": "I will read the contents of this document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2595.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-08", "file": "debates1949-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "660bcf195daa5498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2595.6", "colnum": "2595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS (EMERGENCY POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "preceding_text": "I will read the contents of this document—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—I am not concerned about that. All I know is that this central lockout committee, rightly or wrongly, apparently has the confidence of the dockers who are being locked out. I have only a few moments and I think it is right that the House should know that the strikers, or dockers who are being locked out, say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2595.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-08", "file": "debates1949-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "660bcf195daa5498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2596.1", "colnum": "2596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS (EMERGENCY POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which nation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "preceding_text": "Of course, I must and do abide by your Ruling, Mr. Speaker, but I should have thought, with great respect, that it would have been interesting to have on record—and I am sure the nation would like to have on record—what the views of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-08", "file": "debates1949-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "660bcf195daa5498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2597.1", "colnum": "2597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS (EMERGENCY POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give way for a reply.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "preceding_text": "therwise of the dispute; I do not pretend to have an expert knowledge of whether they are right or wrong—of this much I am confident: that the solution to this problem lies in the hands of the Government, and that while the dockers rightly think that this is a \"black\" job which they are being asked to do, they are acting in accordance with trade practice not to pursue it. Finally, I will just say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-08a.2597.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-11", "file": "debates1949-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "0a1a731d0a100759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-11a.40.5", "colnum": "40", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE KING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "preceding_text": "Shame!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-11a.40.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-11", "file": "debates1949-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "0a1a731d0a100759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-11a.49.0", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary for Overseas Trade (Mr. Bottomley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary for Overseas Trade (Mr. Bottomley)", "preceding_text": "The Treasury have power to use this Clause only on the recommendation of the Board of Trade, and the Board of Trade make recommendations only in the national interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-11a.49.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-11", "file": "debates1949-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "0a1a731d0a100759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-11a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Between £35,000 and £75,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "137.] The Chancellor knew perfectly well that I put down the Question in order to know from which estates of over £35,000 the £20 million a year is to come. I cannot make the calculation with the same accuracy as the Treasury, but is it not a fact that the great bulk of this £20 million will come from estates of between £35,000 and £100,000, and most of it from estates between £35,000 and £60,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-11a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-11", "file": "debates1949-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "0a1a731d0a100759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-11a.80.0", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haworth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haworth", "preceding_text": " past. As a result, we have been told that we have to change our outlook. As a Socialist, I have been brought up to believe that the only source of wealth is labour, and that it is only labour that can create wealth. People invest their money, and we like them to do so, but their investment does not mean the creation of wealth. It is only the people who work who earn a return on those investments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-11a.80.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-11", "file": "debates1949-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "0a1a731d0a100759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-11a.101.2", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "General Sir George Jeffreys", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "General Sir George Jeffreys", "preceding_text": "that \"Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.\" I venture to suggest to hon. Members opposite that, apart from humble homes, there are less humble homes, there are moderate homes and there are even noble homes, and that to those whose homes they are there is no place like home. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is definitely taking action to break up all but the humble homes in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-11a.101.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-11", "file": "debates1949-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "0a1a731d0a100759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-11a.112.0", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Coal Board.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": " Haworth) made a revealing speech. He said that when he now went to the Dorchester Hotel he could not see any evidence of less luxury than he saw before. Apparently he saw plenty of his old friends. I have no doubt he did. I have no doubt that he saw plenty of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen from the Front Bench opposite. I have no doubt that he saw some of his colleagues from the Railway Executive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-11a.112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-11", "file": "debates1949-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "0a1a731d0a100759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-11a.169.3", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED EX-SERVICE MEN (MOTOR CARS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not listening.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "men were entitled to a car of this kind, I think the House would agree that it gave immense pleasure and gave an opportunity to these men which they had not contemplated as being possible or within their means. I can imagine, as I think the whole House can imagine, the intense satisfaction that a disabled man must have had when he received the letter which the hon. Gentleman's Department sent out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-11a.169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-11", "file": "debates1949-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "0a1a731d0a100759", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-11a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED EX-SERVICE MEN (MOTOR CARS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I am glad to note that, in effect, the hon. Gentleman abandons the point altogether. Here is a man who has seen that the Government were to supply him with a motor car; that a great Government Department had written: It has been decided that at your option you may be supplied with a low-powered motor car.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-11a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-12", "file": "debates1949-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "bd5392416964832e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.179.4", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that there is a strike on these two boats carried on by a bona fide Canadian trade union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.179.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-12", "file": "debates1949-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "bd5392416964832e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.208.3", "colnum": "208", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that I went out, in answer to a message, at 3 o'clock and saw what looked like a meeting of the usual channels out there in the Lobby—I nearly introduced myself but felt I should not be welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-12", "file": "debates1949-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "bd5392416964832e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "ons, but taxes come in as to the overwhelming majority after the point of costing. The costings do not include taxation to any considerable extent. Only the replacement of equipment and machinery is normally paid for after taxation, but this Budget and Finance Bill give a great deal of relief in that direction. The proof of the pudding is that our prices in the world overall are competitive today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-12", "file": "debates1949-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "bd5392416964832e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.267.3", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "erhand subsidy to a Government industry. We shall have to consider the whole question of these duties. For a very long time it has been realised by some people that if the Socialist Party came into a tariff country they would use tariffs in a grossly unfair way to encourage Socialism and hurt and injure other forms of trade and industry. I do not think I need say very much further about this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-12", "file": "debates1949-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "bd5392416964832e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.276.0", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cecil Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Taxation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cecil Poole", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker, may I ask for your guidance? I fail to see the relation between much of what is being uttered, entertaining though it may be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-12", "file": "debates1949-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "bd5392416964832e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.309.4", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "It does not necessarily mean that because it is the desire of the House to see that safety appliances are not interfered with we should place an indefinite burden upon housewives. There are other means by which the object can be achieved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.309.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-12", "file": "debates1949-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "bd5392416964832e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "uld have been at great pains to ensure that the consuming public, particularly the small consumers, were not penalised in such a way as this. It is not for me to proffer advice to the Government with an election in the offing, but I should have thought that if they did not agree to this Amendment they would agree to something which would be in their own interests in view of the impending election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-12", "file": "debates1949-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "bd5392416964832e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "The Postmaster-General told us that if anything went wrong we could rely on the Government to look on it as a matter of sympathy. I know he would like to do that, but I have completely and utterly failed to understand how it can be done. I have searched through a long list of cases in which really good people wanted sympathy, and a long Parliamentary experience has taught me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-12", "file": "debates1949-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "bd5392416964832e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.329.3", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hobson", "preceding_text": "I was just going to get up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-12", "file": "debates1949-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "bd5392416964832e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.340.3", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brendan Bracken", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or so wet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brendan Bracken", "preceding_text": "ther place. I must say that it is a great waste of Parliamentary time for the Minister not to listen to us and then to go through this whole process of coming here to-night and accepting Amendments that were proposed to him during our long discussions on this Bill. The conversion of the Minister is miraculous. Never since Moses struck the rock and found water has there been anything so surprising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.340.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-12", "file": "debates1949-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "bd5392416964832e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "The Minister has confirmed everything I have said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-12", "file": "debates1949-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "bd5392416964832e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.356.2", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blyton", "preceding_text": "eases its production. Are we to be put in the same position as we were in during 1920 and 1921, when coal was sold free on board at such a ridiculously low figure that we in the exporting district could only earn 6s. 6½d. a day in the pits? Or are we to have the exporting organisations of the National Coal Board to get a price which will guarantee a decent standard of living for the miners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.356.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-12", "file": "debates1949-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "bd5392416964832e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Foster", "preceding_text": "at present. The Minister may well remember the occasion of the Debate in this House on the Coal Industry Bill, when he was very critical of the Report of the Fabian Society on the National Coal Board. He poured scorn on a body for which, I believe, he was a research worker. I do not know whether he will agree with that? He was not? I cannot see whether the right hon. Gentleman agrees or disagrees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-12", "file": "debates1949-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "bd5392416964832e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.381.3", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "I have said already. I cannot see that a statement by my noble Friend the Lord Chancellor to the effect, for example, that a man would, he hoped, be treated as well as he would have been treated by a colliery company which dismissed him, is likely to cause us any serious embarrassment, because I think that the colliery company would have been very unlikely to have helped him at all in such a case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-12", "file": "debates1949-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "bd5392416964832e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "n wanted to exclude what was said in another place and that was rather suspicious: he will not answer a straight question put by my right hon. Friend. Is he prepared to give an assurance in the same terms? Why is he not prepared to do so, because the regulations he has issued and the scheme he has prepared cut down compensation to very much less than any employer would give any dismissed employee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-12", "file": "debates1949-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "bd5392416964832e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "Can I ask for your guidance, Mr. Speaker. May I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-12", "file": "debates1949-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "bd5392416964832e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "Can I ask for your guidance, Mr. Speaker. May I ask—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-12", "file": "debates1949-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "bd5392416964832e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.386.2", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "It will not take more than one second.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-12", "file": "debates1949-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "bd5392416964832e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.388.4", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Roberts", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A repudiation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Roberts", "preceding_text": "Debate will not close before we have had some indication from the Government about its intentions. We have had a definite statement by the Lord Chancellor in another place, which has already been quoted, and which, therefore, I do not propose to give to the House again. This has been followed, as far as we can see, by the Minister making a statement which does not accord with his senior colleague.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.388.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-12", "file": "debates1949-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "bd5392416964832e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.392.2", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, may I say, with respect, that I started to rise before the Amendment was put to the vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-12a.392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.436.4", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE (POLITICAL ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "Civil servants have never enjoyed the full freedom in this direction which other citizens have enjoyed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.436.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.438.4", "colnum": "438", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": " as an aside which would not be reported, and I was prepared to treat it with the contempt it deserved. Now, however, that I find it printed in the OFFICIAL REPORT, where it stands between a Question by me and a Ruling by you, I must take notice of it. I, therefore, appeal to you to give me redress in one of two ways, either by causing the insulting language to be deleted from the OFFICIAL REPORT—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.438.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.439.4", "colnum": "439", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "As you know, Mr. Speaker, I have a great respect for the Chair, and I have always shown that respect, but I have a still greater respect for the truth. I will not call the hon. Member a liar, if you forbid me to do so, but I will say that what the hon. Member said was a lie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.439.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.454.5", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "Further to that, Mr. Speaker. I did not hear your answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.454.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.457.5", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "This revolutionary Socialist who is so anxious to have the dockers defeated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.457.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.457.5", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So they have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "olutionary Socialist who is so anxious to have the dockers defeated—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] So he is—having had his opportunity to prove that what I said was correct and what the Prime Minister said was wrong, I shall now get on with my speech. It has been said—and many hon. Members have referred to it here—that the Communists have something to do with this great manifestation of the dockers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.457.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": ", not in London but throughout the country. At that time the country was struggling to get on its feet, its economy was in a bad way, the strike of the dockers was doing incalculable harm—that was the burden of the Tory song, as it is the burden of the Labour and the Tory song today. But was it Communists who were responsible for the wholesale disruption of the economic life of the nation in 1924.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "That is understood, but it is also understood that that agreement does not involve working in \"black\" ships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.460.7", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Please, please. Well, I say it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.460.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.460.7", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Their own representatives have decided that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "hen, I say the ships are \"black.\" The Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the Prime Minister say that the ships are not \"black.\" That indicates clearly that there is a difference. Then why not take the difference outside the ambit of the London dockers, and let the London dockers get on with the job they are willing to do while the question of whether the ships are \"black\" or not is being decided?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.460.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.460.7", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " the delegates. I happened to be a delegate there and I went over and commiserated with him. Considering his attitude then, how can he be a party to what is going on today? True, he served the dockers well, but at the same time it should be remembered that the dockers—these much-defamed dockers—built him up and gave him the opportunity to become one of the foremost men in the trade union movement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.460.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "What a shameful thing it is that he and others, whose main task it should be to protect the workers, should now be ready to destroy them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " am sure that the Labour leaders will appreciate these quotations. I have already put one of them before the House on an earlier occasion. Paul, writing to the Corinthians, could say: … we are made as the filth of the world and are the offscouring of all things unto this day. The Attorney-General is busy on the job of getting after Paul and the rest of them. And in the Acts of the Apostles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.477.2", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I ask for the protection of the Chair, to which as an hon. Member of this House, I am entitled, irrespective of my political beliefs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.477.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.499.6", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "that he is being less than frank. This shows one of the acts of pressure that has led to the Government's attitude towards these dockers. It came from Mr. Hal C. Banks, this armed gangster who was arrested in possession of his tools of trade with four other members of his gang, the so-called S.I.U., who actually intervened in that way by sending the wire. I do not want to go on with these details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.499.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.500.3", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "m doing it now. I do not want to go into any more details, save only to say that no Member here can produce a single example, except hearsay about some letters in London, about any violent action by the C.S.U. men. We know that the Labour movement repudiates these acts of violence, but not so the gangster unions of the Pinkerton Agency type, the strike-breaking gangsters, so well known in America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.500.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.500.3", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "ng to break up the hiring hall system, the system whereby every man went on the ship through the union box. In our country the hiring hall system is nowhere better known than in Natsopa, and no one has done so much to introduce it as the Minister of Labour. That is what the strike was all about in this dispute in Canada. The men's wages were threatened to be cut by some 20 to 30 dollars per month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.500.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.503.3", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "t. I do not say they were concealed by the Minister of Labour, because I do not believe he knew the facts, but there are others on the Front Bench who know all these facts. The only way in which the House can deal with this issue with any hope of solving it and without plunging the country into far worse difficulties, difficulties that are adumbrated when one sees what happens in Italy and France—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.503.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.505.2", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McEntee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McEntee", "preceding_text": "If that is meant for me, as it apparently is, let me tell the hon. Member that I have 57 years' membership of a trade union and that I know infinitely more about it, and about the history of trade unions in Canada and America, than ever the hon. Member could know or thinks he knows. I ask him now: What has all this got to do with the dockers' union here? Is he not aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.505.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.507.3", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Hewitson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Hewitson", "preceding_text": " working in dockland to continue. The suggestion that has been made by some hon. Members that Communism is behind this is all wrong. There is something underlying it all, a feeling of frustration among our industrial workers. We are now coming to the end of 10 years of great weariness among industrial workers. A man goes home at night, and hears the complaints of his wife about standing in queues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.507.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "This is gross misrepresentation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "preceding_text": " am calling upon my experience, and I have a shrewd suspicion that thousands of brother trade unionists in this country who are not immediately involved in the dispute are also calling upon their experience. That experience forces me to say that no Government Which had not completely lost the confidence of the organised workers would dream of applying the powers that are under consideration today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.547.3", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I have been expecting that remark. I suppose it does not matter to my hon. Friend that thousands of troops are there now to blackleg.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.547.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.547.3", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "t does not matter to my hon. Friend that thousands of troops are there now to blackleg. [ Interruption .] I am told that they are not. The London dockers are only too willing to return to the ships as long as the Government disposes of the cause of the dispute. If it is right to use the troops on all the ships, what is wrong in allowing them to dispose of these two boats and return them to Canada?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.547.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "preceding_text": "scussing; he strayed outside the strict confines of this docks dispute to make some general remarks about the way in which we should treat the Communists. I do not think there has been any answer to that and perhaps there should be. I do not at all doubt that Communists are engaged in an effort to destroy the economy of the Western world. There are some hon. Members sitting behind me in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "I had almost given up the idea that I should be permitted to say anything in this Debate. I had a feeling that it was thought I ought not to speak, and that the Government Front Bench did not want me to speak in this Debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.597.1", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "erted into two that would constitute two additional dwellings, because the original dwelling had ceased to exist altogether. For the purposes of the Bill they would be two new additional dwellings because the original dwelling had disappeared. Accordingly, this could not be regarded just as one additional dwelling to the original dwelling because each of the two new ones will be an additional one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.597.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-13", "file": "debates1949-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "d7a143945a5dd02b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.598.2", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "In view of what the Lord Advocate has said, that while it is not possible to incorporate this Amendment in the Bill in a satisfactory manner but that it is the intention to try to carry out the intention of the Amendment by administrative means. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-13a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Names.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I hope that hospital authorities themselves will be made aware in the normal way of the answer that I have given to the Question. But I do most sincerely deprecate the grave misrepresentations that certain newspapers—two of them in particular—have been guilty of in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.668.5", "colnum": "668", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I think that indignation is a bit out of proportion. The Government have given a day for the economic crisis as well, namely, next Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.668.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.684.2", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "s the House knows from having studied the programme put forward for 1949–50, there were increases anticipated in a number of items. I hope it will be possible, therefore, to maintain the existing consumption of non-ferrous metals. As regards steel, we shall have to cut off a part of our imports, so that the maintenance of a high level of domestic production becomes more important than ever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.684.2", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "f non-ferrous metals. As regards steel, we shall have to cut off a part of our imports, so that the maintenance of a high level of domestic production becomes more important than ever. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I agree with the enthusiastic reception which has been given to that passage and I agree with those who have made it that we hope that the continued spur of the hope of nationalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Taxation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "ted Kingdom will do, cut down our dollar expenditure. Those matters I am now discussing with my colleagues from the other Commonwealth countries. There is one final matter to which I should make a reference, namely, the cost of production in this country and its effect upon our balance of payments. The main elements in cost of production are the prices of raw materials, labour costs and overheads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.694.3", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "munique from Chequers, and the statement we have heard today convey extremely little to the man in the factory, or the field or the mine. What does he really think of phrases like \"personal incomes\"? We ought to be more blunt and say we mean wages and salaries. That is more readily understood. Do not let us shy away from using the word, \"wages,\" because it is a common word, and will be understood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.694.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.702.7", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " this deep-seated maladjustment by exports only and we cannot deal with this situation only in terms of current trade. There must be movements of capital between the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern. One of the effects of such a movement of capital will be of the greatest advantage in developing the Empire and dealing with Imperial problems. That is one of the long-term solutions to the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.702.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "that many of them are married with families, which perhaps brings the total up to 10 million—is because an idealistic, generous and extravagant American Government has been sending money over here to supply us with teeth and wigs. If I can do something to get rid of that impression I shall be very glad, because the American workers themselves, through Mr. Philip Murray, the President of the C.I.O.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.732.3", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "e, and it is about time that the Government faced up to it. We are all so awed by the alleged brains of the right hon. and learned Gentleman that we are inclined to sit back and think that, when he declaims some profound theory, he must be right because he is so clever. But if one is clever, one is not always right; one can quite often come to wrong conclusions. I would rather trust stupid people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.732.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.744.4", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "olution depends on our getting another 15 million tons of coal. That is the honest truth. It is a fact, but it is not said often enough. I also suggest that we should alter our method of producing a Budget every year. I think it is quite silly not to have both a Capital and a Revenue Budget. If I tried to run a business in the way the Government try to run the country, I would be \"bust\" overnight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.744.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.747.2", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is £6,500 million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "he dollar runs there should be four dollars to the £, and wherever the £ runs it would be worth four dollars. They do not run their currency on gold in any case. The amount of their fiduciary issue and credit is not measured against the amount of gold hoarded in the vaults at Fort Knox, which must be something pretty formidable; something like 24,000 million dollars worth of gold is stocked there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.747.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cobb", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell us some more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cobb", "preceding_text": "on. I am glad to see this conversion on the right hon. Gentleman's part, because he and I happen to be in the same industry, and every time I have made the competition a bit hot for him, he has either personally or through one of his managers suggested a price agreement. I am therefore looking forward with a great deal of interest to the day when he really faces up to this question of competition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.767.3", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Lindsay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Lindsay", "preceding_text": "ke it amiss if he likes to leave the Chamber at once in order to get some supper. It is not often that I have the chance of addressing the Chancellor and I shall, therefore, return to his more important speech. I want to tell the Chancellor, quite frankly, that I thought his speech was listened to with a great sense of disappointment in all parts of the House and not least on the benches opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.767.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Eccles", "preceding_text": ". We are going to cut that by a couple of ounces.\" Then, I admit largely through seasonal circumstances, he was able to counterbalance that by saying that the British housewife would get a few more ounces of fats,, meat and bacon. There was no urgency there. Yet we are faced by an immediate problem which overrides the long-term difficulty which the Chancellor succeeded in putting in the forefront—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "No doubt the right hon. and learned Gentleman has learned how to talk in order to save time in listening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": " said that to hold another currency was to invest in the solvency and stability of that country, and the only test by which one could judge of that stability was to look at the reserves behind the currency. That is what he had done and he had seen unmistakably that the British reserves had been allowed to fall far below the safety level. He said we had no reserve of labour, we were fully employed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.777.0", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I have said in the House before that the trouble with the information that is disseminated is that it is so selective and that its effect upon the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "Entirely in fulfilment of that principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "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": "ber for Chippenham (Mr. Eccles) will forgive me, I know, if I do not immediately follow him on some of the points he raised, because I should like to deal first with some points raised by other hon. Gentlemen before I turn to what the hon. Gentleman has just said. I will just say this about some of his remarks. If anyone were tempted to take the hon. Gentleman seriously, which I know they are not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.793.5", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " Tory Party is opposed to bilateral trade agreements. They have already made it clear on a number of occasions that they are not happy about a multilateral policy. What there is left without multilateralism or bilateralism, unless it is unilateralism, I cannot say. I would ask the right hon. Gentleman, do we understand from what he said this afternoon that he is opposed to the Argentine Agreement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.793.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.793.5", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "of occasions that they are not happy about a multilateral policy. What there is left without multilateralism or bilateralism, unless it is unilateralism, I cannot say. I would ask the right hon. Gentleman, do we understand from what he said this afternoon that he is opposed to the Argentine Agreement? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Because all the arguments he has used suggest that he is opposed to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.793.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.795.3", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Yes, certainly, as soon as the discussions in Paris are a little further advanced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.795.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.795.5", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Just one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman suggest that we should publish the whole of our list before discussions have begun?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.795.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No shoes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "s for food come down and, further, that they would not cut the programme of providing factories for the development areas? When we have an answer to that question we shall have a clearer idea of what their policy is. Responsible Tory papers are advocating cuts in expenditure scarcely less painful than in 1931. We know what that means—cuts in unemployment benefit, intensification of the Means Test—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman is leaving that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "he Tory Press will come with me to my constituency, I will introduce them to a thousand people who can produce evidence of children going without shoes. Let the \"Daily Telegraph\" print that one. People in that constituency, on the basis of the policy referred to by the \"Sunday Times,\" were living on 10s. a week old age pension with a maximum of 2s. 6d. P.A.C. payment. I am talking about Liverpool.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.811.6", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YOUTH EMPLOYMENT (SCHOOL RECORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "and his general health may be excellent in more mature years. Let the Minister take this back and bring it out again in a much more simple form, without these compulsory powers behind it. A brief guide may be of use; a detailed dossier may be dangerous. There are right hon. Members on both our front benches who, if reported on at the age of 15 years, might never have gone into the political world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.811.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.818.2", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YOUTH EMPLOYMENT (SCHOOL RECORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "As compulsion is in the Act itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.818.6", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YOUTH EMPLOYMENT (SCHOOL RECORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "The trouble is that this Prayer is really directed against the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.818.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-14", "file": "debates1949-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "10faeadde9bb8f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YOUTH EMPLOYMENT (SCHOOL RECORDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "would express the hope that in the consultations he has already indicated he proposes to take part in with the very able people upon whom he can call, he will also include, in those consultations, a reconsideration not only of these regulations in general, but of the compulsory element in particular. It is because I hope that he will do that that I do not propose to press the Motion to a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-14a.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-18", "file": "debates1949-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "dfd4dba69bc7bc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.971.5", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "There is no question of permanent devastation of food-producing land. On the contrary, there is evidence to the effect that it may positively benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.971.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-18", "file": "debates1949-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "dfd4dba69bc7bc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.975.4", "colnum": "975", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " up somewhere else.\" I do not believe that to be a true assessment of the situation. Indeed, that mood seems rather contrary to the right hon. and learned Gentleman's own character. I often disagree with him on political issues, but I always thought he was a man who would not hesitate to put the picture, however starkly, before the nation. He has done so before, and has done a service in doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.975.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-18", "file": "debates1949-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "dfd4dba69bc7bc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "en those restrictions have to be imposed in this sudden manner without any clear explanation of how they are going to work—and I will admit that any such explanation is extremely difficult to make—then there is a most undesirable situation for all British industries. The Chancellor in his speech kept referring to the importance of maintaining full employment. We entirely agree with him about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-18", "file": "debates1949-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "dfd4dba69bc7bc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.982.0", "colnum": "982", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "uld point out that these are comparative figures. If hon. Gentlemen opposite look at them, they will see the costliness of nationalisation. Then there is the heavy burden of Government expenditure. We think that one of the best economies the Government could make would be to scrap the Iron and Steel Bill, in view of the evidence which is before us of the rising costs which nationalisation entails.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.982.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-18", "file": "debates1949-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "dfd4dba69bc7bc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which burdens?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " to meet our difficulties, these proposals are adding a further burden to the heavily laden animal of British industry which is struggling so gallantly up the hill. The Chancellor is rich in exhortations and in imprecations. He cracks the whip but he adds to the burden all the time. Until that practice is reversed and until a start is made with easing the burden which British industry has to bear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-18", "file": "debates1949-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "dfd4dba69bc7bc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "in the expansion of our vital livestock industry which can give us the best possible return in sustaining food, and also real progress towards getting sound long-term development in our agriculture. Whose advice is he taking? This is not an agricultural expansion programme. It is a makeshift dictated by the Treasury. It will not give us a balanced system of farming on lines that suit this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-18", "file": "debates1949-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "dfd4dba69bc7bc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He does not draw his salary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend says we shall know on Saturday. I have always understood, as a very humble and unimportant back bencher, that if one is an important person and a Member of this House, and has anything to tell the country, he does it in this House. The Leader of the Opposition, as a salaried official of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1020.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-18", "file": "debates1949-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "dfd4dba69bc7bc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1028.0", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Houghton", "preceding_text": "e find that he said this: I do not myself subscribe to the dangerous illusion, which is shared, I think, by some of my hon Friends, that the Tory Party have not got a policy. It is quite clear from their speeches and their Press articles that their policy at this time would be one of chronic deflation and the reversion to a system under which a million or, perhaps, two million would be unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-18", "file": "debates1949-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "dfd4dba69bc7bc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1044.7", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We lived through it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ort of thing brought about. Hon. Members opposite talk about a slash in the social services. It may be that there will be a savage reduction in everybody's standard of living. It may well come, but it will not be the deliberate act of a political party that will bring that about. I know perfectly well that no hon. Member opposite in his heart believes that it would be the act of a political party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1044.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-18", "file": "debates1949-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "dfd4dba69bc7bc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1045.6", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "Go outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1045.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-18", "file": "debates1949-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "dfd4dba69bc7bc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I believe they have been told that exports do not matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-18", "file": "debates1949-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "dfd4dba69bc7bc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ally up against. I, for my part, expected him to do it. What did he say? He said that we would have to cut a little tobacco, but that we could go on smoking over the holiday, probably until the next Election came along. He said we would cut cotton but it would make no difference whatever to employment in Lancashire. He said that we would cut timber but, of course, houses would go up just the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-18", "file": "debates1949-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "dfd4dba69bc7bc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Who had the trains?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "h, 1949; Vol. 462, c. 783.] I only draw the attention of the House to this subject of limousines because I want to give the right hon. Member for Aldershot and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition a little advice and it is this. Those who go around the country in trains at election times paid for at the public expense should be very careful before attacking Members of the Government for using cars—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-18", "file": "debates1949-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "dfd4dba69bc7bc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "that been regularly condemned as something both morally wicked and economically, in the long run, likely to do more harm than good? How can people now begin to have confidence in a managed pound sterling the props of which have not only been knocked away by what almost seems to be regarded as the perversity of Mr. Roosevelt in dying when right hon. Gentlemen opposite were still finding him useful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-18", "file": "debates1949-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "dfd4dba69bc7bc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "But, really, the right hon. Gentleman, who kindly looks in on our Debates now and then, must not suppose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-18", "file": "debates1949-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "dfd4dba69bc7bc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1085.3", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dower", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dower", "preceding_text": "f traffic Would I admit; … … riches, poverty, And use of service, none; … No occupation; all men idle, … all, All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour. Would that not be a delightful easement of our problems today? I have omitted one line: \"And all the women innocent and pure,\" because I thought it scarcely appropriate to an economic Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-18", "file": "debates1949-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "dfd4dba69bc7bc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1085.3", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dower", "preceding_text": "Debate. [ Laughter. ] Some Members of the House may have more experience than I have. But seriously, would those conditions bring content? It is well known that happiness is only appreciated by knowing sorrow and for the real enjoyment of rest, one needs a body weary with toil. I wish to ask why we have reached this fragile dollar condition. I do not ascribe the crisis to the Socialist Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-18", "file": "debates1949-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "dfd4dba69bc7bc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1085.3", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dower", "preceding_text": "It is well known that happiness is only appreciated by knowing sorrow and for the real enjoyment of rest, one needs a body weary with toil. I wish to ask why we have reached this fragile dollar condition. I do not ascribe the crisis to the Socialist Government. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Hon. Members must not cheer too soon, for I believe that their procedure has tended to aggravate the crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-18", "file": "debates1949-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "dfd4dba69bc7bc0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " is for this reason that we see a grave risk to the standard of living, a grave danger of unemployment and a grave danger of the value of social benefits collapsing. That is our answer to Members opposite who taunt us with objectives which are in no way ours. There is no one who has taken part in this Debate from this side of the House who does not stand for the social services, and it is because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-18a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-19", "file": "debates1949-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "22c704e4391d826b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-19a.1138.6", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "It is very much better to provide a quarter, whether an Army quarter or a private quarter, and for the War Office to pay for it, than to allow an officer cash so that he can obtain it himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-19a.1138.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-19", "file": "debates1949-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "22c704e4391d826b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-19a.1161.5", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is quite wrong if he supposes that trousers of this quality could have been bought last year for 32s. The lowest ceiling price for this quality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-19a.1161.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-19", "file": "debates1949-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "22c704e4391d826b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-19a.1169.8", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL PARKS AND ACCESS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but we have passed that point; perhaps I was a little too speedy. The right hon. Gentleman on a previous similar Amendment said that he proposed to insert further words later. I do not know whether that is the explanation here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-19a.1169.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-19", "file": "debates1949-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "22c704e4391d826b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-19a.1192.0", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL PARKS AND ACCESS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "f publicity for our national parks in the Services on the lines of posters saying: \"This beautiful park belongs to you; it is yours, but please do not despoil it in any way.\" There are many ways in which such publicity could be used, but we do not expect this Government to be practical, and it is only natural that it is left to a Tory hon. Member to lay down what a Government Department should do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-19a.1192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-19", "file": "debates1949-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "22c704e4391d826b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-19a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL PARKS AND ACCESS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. and learned Member for the Combined English Universities (Mr. H. Strauss) realises it is not possible for me to deal effectively with what he has said, because it is really a matter which is directed to my right hon. Friend the Minister of Transport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-19a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-19", "file": "debates1949-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "22c704e4391d826b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-19a.1229.0", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL PARKS AND ACCESS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": " or sub-commission of those bodies in order to do the job in Wales, but, in the case of this Bill, it has been pointed out over and over again, sometimes as a criticism of the Bill and sometimes as a virtue, that the National Parks Commission is purely an advisory body. What the hon. Member and his friends are asking is that there should be another committee set up in Wales to advise the advisers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-19a.1229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-19", "file": "debates1949-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "22c704e4391d826b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-19a.1322.2", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL PARKS AND ACCESS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Clarke", "preceding_text": "a and fauna, plants and animals, in the national parks. My hon. Friends and I are not wedded to these particular words, which I admit are rather cumbrous, but the Amendment to be made can include their sense. It may be said that we are asking too much and that if we can get wardens who are honest, sober, and reliable, it is rather too much to ask them also to have a know- ledge of flora and fauna.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-19a.1322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-20", "file": "debates1949-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d7386870da9b7c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-20a.1345.6", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is the Postmaster-General aware that letters posted in the City of Aberdeen after 5.45 are not delivered until the second post the next day, while letters posted in Aberdeenshire and Banffshire are delivered by the first post the next day? Is he aware that there is an anomaly which should be rectified?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-20a.1345.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-20", "file": "debates1949-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d7386870da9b7c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-20a.1376.7", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "g worked by Service labour. Additional Service labour will be allocated to the full extent required to maintain supplies vital to the life of the community. The Government are conscious of the deep debt of gratitude that the nation owes to the Service personnel who are working so magnificently at this emergency task, and I am sure the House will wish to be associated with our expression of thanks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-20a.1376.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-20", "file": "debates1949-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d7386870da9b7c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-20a.1378.1", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Anderson", "preceding_text": "iend the Member for Saffron Walden (Mr. R. A. Butler) in the course of which he said this: The men must realise that by their present conduct they may be imperilling the future of the Dock Labour Scheme.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 4th July, 1949; Vol. 466, c. 1797–8.] Thirdly, do right hon. Gentlemen realise that the action taken in the early hours of this morning, at which I personally was aghast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-20a.1378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-20", "file": "debates1949-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d7386870da9b7c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-20a.1380.3", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "By taking the Emergency Powers we have set up the Emergency Committee. I can assure the right hon. Gentleman that even if no concrete action is apparent from their action, the Committee have had to settle down, make contact, become acquainted with the situation and obtain understanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-20a.1380.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-20", "file": "debates1949-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d7386870da9b7c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-20a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "Ninety ships are being unloaded. Steps have had to be taken to see that the troops are cared for, that they go into the docks, that the right ships are chosen for unloading, and things of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-20a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-20", "file": "debates1949-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d7386870da9b7c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-20a.1382.3", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "I cannot understand what the second part of that question has to do with me. As far as the question of the lock-out, or strike, is concerned, if the people who have stirred up the dockers, and who have been encouraged by certain Members of this House, were to be shifted out of the way now—if we only had the power—we would stop the strike tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-20a.1382.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-20", "file": "debates1949-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d7386870da9b7c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-20a.1384.5", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harrison", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend resist the obvious attempts made by hon. Members opposite to stampede him into taking action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-20a.1384.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-20", "file": "debates1949-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d7386870da9b7c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-20a.1385.0", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "What I had in mind when I answered the hon. Member for West Fife was that if a British seaman was carrying on conduct of this sort in one of the British Dominions, they have power to deport him, but if a Canadian seaman is carrying that on over here we have no power to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-20a.1385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-20", "file": "debates1949-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d7386870da9b7c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-20a.1430.1", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that the history of British agriculture in the 19th century was sufficient evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-20a.1430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-20", "file": "debates1949-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d7386870da9b7c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-20a.1470.3", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "something which I am certain is as much the concern of hon. Gentlemen opposite as of ourselves. We may approach the subject differently, but I am delighted—and I say this without reserve—to see the interest of the Socialist Party in the Colonies since 1945. I am delighted, considering the long years when they were as indifferent to it as the present Chancellor of the Exchequer was in the old days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-20a.1470.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-21", "file": "debates1949-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "24ee0693c87f90eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1558.2", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman then explain what the Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords meant by his statement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1558.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-21", "file": "debates1949-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "24ee0693c87f90eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1561.3", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman mean to suggest that after all these weeks in which he has been engaged in intimate study of this matter, he is not effectively informed on this simple point which has been put to him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1561.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-21", "file": "debates1949-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "24ee0693c87f90eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has said in terms that Mr. Barrett, whom I understand to be a subject of this country, is deliberately prolonging the dispute. Either the powers which we gave were necessary and valuable or they were not. What is wrong with the powers that we cannot impose our will on Mr. Barrett, who is breaking his trust with the trade union and his duty to this country and this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-21", "file": "debates1949-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "24ee0693c87f90eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1570.8", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "ritish Zone the internal policy of His Majesty's Ministers in Britain are being clearly reflected. They have tried to impose, or suggest, their particular brand of Socialism and have expected him to welcome the idea that his great industries should be nationalised and subjected to the same dead hand of which they have not been slow to observe the results in Great Britain. We have had a great deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1570.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-21", "file": "debates1949-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "24ee0693c87f90eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1586.0", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": ", when it came to the Cabinet at home, I have not the slightest doubt that if the British Cabinet had considered that phrase, it is likely that they would have advised against it, but, working with a great alliance and with great, loyal and powerful friends from across the ocean, we had to accommodate ourselves. I am by no means inclined to think that great harm flowed from this particular phrase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1586.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-21", "file": "debates1949-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "24ee0693c87f90eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1590.3", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": " stronger. This is a case which I must not prejudice in the courts; it is there now, but the time it took to get it there made me wonder. I agree with the hon. Member that the delay was very disturbing to the Foreign Office. I had to press for these generals to be brought to trial. Some of them have escaped, which fact, in my mind at least, creates a profound admiration for the medical profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1590.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-21", "file": "debates1949-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "24ee0693c87f90eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1596.0", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh !", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "stent dismantling that is going on in Germany. He is uneasy in his mind—or he should be uneasy in his mind—about the very belated bringing to trial of German generals, and in the mood that he is in, he takes, I think, an altogether exaggerated view of any criticisms that were made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Bromley (Mr. H. Macmillan) in his very restrained and carefully phrased speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-21", "file": "debates1949-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "24ee0693c87f90eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1596.2", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " that the right hon. Gentleman felt so uneasy about those criticisms on the two points I have mentioned that he floated back across the years into the history of the war, and touched upon some large and important matters affecting our relations with the United States, with a view to throwing some invidious burden upon me personally; because otherwise there would have been no point in his doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1596.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-21", "file": "debates1949-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "24ee0693c87f90eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1597.1", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to give way, if the hon. Gentleman will permit me to continue. I have been rather seriously criticised by the Foreign Secretary trying, as it were, to throw all the discredit for \"unconditional surrender\" upon me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-21", "file": "debates1949-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "24ee0693c87f90eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1610.1", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"We do not want to begin it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "preceding_text": "ntary military textbooks, and he should not get up and talk about these serious matters. If we won such a war we should win a Western Europe which had been deliberately sabotaged and could never be put together again. We should have won the war, strategically and militarily but—and this is my contention—we should have lost the very thing for which we had been fighting the war, Western civilisation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1610.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-21", "file": "debates1949-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "24ee0693c87f90eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1612.2", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson Harris", "preceding_text": "aining on London, German armies were in occupation of half Stalingrad and Hitler was in undisputed power, how could we talk about conditions and terms? Obviously there had to be unconditional surrender pure and simple. In the lesser war, which preceded it, I am not sure whether the term \"unconditional surrender\" was used, but there was absolutely unconditional surrender on the part of the Germans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-21", "file": "debates1949-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "24ee0693c87f90eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1663.1", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "preceding_text": "If we wish to preserve the peace of Europe, we must have a balance of power. I did not mention the words \"strong Germany.\" We must, nevertheless, recognise the fact that Germany is a powerful nation and is one of the most powerful factors in Europe. Our complaint about Germany is that its force was ill-directed, but if we are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-21", "file": "debates1949-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "24ee0693c87f90eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1670.3", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Dual nationality.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "rsy between my hon. Friend the Member for Shore-ditch (Mr. Thurtle) and my hon. Friend the Member for West Fife. My second principle is one which I raised yesterday, and the Government ought to accept it. I refer to the principle of reciprocal retaliation. To take the case of Miss Peters, whom we claim to be a British subject, I understand—I give her case as one instance but there are many others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1670.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-21", "file": "debates1949-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "24ee0693c87f90eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1681.1", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State (Mr. McNeil)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Our own fears.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State (Mr. McNeil)", "preceding_text": "hes, would be valid, but it is not rested exclusively in its reaction upon the German people. We have no right at all to forget the fears and the anxieties of the people of Czechoslovakia, even if our relations are not presently as cordial as they once were, and as we would like them to be. Their fears and anxieties about Germany and about the level of German industry, and about the potentiality —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-21", "file": "debates1949-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "24ee0693c87f90eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1688.2", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": " should not now operate. I also very much hope that our experience will be comparable to the experience in the American zone and that a great many settlements will be effected without using the legal machinery provided. Finally, I should say a word about the Council of Europe. I was not too certain that the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House was not a little threatening, in his language—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1688.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-21", "file": "debates1949-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "24ee0693c87f90eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1699.6", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTAURANT MEALS, PRICE LIMIT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "You can have cooked oysters within the 5s. limit. You can have raw oysters outside the limit on payment of another 4s. The hon. Gentleman should look up these details. I think they are well-known and he should have asked those who advised him from the catering industry about these simple points, which they know perfectly well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-21a.1699.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1807.8", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "The model is not suitable for public exhibition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1807.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1831.1", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "r who the members of the Corporation are to be. In these days when we have such Government patronage, which is ever widening, and when we have had experience of those who have been appointed under this ever widening system of patronage, one feels that safeguards which might not have been necessary in other days are becoming more insistent and urgent. We are also discussing consumer representation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1840.3", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "city of this vast industry, there should be a definite number of persons, a minimum of the Corporation, who should have had experience in the production of the material. While we accept the same degree of flexibility and agree that the board should not be a functional board to any extent, yet we consider that there is ample ground for saying that a proportion—three people out of ten, or one-third—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1840.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1851.2", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "ent indeed. We have also to consider this. If this Amendment is not agreed to, is there any danger at all? What is likely to happen? Even the Opposition are admitting that in all probability there will be at least three men of experience appointed. It may happen that there will be four. The question arises, Can we trust the Minister to appoint the necessary people to carry on a necessary industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1851.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1867.0", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "preceding_text": "t it is not necessary and that the consumer's interest is otherwise protected and provided for in the Bill. The argument in favour of the Amendment is that the consumer's interest is not adequately protected and that there should be full protection. This is the vital difference between private enterprise and Socialism. Under free enterprise there would be no argument about the consumer's interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1923.1", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": " procedure, of course take place in this House, and I cannot recollect any case of an adverse vote for the Government in the other House. The effective check would be the power of praying against these orders in this House. I ask hon. Members opposite to believe that there are some of us who think that there is a very serious danger in the extensions of these activities of the public corporations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1923.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1931.1", "colnum": "1931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "this was what I meant to say next. Hon. Members opposite must not think it hypocritical if we say what I am sure they know and all the world knows—power tends to corrupt; all power also tends to kill itself. Perhaps what is not usually known and admitted is that almost every party or faction that gets into power kills its own power by not being true to its source, by defrauding its own principles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1949.9", "colnum": "1949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Jones", "preceding_text": "on the previous Amendment, that the memorandum of association and the articles of agreement between the companies give the Corporation the right to engage in all forms and methods of production. That, again is, of course, a matter for my right hon. Friend, or whoever may be the Minister when this Bill comes into operation. The House should have sufficient faith in the common sense of the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1949.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1958.0", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "s of the Commons and to hand over the sole right to the other place to annul an order. How can any hon. Member opposite preach about democracy and championship of the House of Commons when this proposal is made? The Commons fought to have the sole right to determine what money would be spent. On this occasion an Amendment is brought forward transferring the power from the Commons to another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1958.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1958.2", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "ss a resolution annulling it, and it would not therefore be passed. The words are: Being subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament. That does not mean both Houses. One or other of the two Houses can annul it. The Commons can approve it, and then another place can throw it out. I ask hon. Members opposite if such a proposal has ever been brought forward before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1958.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1960.0", "colnum": "1960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Jones", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will read carefully tomorrow what was actually said, he will find that I referred to the power already in the Bill—\"prior to subsection (3)\" were my actual words. In no way did I indicate to the House that it was necessary to get power to enter into research.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1963.0", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "I was dealing with the point that, if it is moral for an individual to do that, when he is, in fact, exploiting the community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1963.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1980.3", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I would like to discuss the third Amendment as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1985.0", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Roberts", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What right has he now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Roberts", "preceding_text": "orporation may remove the directors from the company, and put in a new set of directors. All right—but still the Consumers' Council cannot get satisfaction and the consumer is suffering damage. So the procedure goes on and on. So long as the Corporation do their best to promote and secure availability, that is all that can happen as far as a right in regard to damage for the consumer is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1992.0", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "sions on these Amendments, and I think every one could have been accepted by the Government without the slightest damage to the Bill—in fact they would have done the Bill a great deal of good. For hours we discussed the powers of this Corporation and the Minister sought by every means he could to extend those powers. We now come to discuss the duties. If I might have the attention of the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1992.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1999.0", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Sixty per cent.!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas", "preceding_text": "ogic. The Minister says that where the Corporation and publicly-owned companies have a complete monopoly, they can be required to produce a sufficient and economical supply of products. Their Lordships say that a similar duty shall apply to all products of the Corporation and publicly-owned companies in whatever proportion. What is the difference between 100 per cent. and 40 per cent. that makes—?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.1999.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2002.0", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "I am in two minds as to what the Government intend by disagreeing with these Amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2004.5", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "Judging by Mr. Speaker's notes on this Order Paper, the Amendments to lines 43 and 44 and to line 5, in page 5, all go together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2004.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2041.0", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "preceding_text": " occasions when I have wanted to say something a Member opposite has got up and stopped me from speaking. The statement we have just heard from the Minister is a most extraordinary one. He comes forward with this scheme of nationalisation, on which Members opposite have said so much to the country, and says that the Government do not know what they are going to do when they take over the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2041.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2066.0", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That has gone, anyhow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "conflict with the Charter of Human Rights to which the Government have committed this country. Article 8 of the Charter states: Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law. That has to be read in the light of Article 17 (2): No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2066.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2073.2", "colnum": "2073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "were not sufficient, the shutting out of the rights of individuals, he is seeking here to shut out the one remaining right of access to the courts. The right hon. Gentleman must face the fact that it would be more honest and frank of him to say, \"I shall allow the Corporation to discriminate as it thinks fit, and to use the immense economic power which I propose to give to it to smash its rivals.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2073.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2075.1", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "ill be under the Minister's proposals, paragraph ( b ) against discrimination will not be worth the paper it is written on. It will have absolutely no value of any kind whatsoever. The Minister seemed to think that there was something shocking in people having the right of recourse to the courts. What a person is asked to do is, \"Go to the consumers' council\" or, \"Write a letter to the Minister.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2077.1", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "matters the doctrine appears to be accepted that whatever a Minister of the Crown may take it into his head to do is ipso facto in the public interest. There really is no evidence for any such naively trusting view. Indeed, evidence is beginning to accumulate for the directly contrary view. 4.45 a.m. I wish to cite as part of my argument that quotation from the \"Economist\" of 18th September, 1948.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2078.2", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "nch got up to answer the point. Then the right hon. Gentleman said that they had changed their minds and it might be a good thing to have a bit of discrimination. At that stage, they came to the conclusion they must remove the right of the individual to go to the courts. Then there was a confused bit, and naturally I do not wish to detain the House longer than I need, but I make no apology for it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2078.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2099.4", "colnum": "2099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which Tuesday?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "preceding_text": " is by no means the first time I have addressed the House at this hour, both from this Box and from the opposite side. The right hon. Gentleman is perfectly entitled to ask what are the Government's intentions. We propose to sit until about noon today, and to continue discussions on the Bill. My right hon. Friend the Patronage Secretary has also placed this Business on the Order Paper for Tuesday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2099.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2101.2", "colnum": "2101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is already collapsing.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "What exactly will happen if the right hon. Gentleman should collapse?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2102.0", "colnum": "2102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2113.1", "colnum": "2113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is the Attorney-General?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr. Speaker, if I have transgressed the Rules; I will say he is a traitor to the principle. I think that will be in Order, although I do not know the precise legal difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2129.0", "colnum": "2129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. York", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Morning\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. York", "preceding_text": "I think I might almost claim the indulgence of the House, as this is my maiden speech on this Bill, and if I become a little unmaidenly, put that down to the hour of the night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2135.3", "colnum": "2135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "Again? With pleasure, if the hon. Member wishes me to do so. After all, we can sit next Monday and Tuesday if necessary. I do hope the Patronage Secretary will not use it as an excuse for moving the Closure. I think I will go on to the next part of the letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2141.2", "colnum": "2141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attewell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attewell", "preceding_text": "r part of the discussion seems to have been a reiteration of what was said in Committee. I intervene because I was somewhat intrigued by the hon. Member for Ripon (Mr. York), who likened himself to a blushing maiden. I should have thought that the phrase of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) \"a brazen hussey\" or \"a painted harlot\" would have been a better description.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2141.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2146.0", "colnum": "2146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So did Lord Ammon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "I read both with great care and interest. The difference between them is this: I have no criticism to make of Cadbury's because they have never been known to treat an employee shabbily. But I know a man who was for 50 years employed in John Brown's and the day he retired not even the manager came to say, \"Thank you.\" He retired without a pension or a single penny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2170.0", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn Levy", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Has the hon. Member been here all night?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn Levy", "preceding_text": "ce the Government to proceed along lines which would please hon. Members opposite but which they were not sent to this House to proceed along. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Aldershot (Mr. Lyttelton) expatiated on a different aspect of the matter. After listening to him carefully I do not think any hon. Member was surprised that immediately he had concluded his speech he fled the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2172.0", "colnum": "2172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman who has just spoken will agree that what the American people think of us, and especially what they think of the Socialist Government is of the utmost importance. I am of the opinion that their confidence in this country was severely shaken when the Socialist Government was returned in 1945.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2172.3", "colnum": "2172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": "tive and Liberal Parties. I at once concede that having a large majority, they can pass through any Measure they please, but the point is that during the 1945 election, the electors were fooled. They thought that nationalisation was going to be in the interests of the country and in their own interests; it was something—they thought—which would be of great benefit to the country and to themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2172.3", "colnum": "2172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": " to themselves. [HON. MEMBERS: \"So it is.\"] But now they have had much experience of nationalisation of various industries—coal, gas, electricity and transport—and they have learned a mighty good lesson from the results of the nationalisation of those industries. What has happened as a result of nationalisation in this country is the same as in every foreign country. It has proved to be a failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2173.1", "colnum": "2173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": " their opinion on this Measure. The Government have no plan to carry out this nationalisation. There was no plan for the nationalisation of the coal industry. There has already been an allusion to the remarks made by the Secretary of State for War who, in one of his very candid moments he told the country that the great mistake of the Socialist Party was that they had no properly thought-out plan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2173.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2182.1", "colnum": "2182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They would not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "nformed, all they want is that the sword of Damocles should take a little longer to fall—a month, three months, or six months. They say this in the vain hope of being returned at the next General Election, when they will throw the whole thing out, or, the hope that if we should be returned, the Government will have to go again through this long and uncertain business of passing this Bill into law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2182.3", "colnum": "2182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Three main arguments have been used in the Debate. The first is that we ought not to experiment with a key industry, because we are in a time of economic crisis. It is clear that hon. Members opposite have quickly forgotten that we have been in a time of economic crisis ever since this Government came into power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2184.1", "colnum": "2184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Their own purposes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " he did say that in this matter he believed in controls, and that he believed it was essential that the Government should maintain their control over the steel industry. It would seem to me that, in the interests of justice as well as of economic stability, it is more proper and right that the Government should take over finally, completely and absolutely for their own purposes the steel industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2184.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2189.3", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order. I distinctly heard the hon. Member for Flint (Mr. Birch) refer to my hon. Friend the Member for Eton and Slough as \"becoming more British than the British.\" We know what he meant by that offensive reference, and he ought at least to have the decency to withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2189.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2189.6", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Stockton-on-Tees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2189.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2193.0", "colnum": "2193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": " would be negligible. But if they have confidence in themselves the advantage would be immense because they would then show that they were prepared to put this matter to the country once again when the country was more fully aware of all that was involved. Of course, we know why they are not prepared to do that. It is because, despite the by-election results, in which they take a remarkable pride—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2202.3", "colnum": "2202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "on and Slough. Day by day he has been suffering all these years wondering whether the Government will stick to this tremendous expression or whether they will run away from it. How terrible for him when it was common knowledge that the Cabinet was running away from it. We had to get rid of the last Minister of Supply because he would not agree to it. That is why he was sacked; everyone knows that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2204.0", "colnum": "2204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Jones", "preceding_text": "I am sure the right hon. Member for Bromley (Mr. H. Macmillan) will not expect me at this hour to follow him through all the various phases of his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2204.0", "colnum": "2204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Jones", "preceding_text": "f the Tories are returned they will throw out this Bill. That is exactly what we would expect them to do, because of their vested interests and the privileges they have enjoyed for the last 60 or 70 years. We would expect them to retain them in their own interests. The will of the people will decide. We have now had a Debate extending exactly 20¼ hours. If the Leader of the House were here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2204.0", "colnum": "2204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Democratically what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Jones", "preceding_text": "ected by many steel workers in and around Sheffield, where he is privileged to serve some of those fine men, although only a few of our people. The hon. Gentleman made reference to the General Secretary of the British Iron and Steel Trades Confederation. I am getting rather tired of references to personal opinions. References should be made in this House to the accredited, democratically arranged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2208.1", "colnum": "2208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Steel Board.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I want to congratulate my own Minister, my right hon. Friend, who has gone right through this long Debate without loss of temper—though with loss of sleep—with kindness and with efficiency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-25", "file": "debates1949-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "69102b0e569bfeb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2208.1", "colnum": "2208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Steel Board.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Friend, who has gone right through this long Debate without loss of temper—though with loss of sleep—with kindness and with efficiency—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Steel Board.\"] I want to tell the Opposition that the stratum of society from which I come always pays credit where credit is due, and I want to pay here and now a public tribute to the way my right hon. Friend has gone through this Debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-25a.2208.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2222.2", "colnum": "2222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman tell the House if it was purely a coincidence that it was not until my Question appeared on the Paper that Ministers began to realise the debt they owed to the troops?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2251.4", "colnum": "2251", "heading": "NEWSPAPER REPORT (QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "It is only out of deference to the wishes of the House as a whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2251.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2254.4", "colnum": "2254", "heading": "NEWSPAPER REPORT (QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "opinion at all, it would be rather the other way. I do not profess to know anything about this; I have only heard what my hon. Friend said yesterday. I heard what was read out from the newspaper and what my hon. Friend read out from the record of what he said in this House. I should have thought that as newspapers go, it was as near to being a fair and accurate summary of what he said as anything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2254.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2256.0", "colnum": "2256", "heading": "NEWSPAPER REPORT (QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was an outside speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "\" which was really an outrageous report on something which the right hon. Gentleman had said and which he refuted in this House. On that occasion the whole House, even the Conservatives, were with the Minister of Health. Nevertheless, the case was not raised as a matter of Privilege or as a matter which should be referred to the Committee of Privileges. It was a reflection on the Minister himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2256.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2257.4", "colnum": "2257", "heading": "NEWSPAPER REPORT (QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order, Mr. Speaker. As it is well-known to you and to this House that certain members of the Committee of Privileges have shown time and again the most violent prejudice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2257.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2257.5", "colnum": "2257", "heading": "NEWSPAPER REPORT (QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must not say that. He should withdraw that instantly. That is an imputation against his fellow Members which I cannot allow. The hon. Member must withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2257.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2274.3", "colnum": "2274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is mischievous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I am not saying anything frivolously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2274.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2274.3", "colnum": "2274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "leman said, by the Port of London Authority—was in existence. The suggestion was made to us that some such body should be the Emergency Committee which we proposed to appoint—not necessarily the same people, but a body constituted on similar lines. We gave very serious consideration to that suggestion. We came to the conclusion that that was not the proper body to handle such an emergency as this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2274.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2276.1", "colnum": "2276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is 'we'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I am bound to say that is exactly what we did find.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2276.1", "colnum": "2276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ree questions. He asked if the Prime Minister was aware of the words used by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour on 4th July. He was quite aware of them, but the statement of my right hon. Friend and the statement of Lord Ammon differed in this—that Lord Ammon fixed a deadline. Unless the men returned to work at 7.45 a.m. on Thursday, 21st July, certain drastic consequences were to follow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2276.1", "colnum": "2276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Might follow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "Prime Minister was aware of the words used by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour on 4th July. He was quite aware of them, but the statement of my right hon. Friend and the statement of Lord Ammon differed in this—that Lord Ammon fixed a deadline. Unless the men returned to work at 7.45 a.m. on Thursday, 21st July, certain drastic consequences were to follow. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Oh, yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2277.3", "colnum": "2277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "All right. The continued existence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2290.3", "colnum": "2290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He still does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "Yes, in the \"News of the World.\" Lord Ammon, after all, held a responsible office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2290.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2293.3", "colnum": "2293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I am not suggesting it was an unfair answer. I said it was an astonishing one, which is a very different matter. There is Lord Ammon, the head of this most important National Dock Labour Board, who in the middle of a great dock strike issues a statement, which I think everybody agrees he was perfectly entitled to issue under the terms of the Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2303.5", "colnum": "2303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "is side described that word as \"victimisation.\" It is true that the Home Secretary did not take up that point, some of my hon. Friends and I would have liked to see the Home Secretary challenging him and not allowing himself to be challenged throughout the whole of his speech by hon. Members on the other side. It is not merely the Government who are playing a part. Other forces are playing a part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2303.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2311.1", "colnum": "2311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lord Ammon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "That is what I would like to hear because, according to Mr. Ammon, they did not do it. We want the evidence of what they did. According to Mr. Ammon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2318.5", "colnum": "2318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Isaacs)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Isaacs)", "preceding_text": "he bottom of these differences. I thought I was going to be the first to speak today, but events turned out otherwise, and I think I ought first to express the thanks of the community, and those of the Government and the House also, to the troops for the way in which they undertook the duties imposed upon them, not only for their actual service but for the cheerfulness with which they undertook it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2318.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2321.5", "colnum": "2321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE, LONDON DOCKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "vessels in the port were unloaded by the troops. On 17th May the \"Seaboard Queen\" arrived in Leith. The dockers worked the morning shift on 18th May, but at midday the Canadian Seamen's Union representatives from London arrived and the dockers refused to work in the afternoon. This ship left Leith on 3rd June with a cargo aboard and was discharged in Bremen. I hope I am not wearying the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2321.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2340.0", "colnum": "2340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "on party politics or propaganda of any sort. I am sure the Committee will agree with that statement that it is not the duty of any public relations office of any nationalised concern or public corporation of any sort to spend the public's money on partisan propaganda. It is most important that we should remember that in quite a short time there will be a change in the complexion of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2340.0", "colnum": "2340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "e seen it. The other 6,000 copies have apparently been put into cold storage. This is not the sort of thing which the National Coal Board should be at, and indeed it is quite obvious that they realise that a bloomer has been committed because the other 6,000 copies have not been distributed. Their excuse was a trifle naive, if one may believe what was said in an interview with the \"Daily Graphic.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2346.2", "colnum": "2346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blyton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blyton", "preceding_text": " has ceased and young men are still not willing to go into the hard, unpalatable work of the miner in different areas. Unless we are to take a 12 gun to the community of this country and force them into the pit, this problem has to be faced. We believe that this problem arises from the deep-seated resentment of the atrocities which the Opposition perpetrated upon the miners in the inter-war years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2346.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2346.2", "colnum": "2346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blyton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"After that it is no use.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blyton", "preceding_text": "in our pay packets telling us what horrible people these Socialists were. Yet there was no upset about that. But because the board, or someone in the board happens to make a little mistake in publishing this book, we find a mountain made out of a molehill. I should like the Government to send this book to every one of the Junior Imperial League, to every young Tory over 21 and up to the age of 30.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2346.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-26", "file": "debates1949-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "8e854f881855877c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2421.1", "colnum": "2421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Liquid reserves\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I do not know what the right hon. Gentleman means when he says I am confusing reserves with cash. I did not use the word \"cash\" at all. I indicated, and very properly so, that when a firm buys new equipment and plant it has to find the money from somewhere. It can either borrow it, or take it from the reserves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-26a.2421.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-27", "file": "debates1949-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "07cc5adeaabeca9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2468.7", "colnum": "2468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA (BANNED PERIODICAL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the last three issues of \"Labour Monthly\" contained eight contributions from hon. Members of the party opposite? Does he not think it a most unfortunate thing that so-called supporters of his party can contribute so freely to a subversive publication?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2468.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-27", "file": "debates1949-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "07cc5adeaabeca9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2469.7", "colnum": "2469", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA (BANNED PERIODICAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Williams", "preceding_text": "I think the right hon. Member for West Bristol (Mr. Stanley) ought to know better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2469.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-27", "file": "debates1949-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "07cc5adeaabeca9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2474.7", "colnum": "2474", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Come over here.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "preceding_text": "In view of the nature of the particular crop of new potatoes, would it not be better to leave it for another year entirely to the producers and the trade to distribute them, rather than to carry on with the present guarantee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2474.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-27", "file": "debates1949-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "07cc5adeaabeca9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2502.1", "colnum": "2502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EAST AFRICAN GROUNDNUTS SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "The noble Lord expressed his view on the scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-27", "file": "debates1949-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "07cc5adeaabeca9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2502.2", "colnum": "2502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EAST AFRICAN GROUNDNUTS SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "Thank heaven I am not in a position to govern this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2502.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-27", "file": "debates1949-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "07cc5adeaabeca9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2505.1", "colnum": "2505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EAST AFRICAN GROUNDNUTS SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "ld be precluded from taking part in the Debate. To suggest that such hon. Members are merely activated by sordid self-interest and in this instance are trying to stop this scheme because they want to keep down wages, is about on the level of the Deputy Chief Patronage Secretary going round saying that we on this side of the House wish to create unemployment in order to solve our economic problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-27", "file": "debates1949-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "07cc5adeaabeca9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2523.1", "colnum": "2523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EAST AFRICAN GROUNDNUTS SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "If we have the interests of the African native at heart, we have got to tell him in no uncertain manner what we intend to do in the future. He is in a state of adolescence. There never was a time when the African wanted guidance and firmness more than at the present, and if we do not give him that guidance and bring him along with us, giving him responsibility, the future for the African is black.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-27", "file": "debates1949-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "07cc5adeaabeca9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2524.1", "colnum": "2524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EAST AFRICAN GROUNDNUTS SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "preceding_text": "h was factual and he attempted to give a true picture as he saw it. He seemed quite sincere also when he said that this issue ought not to be a political one. It is most deplorable that a great conception of this character should be the subject of the kind of political controversy we have seen in this House this afternoon. I will not particularise who is to blame—it would be presumptuous if I did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-27", "file": "debates1949-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "07cc5adeaabeca9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2555.2", "colnum": "2555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir Thomas Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir Thomas Dugdale", "preceding_text": "in Speeds the Plough.\" I wonder whether the Minister of Agriculture has seen it. It is an admirable document, which describes the efforts of our agricultural industry in terms very different from those of the Minister's broadcast on Thursday of last week. It is published under the auspices of the British Information Services, and it talks about the great contribution made by British farmers today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2555.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-27", "file": "debates1949-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "07cc5adeaabeca9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2555.2", "colnum": "2555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir Thomas Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir Thomas Dugdale", "preceding_text": "ich describes the efforts of our agricultural industry in terms very different from those of the Minister's broadcast on Thursday of last week. It is published under the auspices of the British Information Services, and it talks about the great contribution made by British farmers today. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] But only the other day the Minister was abusing everything that the industry did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2555.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-27", "file": "debates1949-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "07cc5adeaabeca9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2558.7", "colnum": "2558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "but he did imply that insufficient attention has been paid to the conservation of grassland, and I think that will be borne out by anybody who reads the broadcast. I will now turn to livestock. I agree that the Minister did not blame the producers of livestock, but it will interest the House to note that in spite of the feedingstuffs muddle—and I think that everybody on all sides agrees with that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2558.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-27", "file": "debates1949-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "07cc5adeaabeca9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2570.1", "colnum": "2570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "f the Minister of Agriculture. Put in a sentence, housing is one of the our direst needs, but it is no good housing people if they cannot be fed, and we are perilously near a situation in which we shall find difficulty in feeding our people. Finally, I wish to comment on the general position in which we find ourselves. I do not want to say anything which may seem to be of a party political nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-27", "file": "debates1949-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "07cc5adeaabeca9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2577.1", "colnum": "2577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Corbett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Corbett", "preceding_text": "There are a lot of disadvantages with this method which will occur to anyone immediately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-27", "file": "debates1949-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "07cc5adeaabeca9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2618.0", "colnum": "2618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": "You quoted from a document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-27", "file": "debates1949-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "07cc5adeaabeca9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2626.0", "colnum": "2626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": "is duty, to attempt to reconcile and prevent conflict. I challenge the Secretary of State to go to any rural part of Scotland—and I have gone to a good many in the last two months—and suggest that there is not the greatest disappointment, and the greatest disgust, at the Government's attitude. Farmers and farm workers realise that they are to be the sufferers. I am not going to pursue this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-27a.2626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-28", "file": "debates1949-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "4f6eb652ac94ec11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2665.1", "colnum": "2665", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEPORTATIONS (HOME SECRETARY'S POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why mention him?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "He is a nobleman who was born in Canada and I want to point out that I do not think the House would give me the same power to deport a person born in Canada—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-28", "file": "debates1949-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "4f6eb652ac94ec11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2667.1", "colnum": "2667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEPORTATIONS (HOME SECRETARY'S POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. It will be within your recollection, Mr. Speaker, and that of hon. Members, that in reply to Question No. 71, the subject of which was the deportation of undesirable aliens, the Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-28", "file": "debates1949-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "4f6eb652ac94ec11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2667.2", "colnum": "2667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEPORTATIONS (HOME SECRETARY'S POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I do not think the right hon. and gallant Gentleman has quite accurately given the context in which my remark was made. I was dealing with the difficulty that might be presented if the law relating to aliens was applied, as I was pressed to apply it last week, to British subjects not born in this country; and I gave as I thought the most distinguished example of what might happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2667.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-28", "file": "debates1949-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "4f6eb652ac94ec11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2680.6", "colnum": "2680", "heading": "UTILITY GOODS (PRICE REDUCTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Benefit?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I made it plain that all will participate in this benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2680.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-28", "file": "debates1949-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "4f6eb652ac94ec11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2683.4", "colnum": "2683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE PRESS (REPORT)", "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": "idea of State control of the Press or State newspapers, and it is true that the Commission did reject any such idea, but the implication which has been drawn from it is quite false. That implication in a number of organs of the Press has been that the Government, or members of the Labour Party or the National Union of Journalists, had suggested State interference with the Press or State ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2683.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-28", "file": "debates1949-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "4f6eb652ac94ec11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2683.4", "colnum": "2683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE PRESS (REPORT)", "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": " unless the \"Evening Standard\" had not read the Report, in which case it was not calculated but due to lack of knowledge. The headlines said: Socialist attack thrown back. The newspapers are vindicated. Royal Commission clears the honour of the Press. The public need have no misgivings. No corruption, no monopolies, no State interference. Plan for a voluntary Press Council. The attack that failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2683.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-28", "file": "debates1949-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "4f6eb652ac94ec11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2687.5", "colnum": "2687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE PRESS (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "g the free expression of opinion through the Press.\" It is being assumed that Labour men and women do nothing but abuse the newspaper Press. I have a great admiration for the Press as a whole. I have severe criticisms about parts of the Press. I am fond of the Press and of newspaper men, and I have done all I can, as a Member of the Government, to assist the Press in the discharge of their duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2687.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-28", "file": "debates1949-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "4f6eb652ac94ec11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2687.5", "colnum": "2687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE PRESS (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "umstances. However, he said: I aver that the right hon. Gentleman\"— by which he meant me— quite unnecessarily brought up this topic of the Press. He said the Government accepted the desire of his hon. Friends that there should be an inquiry into the state of the Press. I believe\"— which means that the right hon. Member for Bournemouth believes— that the state of the Press is thoroughly well known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2687.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-28", "file": "debates1949-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "4f6eb652ac94ec11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2703.7", "colnum": "2703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE PRESS (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is on the Front Bench too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "derstand from the \"Sunday Times,\" that those whom he affectionately calls \"the boys\" would be safe in following him. On looking through that Debate, I found one comment which I think was the most prophetic of all. A Member said that it seemed to him that this inquiry was unnecessary, might be injurious, and he thought it would be very likely futile. That was the Economic Secretary to the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2703.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-28", "file": "debates1949-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "4f6eb652ac94ec11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2716.1", "colnum": "2716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE PRESS (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "up an inquiry into the state of the Press. MR. MORRISON: The right hon. Gentleman should not cause me to repeat myself. He knows that I did not say that.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th July, 1946; Vol. 425, c. 1098.] In fact, I did not say that the Government would set up an inquiry, I only said there was a case for considering it. The deputation, it is perfectly true, was received a few days afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2716.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-07-28", "file": "debates1949-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "4f6eb652ac94ec11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2718.1", "colnum": "2718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE PRESS (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "f the deputation— that I was authorised by my colleagues to announce during the Debate on broadcasting that the Government thought that the request was worthy of consideration.…[OFFICIAL REPORT, 29th October, 1946; Vol. 428, c. 551.] Now we find, as I knew to be the case, that the right hon. Gentleman made the statement on broadcasting on 16th and did not receive this deputation until 22nd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-28", "file": "debates1949-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "4f6eb652ac94ec11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2741.2", "colnum": "2741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE PRESS (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will agree that we are both professional journalists. I agree with every word that Mr. John Gordon said. The thing is perfectly obvious. The newspaper is dealing with 300 subjects a night. They cannot be experts on every part of the world. In comes a story. They handle it with the greatest possible accuracy; somebody named J. S. Smith appears as W. S. Smith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2741.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-28", "file": "debates1949-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "4f6eb652ac94ec11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2741.2", "colnum": "2741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE PRESS (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "sts. I agree with every word that Mr. John Gordon said. The thing is perfectly obvious. The newspaper is dealing with 300 subjects a night. They cannot be experts on every part of the world. In comes a story. They handle it with the greatest possible accuracy; somebody named J. S. Smith appears as W. S. Smith. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] This is exactly what happens. Sometimes it goes further than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2741.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-28", "file": "debates1949-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "4f6eb652ac94ec11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2768.1", "colnum": "2768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE PRESS (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is cross-examination.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "We are all aware of that. What I am concerned about is the rough passage which the hon. Gentleman had at the hands of the Commission. I could quote many other examples. Here is another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-28", "file": "debates1949-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "4f6eb652ac94ec11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2770.2", "colnum": "2770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE PRESS (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "I still maintain the point I made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2770.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-28", "file": "debates1949-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "4f6eb652ac94ec11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2790.1", "colnum": "2790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE PRESS (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I am not dealing now with statements in this House, but with statements in the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-28", "file": "debates1949-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "4f6eb652ac94ec11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2808.5", "colnum": "2808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED WOMEN (MAINTENANCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": " agreements entered into in the past, whether a short time ago or in many cases many years ago, the sum which was agreed was very largely influenced by the maximum figure of £2, which both parties knew was all that could be obtained, if the matter was taken to the magistrate's court. That is the merit of the thing. That was inevitably the background of all these agreements which were entered into.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-28a.2808.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-07-29", "file": "debates1949-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "2982f944320a4006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-29a.2833.3", "colnum": "2833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": " from the United Kingdom and 30 cents from Canada, and even bloaters are cheaper from Canada—2 dollars 56 cents as against 3 dollars 17 cents from this country. Throughout the whole range there is a growing disparity between the prices charged by this country and Canada and the U.S.A. I want to warn the House that that sort of thing cannot continue. I wish to say a word in particular about Africa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-07-29a.2833.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-27", "file": "debates1949-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "f1adeb2ca0a8367f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "preceding_text": "especially in my dealings with this House. Both the Opposition—indeed particularly the Opposition—and some others have constantly urged the wholesale removal of restraints and controls, a step which would very quickly have brought disaster if we had given in to that pressure. Fortunately, we have been able with the help of Government supporters in and outside the House to maintain full employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-27", "file": "debates1949-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "f1adeb2ca0a8367f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "cue_text": "Laughted", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "preceding_text": "ly we will go about it in the right way, and they are prepared to help us if we wish and to show us what they, from their experience, consider to be the right way. If manufacturers are unfamiliar with the habits and customs of the dollar markets, as many of course are, they should at once contact their trade association or local chamber of commerce or ask for the assistance of the Board of Trade —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-27", "file": "debates1949-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "f1adeb2ca0a8367f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not mind what you call it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "reasoned Amendment on which it will be possible to take a vote. This is indeed a very grave situation which the country is facing. In order to realise exactly how grave it is, we must judge it by what was said before devaluation. I must apologise. I know that we are supposed to talk about revaluation, but up to 10 days ago all of us called it devaluation and I find it difficult to drop the phrase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-27", "file": "debates1949-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "f1adeb2ca0a8367f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.39.5", "colnum": "39", "heading": "STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "rous from the point of view of popular opinion, to the attempt which is now being made to say that it is a choice between two policies, a policy, on the one hand, which would depend on mass unemployment and the lowering of the social services and a policy, on the other hand—the policy which the Government have adopted—which will safeguard both those things. That is absolutely begging the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.39.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-27", "file": "debates1949-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "f1adeb2ca0a8367f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.39.5", "colnum": "39", "heading": "STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That has never been suggested.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "ses the risk to both. The right hon. and learned Gentleman is quite right—I hope this will appear in Labour Party propaganda—when he says that unless we now all do the right things, what has happened will be not the safeguarding of full employment and the social standards but a futile and dangerous gesture, and to suggest that this thing by itself has safeguarded what everybody wants to safeguard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.39.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-27", "file": "debates1949-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "f1adeb2ca0a8367f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "tments or for the use of dollars and so on. I hope that one of the Government spokesmen during this Debate will indicate how far we are trying to press the European nations to co-operate in this respect. We should take the lead in organising the European economy as it affects the use of dollars, production, markets and long-term investment. The present Governments in Europe are not there for good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.56.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-27", "file": "debates1949-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "f1adeb2ca0a8367f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Grimm's Fairy Tales.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "which is not very much help. One does not know what the Government are going to do. Certainly there are no positive assessments, although there is some advice to manufacturers, for a discovery has been made on behalf of the Government that there are a lot of babies in the United States—and I mean babies of a baby age—and that we could sell them some new lines. Fairy tales, I suppose, for instance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-27", "file": "debates1949-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "f1adeb2ca0a8367f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "t increased productivity may lead to unemployment, and that the harder they work the more profits they create for the boss and nothing for the country. Where he is wrong is in ascribing this fear in the minds of working people to 40 years of Socialist doctrine. It is due to 200 years of capitalist exploitation. One of the difficulties which we have to face—and I am not merely making a party point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-27", "file": "debates1949-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "f1adeb2ca0a8367f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "comes. Are the Government afraid to talk about wages today? Is there a suggestion that the people who are getting increases are the middle classes? Are the Government afraid to come out flatly and say they are going to freeze wages, instead of talking so much political dishonesty about personal incomes? A great deal is being said about the Socialist Government having found a cure for unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-27", "file": "debates1949-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "f1adeb2ca0a8367f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "at all about trade and industry would have realised that the present situation and crisis would be the only result of carrying out that policy of aggravating industry. If Ministers did not understand that and did not know that, they are political fools, or if they did know that, they are political knaves for carrying out such a policy. I do not think the present situation calls for party politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-27", "file": "debates1949-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "f1adeb2ca0a8367f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "heir goods on to the markets of the world, when their policy over the last few years has been to put burdens on industry and increase the costs of production. Today, householders and industrialists have had their annual budgets increased as a result of the policy of the Government. Before we departed for the Recess we spent a long time discussing the nationalisation of the iron and steel industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.110.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-09-27", "file": "debates1949-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "f1adeb2ca0a8367f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.117.2", "colnum": "117", "heading": "STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "preceding_text": "I am not quite sure, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, what you are ordering me to withdraw. What I wish to make quite clear is that the hon. Member for Louth made a statement, maybe intentionally or unintentionally, probably unintentionally, which was wrong in fact. If \"wrong in fact\" is a more suitable expression I hope you will accept that in preference to the other remark which I made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-27", "file": "debates1949-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "f1adeb2ca0a8367f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"None at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "hat the signs of a new inflationary movement are already present. What baffles and staggers me is that we got nothing concrete from the Chancellor today to indicate what practical steps the Government are taking to deal with inflation. Government economy is vital, but apparently there is to be no cut in the Defence services. Apparently, there is to be the least possible cut in the social services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-27", "file": "debates1949-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "f1adeb2ca0a8367f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We should not have got there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "hich I should like answered by hon. Members opposite—and there are two more days of Debate in which it can be answered—is: Are they in favour of the devaluation of the pound or are they not? I do not mean, do they like it? Nobody likes it. What I mean is, do they agree or disagree that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the situation in which he found himself last week, had or had not to devalue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-27", "file": "debates1949-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "f1adeb2ca0a8367f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I do not suppose he will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-27", "file": "debates1949-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "f1adeb2ca0a8367f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which side are you on?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ctly clear today. I quite recognise that nobody is infallible. He may have taken the wrong decision. It may be that the hon. Member for Chippenham is right. It may be that the country would rather agree with the hon. Member for Chippenham on this point than with my right hon. and learned Friend and the Government; but the country and the House are entitled to know on which side are the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-27", "file": "debates1949-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "f1adeb2ca0a8367f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "morrow. If the hon. Member still thinks it can be done, he will agree that one does not have to be an economist to realise that if we can raise the wages of some workers without raising the total that we spend on wages we shall have to reduce the wages of some other workers. That is not economics; it is plain arithmetic. I should like to know from the hon. Member whose wages he proposes to reduce?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-27a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.157.4", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "tion, the date of which will be settled in accordance with what the party opposite consider to be in their tactical interest. All political thought and party machinery is affected by this. We are, I think, most of us agreed that it is high time for another Parliament and that all our difficulties will have a better chance of being solved in a new House of Commons. We are a Parliamentary democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.157.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.157.4", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " All political thought and party machinery is affected by this. We are, I think, most of us agreed that it is high time for another Parliament and that all our difficulties will have a better chance of being solved in a new House of Commons. We are a Parliamentary democracy—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—created before the Labour Party was born, or thought of. We are organised on a two-party basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.157.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " and a true market. As I told the House two or three years ago, it is only a false and untrue market officially supported that breeds a black market. A sham market can no more escape a black market than a man can escape from his own shadow. Therefore I should myself have been more inclined, had I been in any way responsible, to set the pound free under regular and necessary safeguards and control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "han to the present rigid method of pegging the exchange at the very lowest rate which anyone could possibly conceive. The Chancellor of the Exchequer argued at some length against this yesterday, and it is obvious that anything that is free or largely unregulated is obnoxious to the Socialist mentality. But this was what we did in 1931—the last time we had to clear up the Socialist financial mess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "rt of my argument which I am submitting to the House, the devaluation of the pound sterling is a new and serious drain upon the life strength of Britain. We always supported, my right hon. Friend in particular, the Chancellor of the Exchequer in resisting it. It might have been better in my view, and may still be better when confidence is restored, to let the pound go free under proper safeguards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "n the life strength of Britain. We always supported, my right hon. Friend in particular, the Chancellor of the Exchequer in resisting it. It might have been better in my view, and may still be better when confidence is restored, to let the pound go free under proper safeguards—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"]—control of the sending of large sums of money from this country—all this applied in 1931—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "—a substantial relief in taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is your duty too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "—a substantial relief in taxation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"On what?\"]—The Chancellor of the Exchequer does not say there should never be any reduction in expenditure. Hon. Members should ask him on what. He has the power to answer the question, and the duty to answer the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "f unemployment, with the accompanying lowering of wage rates and so the impoverishment of the employed and unemployed.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 27th September, 1949; Vol. 468, c. 25.] There were loud cheers from hon. Gentlemen opposite. This was a very aggressive and I may even say offensive reference to past history. To suggest that people would like to see other people unemployed is I think deserving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "n the right hon. and learned Gentleman or anybody on those benches can show services rendered to the working classes equal to those I have mentioned they will be more free to throw stones at others. All the benevolent and beneficial aspects of this Parliament—apart, that is to say, from sterile controversial party measures—were actually planned in great detail by the National Coalition Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "nation. But all this ill-usage in no way relieves us of our duty to encourage everyone to do his or her utmost to improve the national effort in these days of crisis, and thus to preserve to the British nation the power to regain in the future the great position in the world which it has held in the past. Nor must we allow the insults which have been hurled at us to provoke us into similar taunts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " to the people and a new Parliament can relieve the increasing tension. And let me say this. If at this moment the Government were to drop steel nationalisation and their other extreme plans, it would certainly enable the approaching General Election to be conducted in an atmosphere much less dangerous to the underlying national unities on which 50 million in this island depend for their survival.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "And 12 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.178.2", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Unlike the noble Lord, we base our economics on the facts of the 20th century and not the facts of the 17th century. We did spend a good time this afternoon hearing about events of 1925 and 1926 and, indeed, 1906. Perhaps it might be profitable to return to them in a moment. But at that same time, 12 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.178.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.178.6", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"About what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "No, I had them typed last night because they were relevant to answer the questions put by the right hon. Gentleman yesterday. I would just remind him that we heard nothing in those days, when those miserably inadequate wages were being paid—nothing from him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.178.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.178.6", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Equal with what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "being paid—nothing from him—[HON. MEMBERS: \"About what?\"]—in those days which the right hon. Gentleman called \"the richer days before the war,\" of the things we have been hearing about from the right hon. Gentleman today—\"plenty the object of all mankind,\" or the \"ever more bountiful table\" to which our people are to come. It is certainly true, as he said, that they did not keep people equal then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.178.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.178.6", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " the need for increased production. Through the strikes and disputes which have been going on in the country we have lost since the end of the war 10 million man days. Every Member of the House will agree that that is exactly 10 million too many, and that we cannot afford a single one in the days that lie ahead of us. But hon. Gentlemen should remember that in a period immediately following a war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.178.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Bennett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not here today.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Bennett", "preceding_text": "ng for it at replacement value. It is therefore unfair to ask it of them. I think it was doubly unfair when the Ministry of Supply took immediate advantage of the replacement value principle. I would remind them that the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that those who did any profiteering would find him coming down on them very hard. I wonder how hard the Chancellor has hit the Minister of Supply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.208.3", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "We had the crisis of 1946, when the Government issued their first White Paper. Let me again remind the House of what they then said. They said that all would be well, that we could pay our way and pay for the increased exports we would require on the then prices, if we could increase our exports in volume to 175 per cent. of the 1938 level. That White Paper is within the recollection of all of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.208.3", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "igure where, as far as one can judge, there will be no drop, but rather—what we all hope for—that there will be a rallying to the pound and that it will gradually rise again. That is all I have to say with regard to the extent of the devaluation. Let us consider our position. We are more vulnerable than any other country. Our very policy in the past has increased our vulnerability in modern times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.208.3", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " and through, is better than any other and a welfare system and system of education which might well be envied and copied by other countries, with the possible exception of one or two countries which have learned from us, especially our daughter nations. We should remember that in that time we have populated Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and in the main the United States of America—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.208.3", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A young man.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": ". It is a great and honourable record. One wonders how it is that we have got that high record as compared with other countries who were just as well placed as we were. The answer was partly supplied by the right hon. Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) today. I was very glad indeed to witness his emotion and, listening to the moving language he used in paying his tribute to Liberalism once again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.208.3", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "resident of the Board of Trade put forward were those of buying less from the dollar countries and getting more from the sterling area. Why did that not occur to them long ago? They have been in office four years. This was the problem which was facing us throughout the war—what was to happen when the war was over. If the goods were available in those other areas, and no one has said they were not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Make them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "problem when we are faced by this enormous gap which is caused by the fact that we are consuming more than we can pay for. Therefore, something has to be cut. Whenever we mention that, right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite—the President of the Board of Trade did so this afternoon—throw out the challenge \"What would you cut?\" They are the Government. The most that we can do is to make suggestions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " by the workers to increase their wages and to place the burden of the crisis where it belongs. It is interesting to compare the gentle tone of the Prime Minister in dealing with the gamblers at Throgmorton Street with the vicious hatred expressed towards the Communist Party and the workers. At the week-end he warned all and sundry that Communist mischief-makers would press for increases in wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Gallacher", "preceding_text": "pitalists with the opportunity that was promised to them to buy up British assets and colonial assets at the cheapest possible rate. The Labour movement was brought in to end exploitation of the workers, but instead of ending exploitation it is increasing it. I challenge any Minister to deny that today the workers of this country are experiencing more intense exploitation than ever they have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.232.4", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Yes. That is very important. I am going to send a cable to Lake Success tomorrow showing that the Government Front Bench supports the proposal of Mr. Vyshinsky for the destruction of atomic weapons with international control and inspection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.232.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Controls.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ad had a certain measure of agreement from some quarters opposite. I believe that there is no royal road in the sense that we cannot prescribe a patent medicine for the ill, but what there is is the necessity that every item of public conduct and every item of private conduct throughout a period of years should be separately examined in the light of that disequilibrium, and reshaped and remoulded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sing it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "hat standard of life without our traditional advantages, and it is our task to see that our posterity do not curse our name as that given who dissipated and lost their heritage. There is a song in a popular comedy written by the junior Burgess for Oxford University (Sir A. Herbert)—not very good poetry and not very good English—containing a phrase which caught my fancy. It ran something like this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"War.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "ves to the Government and they chose—and I cannot blame them for choosing, in fact I commend them at that juncture for choosing, although they should never have had to make such a choice at that late hour of the day—a cut in the external value of the pound. I say that those alternatives were presented because for four years we had not been earning our living and our reserves were almost exhausted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Herring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": ". Anybody who tells me that the way of salvation for this country, or indeed for Europe, lies in exporting manufactured goods in immense and increasing quantities to the greatest and most efficient producer of manufactured goods that the world has ever seen, somehow or other fails to convince me. The United States want a lot of things, but it has never struck me that, apart from whisky and tweeds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "lic expenditure and taxation which deprives everyone of incentives to real hard work. I am constantly asked by hon. Gentlemen opposite, and by other people, for a constructive policy. I always reply that it is not the business of an Opposition to produce a constructive policy. A lot of people also tell me that it is inadvisable for an Opposition to produce a constructive policy even if they could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.262.3", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "und was in May, June and July—the period when the Tory campaign of vilification about weary Willies and about a bankrupt country was in full action. I may say that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford knew exactly what he was doing when he went to Wolverhampton and stood at the rostrum and made a number of remarks which I appreciate are perfectly fair in party politics in normal times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.262.3", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "n. I may say that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford knew exactly what he was doing when he went to Wolverhampton and stood at the rostrum and made a number of remarks which I appreciate are perfectly fair in party politics in normal times. [ Interruption. ] In the view of hon. Members opposite they may be true, but there are times when saying that what they think to be the truth is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.262.3", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ey think to be the truth is—[ Interruption. ]. All right. Let us be clear. Whether they thought it to be the truth or not, they realised at the time that by saying it in that form, they were destroying confidence in sterling. It ill becomes them, therefore, to be indignant about our devaluing the pound when they played a subsidiary and dishonourable part in destroying world confidence in sterling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When did he say that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ge to go to the country and say, \"It is lunacy; full employment is an impossibility.\" Some people say that in a side-tone. I think it was the hon. Member for Edgbaston (Sir P. Bennett)—and he really knows for he is an employer—who stressed the cost of full employment and asked if one could afford to pay for it. He revealed his inhibitions about it. It is a perfectly sound point for a Conservative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "e; it has given us time in order to do that. Now I will come quite briefly to some concrete proposals for preserving full employment. How does one establish and make sure one can maintain full employment in this country? Let us turn to suggestions about exports to America: I do not agree with hon. Gentlemen opposite who say it is quite hopeless to try to export to America at all because Americans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-28", "file": "debates1949-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "8e23b5189bdd9e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "preceding_text": " on his heels that night in the same Lobby. I have rather a regard for his opinions and also those of the hon. Member for Chippenham. Those two, and only those two, followed the line taken by the Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer. There was something else which the hon. Member for East Aberdeen repeated. It was his master's voice. He said that there is no confidence in the present Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-28a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (ADJOURNMENT)", "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": "My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister gave an undertaking to the Leader of the Opposition. He said first of all that he was not aware of the statement to which the Leader of the Opposition referred and obviously he would inquire into it. I think we must leave it to the discretion and judgment of the Prime Minister. It does not affect the question of the Adjournment today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the United States?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "s not his own personal endowment: it reflects the twilight around him. Let us take 1938 as 100. This deals with the first quarter of 1949 as a percentage of 1938. The figures are Belgium, 122; France, 124; Italy, 90; Netherlands, 122; Norway, 130—a Socialist Government; the United Kingdom, 131; Denmark, 135; Sweden—not involved in the war and under a Socialist Government—147. That is another fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " a while there will be difficulties, but we think that we can face them and we are confident that we shall succeed. But we cannot succeed if every time hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite make a political speech they use it as an opportunity to denigrate the efforts of Great Britain. As a matter of fact, I do not know what my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer thinks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "pt Poland, and she had a war on. But for the six years immediately following the 1914–18 war, when the nation enjoyed the benefits of a Conservative majority and the guidance of the right hon. Gentleman, they managed to bring Great Britain down in the European league. So we do not need anything at all except the facts of the case. The right hon. Gentleman made a speech on 9th January, 1920.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " ] I am pointing out, if we are to have historical reviews, then let us have them. Why on earth do we want to ask the British people to believe what they are told by their Tory spokesmen when history gives us all the evidence of what they would do in such circumstances? I do not propose to read what the right hon. Gentleman said, because I do not want to add to the length of my speech by so doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "entleman and hon. Gentlemen opposite. They were the people who were mainly responsible for shaping policy. Over the weekend I went to a meeting. I was taunted here with what I had said there. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Bristol (Mr. Stanley), in winding up his speech, referred to it. He said I had described myself as \"an ordinary chap.\" Well, I will explain to the House why I did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Member for Southern Dorset (Viscount Hinchingbrooke)?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "ernal value of this Government security should have gone down by a percentage almost exactly the same as the percentage by which the pound has fallen internationally under the management of his successor. Nor is this all. The disastrous fall in Government securities was after a Savings Campaign in which the help of every right hon. Gentleman on this side of the House was enlisted and freely given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pargiter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pargiter", "preceding_text": "n recovery or in the nation getting back on to its feet? Or, are they interested only in so much per cent. which means that recovery must be tied up with the percentage gain that they make? It is interesting to read what leaders of industry have sometimes had to say on these matters. I have here a quotation from a gentleman who was speaking at a company meeting, only in August. He used these words", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "preceding_text": "After all, it must be a big cut if it is to make any substantial contribution, and big cuts depend not on administrative changes, but on changes of policy. Some hon. Members opposite say cuts should come in defence. For reasons I have indicated, I am not prepared to follow them there. I believe that if hon. Members on this side were—I will not say \"honest\"—if they were to speak openly and frankly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "preceding_text": "e. For reasons I have indicated, I am not prepared to follow them there. I believe that if hon. Members on this side were—I will not say \"honest\"—if they were to speak openly and frankly—[ Laughter. ] I do not want to be controversial or to be unfair to them, but I believe probably they would not disagree with me—let me put it that way—when I say that their chief cuts would come in food subsidies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.365.2", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "The facts I have given are quite true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.365.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.365.4", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": " I went round mills and works in my constituency in an endeavour, for what it was worth, to inspire the people concerned to improve their businesses and also to give advice about foreign orders from countries in which I have myself travelled. As I say, the people of the country do not realise what we are up against. They are firmly of the opinion that full employment is due to the Socialist Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.365.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.379.4", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "he Election is so close, because the controversy between the two sides is camouflaging the seriousness of the position. It is time that we gave the country a direct lead. The heart of the country is sound but its head is weak. The people have been accepting political humbug dished out to them over many years, and I am afraid they may accept the humbug that will be put over to them in a short time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.379.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Manning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Manning", "preceding_text": "services, his Front Bench were very much shaken and rushed to his rescue, saying that he had never mentioned the social services. What else could he possibly mean? He certainly did not mean that there should be cuts in administration. Hon. Members opposite have said that cuts in administration could not reach a maximum of more than £10 million and that would be a fleabite in the present situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Cuthbert Headlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Cuthbert Headlam", "preceding_text": " was very glad that an hon. Member opposite pointed out the desirability of a higher production of coal. I believe that we should be almost back in our old economic position if we could export 30 to 40 million tons of coal each year. I believe that that could be done, and I hope that it will be done before so very long. But that can happen only if the miners really put their backs into their work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.396.0", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "What does the hon. Member mean by \"accepting full employment\"? We made full employment and his party followed on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.399.2", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "No. At regular intervals in this House and outside it is suggested, from platforms and in writings, that the Tories wish to have people out of employment. It is said again and again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.399.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.399.4", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "eadi- ness to welcome new and improved methods by labour. Therefore, at a moment of great gravity, although it is tremendous fun having, if one likes, bitter but sparkling and brilliant political speeches, let us realise before it is too late that none of us can go about saying to the foreigner or to ourselves that output is really at its highest yet. Those are the two points which I wish to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.399.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "ut of their troubles than the other people of Western Europe—which is not only untrue, but unfair and grossly insulting. Note the dates—13th August in the \"Economist\" and the fourth week in August in the \"Financial Times.\" And why? What was it that made devaluation absolutely certain? Nothing other than the speech of the right hon. Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) at Wolverhampton. That did it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Health enjoyed a personal and Parliamentary triumph today which I am sure nobody will begrudge him, but his speech must have been an embarrassment to his right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.412.2", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not necessarily.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "preceding_text": "pegging the pound at the present level, what is the next result on the trade union? It is the freezing of wages at as fictitious a figure as that of the pound. We do not know the values of wages. We are changing the character of the trade union. Surely the object of the trade union is to find what is the level of wages in the give-and-take of the market; that must be the object of the trade union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.412.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "plete nonsense because in the hundred years up to 1914 this country was at war for 68 years. That was under laissez faire and the kind of system of society which the so-called hard-faced men opposite, under their obligarchy, inflicted upon the people of this country. I have waited for three days in this House to give in five minutes more incisive facts than the other side have given in five hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We never had it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "aid before. Unless both sides realise that we cannot continue ad infinitum the barren payment of war debts, then I see no possible solution to this dollar problem. Finally, in this age of the atom bomb—and I put the point during Question Time the other day—I believe the atom bomb is now devalued in society. We no longer have the so-called security of being the only people possessing the atom bomb.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.415.3", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "That is a matter about which there might be—though there could not be in Moscow—more than one opinion. We are now drawing to the conclusion of a three-day Debate during which at intervals—perhaps, rather rare intervals—we have had an occasional gleam of information as to the present Government's intentions and as to their future plans. We certainly had none today. The Minister of Health—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.415.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Here is the Minister of Health.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "—in varying degrees, according to the particular part of the House in which Members happened to sit and the particular part of the speech which was then being delivered, delved into the historic past. Well, it was, at any rate, the past; and there may be some—I am afraid I am not one of them—who would feel qualified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And here comes the Leader of the Opposition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "—in varying degrees, according to the particular part of the House in which Members happened to sit and the particular part of the speech which was then being delivered, delved into the historic past. Well, it was, at any rate, the past; and there may be some—I am afraid I am not one of them—who would feel qualified—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Here is the Minister of Health.\"]—to re-debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "had been.\" The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman's speech this afternoon was that he spent the whole of it remembering where he thought he had been, whereas what the country wants to know is where the Government are going, and on that, at the end of three days, we are left without enlightenment, unless the Prime Minister will come out of his hibernation and assist us a little. I want to begin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose fault?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " arrangement that could possibly be made. But what happens to all that in relation to what has been going on during the last week or two? The position is chaotic. What has been going on, for instance about the mark? Only tonight, at five o'clock, do we read on the tape the rate fixed for the mark. All this time wrangling has been going on; there has been disagreement between the Allies themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "discuss. What I cannot accept—I do not know whether Mr. Hoffman said this, and this is the point—is that it could be done quickly. Did Mr. Hoffman say \"quickly\"? That is the adverb which counts. I agree that over a period of years we might hope to achieve that. What I have so far been unable to convince myself about is that it can be done quickly. If it can, nobody will rejoice more than we shall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The men in the mines.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "t is the adverb which counts. I agree that over a period of years we might hope to achieve that. What I have so far been unable to convince myself about is that it can be done quickly. If it can, nobody will rejoice more than we shall. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Of course we shall rejoice. Why do hon. Gentlemen think we should not? Who will have to do this business? Free enterprise—the whole lot of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "rying through the export drive. Surely, whatever other priorities the Government make, the first priority ought to be to enable our industry to modernise itself so that our national life can continue. I must say a word about agriculture, although I shall have to cut it short, as my time is running out. Can the Prime Minister give a reply to my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "onomies, vague about capital expenditure and vague—it may not have been entirely his own fault—about what the Washington agreement really meant—but the one thing he was absolutely definite about was to clap on an increased Profits Tax on British industry. That is clear, easy, punitive and popular, but I do not know what sort of incentive it is meant to be to anyone in any rank of British industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read 'The Economist.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " became exhausted. I could not hope to put it better myself. But there is one final issue which divides us, that is, nationalisation. We believe that the experience of nationalisation so far has been to increase costs. I would ask even the most enthusiastic nationaliser on the benches opposite whether he does not think that there is at any rate a case for having a \"look-see\" how it is working out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "preceding_text": "ll-informed and interesting speeches. There have been speeches that were on the point and some speeches that were largely off the point. The intervention of the Leader of the Opposition diverted the Debate from its real purpose. Most of what he said was very little to do with the Motion on the Paper. It was frankly electioneering. My right hon. Friend the Minister of Health in his brilliant reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "preceding_text": " I desire to refer to only three points in his speech. First of all, the Leader of the Opposition made a very bitter personal attack on my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He chose to question his honesty and to impugn his integrity. I resent this, and I think most decent people in the country will resent it. The Chancellor was speaking the exact truth when he informed the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.432.0", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was it discussed with France?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "pointed out in the clearest way that this was not a problem just due to Britain or just relating to Britain's relations with the United States of America; it involved the whole relationship of the sterling area and was a world problem. That alone should refute the attempts that have been made today to try and lay all the responsibility for this position on to the Labour Government in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "regard to Government expenditure. The right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Montgomery (Mr. C. Davies) discussed that. I must confess that I was a little surprised when he said he had not enough figures to make any suggestion at all as to where it should go. I should have thought there were abundant figures. I was asked why this had not been done before. There has been a constant review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the result?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "penditure. The right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Montgomery (Mr. C. Davies) discussed that. I must confess that I was a little surprised when he said he had not enough figures to make any suggestion at all as to where it should go. I should have thought there were abundant figures. I was asked why this had not been done before. There has been a constant review. [ Laughter. ] Oh, yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "can preserve the social services. Our appeal to the country is this, that they have got the finest social services that any country has ever had. There is in the maintenance and preservation of these a great incentive to our people. In the Motion before the House we have put forward a call for the co-operation of all the people. We have not failed to tell the people of this country's difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "etimes it is in the agricultural interest, and sometimes for something else. There is never clamour for economy on that side. During the last four years the Leader of the Opposition has rung the changes alternately on the shocking lavishness of the Government and on the austerity of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was wrong if he was austere; he was wrong if he was lavish. He was always wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-09-29", "file": "debates1949-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "9248e80cdb939d34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING EXCHANGE RATE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You tax them and you take it away.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I could easily retort in regard to some people in the employing classes, but I am dealing with the majority of the people. I am rather surprised that the right hon. Gentleman did not seem to realise, although it is quite true, as he says, the workers are being taxed, that they never had the incomes before upon which to be taxed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-09-29a.438.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-10-18", "file": "debates1949-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "32fe17703e0676b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-18a.489.4", "colnum": "489", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Langford-Holt", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman assure the House that the contents of the statement will not be made known to any other body before they are made known to this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-18a.489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-18", "file": "debates1949-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "32fe17703e0676b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-18a.515.4", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW FOREST BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "May I interrupt the right hon. Gentleman again? He has made a grave statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-18a.515.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-10-19", "file": "debates1949-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "458fb4b3c8792876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.552.5", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "If it was possible for Treasury officials to work out in detailed estimates, the increase in the cost of living as a result of devaluation, why has it not been possible for my right hon. Friend's officials to work out similar estimates of the increase of the cost of the Armed Forces?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.552.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-10-19", "file": "debates1949-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "458fb4b3c8792876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.614.0", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "I took great trouble to point out that the fees paid by private patients were, in fact, lower than those paid by public patients.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.613.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-19", "file": "debates1949-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "458fb4b3c8792876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.614.5", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is not that true?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " to do her work at all without dentures. I have it on the authority of one of my hon. Friends here that, because this was not an offence against the Service, against the legal contract, she was informed by the dentist, \"If you want them under the National Health Service you must wait for four or five months, but if you want them privately you can have them in a week.\" That is monstrous misconduct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.614.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-19", "file": "debates1949-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "458fb4b3c8792876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.618.0", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I think his tongue led him into betraying himself when he said that he had been led away into this obiter dictum —with the emphasis on the \"bitter,\" for bitter indeed the emphasis was. The fact that emerges from his discussion is that the Minister agrees with my hon. Friend the Member for South Hendon (Sir H. Lucas-Tooth) and rejects the views of the hon. Member for East Wolverhampton (Mr. Baird).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-19", "file": "debates1949-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "458fb4b3c8792876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "red to establish administrative arrangements which would harass the whole population merely to deal with a handful of people who were visiting this country and might need treatment. Hon. Members will agree that we ought to examine each regulation and each protection on its merits and not have a general principle saying that no one visiting this country shall have access to the free Health Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-19", "file": "debates1949-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "458fb4b3c8792876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the Lobby?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "pportunity of either accepting or disagreeing with an Amendment made in another place when it comes down, and we shall be able to see it on the Order Paper and examine it. Certainly I would be the last to cast back any convergence of views between the Minister and ourselves. Several times tonight the Minister, though arguing vigorously against us, has eventually turned up on our side in the Lobby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-19", "file": "debates1949-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "458fb4b3c8792876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.656.1", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "xactly what happens. It has been decided that, except in certain cases of cottage hospitals in different parts of the country, when a patient enters a hospital he is entrusted to the specialist services of the hospital. If a statutory right is given to a general practitioner to enter that hospital and treat a patient, there will immediately be administrative troubles of the greatest possible kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-19", "file": "debates1949-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "458fb4b3c8792876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.672.1", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Members must bear in mind that, whilst they might satisfy, or hope to satisfy, the small number of persons who would wish to make an appeal, they would dissatisfy a very large number of those who have been established. Hon. Members must not think that they will have praises bestowed upon them. On the contrary. All those people who are now fitting themselves into their positions will feel insecure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-19", "file": "debates1949-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "458fb4b3c8792876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.680.4", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "have had many examples, but it would not be fair to quote them by chapter and verse. The Minister must take it from us, and, indeed, he can take it from hon. Members on his own side of the House, that many types of people have recently come forward and said they felt a grave sense of uneasiness and dissatisfaction because of an anonymous decision by people whom they could not get at or understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.680.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-19", "file": "debates1949-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "458fb4b3c8792876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "I have not spoken on this Bill before, so that perhaps it is only fair to the House that I should declare my interest in this matter. I have a very close connection with the Association of Drainage Authorities, and for that reason I should like to make one or two remarks upon what I can only describe as a rather glib speech from the Parliamentary Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-19", "file": "debates1949-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "458fb4b3c8792876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "orks by a catchment board or one of the new coast protection authorities, that is not an interference by the protection authority with the statutory functions of the drainage authority. The coast protection authority might well say to the drainage authority, \"Your function is to keep the bank or river wall in repair. If it collapses through any cause whatsoever, it is your function to restore it\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-19a.707.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-10-20", "file": "debates1949-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d86e45362532cbb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-20a.760.6", "colnum": "760", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "Are we likely to have an opportunity soon of discussing nationalised transport?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-20a.760.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-20", "file": "debates1949-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d86e45362532cbb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-20a.760.7", "colnum": "760", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You promised.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend seems to have brought transports of delight to the Opposition. I do not see any immediate prospects, but, as the House knows, I did hope that after discussion with the Opposition it would be possible from time to time to debate some of the annual reports of the nationalised indus tries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-20a.760.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-20", "file": "debates1949-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d86e45362532cbb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-20a.784.3", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "e have to face up to it, whether we like it or not. The figures give something of the picture of the problem we are up against, and I think this Bill goes several valuable steps forward towards trying to solve it. I turn now from the prisoners and their problems to the question of the staffs of prisons. From personal experience—let me add hastily, as an inspector of prisons and not as an occupant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-20a.784.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-20", "file": "debates1949-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "d86e45362532cbb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-20a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate (Mr. John Wheatley)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A very bad system.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate (Mr. John Wheatley)", "preceding_text": " do think that there is an increase, on the whole, in the number of people who are coming in. However, we are still needing many more young people to come into this profession. At the same time we ought to pay tribute to the part-time nurses who have stepped into the breach and made it possible for many hospitals to carry on under conditions which otherwise would have made them unable to carry on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-20a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-21", "file": "debates1949-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "21e76f733ec201c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-21a.893.6", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. Blenkinsop)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. Blenkinsop)", "preceding_text": "ia where they have to work under very difficult conditions indeed. It is amazing to all of us who go and see the work they do, to find what high standards are maintained in those hospitals in spite of these very real difficulties. I am sure we should all like to pay our tribute particularly to these nurses and staff who are doing such very fine work in such very difficult and trying circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-21a.893.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-21", "file": "debates1949-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "21e76f733ec201c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-21a.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Oh \"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "ing. All my life I have been asking for improvements in the conditions under which the nurses serve, as I said last night in the Debate on the Scottish Bill. By the by, this is a better Bill democratically than the Scottish Bill from the point of view of representation of the people working in that profession. This is a change, because usually Scottish Bills are much better than the English ones.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-21a.948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-21", "file": "debates1949-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "21e76f733ec201c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-21a.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "r so long been dissociated from the nursing profession, I think they should be included in one body, namely, the General Nursing Council. With regard to the composition of the council, six of the 12 members will be appointed by the council. I would prefer the Minister to have a bigger proportion or, still better, to have more mental registered nurses on the mental nurses committee. I will end now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-21a.948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-24", "file": "debates1949-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7d147a55a2b56a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-24a.1028.0", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Oh, no. Other economies are being made. Economies are being made all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-24a.1028.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-10-24", "file": "debates1949-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7d147a55a2b56a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-24a.1030.4", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has missed the point. There was a vast mass of detail which it is difficult to bring into a White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-24a.1030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-24", "file": "debates1949-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7d147a55a2b56a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-24a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AUXILIARY AND RESERVE FORCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": " He called attention to one point which is worthy of reference because questions of substance arise. It is true that he said, by inference, that Lord Haldane would never have got his Bill through this House if there had been a liability for foreign service on Territorials. I did not want to say anything against the Liberal Party, especially in view of the fact that, as usual, none of them is here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-24a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-25", "file": "debates1949-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "7c853618b0dab235", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1137.8", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, I think it rather proves the contrary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1137.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-25", "file": "debates1949-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "7c853618b0dab235", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1204.7", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAST PROTECTION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has been there already.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "em to be necessary or expedient for the protection of any land in their area. The protection of the land is a very desirable work—not the land that should belong to a few individuals but the land that should belong to the people. It is a very important and necessary work, and I should be very much better pleased if the Minister could so arrange that between now and the Bill going to another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1204.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-25", "file": "debates1949-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "7c853618b0dab235", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1224.1", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAST PROTECTION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": " be possible under this Measure to have the necessary work done. I am sure that, not only from the point of view of the property owners concerned but of the finances of the local authority, there is complete unison in what has been said by the several speakers from the Conservative benches. Having addressed those few remarks particularly to the Under-Secretary of State, I have nothing more to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-25", "file": "debates1949-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "7c853618b0dab235", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAST PROTECTION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": " employers but the livelihood of the men who work for them. In my constituency and the constituencies of other hon. Members with coastal problems there are many people who may be affected if the Bill is not looked at in that light. I want also to add my protest to the protests already made about the absence of the Minister of Health. It shows a most strong and marked lack of respect for the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-25", "file": "debates1949-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "7c853618b0dab235", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAST PROTECTION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "th. It shows a most strong and marked lack of respect for the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—that he should not even take the trouble to come here and participate in the Third Reading of the Bill. I protest as strongly as I am able. It is a most disgraceful thing; it is treating us with scant respect, if any respect at all. Nonetheless, I readily admit that I think this is, on the whole, a good Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-25", "file": "debates1949-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "7c853618b0dab235", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAST PROTECTION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Welshman.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "rguments. I would not always think an argument was a good one because the Government happened to agree with it; in fact, I should very seldom think so. The Bill also has been much improved by both Houses, although there is undoubtedly still much room for improvement. I will conclude by saying that I entirely agree with the hon. Member for South Ayrshire who is so rightly proud of being a Scotsman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-25", "file": "debates1949-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "7c853618b0dab235", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1240.1", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brendan Bracken", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brendan Bracken", "preceding_text": "tters. Nevertheless, I do not wish to rub it in too hard, but this is the sort of price we pay for the right hon., amiable but incompetent gentleman. I hope that the Minister will do everything in his power to speed a settlement with the many thousands of shareholders of small means whose properties he has taken away. I think that I speak on behalf of all my hon. Friends on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-25", "file": "debates1949-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "7c853618b0dab235", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1267.4", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL OFFICERS (WHITLEY COUNCIL REPRESENTATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I never made that suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1267.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-25", "file": "debates1949-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "7c853618b0dab235", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1279.0", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL OFFICERS (WHITLEY COUNCIL REPRESENTATION)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "jection to anyone forming a trade union, even though it be a parvenu union with certain pretensions to trade unionism. It is not that. It is the fact that after the Whitley Council machinery and the functional council machinery has been laid down, a new union comes in. This new union comes in and says, \"We want representation on the staff side of the Whitley Council and on the functional council.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-25", "file": "debates1949-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "7c853618b0dab235", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL OFFICERS (WHITLEY COUNCIL REPRESENTATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend the Member for Sutton Coldfield—a letter which, I think, was really very shocking. In it he said: The Minister would need to be convinced that the circumstances were such that if the Federation's request were refused a substantial injustice would be done, in that a large proportion of the staff side would be deprived of a voice in these matters. What a terrible argument to put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-25", "file": "debates1949-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "7c853618b0dab235", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1282.1", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL OFFICERS (WHITLEY COUNCIL REPRESENTATION)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "I am not suggesting that this is a breakaway union, and I am not against anyone forming a union. I say that the request tonight is that a newly-formed body which has had no contact before with members of a trade union, is suddenly asking the Minister to give them definite representation on the staff Whitley Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-25", "file": "debates1949-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "7c853618b0dab235", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL OFFICERS (WHITLEY COUNCIL REPRESENTATION)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "ving a rather nasty taste in the mouth like some of the other speakers from the other side of the House, they have freshened up the whole thing. The real principle at stake here is the right of a body of workers in any profession or trade to form a union if they wish to do so. I do not consider that we are doing any good to the trade union movement, which after all, is the child of the Tory Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-25a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1329.2", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "preceding_text": "g area, including the United Kingdom, has been such that it was only possible to secure our essential imports from the dollar area, first by large loans and then by Marshall Aid. We still have a gap which is being filled by Marshall Aid and, up till the date of devaluation, it was also being filled by very large and heavy drains on our reserves. What is to happen when Marshall Aid comes to an end?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1329.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Press.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "lion dollars—or maybe less. So I say that, with the utmost goodwill, it is impossible to match the Government's proposals with the realities of the hour. I cannot understand the Government's view of our national psychology. For some time past they have been emphasising the seriousness of the situation and they have been telling us of the formidable nature of the cuts that would have to be imposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ormidable nature of the cuts that would have to be imposed. [An HON. MEMBER: \"The Press.\"] An hon. Gentleman says it was the Press. Well, what do we spend on public information services? If the Government thought that the Press was exaggerating the formidable nature of the cuts, was anything said by these information officers who are scattered all over Government Departments? Not as far as I know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "explained them in detail this afternoon, had been introduced to the House before devaluation, they would have made a certain contribution. Today, I fear—why does the right hon. Gentleman frown in pained surprise? I should have thought it was clear to everybody that if these proposals had been introduced before devaluation, their consequences would have been much more healthy than they will be now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "n. Today, I fear—why does the right hon. Gentleman frown in pained surprise? I should have thought it was clear to everybody that if these proposals had been introduced before devaluation, their consequences would have been much more healthy than they will be now. [ Interruption. ] If the hon. Gentleman does not agree with that, perhaps some Minister will explain the process of reasoning by which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1357.1", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman did say that between £40 million and £45 million could be saved by two things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1358.3", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I am coming to what we are proposing to do, and that interruption is simply wasting the time of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1365.3", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "immense and increasing cost of these subsidies. The Government hesitated while the total cost of the food subsidies was rising and rising every month. At last they were forced to do something about it. Now for the second time they are imposing a cut in the food subsidies. That, I think, is not disputed. I suggest that the time has now come for a thorough review of the whole food subsidy situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1365.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1365.3", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much would that cost?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "not to try to aid everybody alike indiscriminately? That is the whole basis on which I want the examination of this problem. There is a very strong argument for a progressive reduction of the food subsidies accompanied by selective payments to people who will as a result be in danger of suffering genuine need—people with large families, pensioners of all kinds, the sick and the injured, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1365.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1367.0", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the noble Lord the Member for Southern Dorset (Viscount Hinchingbrooke)?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "efer to be told the blunt truth and to face the consequences. Turning to national savings, I agree with the Chancellor that this is one of the most serious aspects of our present situation. One of the Ministers, talking the other day, thought that net savings were still increasing. They are not; they are going down. It is deplorable. We all deplore it. We should all try to get that trend reversed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1367.0", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"68.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ern Dorset (Viscount Hinchingbrooke)?\"] This is a free country, and the two main parties take the view I have just expressed. We cannot entirely divorce national savings from the general position of national credit. When Government stock was issued three years ago at 100 and that fact was trumpeted all round the country, as was done, and that stock now stands at whatever it is, something under 70—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " of the stand he is to take. I wish he had taken it a couple of years ago. Could he not say to some of those countries that are still expecting this flow of unrequited exports, \"It is no good asking Britain to go on with this policy, because if she does she will end by crashing herself, and as Britain is the heart and centre of the sterling area, of which you are members, you will be ruined, too.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1371.1", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Byers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Every month.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Byers", "preceding_text": "nment had gone in for. Well, I cannot understand it. I should have thought that if the Government had come down with a two-year programme of recovery, if they had made bigger cuts than have been suggested, the nation would have been only too delighted, because they would at last have had a guarantee that they would get out of the difficulty, instead of having a crisis every year and every quarter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1373.3", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "g problem. Houses must be regarded as a factor in production because of the necessity of the mobility of labour. I do not believe that we can afford to reduce the number of dwellings, certainly not the dwellings to let. I dislike what I am about to propose intensely, but if it is only to be for two years, I do suggest seriously that we should consider reducing the standard, but only for two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1374.5", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "There are a number of other things in which the standard could be reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1374.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1374.5", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "on of expenditure in connection with hospitals, education and productive effort. I turn now to Defence. In 1947, I warned the Government, as did my colleagues, that they must put our Defence Forces on an efficient footing. We have waited until 1949 to do it. At the time the first Act ran out, the Government were saved by the Conservative Party. There was a conspiracy between the two Front Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1374.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1375.3", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "a desire to have an efficient Army on the basis of something different from conscription. The French are wedded to conscription, and it may be right to France. I want to see the whole question of our future Defence force discussed on the basis of efficiency and not of economy. Once it is discussed on the basis of efficiency it will be found that the saving is automatic, and extremely large indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1375.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1389.1", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ided to devalue? Why did not they take such a policy to Washington? If they had gone to Washington with devaluation in their pocket, I should have thought they might also have gone to the Americans and spoken like this: \"We are asking you to do quite a lot of things for us, but we are prepared to make some sacrifices ourselves. We are prepared to make certain retrenchments in the social services.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1396.3", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Chamberlain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Chamberlain", "preceding_text": "30 million a year is derisory, and still more derisory is the cut which is to be made in the current year at this time of emergency, of £12½ million. I cannot accept the suggestion that nothing further can be done in the meantime \"because the matter is subject to review and investigation.\" Surely the subject is under constant review and investigation? What have we a Minister of Defence for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1396.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1400.2", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "preceding_text": ". 9d., it means that the recipients are getting far more in purchasing power even than £7½ million. The financial pundits will say that this is a legitimate operation of finance. According to their organisation or machinery that may be so, but what concerns people throughout the country is the extent of the additional purchasing power which is being put into the hands of these shareholders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1405.1", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a good one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": " merely reiterate what I said was his statement. So far as my hon. and right hon. Friends on this side of the House are concerned, we think that such a statement is about the most dangerous statement that could be made. Now may I come to the main question of the Chancellor's speech. Again, rather like the speech of the hon. Member for Norwood, it is a speech which I have heard eleven times before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1405.1", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "t was moved to the Gracious Speech, he said: Sooner or later, we have to face the fact that we can only buy abroad if we can pay for imports in goods and services.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th August, 1945; Vol. 413, c. 109.] That is what the Prime Minister said in 1945 and it is a complete criticism of the Government, because ever since 1945 they have never tried to face up to that simple proposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1407.5", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "I have just given it. The right hon. Gentleman made it clear in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1407.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1421.5", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Holmes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Holmes", "preceding_text": "I do not say the same as before. I am quite sure, however, that if all these things had remained under private ownership the cost would not have risen by so much as the amount by which it has risen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1421.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1435.5", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Allen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was that under the Labour Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Allen", "preceding_text": "on of the war. The inevitable result was inflation. Wholesale prices in this country rose to 307 as compared with 100 in 1913, and deflation had to be resorted to because we had permitted uncontrolled inflation to take place. Almost overnight, in consequence of that, we had an unemployment problem amounting to 1,792,000, which in a few months became an unemployment problem of nearly three million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1435.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1435.5", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Allen", "preceding_text": "he trade union movement of this country is the greatest working-class organisation in the world. In this post-war period they have shown wonderful restraint, but restraint is not enough. The future happiness and wellbeing of the British community is largely in their hands—the hands of the workers of this country and not the hands of the politicians. We have, as I see it, a rendezvous with destiny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1435.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1435.5", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Allen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Allen", "preceding_text": "rases. We have to think now less of what we can get and more of what we can give. We want a different spirit in the country, particularly among manufacturers. As an indication of my meaning let me refer to the National Union of Manufacturers who said that the speech of the Prime Minister on devaluation was lacking in the inspiration, incentive and leadership which the country so desperately needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1435.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1452.2", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "preceding_text": "\" but one of the most respectable organs published by the Accountancy profession, and it says that what we are really doing is giving a sop to public opinion. That is certainly not taxing the rich or the profiteers. On the contrary we have it from the Chancellor of the Exchequer that it is the working classes which will be faced with a loss of income. My time is up. I cannot go on and put forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1452.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1458.2", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "e a much smaller figure, can make any real contribution towards lightening the burden of national expenditure, or making any provision at all for essential and necessary tax reductions. My right hon. Friend the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Eden) went into considerable detail this afternoon regarding the sort of matters into which he would look for a really large reduction in expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1458.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1463.3", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " House and in the country. I think that from these benches there would go out to him very genuine and heartfelt sympathy in the task he was called upon to perform. Had he had his own choice, had he been able to plan his own line, had he been able to put his own point of view, I am sure it would have been put more temperately and constructively, in the way we have grown accustomed to expect of him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1463.3", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No. The hon. Member's friends are the masters now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " a leader who announces a new policy every day and contradicts it most nights, and who has shown in his recent utterances a lack of responsibility which those of us who remember him with affection in the war deplore very greatly. I have not risen tonight to try to indulge in polemics, but hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite are servants of the community; they are salaried servants of the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1463.3", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "tion in the war deplore very greatly. I have not risen tonight to try to indulge in polemics, but hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite are servants of the community; they are salaried servants of the State. [An HON. MEMBER: \"No. The hon. Member's friends are the masters now.\"] Yet they deem it consistent with their duty at a time like this to come to the House without any constructive proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1465.3", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ances—I hope I shall be forgiven if that sentence sounds a little patronising, and I apologise if it does—the right hon. Gentleman's other suggestion was the reduction of the cost of the administration of the High Commissioner in Berlin, which I think is already taking place. In these circumstances, deprived as we are completely of the advice of the Opposition, of a single constructive suggestion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1465.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1467.1", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "That great leader of the Tory Party, the hon. Member for Orpington.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1467.1", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Dalton?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ialist Party.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 28th September, 1949; Vol. 468, c. 157.] The right hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington was constrained to follow in that course today, though not putting it quite so forcibly. He put it in a manner which was a little more gentlemanly perhaps, but at the same time there was the accusation that the present financial crisis was due to the policy of this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1467.1", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "928 million. The loss on foreign investments was £1,118 million. Of the balances, many were mortgaged, and many were depreciating. The depreciation of gold and U.S. dollar reserves was £152 million. Estimated depreciation of our railways, mines and large industrial plants was £900 million. Shipping losses accounted for £700 million, including cargoes. We are told that we have incurred these debts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1467.1", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "balance on current account has gone up from £1,244 million in 1938 to £3,266 million in September, 1945. The prudent policy of the Chancellor has reduced that. I do not want to delve into history, but I will go, not to polemics, but to the Budget statement of 1922, a statement made by a Conservative Chancellor four years after the First World War, when there was nothing like these burdens to bear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1471.1", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "Professor Barna makes certain adjustments for depreciation and the resultant figure is not net or gross, but what he thinks is the fair economic representation of the figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1471.1", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " basis on which the Chancellor of the Exchequer opened the Debate only a few hours ago. It would have been better for the nation had that attitude continued; but we have had to face personal denigration and personal criticism. We have had to face contemptuous insults to the country that have come from the mouth of the right hon. Member for Woodford, whose voice still counts abroad and whose voice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1481.0", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": "While I agree with the point just made by the hon. Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg) about this question being in Order or not in Order, it is within the knowledge of many hon. Members of this House that, whatever we may think of this particular trial in a foreign country, these men have been found guilty on a charge of conspiring to overthrow by force the Government of the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1481.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-26", "file": "debates1949-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "d131a263336fbda0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1483.1", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A deviationist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "Communists; he sent good wishes to the fellow traveller Nenni. For years he has been telling the democratic world that he is selling freedom down the river. But now, he is not only denied entry to the United States; he has even now been attacked by Radio Moscow; he is denied the columns of the \"Daily Worker.\" No longer is he useful to the Stalinists, and he has been cast aside like a soiled glove—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-26a.1483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1488.2", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Streetcar Named Desire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister make certain that none of these British children see the play known as \"Desire\" or something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1488.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1511.1", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLITICAL INTIMIDATION (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may answer the question put to me by the hon. Member for Moseley (Sir P. Hannon). I think it is wrong to mention a noble Lord's name in this House. It may have appeared in the newspapers, and could be referred to as a statement by an individual, but to attack a noble Lord in his capacity as a noble Lord is contrary to our Rules.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1521.6", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I think we talked in terms of two days. My original idea was that there should be a fifty-fifty bargain on Supply days and Government days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1521.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1521.6", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You nationalised them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I think we talked in terms of two days. My original idea was that there should be a fifty-fifty bargain on Supply days and Government days. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] I do not want to argue it. There is an argument both ways. We are prepared to argue it, but not now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1521.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1526.7", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "POLICE CONDUCT (PRESS LETTER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must not say that it was ignored by the Bench. That is a slander on our courts of justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1526.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1527.3", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "POLICE CONDUCT (PRESS LETTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "al inquiry touching the conduct of the police, would he not use that machinery now for an inquiry on the cognate matter of the hooliganism deliberately organised for political purposes which has been spoken of this afternoon, and which has been going on round this little area in the East End, particularly in Shoreditch, in order to see whether we cannot unearth the cause of all these difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1527.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1529.4", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Anderson", "preceding_text": "ficulties.… We have never for a moment suggested that to get through these difficulties we shall not need hard work, hard thinking, from management and from workers alike.' —a very negative approach, quite inadequate to the occasion. He went on to say: The great mass of the people of this country know very well the great benefits they have received under four years of the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1529.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1529.4", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Anderson", "preceding_text": " went on to say: The great mass of the people of this country know very well the great benefits they have received under four years of the Labour Government. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am glad to hear those cheers. They justify what I am going to say. The right hon. Gentleman first of all claimed credit for the maintenance of full employment, although everyone knew and it was clearly set out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1529.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1534.2", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "I certainly do not understand it. Have the people in fact been so much better off?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1535.7", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Percentage?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "Production per man-year depends on the number of working hours in the year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1535.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1535.10", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": " for Edgbaston (Sir P. Bennett) who, speaking from practical experience, told the House that in an industrial concern of which he had knowledge what he called technological improvement represented a 50 per cent. increase in productive effort which had been substantially offset by a decline on the human side. In this matter I am not attempting for one moment to disparage the efforts of the workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1535.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1535.10", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": " that is the truth. We are all agreed, I think, that we have to do our best to see that any further inflation is eliminated. How is that to be done? Taxation is far too high. As the late Governor of the Bank of England has said, we cannot go on staggering under the present rate of taxation. But the Government seek every possible opportunity to add to the burden and thereby they destroy incentives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1535.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1535.10", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How large?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "and the long-term aspects must be clearly distinguished. We have to reduce expenditure and capital investment which is not directly productive. What we have been doing is to maintain expenditure and mop up any margin of taxable capacity that could be found anywhere, a most dangerous process, carried much too far, which ought to be brought to an end. For that reason we have to have large economies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1535.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1535.10", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "re many high-minded men go wrong. I am thinking of a speech made in the last Debate by the hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyme (Mr. Rhodes), and I would respectfully include the Prime Minister in the same category. He seems to me to be clinging pathetically to the belief that a new spirit of service is going to make itself manifest under the Socialist regime. There is precious little evidence of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1535.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1539.1", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Freedom for what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "We must take men as they are if we are to preserve any element of freedom in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1540.1", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "d a statement by Lord Woolton round about the time of the Conservative Party Conference which read to me as a positive incitement to the employing and managerial sides of industry to go slow. I took the opportunity of asking Lord Woolton publicly whether he would kindly amplify what he had said. The \"Daily Herald\" repeated the challenge, but Lord Woolton has never replied. Therefore I must assume—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1545.2", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1545.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1546.3", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "of course, accept all joint responsibility for these terrible things which happened and which have now been so emphatically condemned by his right hon. Friend the Member for the Scottish Universities. In any case, the right hon. Gentleman was responsible for going back to the Gold Standard, which had a grave effect in precipitating industrial dislocation and industrial disputes soon after the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1546.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1546.5", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is having a great deal of fun, but surely he knows that, at the time of the return to the Gold Standard, there was practically universal opinion in its favour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1546.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1553.5", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Round recovery corner.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "in from the wholesale and reckless criticisms of the Government that he and others have been making. We have reached a stage in our postwar economy and reconstruction in the world when the task of fitting the British economy into the post-war world economy can and must be tackled. It could not fairly be tackled earlier because neither we nor the world had got far enough towards settled conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1553.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I do not recall that the right hon. Gentleman firmly plumped for any particular thing. He did mention the Control Commission, and I can tell him that that is in hand and is being dealt with in a way which, I think, he would regard as satisfactory. That is not an alternative, because we are already doing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "he Control Commission, and I can tell him that that is in hand and is being dealt with in a way which, I think, he would regard as satisfactory. That is not an alternative, because we are already doing it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] They have put forward no firm alternative, and have sought to create a false atmosphere caused by Election rumours, and then by an attack on the Prime Minister's statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1559.3", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is untrue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "l, being removed from these election rumours and other such considerations. Here is what the New York \"Herald Tribune\" said when it summed up the situation on Tuesday in an editorial. It said: If the work plan outlined yesterday is generally supported, and implemented with courage, Britain can face the coming year with new hope. That is much better than some of the things that have been said here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1559.3", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "situation on Tuesday in an editorial. It said: If the work plan outlined yesterday is generally supported, and implemented with courage, Britain can face the coming year with new hope. That is much better than some of the things that have been said here. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It is untrue.\"] This Government have, ever since they have been in office, attached primary importance to these economic matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1560.3", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There has not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "In fact, if there had not been economic planning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1560.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1562.1", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "y countries. In every case, the delivery is earlier, the price is better and—I am not saying that the quality is better—but the price is lower and the specification in many cases is quite as good as ours. Why? Because there is present in Germany a spirit of firm determination to get back again and of accepting much greater sacrifices, much longer hours of work and lower rates than in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1567.1", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the management?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "at should be done; otherwise they will lose the confidence of the workers and there will be the change which I for one will not regret. The best incentive to production is to suppress the scrimshankers and the trouble-makers, and to see that the really honest workman who wishes to work, not merely for his personal advantage but because he knows it is the right thing to do, can get on with his job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1604.3", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "sking people who are misbehaving industrially not to do so, and should we not work out sanctions? Reference has been made to the trade unions. I think we are the luckiest nation on earth to have the type of trade union movement we have. One reason why our trade union movement has been so tolerant is because it has confidence that it is in the hands of a Labour Government and not a Tory Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1608.1", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "preceding_text": " everything they can to denigrate one side of industry. If anybody likes to study the Debate of 27th September, he will see the way in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer presented the figures of output as an alleged satisfactory increase of 30 per cent. with a 4 per cent. increase in man hour output and an increase in Britain more satisfactory than that in America. All three are utterly phoney.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1614.10", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "May I, therefore, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, in yielding place as I feel will be appropriate, merely say that it is wrong of the Lord President of the Council, at a time when there is no pressure on the Parliamentary timetable, to limit this Debate to two days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1614.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1615.1", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ously approved, not only by Mr. MacDonald and Mr. Snowden, then at the head of the Socialist Government, but by the Socialist Cabinet. Every one of those points, with the exception I have mentioned, to which he has referred in such prejudicial terms, were approved by the Cabinet of the Labour Party, carrying their party with them, with the one single exception of the reduction in unemployment pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1616.0", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "It is a well-known rule that Members of Cabinets and Privy Councillors do not reveal Cabinet proceedings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1616.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1618.1", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Owen Thomas", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1618.6", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "\" That is regarded as a monstrous device of a decadent capitalist system. As for maintaining confidence and credit what is to be thought when one of the most powerful Ministers, to whom I have already referred, is able to speak about redistribution of wealth in a spirit of retribution, at this junction of all others? And when the Prime Minister under whom he is serving does not feel strong enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1618.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1618.6", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have heard that before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "emy of wealth gathered, accumulated or inherited in private hands; when they penalise enterprise and deny thrift and good housekeeping their due reward? Thus we have been led for four years of unprecedented and unbridled expenditure, of ceaseless interference in every form of private enterprise and activity to taxation unparalleled in times of peace and unequalled throughout the whole world today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1618.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1618.6", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "is wages that he means. I am sure that the British electors will not be taken in by such humbug. I suppose that presently when \"disinflation\" also wins its bad name, the Chancellor will call it \"non-undisinflation\" and will start again. Whatever name one cares to use, the maintenance of a stable medium of exchange for the ordinary transactions of daily life is one of the first tasks of Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1618.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1627.1", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is, I presume, quoting from a statement made by Mr. Morgenthau. It purported to be a one-sided report of a private conversation, and I accept no responsibility at all for the verbiage used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1627.4", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Minister of Health?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e? In the period which he looked back upon, his Liberal days, he must often have said how very badly distributed was wealth, and what a pity it was that the consuming power of the masses of the people was so inadequate. After that, the right hon. Gentleman turned—and I am not surprised—to say a few words about the Minister of Health. I think he was smarting from a castigation he got the other day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1627.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1630.3", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have not very much time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1630.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1631.0", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "id not think that people wanted cruelty. What I said was that it was a political stunt. That would apply quite as well to the Liberal Party as to the Conservative Party. As I say, there have really been no constructive suggestions except by the right hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington, and I will deal with his suggestions. The right hon. Gentleman suggested the abolition of the food subsidies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1631.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1631.0", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "it was a political stunt. That would apply quite as well to the Liberal Party as to the Conservative Party. As I say, there have really been no constructive suggestions except by the right hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington, and I will deal with his suggestions. The right hon. Gentleman suggested the abolition of the food subsidies—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I understood so. Abolition or reduction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1631.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1631.1", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "The quotation is in HANSARD—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1631.2", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We did not suggest that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "eeded. All this makes up a large total of money of various sorts, partly of sterling securities and partly owned by private bodies, and the present large size of these balances is due to the war. Undoubtedly, that is a strain on us. It is obviously quite impossible that we should pay off these sterling balances. At the same time, to close down right away on them would be to ignore all their wants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1631.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1646.1", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "I should like to say on behalf of my party that we shall have much pleasure in a few minutes in taking part in the Division with Members of the Labour Party against the Tories. I also regret that it is not proposed to make a greater tax. I should like to say one thing so that I shall not have to raise it next Thursday on the Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-27", "file": "debates1949-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a45a2edc6e0288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1646.1", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "g motorcars to the United States, have been able to increase their profits in this way. The Ford V-Eight sold in the United States at 1,420 dollars, which was £355 at four dollars to the pound. The same motorcar, which has since been reduced in price, now sells at 1,170 dollars, a reduction of 250 dollars, but its conversion into pounds at the new rate of 2.80 gives Fords £428, an increase of £63.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-27a.1646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-28", "file": "debates1949-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a3858ac4c2a5bc8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-28a.1707.0", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "I am in some doubt about this whole series of Amendments. If we were to grant what is asked for, we would have to increase the size of the General Nursing Council rather considerably.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-28a.1707.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-28", "file": "debates1949-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "a3858ac4c2a5bc8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-28a.1709.3", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "If he did not do so, I withdraw part of that. Shall I say he was rather disdainful?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-28a.1709.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.38.2", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Two.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "Would the Minister point out to them the free democratic Press which we have in this country, with one exception.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir David Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir David Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "iota from the position which we have taken up. We have three objections to this Bill. In the first place, we say it is unnecessary and undesired; secondly, that it weakens the formation, expression and influence of public opinion between elections; and, thirdly, introduced and continued in two periods of unequalled economic difficulty, its deliberate purpose is to dislocate and disturb production—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.53.4", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "ly owned and under aegis of the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster—the crisis of 1947. As the House will remember—as the House should remember—before Marshall Aid came in the next year that was a very considerable crisis indeed. In fact, the Bill seemed to be introduced to distract attention from the last whistle of the millions of our American Loan going down the drain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.53.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "currency is devalued and our prices are going up, and they tell us again and again that only stupendous efforts can prevent disaster. It is at this time that the Bill is continued, and the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Duchy, in his merry way and in a tone devoid of all party feeling—I am sure everyone must have felt that—said that, when the Lords had had it, they would have \"had it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "y of either repetition or plagiarism, I hope the House will forgive me. I must, however, comment on one remark which the Home Secretary made. He said that this Bill had been before the country for two years and that during that time the country had obviously given it its deep consideration. What humbug that is. The Home Secretary knows as well as I do how politically stupid many of our people are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite are never tired of asserting that they at least represent some substantial element of public opinion. It is, therefore, perhaps not without significance that when the hon. Member for Central Bristol (Mr. Awbery) caught your eye, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, no other hon. Member on that side of the House rose at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.82.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.92.3", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": ". Swingler) was good enough to inform the House that the Government were maintaining their pledges and had not abandoned the housing drive, but he did not remind the House that the last thing they did last week was to admit that they were reducing the number of houses to be built in future to 175,000 per annum, or half the number built during the wicked days of Tory misrule in 1937, 1938 and 1939.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.92.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": " if he and his supporters accepted the Budget the Government must introduce a Measure restricting the powers of the House of Lords. That was the whole origin of the Parliament Bill. If the Parliament Bill was finally forced through the House of Lords it was by a very unfortunate abuse of the Royal Prerogative. Mr. Asquith took advantage of the inexperience of a new Sovereign and extorted from him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "y chances of a popular election is one of the best guarantees of sound legislation. How can anyone who has had experience here in the last four years, on either side of the House, not see the sense of that? Do hon. Members opposite realise how, if the day came when they were deserted by the electorate and we were in power, they would long for the provisions of the present Parliament Act unamended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "rds. At the 1918 Labour Party Conference the eleventh Resolution was in favour of: The complete abandonment of any attempt to control the people's representatives by a House of Lords. That means total abolition. At the 1933 Hastings Conference the present Chancellor of the Exchequer was asking for an assurance that the next Labour Government would proceed immediately to abolish the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "tory to be able to deal with this matter accurately—the following resolution was passed: The Labour Party, given a majority, would interpret the mandate as conferring upon it the right, particularly if the House of Lords seeks to wreck its essential measures, forthwith to proceed to the abolition of that Chamber, and added that in any event the party was committed to abolishing the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Bill. Now we come to the third occasion, the occasion which calls us together today when the third Second Reading of this Bill is being considered. \"Daltons\" have dropped another 10 points again-89¼ when the Bill was first introduced, 77 the second time, 66 this morning, and the savings of large numbers of people and the future stability of our State find reflection in that ghastly decline.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Socialist Party may live one day to regret it, to say that once a Government is elected the Members of the House of Commons of the majority party are masters of the nation until the next election. This is a complete break with our whole Parliamentary institution. The principle on which the freedom we believe in has been based over the passage of years is that the people are sovereign all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell that to the miners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ed that anybody tried to argue the contrary. That Bill was in the Labour Party programme four years ago. The voters expressed themselves on many things—that included, I quite agree—but when it happened they had no knowledge of certain events which have occurred since. For instance, there has been the loss of harmony in nationalised industries between workers and management, which no one will deny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "of iron and steel. When they do that they are entitled to remember—and we shall remind them—certain other factors which are germane to their proper conclusions. When this Bill was first introduced in the House of Commons in 1947 the iron and steel trade was producing 12,750,000 tons of steel. Then the target went up. When the Bill was reintroduced last year the trade was producing 14,500,000 tons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "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": " that he himself knows—that what he was seeking to prove in the early stages was that this Bill was responsible for the economic difficulties which the nation has experienced. In the last three minutes he almost convinced me that this Bill was the direct cause of the iron and steel output going up. The truth is that he brought in all this material, the relevance of which it is perhaps my dullness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Prime Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "e finding it increasingly difficult to find anybody of Cabinet rank to take part in the discussions. On the first occasion, the Second Reading of the Bill had two days, and the spokesmen for the Opposition were the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for West Derby (Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe), the Leader of the Opposition—he was here then; he comes along on these special occasions now and again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "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": "ERS: \"Where is the Prime Minister?\"] If the Opposition can guarantee that the Leader of the Opposition will be in the Lobby, equally I can guarantee that the Prime Minister will be in the Lobby. Will they guarantee it? As a matter of fact, the House knows that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is a good attendant at the House, whereas it is notorious that the Leader of the Opposition is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT 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": "his Bill is weakening the influence of public opinion. That is to beg the whole question; it is to assert that the authoritative exponent and guardian of public opinion is another place. That other place has a perfect right to its opinion as to what public opinion is. Anybody has that right. But I venture to say that this House, which in due course must meet the electorate and answer for its acts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.157.3", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "it, and behave as a Conservative Government, they will be good boys and help it. How long has the Opposition had the right to dictate to a majority? It is typical of the Tory frame of mind since the days of 1906, and, I think, before. The truth is they want their own way in the government of the country, whether they have been elected by the people or not, and they are going to get it if they can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "on; but in the conference of the political party leaders to which reference has been made we were willing to give either that or a nine months' period from the first Third Reading to the second Third Reading, whichever was the longer. Rather, I should say, we were prepared to recommend it. It is not fair for me to commit the Labour Party to those conclusions because we had not yet met our friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "roduce this Bill to take care of the fourth Session of this and future Parliaments. It is perfectly true that we have the Iron and Steel Bill in this Session. As it happens, this Bill will take care of that Measure should it be necessary. But at the time this Bill was brought in there might, for all we knew, be other Bills in need of care. We brought in this Bill on general constitutional grounds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-10-31", "file": "debates1949-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "887292deccc7e346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is dead.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "they would be very annoyed if the House of Lords began to wreck it in the fourth or the fifth year. In \"The Right Road for Britain,\" if I may quote from that document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-10-31a.162.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-01", "file": "debates1949-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "79b4ec1c3790e230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "ll not the Secretary of State agree that the fishing industry in the north is seriously disturbed at the possible harmful effects of the removal of the flat rate transport system and that an early decision is therefore necessary? Can the right hon. Gentleman give any indication when he will be able to give the result of his investigations, as he has had this matter before him for a very long time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-01", "file": "debates1949-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "79b4ec1c3790e230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "Even so, the Chancellor of the Exchequer did not make the statement in terms of finance but in terms of houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.196.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-01", "file": "debates1949-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "79b4ec1c3790e230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.203.5", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "entleman give an undertaking that people who invest in Post Office Savings Bank deposits are not discouraged from so doing by the fact that if they disinvest or decide to change their investment they may be submitted to an inquisition by the Treasury? Will he state what justification there is in the case of Savings Bank deposits for this quite unwarrantable intrusion into people's private affairs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.203.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-01", "file": "debates1949-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "79b4ec1c3790e230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Gone wrong!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "One answer to that is that neither is the Minister, but the Inland Revenue authorities must do their duty and I can say, I think, without fear of contradiction, that they do it with circumspection. However, if it is necessary, they must be able to follow through with an individual taxpayer an investment which has been changed and which, may have gone wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.203.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-01", "file": "debates1949-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "79b4ec1c3790e230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.204.4", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "Arising out of that reply, is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this firm have never been liable at any time for Purchase Tax and that each quarter they have made the proper return certifying that that was so; and will he take immediate steps to bring an end to this unwarrantable snooping into the affairs of private firms?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.204.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-01", "file": "debates1949-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "79b4ec1c3790e230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.226.3", "colnum": "226", "heading": "NEW FOREST BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "untains in that part of Britain, but which are an abomination in the New Forest. I feel very strongly, and I think I may get the hon. Member for Preston to agree with me here, that the very people who should not be let loose in the New Forest are these pine-planters. It is disgraceful that the finest forest left to us in Britain should now be at the mercy of people who plant these filthy conifers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-01", "file": "debates1949-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "79b4ec1c3790e230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.267.2", "colnum": "267", "heading": "NEW FOREST BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "My hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Richmond (Sir T. Dugdale) would not approve such fantastic schemes as the one suggested by the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.267.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-01", "file": "debates1949-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "79b4ec1c3790e230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.267.2", "colnum": "267", "heading": "NEW FOREST BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "My hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Richmond (Sir T. Dugdale) would not approve such fantastic schemes as the one suggested by the hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] No, he would not, and it is wrong for a Minister to come to the House today and denounce the Conservative Party for their lack of interest in spending money. We are right on the road to ruin and the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.267.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-01", "file": "debates1949-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "79b4ec1c3790e230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.269.0", "colnum": "269", "heading": "NEW FOREST BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "preceding_text": "or not these temporary enclosures for improving grazing are of benefit to the New Forest is conflicting. There are a lot of people in the Forest who believe it is to their advantage. In fact, the expert on the New Forest—I think he was brought forward as an expert by the Commoners Defence Association—made it clear that the land which had been enclosed for growing crops had produced better grazing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-01", "file": "debates1949-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "79b4ec1c3790e230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.303.2", "colnum": "303", "heading": "CLOTHING INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ions in the industry as they have shown in the views of the employers. Now if I may revert to the point I was making—the problems of concern to the industry and to the nation which, in the Government's view, require the establishment of some effective central organisation. First of all, there is of course, the outstanding need in this industry, as in many others—the need of increased productivity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.303.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-01", "file": "debates1949-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "79b4ec1c3790e230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "CLOTHING INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I am certain that the hon. Gentleman knows the answer to that question as well as I do, and probably a good deal better. He knows the arrangements already existing in the matter of technical colleges and other means of training.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-01", "file": "debates1949-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "79b4ec1c3790e230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "CLOTHING INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "What did the hon. and gallant Gentleman mean when he said that the bespoke trade was the principal end of the clothing trade? As a matter of fact, the bespoke trade is applicable only to the people of this country and is not for export at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-01", "file": "debates1949-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "79b4ec1c3790e230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.322.3", "colnum": "322", "heading": "CLOTHING INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shephard", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why will they be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shephard", "preceding_text": "I thought the hon. Gentleman had been listening to me. I have been making out a case that the majority of the industry are not in favour of a development council. Some 30 per cent. are in the trade union. I am sure that the arithmetic of the hon. Gentleman is good enough for him to realise that it leaves 70 per cent. who are not in a union. If 70 per cent. are opposed to it, as they may well be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.322.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-01", "file": "debates1949-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "79b4ec1c3790e230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.323.0", "colnum": "323", "heading": "CLOTHING INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has made a perfectly unwarranted allegation on the way in which I have conducted these negotiations. May I inform him that I have never met the trade union side of this industry except in the presence of the employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.322.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-01", "file": "debates1949-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "79b4ec1c3790e230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "CLOTHING INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attewell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attewell", "preceding_text": "In referring to the development council, hon. Members have spent far too much time in making it appear that the Minister who was in charge of the original Measure has broken Ministerial promises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-01", "file": "debates1949-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "79b4ec1c3790e230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.335.3", "colnum": "335", "heading": "CLOTHING INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "ive industry. The Minister talks of the elimination of shoddy production, and says that products will reach the highest state of efficiency. What possible guarantees are there of that taking place? Hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite amaze me. None of them sells anything at all. It is one of the weaknesses of the Socialist Party that there is not one commercial salesman on the Benches opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.335.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-01", "file": "debates1949-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "79b4ec1c3790e230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "CLOTHING INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ustry. I believe he will live to regret that. We are trying to export our manufactures abroad. Those manufactures will earn dollars wherewith we shall buy our foodstuffs and the raw materials to keep our people employed, and for the President of the Board of Trade twice tonight to proclaim to the world that what we are producing is shoddy is the greatest disservice he could possibly do the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-01", "file": "debates1949-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "79b4ec1c3790e230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.349.0", "colnum": "349", "heading": "CLOTHING INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member is found out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "n the right hon. Gentleman would be justified in bringing this sort of pressure; but as the idea has not been proved by experience, he ought to proceed with the greatest possible caution, and aim to get the greatest amount of voluntary support for this scheme. This Government is suspect so far as industry is concerned. Let us realise that. No one likes the executioner or the potential executioner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-01", "file": "debates1949-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "79b4ec1c3790e230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.349.0", "colnum": "349", "heading": "CLOTHING INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "that. No one likes the executioner or the potential executioner. [HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member is found out.\"] That will be proved in a few months' time. To pursue the development council simply because a number of trade unionists want it is only to add to the suspicion which industry has, so far as this Government is concerned. Let us remember that the whole thing reeks of humbug and hypocrisy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-01", "file": "debates1949-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "79b4ec1c3790e230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.349.0", "colnum": "349", "heading": "CLOTHING INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " to try to get a voluntary council in this industry. A compulsory one must fail. If our appeal goes unheeded, as so many of our appeals have gone unheeded in the past, we must reserve to ourselves the right within a few months after the General Election has been held to look very carefully indeed at this attempt to impose a development council where one cannot possibly succeed. If we are returned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-01", "file": "debates1949-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "79b4ec1c3790e230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.357.2", "colnum": "357", "heading": "CLOTHING INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "That is a very different thing from what has been attributed to me—that I was never prepared to consider an advisory council. It is a very different thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-01a.357.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-02", "file": "debates1949-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "441c75eed43fd637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-02a.390.4", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paling", "preceding_text": "I am undertaking this review in the interests of the Post Office generally and of the men themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-02a.390.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-02", "file": "debates1949-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "441c75eed43fd637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-02a.391.6", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Horsepower.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paling", "preceding_text": "I have already stated that it is a question of manpower.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-02a.391.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-02", "file": "debates1949-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "441c75eed43fd637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-02a.397.5", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman, arising out of that semi-audible answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-02a.397.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-02", "file": "debates1949-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "441c75eed43fd637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-02a.461.6", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARY COMMISSION (DISSOLUTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He will do it all night.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-02a.461.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-02", "file": "debates1949-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "441c75eed43fd637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-02a.500.7", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARY COMMISSION (DISSOLUTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "us I think that we could get that General Election quite soon. Then we could have a refreshed Parliament able to deal and grapple with the subject. Obviously, over all these discussions there has come the aura of approaching dissolution. This Parliament is devoid of the power, vigour and authority necessary to bring forward great constructive proposals such as are necessary to deal with a problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-02a.500.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-02", "file": "debates1949-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "441c75eed43fd637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-02a.508.1", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARY COMMISSION (DISSOLUTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "preceding_text": " I know very well that whenever he uses a speech rich in metaphor and adorned with allusion, it is because he is particularly unhappy and not quite sure about his facts. When he he was accusing me just now of being supine because I did not at once come forward with a whole scheme for the reorganisation of local government, it was a characteristic use of false antithesis. If I might be blasphemous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-02a.508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.583.8", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman agree that most specialists have that title by virtue of their qualifications?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.583.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.587.6", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman confirm whether or not it is a fact that the architect's plans are late in being delivered?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.587.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.603.4", "colnum": "603", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member had better make representation to the Secretary of State for Scotland or to the Scottish Whip. I forget the rules in that respect. But I must point out that there have been two Debates on the economic situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.603.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.608.3", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "mitted the truth of this argument last week when he spoke on this subject, and said that in the short run of course, Profits Tax was \"not an element in costs\" because taxation \"does not fall due until the profits have been made.\" The hon. Member for Edgbaston (Sir P. Bennett) will see that the right hon. Gentleman says that is true today and therefore he conceded the main substance of my argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.608.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.630.9", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "It is a reasonable case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.630.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.662.3", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of what? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "ment, should I say, that capital was getting. I looked up quotations including those of 57 drapery concerns, 35 electrical and radio quotations, and 120 industrial quotations given in the \"Financial Times\" on 19th September, 1949, and this is what I found: out of a total of more than 200 companies, 33 were distributing under 10 per cent., 93 were distributing between 10 per cent. and 20 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.681.3", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cake.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "y the rich man. In that sense it is equal, providing they both eat the same amount of bread; but from the point of view of their access to other foods, the old-age pensioner and the low-paid working man live mainly on bread and things of that kind, while the rich are very often advised to keep off bread for the sake of their health. They can afford to do so because they have access to other foods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.681.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "When the hon. Member said that the Austin Motor Company pay seven times as much as they did formerly for their materials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Was he a Tory?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "present Chancellor, in order to deal with the difficulties of devaluation, has also found himself involved in a very bad tax. The window tax lasted for 150 years, and I can only hope that the country will not have to suffer from the Profits Tax for so long. Incidentally, Charles Montague was, according to historians, a man whose ambition was great, his vanity excessive and his arrogance unbounded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "d finds that he may not be able to get the necessary licences, permits, raw materials, buildings, and so on. If there are excessive profits at the present time—and I can quite well believe there may be in certain cases—to my mind they are chiefly the fault of the Government, and if they are due to monopoly that is certainly because the Government have not taken some action about it and exposed it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.714.2", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "at my right hon. Friend said that directors of companies have some responsibility to their shareholders. So they have. If we look at the list of shareholders of any company, we shall find among them a great many small shareholders. It is all very well to say to directors of companies, \"Cut dividends.\" That means that many very small shareholders, poor people, are going to suffer very much indeed.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.714.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.715.3", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "ment. The hon. Member for Acock's Green struck a useful note towards the end of his speech. He mentioned, for the first time from that side of the House, that the psychology of the employer might be worth looking into as well as the psychology of the worker. It is the case that employers and investors in general at the present time feel that they are being very oppressed by the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.715.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.715.3", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is breaking down already.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": " true. Pray believe me when I say, as a Member for the City of London, that that is the general impression. I think that it is a good thng to have some regard to that, just as I on this side pay great regard to the psychology of the workers. I think that if hon. Members opposite do not take that into account, they may find that they are breaking up this Capitalist system under which we are living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.715.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.715.3", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "itical sop, which is precisely the case. Some hon. Members opposite suggested that employers ought to be ready to make sacrifices like everybody else. Well, they are. But what they want to know is that the sacrifices they are called upon to make are useful sacrifices. In their opinion, what the country is suffering from, and what is bringing us down as much as anything else, is excessive taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.715.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.715.3", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "re of profits and begin to inform their supporters of the importance of profits. Do hon. Members opposite ever tell their supporters honestly that in a capitalist system profits are necessary in order to make the machine work? Do they ever go round to meetings and tell the workers that the heavy burden of Government expenditure can be met only by profits? It is out of profits that taxes are drawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.715.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not do that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": "r all the speeches from this side of the House, but I was fortunate enough to hear those of my hon. Friends the Members for Blackley (Mr. Diamond) and Gravesend (Sir R. Acland), my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison) and my hon. Friend the Member for Central Southwark (Mr. Jenkins). Although I have no desire to introduce any sort of party prejudice into the discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": "mond) and Gravesend (Sir R. Acland), my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison) and my hon. Friend the Member for Central Southwark (Mr. Jenkins). Although I have no desire to introduce any sort of party prejudice into the discussion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not do that.\"]—I must in all honesty and truth say that I thought the speeches which they made were far and away the best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Revalued.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": "the fashion in which they have. We ought not to look at this in isolation. This proposal is only one of the many proposals which the Government have published and are now in process of putting into operation. It happens to be the only one which needs legislative sanction in order to operate it. I would again remind the House that it all stems from the fact that we have recently devalued the pound—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Have gone up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": "t. My right hon. and learned Friend and hon. Friends behind me believe that if this is to be done, it shall be done by equality of sacrifice, if that is possible. We know, and the House knows, that the wage earners are being asked to forego demands for increased remuneration in spite of some rise, which was inevitable, in the cost of living. We know that the prices of bread and flour are going up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "efited, much less for us, taking industry as a whole, to say just what percentage of industry generally has benefited by devaluation and better markets in North America. But that it will result in a gain to many firms we certainly hope, and I think that time will show that that is what will happen. In one sense of course it is immaterial what extras are made by additional trade with North America—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "itional trade with North America—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] I am coming to that and perhaps I may as well come to it now. A good many of the points made by hon. Members on the other side of the House have been based on the assertion that my right hon. and learned Friend is increasing this tax in order to penalise those who would do extra business in North America, and who will make additional profits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "o hit good and bad firms alike, whether they are in the export trade or not, whether they are efficient or inefficient. The Government give a little tap on the head of all of them. It is really the most ridiculous way to deal with so grave a crisis. What is required is the courage to deflate and squeeze out of the system £250 million profits. You would put some people out of work at the same time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.730.3", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With unemployment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman. I invited a right hon. Gentleman to rise. I know too well the form of the hon. and learned Member for Kettering. What is required is to give up this idea that, by inviting the British people to huddle ever closer round a dying fire, in some way or other we shall recover our prosperity. We have to find the ways and means of expanding production and of getting the whole people together", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.730.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "Not at all. The people who will pay for the fact that right hon. and hon. Members opposite have not the courage to face up to the truth are the poorest people in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.731.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.744.3", "colnum": "744", "heading": "UTILITY GOODS (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "tleman did not address his mind to this aspect of the matter. Many of the people con- cerned, the small shopkeepers, the people actually hit by this Measure, have only one assistant. They cannot divide that assistant up into sections and get rid of one section. The one shop assistant is one and indivisible and they have to paralyse their business by getting rid of him or carry the loss themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.744.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.750.3", "colnum": "750", "heading": "UTILITY GOODS (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman addresses mass meetings of every organisation which writes letters to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.750.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.755.2", "colnum": "755", "heading": "UTILITY GOODS (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I listened to the speech of the hon. Member for Chippenham. He is entitled to speak as much as he likes for himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.755.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.755.2", "colnum": "755", "heading": "UTILITY GOODS (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ity, quite apart from the most diligent Members of this House, have to suffer. I try to read the two thousand odd statutory orders which come out every year—it is about that number—and it happens to be one of my particular responsibilties so to do; but I had not realised that Order No. 1600 had been withdrawn and replaced by Order No. 1920. If I cannot keep pace with all this, how can the traders?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.755.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-03", "file": "debates1949-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "f9de32b478284eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.755.2", "colnum": "755", "heading": "UTILITY GOODS (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "tatutory orders which come out every year—it is about that number—and it happens to be one of my particular responsibilties so to do; but I had not realised that Order No. 1600 had been withdrawn and replaced by Order No. 1920. If I cannot keep pace with all this, how can the traders? [ Laughter. ] I see nothing very funny in that. I happen to be an M.P.; the traders have to earn their own living—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-03a.755.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-07", "file": "debates1949-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "9137fe420f31db3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-07a.866.2", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has said that my statement is not the truth. May I point out that I myself went to the Ministry of Works and that was my own personal experience?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-07a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-07", "file": "debates1949-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "9137fe420f31db3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-07a.882.7", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALGERIAN WINE (SALE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the taxpayer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "Some of these transactions were with overseas buyers and some with home buyers. The essence of the matter is that, taking the transactions as a whole, they have covered the expenses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-07a.882.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-07", "file": "debates1949-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "9137fe420f31db3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-07a.937.0", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED WOMEN (RESTRAINT UPON ANTICIPATION) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": " works quite as badly and harshly as the restraint upon anticipation. I do not know whether it will be in Order at a later stage of the Bill, but if it should be so, I hope that it will be possible to put down Amendments dealing with the case of the protective trust just as with the case of restraint upon anticipation. I believe that it is quite as desirable to deal with the one as with the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-07a.937.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-07", "file": "debates1949-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "9137fe420f31db3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-07a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED WOMEN (RESTRAINT UPON ANTICIPATION) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "My hon. and learned Friend can submit all sorts of legal conundrums.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-07a.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-07", "file": "debates1949-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "9137fe420f31db3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-07a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED WOMEN (RESTRAINT UPON ANTICIPATION) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": "ake a change in the way in which husbands and wives are assessed. But husbands and wives can, now, if they are so minded, have separate assessments. What they cannot do is to take advantage of the fact that they are married and have a joint household. If one income serves them both or two incomes are jointly held, the couple cannot enjoy these advantages and at the same time those of being single.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-07a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-07", "file": "debates1949-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "9137fe420f31db3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-07a.1021.5", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "SCOTTISH C.W.S. (EMPLOYEES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irving", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irving", "preceding_text": "rative movement. I have had many employers in my time, but I cannot hope to have a better one than the Co-operative movement. I never knew an employer to show the same tolerance to employees and to stand for justice in the same way as the Co-operative movement. I have persuaded hundreds of my friends and fellow trade unionists to join the movement, not by using coercion but by using moral suasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-07a.1021.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-07", "file": "debates1949-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "9137fe420f31db3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-07a.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "SCOTTISH C.W.S. (EMPLOYEES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coldrick", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coldrick", "preceding_text": "ch with the general secretary of the S.C.W.S., and we had it authoritatively from him that he strongly disapproved, and the whole board disapproved, of the action taken by this branch manager. Seeing that the circular has been withdrawn, and it has been made abundantly clear to everyone concerned that we rely on persuasion and not compulsion in the Co-operative movement, the board of the S.C.W.S.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-07a.1023.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-07", "file": "debates1949-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "9137fe420f31db3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-07a.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "SCOTTISH C.W.S. (EMPLOYEES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I have three minutes left. I listened very carefully to the hon. Gentleman, and perhaps he will kindly let me have these last three minutes in order to assure the House that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-07a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-08", "file": "debates1949-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0511bc079f2b5977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1030.3", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "The fact is that the hon. Gentleman has not got his facts right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1030.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-08", "file": "debates1949-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0511bc079f2b5977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1031.6", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "It cannot be blamed on the Communists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1031.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-08", "file": "debates1949-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0511bc079f2b5977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1034.0", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBLRS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order, may I advert—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-08", "file": "debates1949-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0511bc079f2b5977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order, I only want to say this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-08", "file": "debates1949-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0511bc079f2b5977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1040.7", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLeod", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State bear in mind the tremendous leeway which the Highlands of Scotland have to make up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1040.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-08", "file": "debates1949-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0511bc079f2b5977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1115.1", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGED SITES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "le has been cleared away by the local authority is any charge to be made to the owners of the land? What is to be the position in that respect? That should be cleared up by the Parliamentary Secretary. One of my hon. Friends has said that this clearance might cost his authority a 10d. rate and several of my hon. Friends who have spoken have also been very concerned about the effect upon the rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-08", "file": "debates1949-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0511bc079f2b5977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1155.2", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMERCIAL PETROL (INGREDIENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "spreading as the result of the lucrative black market which is growing up through the temptation to forget to put the diphenylamine into the petrol and thus sell as white petrol what was intended to be red. In fact it is significant that black market prices should have dropped somewhat over the last few months, indicating a more plentiful supply, as doubtless the Parliamentary Secretary will know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-08", "file": "debates1949-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0511bc079f2b5977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1157.3", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMERCIAL PETROL (INGREDIENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, there was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "As far as I know, there was no reference to what I was saying in that Sunday newspaper article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-08", "file": "debates1949-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0511bc079f2b5977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1157.8", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMERCIAL PETROL (INGREDIENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us what it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "I have quite sufficient authority for making that statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1157.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-08", "file": "debates1949-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0511bc079f2b5977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1157.8", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMERCIAL PETROL (INGREDIENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us where it comes from.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "I have quite sufficient authority for making that statement—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us what it is.\"]—and the statement does not come from the Sunday newspaper referred to by the Parliamentary Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1157.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-08", "file": "debates1949-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0511bc079f2b5977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMERCIAL PETROL (INGREDIENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Foster", "preceding_text": "In the closing part of his speech the Parliamentary Secretary referred to this Motion as being a political trick.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-08", "file": "debates1949-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0511bc079f2b5977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1176.1", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "Not Gestapo, but \"strength through joy.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-08", "file": "debates1949-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0511bc079f2b5977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1177.3", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "That Colony has been and still is, a slum Colony, yet the hon. Member is asking me not to help Malta. Everybody who takes a holiday nowadays saves up for it and, even at Margate, Bournemouth or Blackpool, usually spends more than £1 a day. By this scheme we could stagger holidays properly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-08a.1177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-09", "file": "debates1949-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "bc68e943b32b473a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1245.0", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Chamberlain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Chamberlain", "preceding_text": "That dividend limitation was specifically withdrawn by the Federation of British Industries earlier this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-09", "file": "debates1949-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "bc68e943b32b473a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I do not quite follow that. I should have thought that \"reduce\" and \"restrict\" meant the same thing, unless the right hon. Gentleman intends \"restrict\" to mean that there must be no increase. It must not be forgotten that one effect of devaluation is to provide an uncovenanted and unearned profit to a great many industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-09", "file": "debates1949-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "bc68e943b32b473a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1260.2", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "s what will happen in many cases as we can see from the financial newspapers and the finance columns every day of the week, it can come out of the increased profit which flows directly from devaluation of the pound and is not in any way the reward of additional enterprise or more imagination in the export market. It will go to those who just sit and rake in the shekels. There is no doubt about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-09", "file": "debates1949-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "bc68e943b32b473a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Bennett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Ipswich has been at some pains to explain that shareholders are not exactly having a splendid time if we compare postwar with pre-war conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-09", "file": "debates1949-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "bc68e943b32b473a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Bennett", "preceding_text": "nditions. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Well, the figures are available. The amount of dividend paid before and after the war shows that the rise in dividends is very small compared to the rise in the amount paid to the producers. If you also take taxation into account it means that the people who are living on dividends are worse off, and that the people who earn their living are better off, than before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-09", "file": "debates1949-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "bc68e943b32b473a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1263.0", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Bennett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Bennett", "preceding_text": "I was trying to show the reverse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-09", "file": "debates1949-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "bc68e943b32b473a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1263.0", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Because of Tory misrule.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Bennett", "preceding_text": "I was trying to show the reverse. [ Laughter. ] Well, the figures are there and hon. Members should study them. No doubt I shall be pardoned for upholding the class to which I belong. Anyone would imagine that the worker earned his money entirely on his own. Let me tell the House that I took over a business in 1920 when the workers were wandering the streets and begging for work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-09", "file": "debates1949-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "bc68e943b32b473a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": " of technical arguments and administrative difficulties against the Amendment. One of these, which may come at once to the minds of most hon. Members, is that a firm engaged in making component parts would not be able to derive the same benefit as the firm making the finished article and exporting it to the United States. The most I would claim for the Amendment would be that it was rough justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-09", "file": "debates1949-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "bc68e943b32b473a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'He said so.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "he has served them very well indeed. In the Second Reading Debate he put the matter with remarkable clarity. He said: A good many of the points made by hon. Members on the other side of the House have been based on the assertion that my right hon. and learned Friend is increasing this tax in order to penalise those who would do extra business in North America, and who will make additional profits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-09", "file": "debates1949-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "bc68e943b32b473a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "from which our imports were to come.\" He does not appear to share the enthusiasm of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for multilateral trade. He went on: We are making an appeal to goodwill, and I hope that goodwill will be forthcoming. But if goodwill is not sufficient to ensure our survival, it may be necessary to direct the policy of planning over a wider range than we have at present applied it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-09", "file": "debates1949-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "bc68e943b32b473a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1327.0", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sehedule.—(AMENDMENTS OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF 23 AND 24 GEO. 5. c. 51.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For ever.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "the strictly limited sense of this Amendment. Authorities do object to losing territory. It is a standard thing to put in a notice of objection, it is a standard thing for every local authority to argue as a matter of course, and once a notice is put in with no other purpose than for the purpose of obstruction, the whole thing may be held up, postponed, inoperative, it may be for years, it may be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1327.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-09", "file": "debates1949-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "bc68e943b32b473a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1343.2", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sehedule.—(AMENDMENTS OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF 23 AND 24 GEO. 5. c. 51.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "urse. I am extremely glad that I did not have the opportunity of speaking immediately after my hon. Friend the Member for Stafford, because I am quite sure that, if I had done so, some of my remarks would have been quite unparliamentary. However, having said that, I am grateful for the assistance he promises, and grateful to the Minister, and I beg leave of the Committee to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-09", "file": "debates1949-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "bc68e943b32b473a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1367.3", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DULCOTE HILL, WELLS (QUARRYING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "int at a time. What precisely are the charges made against us? Why are we being attacked? I want to go back into history a little. We passed into law the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947; we are implementing its provisions; and in particular we are implementing decisions to preserve the beauty of Dulcote Hill and the City of Wells. Those decisions have been violently attacked by the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1367.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-09", "file": "debates1949-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "bc68e943b32b473a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1369.9", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DULCOTE HILL, WELLS (QUARRYING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": " know what hon. Gentlemen opposite want; they do not understand the functions of the Ministry of Town and Country Planning. To sterilise—and that means to waste—mineral wealth, unless by so doing there is a real contribution to amenity, cannot be in the national interest at this hour. Then, some hon. Members say, \"Go somewhere else.\" Where can we go? There are similar objections wherever one goes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-09a.1369.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1411.3", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I note my hon. Friend's point. I am afraid it will be necessary for the House to do the best it can about the matter. This, of course, is not the first or the last of the foreign affairs Debate. With regard to my hon. Friend's point, as he may have noticed from the voices uttered in various parts of the House, they do not all ring in the same note.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1411.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1411.6", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why send them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "That is a nice point as to whether they ought to report to Parliament, which in a way they did represent. On the other hand, the view was taken, I think, by all the delegates and others also, that the persons concerned acted individually. They were responsible as representatives and I do not know that we could hold them accountable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1411.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1440.1", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "d. If for nothing else than that, they are entitled to great credit. Having said that, I am bound to say that, taking the Board's report as a whole, and, I am sorry to say, taking the speech to which we have just listened from the Minister, they exhibit the most appalling complacency over the situation in which the country and the coal industry find themselves today that it is possible to imagine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1443.1", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "I am talking about 1941, when many of the most able-bodied men in the industry had been withdrawn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "s, which it wants. If we turn to management we find very much the same story. There is an unnecessary amount of frustration throughout the management and, worst of all, so I am told on good authority, there is a growing feeling of distrust inside the ranks of the management. There is a growing reluctance to talk openly, a phenomenon which, I am told, never occurred before under private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1454.0", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give them time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ill bring great economies in operation and make it possible to modernise production methods and to raise safety standards in every colliery in the country. Public ownership of gas and electricity undertakings will lower charges, prevent competitive waste … and lead to the reforming of uneconomic areas of distribution. The final sentence is: Other industries will benefit. What a hope!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1454.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1455.1", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course he did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Williams", "preceding_text": "ce of those disadvantages, the right hon. Member did rather well to make a speech at all. There was a significant omission from the observations of the right hon. Gentleman. After all, he was leading for the Opposition in the Debate on the report of the National Coal Board. He went far beyond Chapter IV, but he said not a word about Chapter IV. He said nothing about the safety, health and welfare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1461.4", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "ouse should take particular note. It appears in paragraph (ii, d ) in appendix V on page 233 in the report. Here we have one of the main recommendations of the Committee on Organisation, that is the Burrows Committee. The recommendation is that: The Divisional Chairmen should become members of the National Board, making a Board of nineteen Members in all. That is the main proposal as set out here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1461.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1487.1", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What were they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I think not. I think that every word that I have said is perfectly fair. Secondly, I do not know how the hon. Gentleman did his counting, but by a curious chance I kept on counting how many people there were on our side both during the first speech and the second, and since his figures will get into HANSARD I think that I ought to say that my figures were quite different from his.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "ot one but several messages coming from the various mining districts throughout the country, claiming that there should be a complete reexamination of the whole organisation of the Board. They came from the miners' union. No doubt the hon. Member has forgotten them. I had come to the Debate with a carefully prepared speech, ready to approach the matter with as unprejudiced a mind as I can produce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "at there should be a complete reexamination of the whole organisation of the Board. They came from the miners' union. No doubt the hon. Member has forgotten them. I had come to the Debate with a carefully prepared speech, ready to approach the matter with as unprejudiced a mind as I can produce—[ Interruption. ]—I said \"as unprejudiced\" as I could—and with a real desire to avoid party controversy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "inister in charge to set a precedent, a high standard of fair, unprejudiced, enlightened exposition of the policy for which he is responsible, and to set an example of a statesmanlike approach to a very large problem, which is of vital concern to the nation at large. I can only say that I think the whole House must have regretted how far the Minister fell short of attaining those various criteria.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "terruption. ] Well, let hon. Members listen. Instead of impartiality, the Minister expressed scarcely-veiled prejudice throughout his speech. Instead of frankness he displayed only a rather clever misrepresentation of the facts, and a withholding of facts. Instead of modesty he showed, particularly in his references to Sir Charles Reid, a smugness and conceit which I felt were a little nauseating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "ry well, for the whole range of operations of that great company—its finance, its organisation, its sales, its administration, its labour. He was managing, and looking after with very great success, 60,000 men. Has the Minister of Fuel and Power ever been responsible even for six men? Has he ever produced any portion of the wealth of this country? Yet he has the temerity to speak of this fine man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1501.4", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I am not delivering my carefully-prepared speech. I am delivering a new speech as a direct result of the speech made by the Minister. I find it very difficult in the light of that speech to approach the problem with an unprejudiced mind as I had hoped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1501.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1501.4", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "use of an excessive quantity of steel for the maintenance of roadways. It involves large numbers of men on each coalface with very uninteresting jobs, and leaves little room for the enterprise of the individual. One questions if we are ever likely to get contentment by a system so deficient in human interest. Sir Charles added: The tragedy is that there is no real movement throughout the country\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1501.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1503.1", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "s way. One might well add, \"and which will enable the country to pay its way.\" If price is so very important in the Minister's mind, and that means costs, and he is accepting direct responsibility for it, why did he not tell us more about it today? That is another of the matters about which he has withheld essential facts. I have only one other word to say now, as other hon. Members wish to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1525.2", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Robens)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Robens)", "preceding_text": "I must confess to a feeling of great disappointment at the way in which this Debate has gone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1525.2", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Robens)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Robens)", "preceding_text": "I must confess to a feeling of great disappointment at the way in which this Debate has gone—[ Interruption. ] It is all right for hon. Gentlemen opposite to start jeering; most of them have not been in the Chamber all day. It was not my hon. Friends who were jeering, and I happen to have been sitting here all day listening to the Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1525.2", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Robens)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Robens)", "preceding_text": ". ] It is all right for hon. Gentlemen opposite to start jeering; most of them have not been in the Chamber all day. It was not my hon. Friends who were jeering, and I happen to have been sitting here all day listening to the Debate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes. Therefore I say that I must confess to a feeling of disappointment at the way in which this Debate has gone. Speaking as a parliamentarian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1527.3", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nuts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "coal industry is a monopoly that it is necessary that we should have a Debate. It is a great pity that all the other monopolies in the country are not subject to the same kind of Debate. It would have been most interesting if that great monopoly which has occupied the newspapers during the last few days had been subject to the kind of public accountability which the right hon. Gentleman suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1527.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1528.1", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": " if they had not spent the enormous amount of money which they have spent—in the first year, it was something like £63 million on the five-day week, additional wages, making the pithead baths free and things of that character—what would have happened? There would have continued the drift away from the pits, resulting in less manpower than in 1945, and the cost of coal would not be where it is now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-10", "file": "debates1949-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "074c2f37f4778216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1528.1", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "ted. The right hon. Member for Southport tried to tell the House that industrial relations in the industry are awfully bad. He has been answered by many of my hon. Friends. I deny right away that the relations in this industry are bad. They are extremely good, but I will tell the House—and it is useful to make some comparisons sometimes—that if we take the three years after the 1914–18 war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-10a.1528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-11", "file": "debates1949-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "a5f405918aa461c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-11a.1569.4", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "I really must intervene here. I have no wish to make any observations on the policy of insurance companies towards the gilt-edge market, except to say that it is the duty of all patriotic citizens to support the gilt-edge market now or at any time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-11a.1569.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-11", "file": "debates1949-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "a5f405918aa461c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-11a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "ing description given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer of Government policy up to the moment of devaluation. Do not forget that these are not my words. These are the words of the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself. This is the description of the Chancellor of the Exchequer of Government policy up to the date of devaluation: a series of temporary expedients, which have led to a series of crises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-11a.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-11", "file": "debates1949-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "a5f405918aa461c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-11a.1621.1", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "preceding_text": "Ask the hon. Member for Bolton (Mr. J. Lewis). Ask Mr. Rank—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-11a.1621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-11", "file": "debates1949-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "a5f405918aa461c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-11a.1621.1", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Private enterprise!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "preceding_text": "Ask the hon. Member for Bolton (Mr. J. Lewis). Ask Mr. Rank—[ Laughter ]—whether he has felt the effect of the policy of the Government towards industry and his own concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-11a.1621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-11", "file": "debates1949-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "a5f405918aa461c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-11a.1621.1", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROFITS TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" The 'Daily Worker.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "preceding_text": "Ask the hon. Member for Bolton (Mr. J. Lewis). Ask Mr. Rank—[ Laughter ]—whether he has felt the effect of the policy of the Government towards industry and his own concern. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Private enterprise!\"] I consider this to be a serious point. I only ask hon. Members to look at the financial columns of any paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-11a.1621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "PARLIAMENT BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "Before the Committee stage is announced it is not the practice to put down Amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1724.2", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "PARLIAMENT BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of course we have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "preceding_text": " I am surprised that after his contribution, anyone thought it worth while continuing a discussion which seems to me to have no value. It is all very well for hon. Members opposite to talk so loudly about the limited rights of free discussion, but this House must have a little co-operative self-discipline on this matter. Obviously we have not an unlimited right to discuss everything under the sun—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1741.2", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir David Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir David Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "the contents of the Bill which I wish to examine—that this Bill allows time for the Lords to perform their function of revising, in that it ensures that their objections if not agreed to will, at any rate be considered. Secondly, they say that it is not for a Second Chamber to interpret public opinion. Thirdly, they say that Conservatives are trying to maintain a privileged and irresponsible body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1741.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1741.2", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir David Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir David Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "to interpret public opinion. Thirdly, they say that Conservatives are trying to maintain a privileged and irresponsible body. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am much obliged. I am glad that I have got correctly the arguments which I shall proceed to demolish. Fourthly, the Government say that they are trying to wreck the fourth and fifth Sessions of Parliament when a Labour Government is in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1741.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "d not have the chance of doing it. Therefore, I am glad she has made it on this occasion. What I say is that the point was mentioned by the Lord President, who said that he would have to meet his friends, and that he would have got agreement. May I quote his words on the point raised? He said: Rather, I should say we were prepared to recommend it. It is not fair for me to commit the Labour Party\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1749.1", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "cause that is our creed and because we believe in that unity, we are completely unable even to understand phrases which come from hon. Gentlemen opposite like \"We are going to see that the right people squeal now,\" or \"Anyone who does not pay the political levy does not matter a tinker's cuss,\" or even the phrase of the Attorney-General, \"We are the masters now.\" That does not mean anything to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1752.1", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross) may be able to make a few speeches from the appropriate tub, which will sound louder, and may even have a much more increased popularity as his vocal powers decrease. Fundamentally hon. Members have made a Constitution, which has been the envy of every other country, cease to work because this fundamental agreement has been withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1752.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1756.1", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman a question before he sits down? Can he say why, if that is the attitude of the Liberal Party to the Bill, last year 21 Liberal Lords voted against it and not one for it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1764.1", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "preceding_text": "ed in this Bill, and it be suggested there should be a basic reform of the composition of the House of Lords on the lines of the statement made in the earlier part of 1948, the issue will become a very live one throughout the Labour movement, as well as in the Conservative Party. We should then have real bitterness, and my prediction is that if hon. Members opposite want to end the House of Lords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1764.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1774.0", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Byers", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Gentleman, but it so happened that on the Steel Bill the Liberal Party was the only party to have a 100 per cent. vote in the Division Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1778.3", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "this Parliament today came under the unfriendly and brusque pens of dramatic critics it would get a very bad Press. It is getting a very bad Press. Even the hon. Member for East Coventry (Mr. Cross-man) wrote the other day that this Parliament was as dead as Mr. Churchill said. What is the reason? Because we are not dealing with reality at all. I have been away for two months, and from a distance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1778.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1780.3", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "ink that I am exaggerating on this point, when they face their constituents at the General Election and the constituents ask, \"What did your party do when it went to Westminster?\", which is a fair question, will they please reply, with all the enthusiasm they showed when they carried it through, that they did away with the Parliamentary representation of the universities? That was a great victory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1780.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1780.4", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ah!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "S: \"Order.\"] I anticipated that I might be out of Order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. The Attorney-General was deploring the fact that we were not dealing with more urgent matters, and I thought I would help the right hon. and learned Gentleman by pointing out that he is absolutely right and that this Parliament has done away with such things as University Representation, the City of London representation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1780.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1788.4", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I am not learned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1790.1", "colnum": "1790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "not know what are the rules of the game, which makes it difficult for them to know whether they are changing them or not. The hon. Gentleman also said that in matters of this kind Parliament was supreme, and he referred to the fact that by that he meant the House of Commons, illustrating that he had not the faintest idea of what Parliament means. Parliament consists of two Houses and the Monarchy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1794.1", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": "er the Bill has been discussed in this House I have been satisfied that the Tory Party have proved themselves to be the champions of reaction. They have endeavoured to buttress an obsolete and outworn system of undemocratic organisation. Well, they will have an opportunity of putting this matter before the electorate in a few months' time. I am convinced that the electorate will return this party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1794.1", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": "torate in a few months' time. I am convinced that the electorate will return this party. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Hon. Members opposite can cheer. The boy who lost his courage when passing the graveyard in the night whistled to try to get back his courage. That is what the Tory Party are trying to do. One great statesman said of the House of Lords that it was the watchdog of the Constitution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1795.1", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": "e and were so astounded and amazed at what they saw that they threw most of them back. They threw back half the truth and three-quarters of the facts and figures they found. With the little bit they had left, they mixed some wishful thinking, some hope and some fear and out of that mixture, mélange or jumble they gave to the people of this country a book called \"The Right Road for Britain.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1796.1", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " not so well served as the Lord President of the Council in that sort of thing, and also this is an entirely different world, with different conditions. Indeed, the quotations which I have seen used in this Debate, and which, at first sight might seem to be great attacks upon the House of Lords by the Leader of the Opposition, were made against a different House of Lords in different circumstances", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1796.1", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " on the Table of the House. They will see the interesting fact which I do not think has been fully appreciated that, according to the latest figures, the total membership of the House of Lords is 868, and that of that total 457 have been creations since 1908. That is to say that more than half the present House of Lords owe their titles to creations subsequent to the passage of the Parliament Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1801.3", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "s has already been pointed out, is that hon. Members opposite, and particularly below the Gangway, know very little about this subject. The theory has always been that the sovereignty rests in the people, not in the House of Commons, and still less in a section of the House of Commons represented by His Majesty's Ministers. It is the people who ultimately rule through their répresentatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1801.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1802.1", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "st General Election, in their famous document, Labour said that they would not tolerate obstruction from the House of Lords. They have never had that obstruction. They cannot point to a single issue where it has arisen. Even so, words like that in a party manifesto certainly would never have brought it to the minds of anyone who read them that what was intended was to tinker with the Constitution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1805.3", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are they standing at to-day?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "Why not? This is quite a suitable season for the quotation from my right hon. Friend's speech regarding Christmas gifts soon to be distributed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1805.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1806.1", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the next stage?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "What still remains to the Lords, as has been argued on the other side of the House, is a considerable power of delay, perhaps of very important Measures for, perhaps, a critical period of time. But we proceed stage by stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1806.1", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " want to comment upon the terms of it. It stated: And whereas it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis, but such substitution cannot be immediately brought into operation… Mr. Asquith, then Prime Minister, said in a phrase we all remember that this reform of the Lords \"brooked no delay.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1806.1", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "MBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Oh, yes; \"hear, hear\"; but it is rather late for hon. Members to say that on the other side of the House, because it has been delayed for nearly 40 years, including a long period between the wars. It would not have been expected in war time, but between the wars, for a long period during which an overwhelming Conservative majority sat in this House, they did nothing about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-14", "file": "debates1949-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "27f79c1d3e3485d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1812.0", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ertainly the reform of a Second Chamber is not urgent. Alternative proscriptions have been offered, I remember the late Jack Jones' pungent comment—\"Reform! I would give them chloroform.\" That is a point of view, to which we are not committed as a Government. Many other points of view may, in due course, be deployed and considered when we have a little leisure on our hands after the next Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-14a.1812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-15", "file": "debates1949-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "230ad19f319192ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-15a.1869.5", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF GERMAN ENEMY PROPERTY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "We want to get this right. Would not this also include German nationals who are resident in Germany now, and not only refugees? I can give instances and names of people who are still in Germany but who have had their property in this country returned to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-15a.1869.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-15", "file": "debates1949-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "230ad19f319192ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-15a.1983.3", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING BALANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "onvertibility clause in the Loan Agreement. They insisted on convertibility, and immediately the countries with sterling balances discovered the convertibility clause they began to order goods from America and passed the bill on to us. This Government then froze the sterling balances and said, \"We are not going to have convertibility,\" The American Government then stopped the loan of £938 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-15a.1983.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-15", "file": "debates1949-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "230ad19f319192ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-15a.1983.3", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STERLING BALANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "ember for Bucklow obviously does not know anything about the subject. The purpose of the convertibility clause in the loan agreement was to enable the sterling balance countries to trade on it. It was deliberately put there; the loan was running out and the Government had to freeze the sterling balances. The result was that the Americans then clamped down on us. Why cannot we face up to the issue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-15a.1983.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.1998.5", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEVISION (WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that Wales is a nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.1998.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2032.0", "colnum": "2032", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (MARRIED QUARTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tied houses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I would answer the last point first. They are to be put up as Service married quarters, but to be of such a type, if financed by loan, that they will be available for the civil population if they are no longer required for the Services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2032.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2033.0", "colnum": "2033", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (MARRIED QUARTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "As anyone with experience of this business knows, one of the great reasons for this is to make good the kind of arrears we have had to face in the last year or two, and which arose from long years of constant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2032.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2044.0", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Wishful thinking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "will be adopted in another place. Of course, if the House of Lords accept this Amendment, and we here do not vote against it, it in no way alters our opposition to the nationalisation of steel. On the contrary, we are very glad that the issue should be presented in so clear-cut a form to the electors. We are content with that; it is almost a referendum on the issue. Should we be returned to power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2045.1", "colnum": "2045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "t of the way, is undoubtedly in all our minds this afternoon, and it seems to me the only explanation for the tactics which the Socialist Government have pursued. To us on this side of the House as a party the date is a matter of indifference. In fact, however, party strife will rage in this land in its most active form until the votes are counted. I am glad to see the Prime Minister in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2045.1", "colnum": "2045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ursued. To us on this side of the House as a party the date is a matter of indifference. In fact, however, party strife will rage in this land in its most active form until the votes are counted. I am glad to see the Prime Minister in his place. [ Interruption. ] It is a genuine pleasure, and I am not making any comparison. I hope he has fully recovered from his entertainment at the Mansion House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2049.0", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "Whatever we may think of the Minister's reasons for the decision that he has reached on the dates, there is at least one further question that we are entitled to ask him before we agree to the dates that the Government are proposing. There is one further step that the Government should take in common honesty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2049.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2049.0", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": ". Let them, in fact, withdraw completely the charges made in \"Let us Face the Future\" after practically a year's Debate has shown how completely unfounded those charges were and how completely refuted they have been at every stage of our Debates, especially during the Committee stage and the Third Reading. Then the country will at least be able to make a real, clear-cut decision on the matter and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2049.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2051.1", "colnum": "2051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member agrees with me on that point, will he bring it home to his Front Bench that they should withdraw publicly and completely the charges made in \"Let us Face the Future\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2051.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2051.2", "colnum": "2051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "preceding_text": "ion of steel is dictated on commonsense grounds. I do not think it has anything to do with the Election. I do not think that the Labour Party and the Labour Government mind when the Election is. I believe that the date will be selected in the best interests of the country, which will be the only consideration. In Wednesbury, at any rate, we are quite ready at any time. We only await the word \"Go.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2051.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2054.0", "colnum": "2054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2054.0", "colnum": "2054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "s opposite seem to be afraid. I am going to read it. What is our attitude to this problem? We say this with regard to nationalisation: We refuse at this time of economic danger to aggravate industrial discord. We must ensure that those in control of vital industries are not persistently distracted from their task of management by watching the political weal her. That is the answer to the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2061.3", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "er, to give a rendering of \"The Red Flag\" but I am afraid that, with the spirit which now exists on this side of the House, it would be a solo or, at best, a duet, which is very unfortunate. The important and very serious thing to be understood about this question is that the Government's changed decision has been dictated not by common sense, as the hon. Member for Wednesbury said but by America—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2061.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2063.0", "colnum": "2063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Roberts", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Roberts", "preceding_text": "Member for Wednesbury (Mr. S. N. Evans) and the hon. Member for South Nottingham (Mr. N. Smith), their towns are planning to have a conflict on the point and must be delighted at the conflict over another place. But that is not the view of the responsible Minister. The responsible Minister made a powerful speech this afternoon pointing out the outrageous impropriety of the action of another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2067.8", "colnum": "2067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Which at least brings me to the conclusion that there are now considerations which force this side of the House to accept the Lords' Amendments. These considerations are constitutionally insuperable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2067.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2069.1", "colnum": "2069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "The Amalgamated Engineering Union, of which I have the honour to be a member, asked me to take a week-end school recently for engineers in Sheffield—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2069.1", "colnum": "2069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three-quarters.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": " position here today that we must defer for a short time this thing being put upon the Statute Book. We face the future with some confidence. With what confidence can hon. Members opposite face the future? I do not know at all. Their programme has been repudiated by their leader and their leader has repudiated their party from time to time, and half of the party have repudiated the leader himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2072.0", "colnum": "2072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "power such as that? Another hon. Member said that he hoped that if we were not returned—of course we shall be—we would not make a political cockpit of the steel industry. I should like to ask the hon. Member for Ecclesall (Mr. P. Roberts) whether, if the Tories are again defeated, as they will be in 1950, they will assure us that they will not try to make difficulties in the nationalised industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2074.2", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "preceding_text": " would still have applied, because we would not have had time to put it into proper working order, even assuming that the Election were as late as it was possible for it to be. The Opposition have not read this Bill properly; otherwise they would not accuse us of giving way to the House of Lords and compromising on this issue, because there always was that possibility of deferment of vesting date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2074.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2074.2", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will have to do so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "preceding_text": " They have not accepted it the first time. They called up all the power they could in order to oppose us. That is a situation which only applies when a Labour Government is in power. Can we have a firm assurance from the hon. Gentleman and his party that they will not resort to some trick like that in future, when we are returned, but that for a second time they will accept the will of the people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2074.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2074.2", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "preceding_text": " is a situation which only applies when a Labour Government is in power. Can we have a firm assurance from the hon. Gentleman and his party that they will not resort to some trick like that in future, when we are returned, but that for a second time they will accept the will of the people? [An HON. MEMBER: \"They will have to do so.\"] We do not know; they may be able to arrange all kinds of things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2074.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2076.0", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "he Lord President, who is to reply, has deprived himself of the benefit of hearing what I am going to say—that, as a result of this retreat or defeat of the Government, the Bill will at any rate get on to the Statute Book, but it will get there in name only. The Lord President will, on this occasion, be rather a reluctant bridegroom who will have the satisfaction of leading the bride to the altar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2076.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2076.0", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which industry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "on was really going to come. I feel that the Lord President will have some difficulty also, and I would like to try and help him over the stile. As long as the prospect of nationalisation is always deferred, output will probably continue to go up. What the Government fear is that nationalisation will become a fact, when output will certainly go down, as it has in every other nationalised industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2076.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2080.1", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL 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": "f the operation and commencement rather than the substance of the Bill The right hon. Member for Aldershot (Mr. Lyttelton) made some somewhat indelicate remarks about leading the bride to the altar, and speculated as to what was going to happen thereafter, about which I dare to say nothing. However, we all took it in good part and enjoyed the witty observations which the right hon. Gentleman made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2080.1", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about recovery corner?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "el—owing to co-operation on both sides of the industry—has actually gone up, which only goes to show that miserable predictions do not always come true. The Opposition tried to depress hon. Members on this side of the House with predictions about a sad fate at the next Election. It is very unwise for them to do that; they may have an awful bump and surprise when it comes, because, after all, they—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2083.2", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That proves it must be so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "affection for them—have actually published the date of the next Election, following the example of the Chairman of the Conservative Party organisation some time ago, who as usual was wrong. It has also been alleged that the only reason for introducing the Parliament Bill, which was decided on Monday night, was to settle the Iron and Steel Bill. I have persistently denied that, and I still deny it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2083.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-16", "file": "debates1949-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "938820b2e0a2c190", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2158.3", "colnum": "2158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (DEVOLUTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": " is the most extraordinary statement made by the hon. Member for Dumfries that Scotland was more independent in 1914 than today. I am quite sure that he did not think about that statement before he made it. We had no Secretary of State for Scotland in 1914. We had a Secretary, but not a Secretary of State, and he did not sit in the Cabinet. We had only one Under-Secretary, whereas we now have two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-16a.2158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-17", "file": "debates1949-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "638b9e24920b237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2196.1", "colnum": "2196", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that 88 per cent. of the farms of this country are of 100 acres or less, and that most farmers are living from hand to mouth?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-17", "file": "debates1949-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "638b9e24920b237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2208.1", "colnum": "2208", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "ority and the Military Security Board; reparations; dismantling, and the conditions under which German shipbuilding could be resumed. Subject to a satisfactory agreement on other points, we contemplated some modification of the dismantling programme, but I must say that in all the evidence that I saw, on pure economic grounds, particularly on the steel side, there was not much of a case presented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-17", "file": "debates1949-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "638b9e24920b237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2213.1", "colnum": "2213", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "They are not operating even the amount allowed now. They have cut it back themselves. There are 11.2 million tons allowed and there is a capacity of 13½ to do it. They have cut back production to 9. They are asking, on psychological grounds, for 16 million tons capacity. Anyhow, I will not argue it. It has gone to the High Commissioners. All I say is: Do not be taken in by propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-17", "file": "debates1949-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "638b9e24920b237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2222.2", "colnum": "2222", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "The greatest part of dismantling is in our own British Zone. Therefore, we have for a very long time been in the extremely unfortunate position of getting all the unpopularity with the Germans while our friends the French were largely immune from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-17", "file": "debates1949-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "638b9e24920b237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2224.0", "colnum": "2224", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "May I interrupt the right hon. Gentleman? This is of vital importance. I put this question in no partisan spirit whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2224.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-17", "file": "debates1949-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "638b9e24920b237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2224.1", "colnum": "2224", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "May I interrupt the right hon. Gentleman? This is of vital importance. I put this question in no partisan spirit whatever. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members opposite need not smile—this is vital to the destiny and peace of the world. Is the right hon. Gentleman prepared to take the risk of completely rearming Germany at this juncture, because that is what his proposal really ultimately means?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-17", "file": "debates1949-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "638b9e24920b237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2224.2", "colnum": "2224", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " different topic in the great field that lies before us. There is, I think, some obscurity of thought about the recognition of different countries and diplomatic representation which should be sought with them. I spoke some time ago about Spain. Fancy having an ambassador in Moscow, but not having one in Madrid. The individual Spaniard has a much happier and freer life than the individual Russian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2224.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-17", "file": "debates1949-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "638b9e24920b237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2228.1", "colnum": "2228", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is still Communist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " new situation. Was the fate of Masaryk and Benes covered by the \"gentlemen's agreement\"? Was the execution and purging of some of the finest Czechoslovak patriots part of the \"gentlemen's agreement\"? The United States at any rate did not consider themselves bound in this way. They voted for Yugoslavia which has to a large extent freed itself from Kremlin oppression though not from Kremlin menace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-17", "file": "debates1949-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "638b9e24920b237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2231.5", "colnum": "2231", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You were.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I was not so much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2231.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-17", "file": "debates1949-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "638b9e24920b237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2304.1", "colnum": "2304", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "ford and the Tory Members at Strasbourg getting up in the Assembly in order to defeat the candidature of my right hon. Friend the Government Chief Whip to the Vice-Presidency of the Council. Not a single Member of the British Governmental party was allowed to be a chairman of a committee. That kind of attitude is very prejudicial to the proper development of Parliamentary government at Strasbourg.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-17", "file": "debates1949-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "638b9e24920b237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2307.0", "colnum": "2307", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. K. Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. K. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "I have a very great respect for the hon. and learned Member for Llandaff and Barry (Mr. Ungoed-Thomas), but this is a matter about which we ought to be very clear. The vote which was made at Strasbourg was really not based on a party issue. It happened to be based on the fact that Lord Layton was very well-known—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-17", "file": "debates1949-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "638b9e24920b237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2307.0", "colnum": "2307", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. K. Lindsay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. K. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "I have a very great respect for the hon. and learned Member for Llandaff and Barry (Mr. Ungoed-Thomas), but this is a matter about which we ought to be very clear. The vote which was made at Strasbourg was really not based on a party issue. It happened to be based on the fact that Lord Layton was very well-known—[ Interruption. ] I am really not making a party point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-17", "file": "debates1949-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "638b9e24920b237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2317.4", "colnum": "2317", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "are nothing if not logical, and so far as my limited experience goes, if you give them your confidence, you will gain theirs. Naturally you must not go and do a dirty trick like devaluing behind their backs. That, indeed, was a financial Munich. But if you are straight with them, they will be straight with you. Above all, you must not try to be too clever—it is sometimes better to be a bit stupid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2317.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-17", "file": "debates1949-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "638b9e24920b237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2326.1", "colnum": "2326", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "e sum compared with the frightful cost of armaments and wars. Before I close, I should like to add one or two general considerations. What will be the future of the Council of Europe? How will it or how can it develop, with or without British participation? If I may state my personal opinion frankly, I do not think it can survive, still less achieve its purpose, without full British participation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-17", "file": "debates1949-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "638b9e24920b237f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2335.7", "colnum": "2335", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: 'War.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "o maximise it, not to be alarmist or hysterical about it. For example, at the time of the airlift, it was wise not to become alarmist about the situation. As the right hon. Member for Bromley said in March this year: Have we solved the problem? I often wonder what history will say of that decision in June last year. Were we right or wrong? Would we have done better to face the issue squarely then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-17a.2335.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-18", "file": "debates1949-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "92422b425b2559f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2360.0", "colnum": "2360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGED SITES BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Finally, the Minister referred to what he was pleased to call my passion for protecting private property. I have no such passion, but what I do have, and what every Member should have, is a passion for the protection of liberty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-18", "file": "debates1949-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "92422b425b2559f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2393.11", "colnum": "2393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGED SITES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is, of course, referring to his own property. That would be sufficient to pollute any neighbourhood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2393.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-18", "file": "debates1949-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "92422b425b2559f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2395.0", "colnum": "2395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGED SITES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " sites. There is nothing in this Bill about abominations. This is the fifth year of this Parliament, and the fifth year of the right hon. Gentleman's tenure of office. If these abominations demand instantaneous treatment, within 24 hours of notice being given, what has been happening during these five years? Why do we only hear about it for the first time in the fifth year of his tenure of office?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-18", "file": "debates1949-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "92422b425b2559f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2395.0", "colnum": "2395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGED SITES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "n, what has been happening during these five years? Why do we only hear about it for the first time in the fifth year of his tenure of office? [ Interruption. ] If the hon. Member for Deritend (Mr. Longden) has a point to put perhaps he will stand up and put it. As he does not stand up I assume he has no point to put, so perhaps he will observe the Rules of the House and when seated remain silent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-18", "file": "debates1949-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "92422b425b2559f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2408.1", "colnum": "2408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGED SITES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read a little slower.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "preceding_text": "It is unusual to have complaints that speeches cannot be heard and I recommend the hon. and gallant Member to take advantage of the National Health Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-18", "file": "debates1949-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "92422b425b2559f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2422.0", "colnum": "2422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGED SITES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "derogation of the underlying purpose of that Measure, and, of course, all the Amendments which we put forward and all the efforts that we have made to improve this Bill have been directed towards making it a more satisfactory and efficient instrument for carrying out this beneficent purpose, which has been rendered necessary by the failure of the Government to go ahead with full-scale development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-18", "file": "debates1949-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "92422b425b2559f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2423.3", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGED SITES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to you for that Ruling, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. Of course, the House will appreciate that the last few observations that I have made were no part of the speech which I intended to address to hon. Members but were provoked solely by the intervention of the hon. Gentleman opposite. Though, as you know, Sir, I am always anxious to save the time of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-18", "file": "debates1949-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "92422b425b2559f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2424.1", "colnum": "2424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGED SITES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " of Order of the House, and that had I been able at an earlier stage to move the Amendments I had designed to do I should have been able to be a little more constructive. Now, the points I am about to make are, I am afraid, a little technical, and for that I express regret but it is regret tempered by this consideration, that, after all, this is a technical subject and these are technical matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-18", "file": "debates1949-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "92422b425b2559f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2425.0", "colnum": "2425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGED SITES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady has been here long enough to know that she is out of Order to speak when sitting down in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-18", "file": "debates1949-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "92422b425b2559f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2425.2", "colnum": "2425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGED SITES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "may not be many cases under this Bill in which a building lease would be the appropriate form of lease, but so long as there are any such cases it is right that they should be catered for. I should not be in Order if I went on to say what should be put into the Bill to meet that position in this limited number of cases, which are none the less worthy of being dealt with. Therefore, I cannot go on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2425.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-18", "file": "debates1949-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "92422b425b2559f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2425.2", "colnum": "2425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGED SITES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "ered for. I should not be in Order if I went on to say what should be put into the Bill to meet that position in this limited number of cases, which are none the less worthy of being dealt with. Therefore, I cannot go on—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am going on to some other points. As I was saying, I cannot go on, as I would naturally wish, to put forward constructive proposals in that regard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2425.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-18", "file": "debates1949-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "92422b425b2559f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2433.1", "colnum": "2433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGED SITES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "I, too, intend to be brief, but I should like to put one or two queries which, I should think, would be in the minds of most hon. Gentlemen opposite if they had the courage to express their views or to take any part in the Debate. It is always the trouble with large majorities that their enthusiasm and intelligence are crushed and their oratory suppressed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-18", "file": "debates1949-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "92422b425b2559f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2435.1", "colnum": "2435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGED SITES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "The Bill might have given some better indication of what \"church\" meant, but it says 'church' means a church …", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-18", "file": "debates1949-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "92422b425b2559f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2440.8", "colnum": "2440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"HEREFORD TIMES\" (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2440.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-18", "file": "debates1949-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "92422b425b2559f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2443.2", "colnum": "2443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"HEREFORD TIMES\" (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Delargy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Delargy", "preceding_text": "ation. He has also told us about the marvellous reputation of its editors and staff. One thing which he has not quoted from the \"Hereford Times,\" and which everyone expected him to do, is the actual story which has precipitated this controversy. I propose to rectify that omission at once, so that hon. Members and the Press who will report this Debate will know precisely what the row is all about,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-18a.2443.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-21", "file": "debates1949-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "e2540badc08d95ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.33.8", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there is something more important in this than the mere allocation of steel? Does he realise that the Theatre Royal is serving an area with a population of more than 500,000, which forms an isle of industry in a sea of agriculture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.33.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-21", "file": "debates1949-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "e2540badc08d95ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION (GROUNDNUT SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And the sawmill.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say something about Noli?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.53.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-21", "file": "debates1949-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "e2540badc08d95ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION (GROUNDNUT SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By whom? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": " he was making this report to the Minister. As far as I can make out, nothing of that kind was ever done. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will tell me? The Chairman never at any time raised with either of these two gentlemen the question of their fitness to continue as members of the Board or said that he intended to make any adverse report to the Minister. Indeed, I am told exactly the opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-21", "file": "debates1949-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "e2540badc08d95ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION (GROUNDNUT SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You should know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "as chosen the two scapegoats who appear most convenient to him. I see in the Press that the right hon. Gentleman made use of the analogy of the military operation. He said that in military operations the penalty of failure was dismissal and that this must be regarded as a military operation. I agree that is not a bad principle. It is sometimes not very just but it is also sometimes very effective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-21", "file": "debates1949-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "e2540badc08d95ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION (GROUNDNUT SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "imes very effective. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You should know.\"] However, that principle, if it is to be adopted, must be one of general application. In this case it is one of particular application. When this military operation fails we sack the battalion commanders but we do not touch the general who planned the attack, still less the commander-in-chief who ordered it. Now I want to turn to the Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-21", "file": "debates1949-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "e2540badc08d95ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION (GROUNDNUT SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where did he get it from? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "resignation of Sir Leslie Plummer, O.F.C. chairman. In responsibility to Parliament and people, in leadership in his handling of executives, in his approach to the blameless little men, so many of whom have been and will be ' redundantised,' Sir Leslie has failed to give the new venture what it most needed. That reporter did not get that information round about Whitehall, or from Tory politicians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-21", "file": "debates1949-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "e2540badc08d95ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION (GROUNDNUT SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Jobs for the boys.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "f people could speak freely and without fear of the consequences, I say that nine out of every 10 concerned in this scheme would be saying the same thing today. His appointment was a gamble. He did not appear at the time to possess the particular qualifications for this particular job. Agricultural and tropical knowledge, engineering development, large scale industrial administration—none of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-21", "file": "debates1949-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "e2540badc08d95ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION (GROUNDNUT SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or losses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "ssibilities, should have been thrown into the cockpit of politics at all. It is extremely unfortunate. The critics tell us that the scheme to date has cost £23 million. The Minister has dealt with that figure and has shown that it is a complete fallacy to make any such suggestion. The trouble with hon. Members opposite is that they have no other yardstick by which to measure anything than profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.82.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-21", "file": "debates1949-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "e2540badc08d95ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.85.3", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION (GROUNDNUT SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": " who was sent out to write a report on this scheme— sent home true and accurate reports. He received cabled instructions not to tell what was good about the scheme, but what was bad. I wish the gentleman who wrote this article for \"Picture Post\" would tell us which daily newspaper it was that sent cabled instructions to its reporter to tell only what was bad about the scheme and not what was good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.85.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-21", "file": "debates1949-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "e2540badc08d95ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.85.3", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION (GROUNDNUT SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "f commission, as shown in the figures in the Report, points to the fact that a good deal of machinery was taken there which subsequently proved to be of no use. I am not competent to say whether the board as at present constituted will be an efficient instrument to do the job. I do not know any of the members. I must confess, however, to a sneaking suspicion of civil servants of any shape or form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.85.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-21", "file": "debates1949-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "e2540badc08d95ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION (GROUNDNUT SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "ot be partial to Sir Leslie Plummer. The right hon. Gentleman seemed to base his case against Sir Leslie Plummer on an entirely irresponsible article in the \"Picture Post\"—an article which I have read very carefully and which is completely riddled with misapprehensions, with misrepresentations, and with a long series of questions which are themselves misleading in the way in which they are chosen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-21", "file": "debates1949-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "e2540badc08d95ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.113.0", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION (GROUNDNUT SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "l resources and our skilled management could bear fruit. After all, pioneers from this country developed New Zealand, Australia, the Sudan and parts of South Africa. We have men in this generation who are just as capable as their forebears and have the \"know-how\" just as much as the Americans or anybody else in developing empty spaces. We have had this shocking downfall over the groundnuts so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-21", "file": "debates1949-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "e2540badc08d95ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION (GROUNDNUT SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How does the hon. Member know? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "orandum was never presented to the board? That is one question to which I want an answer. Another is that Major Patton, who was area manager of the southern region, issued a report in the summer of 1948 describing the scandalous state of affairs in the region at that time. It was submitted to the Chairman of the Overseas Food Corporation and it was also suppressed and never presented to the board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-21", "file": "debates1949-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "e2540badc08d95ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION (GROUNDNUT SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "jor Patton, who was area manager of the southern region, issued a report in the summer of 1948 describing the scandalous state of affairs in the region at that time. It was submitted to the Chairman of the Overseas Food Corporation and it was also suppressed and never presented to the board. [An HON. MEMBER: \"How does the hon. Member know? \"] I happen to know that it did not come before the board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-21", "file": "debates1949-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "e2540badc08d95ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION (GROUNDNUT SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllister", "preceding_text": "ave been dismissed, I think no one could have been more pleasant than the Minister was in not trying to exacerbate that situation by making any kind of personal criticism of the two men involved. I think that the Opposition might have shown a similar courtesy and a similar sense of decency in public life by not making attacks such as they have made on the Chairman of the Overseas Food Corporation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-21", "file": "debates1949-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "e2540badc08d95ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.135.3", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION (GROUNDNUT SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllister", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman had attended the whole of this Debate he would have heard the Minister, in the most specific terms, give the reason for the demand for the resignation of the members concerned. The real question is whether the party opposite is in favour of development or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-21", "file": "debates1949-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "e2540badc08d95ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION (GROUNDNUT SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "ady been overcome. It is most unfortunate that a scheme of such great promise should have been made the target of so much misrepresentation and abuse. So many hon. Members, apparently, base their view of the scheme on an article which appeared in \"Picture Post.\" I wish I had time tonight to go into this, but I have had that article examined for the purpose of discovering what the facts really are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-21", "file": "debates1949-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "e2540badc08d95ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION (GROUNDNUT SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "e of a proper accounting system, proper store keeping and the mistakes and difficulties which they encountered. There is ample evidence in the report of the concern felt by the Corporation. What have the Corporation done? Let this be said to the credit of their Chairman. They have set up a budget office in London; they have adopted a sound system of accountancy and a proper system of storekeeping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-21a.155.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-22", "file": "debates1949-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "6af4c39466a976fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-22a.183.6", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Arising from the replies given to the Question and from the apparent complacency of the three Departments referred to on 3rd November, I beg to give notice that I shall raise this matter on the Adjournment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-22a.183.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-22", "file": "debates1949-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "6af4c39466a976fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-22a.189.2", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State accept my assurance that the information on which this Question was based was given to me by a deputation of fishermen? Surely, the men who use the harbour are the best judges as to the facts? Can the right hon. Gentleman bring any pressure upon the proprietor who is responsible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-22a.189.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-22", "file": "debates1949-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "6af4c39466a976fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-22a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that members of the Public Accounts Committee, as appears in the published minutes, express the view that this document should be withdrawn and a correct version issued? Was it not a fact? May I have an answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-22a.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-22", "file": "debates1949-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "6af4c39466a976fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-22a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "I have listened to your Ruling, Mr. Speaker, with some interest, and, for my part, I accept, as I must do, what you have said. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Horsham (Earl Winterton) said that the reason for my Question was that I wished to attack a newspaper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-22a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-22", "file": "debates1949-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "6af4c39466a976fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-22a.213.2", "colnum": "213", "heading": "POLICE CONDUCT (PRESS LETTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do they know what you are up to? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Platts-Mills", "preceding_text": "y being chiefly concerned about the reputation of the police, does he not agree that the Special Branch of Scotland Yard is a secret and political branch that works hand in glove with M.I.5, and is not answerable to this House, let alone to the Minister? Does the Home Secretary expect me to tell him what I know about their activities when we know that they would never tell him what they are up to?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-22a.213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-22", "file": "debates1949-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "6af4c39466a976fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-22a.254.5", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORTIES (HOUSING LOANS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "preceding_text": "I will not repeat that. I must confess that I was only talking about ideological contact, and nothing else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-22a.254.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-22", "file": "debates1949-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "6af4c39466a976fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-22a.257.5", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORTIES (HOUSING LOANS)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under the Tories \"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "incerity with which I put forward my views. I quite agree that between the wars there was not enough attention given to this question of housing, for the very reasons mentioned by my hon. and gallant Friend. As was said by the Under-Secretary in his opening speech, it was extremely difficult in those days to get money for housing, because in any Defence Estimate that was the first thing to be cut.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-22a.257.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-22", "file": "debates1949-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "6af4c39466a976fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-22a.269.5", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORTIES (HOUSING LOANS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. R. W. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. R. W. Low", "preceding_text": " three Services, who have to spend so many years serving abroad separated from their families, to be given an opportunity to live with their families when they are serving at home. Some hon. Members seem to be under the impression that the Forces are depriving the country of a certain amount of building labour. As I understand it, men who are required urgently for building work are being deferred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-22a.269.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-23", "file": "debates1949-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca3b89185b242175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.338.5", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir; most certainly. My noble Friend has already had discussions with B.A.L.P.A.—the pilots' trade union—and with G.A.P.A.N.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.338.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-23", "file": "debates1949-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca3b89185b242175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.341.4", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "Are we to understand that the Minister sets up a court of inquiry, before which evidence is made available, that it makes its report and the Minister, on the same evidence, takes a contrary view?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.341.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-23", "file": "debates1949-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca3b89185b242175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.342.8", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "There have, I think, been circumstances in which Ministers have disagreed with the reports of committees they have set up, but have there been any cases where, a report having been submitted, the Minister has not come down to the House, having studied the report, and given his reasons and explanations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.342.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-23", "file": "debates1949-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca3b89185b242175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.343.0", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "been circumstances in which Ministers have disagreed with the reports of committees they have set up, but have there been any cases where, a report having been submitted, the Minister has not come down to the House, having studied the report, and given his reasons and explanations? [HON.MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] May I ask the Prime Minister if he can recall any such precedent, because I can recall none?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.342.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-23", "file": "debates1949-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca3b89185b242175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.347.9", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Your friends.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Last week the hon. Gentleman's right hon. Friend said he would like an opportunity to make such an inquiry. Now I give him the opportunity of instituting an inquiry. What is he afraid of?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.347.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-23", "file": "debates1949-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca3b89185b242175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.361.10", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend take note of the opinion implied from the benches opposite, that the lives of mere African workers are of no consequence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.361.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-23", "file": "debates1949-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca3b89185b242175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH GUIANA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. May I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-23", "file": "debates1949-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca3b89185b242175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.373.3", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Barnes)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That has nothing to do with the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Barnes)", "preceding_text": "estival and for it to find expression in all parts of the country. As this programme has unfolded itself it is quite clear that that general desire is being very adequately met. If hon. Members are familiar with the programme of activities as it has so far developed, I do not think that they can very well challenge my statement. There will be two travelling exhibitions, one on land and one on sea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-23", "file": "debates1949-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca3b89185b242175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.379.3", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "ke Lord Aberconway would be a party to conducting the Festival Gardens in any other manner than would conform to the dignity of the Festival and of this country. Then there is Sir Charles Cochran, a theatrical manager and producer of note; Lord Latham, Chairman of the London Transport Executive; the Chairman of the London County Council; the Chairman of the London County Council Finance Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.379.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-23", "file": "debates1949-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca3b89185b242175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ying any confidence in this, because I was told it by the chairman when I went to see them last week, but I am informed that the main reason, the most compelling reason and the only real reason the Government were insisting on it was the statement by the police that, unless they had an overspill, unless they had a place for overflow, they could not guarantee to control the crowd in a narrow space.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-23", "file": "debates1949-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca3b89185b242175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.389.3", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "I am asking if since the original scheme, they came forward and said that unless Battersea Park was used they could not be responsible. If that is so, the right hon. Gentleman ought to have disclosed that fact, which was in his knowledge then, when speaking on 10th February. Otherwise he was withholding material information from this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-23", "file": "debates1949-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca3b89185b242175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wilmot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wilmot", "preceding_text": "I was somewhat astonished by the speech of the right hon. Gentleman. I am very relieved, as I am sure that the whole House and the country will be, that the right hon. Gentleman is not in charge of this project or has anything to do with it. It is a most extraordinary attitude to reveal towards an enterprise which his own party has supported—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-23", "file": "debates1949-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca3b89185b242175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Hare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Hare", "preceding_text": "se and the national Exchequer are concerned, I can see no limit to the loss supposing that it reaches a figure higher than £100,000. We have the advantage that this Bill is not sponsored either by the Minister of Food or by the Minister of Health because in the last few weeks and months we have come to the conclusion that we cannot rely very much on the estimates of those two right hon. Gentlemen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-23", "file": "debates1949-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca3b89185b242175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They did move the place afterwards.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "preceding_text": "they will have to make it attractive. Do not let the taxpayer suffer. Let him get a return for the investment. My grandfather happened to be concerned in the 1851 Exhibition in a somewhat intimate way. I was looking up some of his papers, and I found that all the arguments which are being used about taking up a bit of Battersea Park are exactly the same as those used in those days about Hyde Park.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-23", "file": "debates1949-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca3b89185b242175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.440.4", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ervile acceptance by hon. Members in all parts of the House of each and every proposal that is put forward on behalf of the Government, however extravagant or inappropriate those proposals may be. I do not so regard national unity, although it is fair to the noble Lady to point out that her hon. Friends during the years 1929 to 1931 gave a pretty good performance of national unity as so described.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.440.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-23", "file": "debates1949-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca3b89185b242175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.441.1", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "rel with them in the necessity for so doing, I hope they will bear in mind that, if it is necessary for them to do so in this case, it is some indication of the hardships and handicaps which in other cases they impose upon the individual citizen and the individual builder. I desire, however, to take up this matter on a slightly more important basis than the mere removal of rights from the citizen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-23", "file": "debates1949-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca3b89185b242175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "The worst congestion ever known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-23", "file": "debates1949-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "ca3b89185b242175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.448.1", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS) 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": "oster-mongers and hobbledehoys who go to Hampstead Heath on a Bank Holiday and kick up an awful row, but have a good time and are happy in their own way. We must use parks according to the purpose in hand. I will deal with some of the detailed points raised by the right hon. Member for Southport (Mr. R. S. Hudson) after my right hon. Friend the Minister of Transport had so ably expounded the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-23a.448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-24", "file": "debates1949-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f7ff54da44ad9bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-24a.506.6", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend's reply mean that Lord Horder has not yet had the courtesy or the courage to substantiate the allegation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-24a.506.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-24", "file": "debates1949-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f7ff54da44ad9bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-24a.506.9", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That supplementary question we have just heard was an attack upon a Member of another place, and it should not have been made. It referred to a statement made in the Press, and there was no need in the question to mention any name at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-24a.506.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-24", "file": "debates1949-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f7ff54da44ad9bab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-24a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ere courteous men. Those who could speak Welsh thought that I was speaking Welsh very badly but with their native Welsh politeness were unwilling to show this. Others who pretended to speak Welsh and really could not do so, thought that it was excellent Welsh. Afterwards I was able to lapse into the more modern tongue with suitable apologies. Today I feel that as Gaelic is by far the older tongue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-24a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-25", "file": "debates1949-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9d92ccfb5b27fb66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-25a.720.3", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Clause 8. —(INTERPRETATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "ton) who asked if we could have a period of about ten days between the Second Reading of the Bill and the Committee stage, and the Government, through the asual channels, acquiesced in that very reasonable request. What has been decided has been the unanimous expression of the whole House, so I do not think there is anything for which the Government need apologise. We have rather met their wishes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-25a.720.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-28", "file": "debates1949-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3130e3dde13f5f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-28a.769.6", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "me upon national defence, and I find great difficulty in coming to any conclusions upon that without knowing for how long this Parliament is going on. It certainly would not be worth while addressing the present House on the subject unless its sittings are to be prolonged into the late summer. The right hon. Gentleman must not take it, and it must not be taken by the public outside, that the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-28a.769.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-28", "file": "debates1949-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3130e3dde13f5f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-28a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maude", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maude", "preceding_text": "mparatively paltry honours. The point I am trying to make is this: that Mr. du Parcq, as he then was, believed himself to be well thought of by his colleagues; and in the natural passage of time at the Bar, if one belongs to a circuit, he is respected by his colleagues, by the Secretary of State and—what is particularly important—by the Attorney-General. These marks of favour are received because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-28a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-28", "file": "debates1949-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "3130e3dde13f5f56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-28a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " do not want to say anything in disparagement of the non-qualified clerks. Some are good, some not so good, indeed some of the best and most experienced of the magistrates' clerks have, I believe, been unqualified men. But the functions of the magistrates' courts are now becoming much more complex. Modern statutes and regulations are more technical and difficult to administer than they used to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-28a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-29", "file": "debates1949-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "1a61055623d9e181", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-29a.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander Hulbert", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander Hulbert", "preceding_text": "Is the Under-Secretary aware that this unfortunate soldier is a constituent of mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-29a.924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-29", "file": "debates1949-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "1a61055623d9e181", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-29a.940.2", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE Gold (Price)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I know, but I should like to ask my right hon. and learned Friend whether he does not concede that we are now living in a complete state of cuckoodom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-29a.940.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-29", "file": "debates1949-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "1a61055623d9e181", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-29a.951.7", "colnum": "951", "heading": "HOME INFORMATION SERVICES (COST)", "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": "ommittee for a valuable Report which will be most helpful to all who are concerned with the official information services. It covers a wide field, including a number of technical matters, like the best use of Press and poster advertising and films and the most effective methods of conducting campaigns with broad general objectives on which there are legitimate differences of opinion among experts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-29a.951.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-29", "file": "debates1949-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "1a61055623d9e181", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-29a.979.6", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "ant to be, that we go from extreme to extreme, and that the House of Commons in Committee is now passing a Clause conferring a power which has never yet been given to any public or private authority. In the ordinary course, before people can produce entertainments they have to erect the building and get permission. I think passing this Clause indicates the present state of affairs in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-29a.979.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-29", "file": "debates1949-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "1a61055623d9e181", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-29a.987.0", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling:", "preceding_text": "ncial Memorandum, paragraph 1, had any little difficulties, I would rely upon the definition in Clause 11 and get rid of the inconvenient company, because the Minister has powers to form another company. It seems a little invidious. Is the Minister not satisfied with the constitution of the Festival Gardens Company, and does he wish to be able, if necessary, to contract out by using \"any\" company?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-29a.986.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-29", "file": "debates1949-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "1a61055623d9e181", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-29a.1034.3", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (HOUSING LOANS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I learned a lot of military information: it was splendid for his morale. In this country, have we exhausted the possibilities of billeting even now? Within two miles of this House, I know a very big building, which I will not name because I do not want to hurt the feelings of the noble Lord, and which could be used for married quarters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-29a.1034.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-30", "file": "debates1949-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b962147acc2e9a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-30a.1152.4", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "MR. CHURCHILL (BIRTHDAY CONGRATULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "preceding_text": "se, may I offer the congratulations of the House to the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition? Although in these days 75 is not a venerable age—people seem to be able to continue for several decades after that—yet 75 does mark a distinct stage in one's life, and I am quite sure that we all rejoice to see the right hon. Gentleman in full health and activity and wish him many more years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-30a.1152.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-11-30", "file": "debates1949-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b962147acc2e9a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-30a.1156.0", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "the Member for North Leeds (Mr. Peake), who led for the Opposition on that occasion, who stated: I … support the Home Secretary's view.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 27th November, 1947; Vol. 444, c. 2147, 2160.] At that time in the House we had agreement between the leaders at any rate, on both sides, and I think that on both sides probably the majority of their followers would have agreed with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-30a.1153.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-30", "file": "debates1949-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b962147acc2e9a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-30a.1173.0", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "eel a great deal of sympathy with the warder who is attacked But this new Clause states that the prisoner can be flogged only if he commits certain offences, such as mutiny, incitement to mutiny or gross personal violence to an officer by a male person serving a sentence. If we were engaged in making mail bags and this place was a prison, in which the hon. Member for Rugby and I were the convicts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-30a.1173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-30", "file": "debates1949-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b962147acc2e9a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-30a.1245.3", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "GAS REGULATIONS (STAFF COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "But I was not talking of private enterprise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-30a.1245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-11-30", "file": "debates1949-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b962147acc2e9a27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-30a.1257.4", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "GAS REGULATIONS (STAFF COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": " or women, who have served the industry faithfully, and who lose their employment because of the Government's itch to nationalise industry. So we must do tonight. My hon. and gallant Friend the Member for New Forest and Christchurch (Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre) made an admirable speech. It convinced a lot of hon. Gentlemen opposite, as it certainly convinced all of my hon. Friends who sit behind me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-11-30a.1257.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-01", "file": "debates1949-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4d574c3b770f694d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1337.3", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "AIR ACCIDENT INQUIRY (MINISTER'S COMMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "It is not quite the same as what the right hon. and learned Gentleman said just now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1337.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-01", "file": "debates1949-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4d574c3b770f694d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1339.1", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "AIR ACCIDENT INQUIRY (MINISTER'S COMMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the instructions for this inquiry were given on 30th November and the inquiry took place in January, in Ayr, but the Report did not come until 7th July? Can he do something to expedite these inquiries and ask counsel not to pursue the go-slow tactics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-01", "file": "debates1949-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4d574c3b770f694d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1341.3", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "AIR ACCIDENT INQUIRY (MINISTER'S COMMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Group-Captain Wilcock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Group-Captain Wilcock", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman realise that all those closely concerned with aviation recognise who is responsible, or who was responsible for this accident?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1341.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-12-01", "file": "debates1949-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4d574c3b770f694d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1342.1", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "AIR ACCIDENT INQUIRY (MINISTER'S COMMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "These contentious questions, when people have been killed, are very much out of place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-01", "file": "debates1949-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4d574c3b770f694d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1372.1", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Here he comes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "he Council, \"How London is Governed,\" which begins: Never do I see the transfer of functions from local authorities to the State without a feeling of sorrow. I deprive the House and myself of the pleasure of hearing once again that noble purple passage of English prose. I hope I have read enough, however, to show that for once I can claim the right hon. Gentleman the Lord President of the Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-01", "file": "debates1949-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4d574c3b770f694d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1372.1", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "er of functions from local authorities to the State without a feeling of sorrow. I deprive the House and myself of the pleasure of hearing once again that noble purple passage of English prose. I hope I have read enough, however, to show that for once I can claim the right hon. Gentleman the Lord President of the Council—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Here he comes\"]. Here comes the right hon. Gentleman himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-01", "file": "debates1949-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4d574c3b770f694d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was 120 companies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "preceding_text": "ised by the brain of one competent person. I believe that to be generally true. In Sir Cyril Hurcombe we have an ideal man with great experience and great sympathy, who is doing everything that any man could do with this vast organisation. I may be the only remaining Member who was in the House when we carried through the Railway Act of 1921. That brought 28 different companies down to four units.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-01", "file": "debates1949-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4d574c3b770f694d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1390.3", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "preceding_text": " way as it took over the railways and canals. Unfortunately, that was not found possible, but I think events are showing, owing to the opposition of certain of the large interests, including British Electric Traction, which the Commission have failed to acquire by negotiation, that we are going through a very long process before road passenger transport comes under nationalisation in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-01", "file": "debates1949-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4d574c3b770f694d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1414.1", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Agnew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Agnew", "preceding_text": "running powers. They are not met with on other lines. If their colours had to be changed, I ask, why did the Railway Executive first have to go in for what, I admit, was a most attractive scheme—\"maroon and spilt milk\"—and then, having done some trains over in those colours, decide that those colours would not do at all, so that the trains have blossomed out now into cream and Transport House red.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-01", "file": "debates1949-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4d574c3b770f694d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1421.1", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": ". The two sections of the community who are in the best position to judge on this matter are the travelling public and the employees. I should like any hon. Member to ask the travelling public their opinion of the transport in the recent summer holidays, and whether or not nationalisation has produced after two years one single improvement that is noticeable to anybody who travels on the railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-01", "file": "debates1949-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4d574c3b770f694d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1422.1", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What of it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": " today. As everybody who has read the article knows, the writer went on for several pages on that point, and as he said so truly, and as has been said so often from this side of the House, the most important thing which is wrong is the gradual development of a soulless, dehumanising, individuality-killing atmosphere. That is precisely what happens when any industry in this country is nationalised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-01", "file": "debates1949-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4d574c3b770f694d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1422.1", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": "lless, dehumanising, individuality-killing atmosphere. That is precisely what happens when any industry in this country is nationalised. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What of it?\"] That comment needs no reply. We get remote control and we get to the stage where the man in the coal pit or the main on the railway platform, is divorced from the people with whom he was formerly able to get into contact every day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-01", "file": "debates1949-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4d574c3b770f694d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1423.1", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is responsible for that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": "lie. The vital problem, as the Minister has said, is that of rising costs and falling receipts. He made some reference to the cost which private enterprise was incurring against the railways. It is rather interesting to see on page 125 of the report that coal, which is no longer under private enterprise, shows an increase above its pre-war cost of 174 per cent. Linseed oil is 633 per cent. higher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-01", "file": "debates1949-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4d574c3b770f694d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ronald Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ronald Ross", "preceding_text": "ondon and goods from Londonderry. In fact, the only appropriate comparison he could make was that it takes just about the same time for goods to come from West Africa as it does for goods to come from London. Inquiries should be made into that position, because the service is becoming even slower. I should like to talk about this subject for a very long time but I have pledged myself not to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-01", "file": "debates1949-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4d574c3b770f694d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1429.4", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": " which we are confronted. It is serious not only in regard to freights, but also in regard to fares. The other day a man came to me to ask about getting extra petrol. Knowing the sort of letters one receives in answer to such requests, I said to him, \"You should go by train.\" He was a married man earning £5 or £6 a week. He said, \"The trains are not for people like us; we cannot afford the fares.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-01a.1429.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-05", "file": "debates1949-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3d7fa2d06b75f412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-05a.1534.4", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a matter for Mr. Speaker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I dare say it is. It is for the Opposition to choose their speakers and for the Government to choose theirs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-05a.1534.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-05", "file": "debates1949-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3d7fa2d06b75f412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-05a.1536.0", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "STANDING COMMITTEE E (QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "y be opposed to or in support of a Bill can engage or arrange with some convenient or suitable person to co-ordinate their efforts? I submit that, in this particular case, some of us who were opposed to the Bill and who could not be in our places to oppose it at that time thought it suitable, and possibly convenient to all concerned, that Mr. Powell should be entrusted to ensure that those others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-05a.1536.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-05", "file": "debates1949-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3d7fa2d06b75f412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-05a.1586.1", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIED WOMEN (MAINTENANCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Lord Advocate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "is not a sense of real injustice, one has to advise the party not to appeal at all. I hope that it may go out from this House that we have paid some attention to what was said and that we look forward to a real consideration of appellate jurisdiction. I wish there were a Law Officer of the Crown on the Government Front Bench who could give some clear indication to the House that that will be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-05a.1586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-05", "file": "debates1949-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3d7fa2d06b75f412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-05a.1640.5", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1. —(EXTENSION OF JURISDICTION OF HIGH COURT IN CERTAIN MATRIMONIAL PROCEEDINGS.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "had been living abroad say, for five years or more since her husband had disappeared. She comes back to this country. Let us assume that she returns after her husband has been missing for six years. She has to wait for one year before the seven years are expired after which she can take proceedings under the law as it stands. She would then have to wait another two years, making nine years in all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-05a.1640.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-05", "file": "debates1949-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3d7fa2d06b75f412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-05a.1640.5", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1. —(EXTENSION OF JURISDICTION OF HIGH COURT IN CERTAIN MATRIMONIAL PROCEEDINGS.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "efore the seven years are expired after which she can take proceedings under the law as it stands. She would then have to wait another two years, making nine years in all. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The same principle applies if the husband has been missing for seven years. The wife returns to this country and she has to wait another three years, making 10 years in all, before she can take proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-05a.1640.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-12-06", "file": "debates1949-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "776f9ea78ae558be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-06a.1695.3", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I understand that identical twins provide the largest number of twins born in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-06a.1695.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-06", "file": "debates1949-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "776f9ea78ae558be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-06a.1700.6", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Lord President of the Council if, in view of the fact that when the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster was Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-06a.1700.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-06", "file": "debates1949-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "776f9ea78ae558be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-06a.1737.0", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "er speed than he should have done, and all the kind of things that come before a magistrates' court today, then I consider that I am just as capable of judging as any younger person, man or woman. I have been on the bench for not quite 10 years. I like the work, and I was looking forward with some sort of anticipation to the fact that, when I finished my job here, I could have a bit of relaxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-06a.1737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-06", "file": "debates1949-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "776f9ea78ae558be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-06a.1758.1", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I venture to think that that will depend on who is holding the office of Lord Chancellor. I am quite sure that so long as the office is held by a member of the party now on this side of the House we might feel quite confident about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-06a.1758.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-12-06", "file": "debates1949-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "776f9ea78ae558be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-06a.1765.4", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is Scottish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scollan", "preceding_text": "Then why does this Amendment say \"shall not be disqualified \"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-06a.1765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-06", "file": "debates1949-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "776f9ea78ae558be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-06a.1776.1", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I do not think that such persons can be regarded as being in quite the same position as magistrates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-06a.1776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-06", "file": "debates1949-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "776f9ea78ae558be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-06a.1809.0", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Thirty-five thousand is in.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "an almost complete example of an arithmetical progression in the figures set down in the Amendments on the Order Paper. The lowest is 20,000 and the highest is 50,000. The only figure that is omitted on the 5,000 scale is 35,000. which might be arrived at by adding the highest and the lowest, 20,00 and 50,000. and dividing by two and saying \"If we split the difference everybody ought to be happy.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-06a.1809.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-06", "file": "debates1949-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "776f9ea78ae558be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-06a.1816.1", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "preceding_text": "ent will give careful consideration to that figure. Of course, as the population goes up to 30,000, 35,000 and 40,000 the case becomes stronger, and when we come to 44,000, which is the population I represent, in the borough of Eccles it is overwhelming. I must speak candidly. I find that on no other issue have the inhabitants and the town council of my borough been so disturbed as on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-06a.1816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-06", "file": "debates1949-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "776f9ea78ae558be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-06a.1816.1", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"From magistrates?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "preceding_text": "00 the case becomes stronger, and when we come to 44,000, which is the population I represent, in the borough of Eccles it is overwhelming. I must speak candidly. I find that on no other issue have the inhabitants and the town council of my borough been so disturbed as on this matter. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Yes, I say that. On no other issue have I received such a galaxy of advice and instructions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-06a.1816.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-12-06", "file": "debates1949-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "776f9ea78ae558be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-06a.1832.2", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member for Daventry (Mr. Manningham-Buller) is presumably referring to his Amendment to page 7, line 42? I was hoping that this Debate would cover that point and that perhaps it would only be necessary if the hon. and learned Gentleman desired it, to call it for a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-06a.1832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-07", "file": "debates1949-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "428c2ca26a29c681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-07a.1892.1", "colnum": "1892", "heading": "POLITICAL PROPAGANDA (EXPENDITURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "e right hon. and learned Gentleman has related under which these expenses would be chargeable against a candidate, what would be the effect if the candidate at the beginning of the election, not wishing to incur this possibility, served a notice upon the individual, the party or the body, requesting them not to indulge in propaganda in that constituency, and despite that notice they still went on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-07a.1892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-07", "file": "debates1949-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "428c2ca26a29c681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-07a.1897.3", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "POLITICAL PROPAGANDA (EXPENDITURE)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "Neither proposition has in the least been made plain. I thought the answer which I gave on Monday and which I have repeated today was quite clear in regard to such a proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-07a.1897.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-07", "file": "debates1949-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "428c2ca26a29c681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-07a.1898.2", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "POLITICAL PROPAGANDA (EXPENDITURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "In the light of these discussions, is it not clear that there is a real risk that we may go into a General Election within the next few months, that a party of Left or Right may be returned, and that thereafter it may be found on a test case that so many candidates' elections are invalid that the Parliament and the Election itself and its whole purpose may be defeated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-07a.1898.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-07", "file": "debates1949-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "428c2ca26a29c681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-07a.1898.2", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "POLITICAL PROPAGANDA (EXPENDITURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": " that thereafter it may be found on a test case that so many candidates' elections are invalid that the Parliament and the Election itself and its whole purpose may be defeated. [ Laughter. ] I ask this question quite seriously. Is not the Attorney-General answering at that Box, having prepared a brief on a narrow point with such glibness and such lack of responsibility, and is it not a desirable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-07a.1898.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-07", "file": "debates1949-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "428c2ca26a29c681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-07a.1924.5", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "Clause 10. —(AREA OF COMMISSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. L. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. L. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "mentioned various courts, among them the court at Richmond in Yorkshire. I can remember an occasion when the whole paraphernalia of justice was brought out, The small courthouse was full of the public, jurors, police and justices coming to listen to the administration of justice. There was one case which was a plea of guilty, and after the short proceedings in the court a good time was had by all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-07a.1924.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-12-07", "file": "debates1949-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "428c2ca26a29c681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-07a.1937.0", "colnum": "1937", "heading": "Clause 10. —(AREA OF COMMISSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Soke.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stoddart-Scott", "preceding_text": "leas in courts of their own. That was about the first example of this happening in the country. Certain other liberties, of course, were given to bishops and archbishops, and some actually passed into lay hands, but the majority of the liberties disappeared at the Reformation. Probably only three other liberties survived the Local Government Act of 1888, St. Edmunds, the Isle of Ely, the Stoke of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-07a.1936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-07", "file": "debates1949-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "428c2ca26a29c681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-07a.1938.2", "colnum": "1938", "heading": "Clause 10. —(AREA OF COMMISSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "I should like to assure the Committee that whatever else happens I am not going into the merits or demerits of recorderships. As far as I understand, recorders are a very respectable body of people, and I would not like to say any more than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-07a.1938.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-08", "file": "debates1949-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b97c40596fd980a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2066.4", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUMMER TIME (DATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "While making allowance for the ignorance of my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2066.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-08", "file": "debates1949-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b97c40596fd980a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2087.0", "colnum": "2087", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CATERING WAGES ACT (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "While I believe that the announcement made by the Minister will be received with great gratification on all sides by the trade, may I ask if he really thinks it is wise to appoint the Chairman of the Catering Wages Commission to conduct this inquiry? Is it not really rather like appointing the murderer to preside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2087.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-08", "file": "debates1949-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b97c40596fd980a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2090.3", "colnum": "2090", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CATERING WAGES ACT (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should understand the difference between the function of the Commission and the boards appointed. It is the boards which draw up these schemes. The Commission has no authority to direct them. They can only go into the matter generally. They have not been asked to do that. Now, the first time that there has been any real complaint, I have ordered an inquiry without any delay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2090.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-12-08", "file": "debates1949-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b97c40596fd980a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2116.1", "colnum": "2116", "heading": "AIR ACCIDENTS (INQUIRY REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "The Attorney-General has referred to the time when this matter was first raised. I am informed by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Air-Commodore Harvey) that he raised it twice on the Adjournment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2116.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-12-08", "file": "debates1949-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b97c40596fd980a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2117.3", "colnum": "2117", "heading": "AIR ACCIDENTS (INQUIRY REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that the first Adjournment Debate was on Friday, 3rd July, 1947, and the second on 17th March, 1948? Does he realise that when the Newton Committee had reported to the Minister, we on this side pressed for the publication of their report, that the Parliamentary Secretary refused, and that it was not until November last year that it was published?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-08", "file": "debates1949-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b97c40596fd980a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2123.0", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "AIR ACCIDENTS (INQUIRY REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "rd the proposition put forward by a lawyer before, if I may say so with respect, and on reflection I do not think the right hon. and learned Gentleman will accept it—that the Minister can only dissent from a finding in the case of a tribunal of this kind if there is no evidence at all. That was not the view of the noble and learned Lords who addressed their minds to this question in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-08", "file": "debates1949-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b97c40596fd980a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2133.1", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "AIR ACCIDENTS (INQUIRY REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "erial time was 11.30, not eight minutes past 11 or six minutes past 11; that time, he said, had nothing to do with the matter at all. It was 11.30 that was important, when this experienced pilot was circling the aerodrome. That, he said, was the issue, and what happened at 11.6 or 11.8 had nothing to do with it. That is Lord Simon's opinion and with great respect I agree that Lord Simon was right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2133.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-12-08", "file": "debates1949-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b97c40596fd980a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2140.4", "colnum": "2140", "heading": "AIR ACCIDENTS (INQUIRY REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "There are three copies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-08", "file": "debates1949-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b97c40596fd980a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2146.3", "colnum": "2146", "heading": "AIR ACCIDENTS (INQUIRY REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander Millington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander Millington", "preceding_text": "entatives of those who were lost in the accident. In fact, if such an action were initiated and if a writ were issued against the Minister of Civil Aviation, then it would clear aside this suspicion of lack of confidence which is so often being created, disseminated and fostered by Members of the Opposition because they see in all these incidents the foreshadowing of the General Election campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-08", "file": "debates1949-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b97c40596fd980a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2164.1", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "AIR ACCIDENTS (INQUIRY REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I am sure that all Members of this House are very sorry that so few Members from the back benches on either side have been able to take part in this Debate. However, the hon. Member for Buckingham (Mr. Crawley) certainly crowded a number of wild accusations into a short space of time. I shall not deal with them all now", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-08", "file": "debates1949-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b97c40596fd980a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2164.3", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "AIR ACCIDENTS (INQUIRY REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ume that the Crown would produce its own evidence, and certainly if the report was published without that information which is now available, that is a matter which is the fault of those who should have produced it. This only shows the danger of re-trying the case across the Floor of the House of Commons. There was the tribunal. Its findings have been overruled. That is the gravamen of our charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-08", "file": "debates1949-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b97c40596fd980a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2167.1", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "AIR ACCIDENTS (INQUIRY REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "at that tribunal. Now it was said freely in another place that under our generally accepted views of Ministerial responsibility the Minister should vacate his office, and I must say, on a reading of British history, that there is a great deal of sense in that argument. He is interpreting his conception of Ministerial responsibility as the obligation to protect, on every occasion, his own servants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-08", "file": "debates1949-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b97c40596fd980a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2170.3", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "AIR ACCIDENTS (INQUIRY REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "rt of the pilot, or possibly fault in the drill on the part of the crew, because they happened to be citizens of a foreign country? If so, these inquiries would become a complete farce. I am bound to say that that is not the view that Dr. Plesman has taken in his public statement, when he held a Press conference about this inquiry. No kind of charges were made, but there was a duty to investigate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2170.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-08", "file": "debates1949-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b97c40596fd980a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2183.1", "colnum": "2183", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL SERVICES (ORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "preceding_text": " this afternoon. I want to refer to a few specific points in the report, not necessarily in the order in which they appear there. I start off with the Minister of Agriculture and the Ministry themselves. Perhaps one of the most damaging paragraphs in the report is paragraph 102, which deals with the administrative organisation of the Ministry. I know that the Minister has said in this paper today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-08", "file": "debates1949-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b97c40596fd980a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2190.0", "colnum": "2190", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL SERVICES (ORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "t the Motion expresses regret at the delay in reorganising the county executive committees, which were only set up two years ago. As the Committee were sitting seven, eight or nine months ago, they suggest that I ought to have reorganised the committees almost before they had been set up. I wish to express my appreciation for the time and care which the Committee gave to the study of the problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-08", "file": "debates1949-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b97c40596fd980a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2198.1", "colnum": "2198", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL SERVICES (ORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "No, I do not think that is the case. The hon. and gallant Member has been looking at the Ministry of Labour's figures instead of the Ministry of Agriculture's figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-08", "file": "debates1949-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0b97c40596fd980a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2214.1", "colnum": "2214", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL SERVICES (ORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "I know that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wakefield (Mr. Arthur Greenwood) once said that pounds, shillings and pence were meaningless symbols. It is a great pity that the Minister of Agriculture now takes that view. What the taxpayers realise is that they have to pay for one particular county a very large sum, and in another county—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-08a.2214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-09", "file": "debates1949-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3daa2ecbb10ad46b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-09a.2238.1", "colnum": "2238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "tions have the force of law as soon as they are laid and Parliament will need to take the earliest possible opportunity of debating them thereafter. Furthermore, will the sums which it is intended to raise by this procedure obviate any suggestion or necessity of a Supplementary Estimate for the Ministry? It will be remembered that last year Supplementary Estimates for a considerable sum were laid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-09a.2238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-09", "file": "debates1949-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3daa2ecbb10ad46b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-09a.2298.7", "colnum": "2298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR CORPORATIONS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "This is a very modern consolidation Bill because the first Act which is brought into consolidation is one of 1939. We are now getting up to date when we consolidate Acts of Parliament, the first of which was in 1939 and the last of which was in 1949.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-09a.2298.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-12-09", "file": "debates1949-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3daa2ecbb10ad46b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-09a.2307.2", "colnum": "2307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PASSENGER TRANSPORT (AREA SCHEMES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-09a.2307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-12", "file": "debates1949-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "1b13e29567aad031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-12a.2352.8", "colnum": "2352", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIVILEGE (COMPLAINT)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "That the matter of the complaint of the hon. Member for Ashford, referred to in the statement of Mr. Speaker on Monday, 5th December, be referred to the Committee of Privileges.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-12a.2352.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-12", "file": "debates1949-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "1b13e29567aad031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-12a.2353.2", "colnum": "2353", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIVILEGE (COMPLAINT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "preceding_text": "Is not this matter being erected into something of importance, whereas it is merely a question of tittle-tattle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-12a.2353.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-12-12", "file": "debates1949-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "1b13e29567aad031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-12a.2353.3", "colnum": "2353", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIVILEGE (COMPLAINT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "preceding_text": "Is not this matter being erected into something of importance, whereas it is merely a question of tittle-tattle—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—and is it not regrettable that an hon. Member on this side of the House should be doing the dirty work for someone else?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-12a.2353.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-12", "file": "debates1949-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "1b13e29567aad031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-12a.2394.1", "colnum": "2394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS STOCKHOLDERS (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": "n put to him already. I would ask the question: Who is affected by this arrangement? Hon. Members opposite appear to think that it affects the very rich people, but I can assure them that it affects people who have very little money indeed, and far more severely than it affects any others. There are such people as the old and retired civil servants and their wives, and business men in a small way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-12a.2394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-12", "file": "debates1949-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "1b13e29567aad031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-12a.2402.5", "colnum": "2402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS STOCKHOLDERS (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "laint that come in? Does the right hon. Gentleman really believe that when one says a thing is fair, it is proved by saying that there has been no letter of complaint? He cannot mean that. I appeal to hon. Gentlemen opposite: Is a thing fair because no letter of complaint has been received? Obviously not. I can see why there are all these interruptions, because people do not like a moral argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-12a.2402.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-12", "file": "debates1949-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "1b13e29567aad031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-12a.2409.3", "colnum": "2409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS STOCKHOLDERS (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Spelthorne (Mr. Pargiter) was careful not to intervene until the Communist Party led off. It was interesting to note, and, of course, he was followed by the hon. Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Emrys Hughes), who took almost as strong a line. That is where hon. Members opposite find themselves in great difficulty. Their natural instincts are for payment of no compensation at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-12a.2409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-12", "file": "debates1949-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "1b13e29567aad031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-12a.2418.1", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS STOCKHOLDERS (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " more so that gas was in a slightly different position. However, there was this risk that gilt-edged might have gone either way. I should like to make it plain without going into the question of what the future prospects of gilt-edged might be—that would be quite outside my sphere to consider that, of course, the Government had no responsibility for the course of gilt-edged prices since that date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-12a.2418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-12", "file": "debates1949-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "1b13e29567aad031", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-12a.2443.1", "colnum": "2443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRUELTY TO CHILDREN", "cue_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "spite of legislation passed by this House, the problem still remains virtually untouched. No action can be taken today to protect these children unless some irreparable damage has been done and can be shown to have been done. That is a most serious state of affairs which must be put right by the House without delay. It is difficult to assess the number of children involved. In 1949, the R.S.P.C.A.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-12a.2443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-13", "file": "debates1949-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "e811a7d32553f8bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-13a.2556.1", "colnum": "2556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Don't spoil a good case.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Attorney-General for helping me with my brief. I hope that the Lord Chancellor will take due note of the partisan approach to the claims of Lichfield for the retention of its recordership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-13a.2556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2671.0", "colnum": "2671", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICAL POWER INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "It is correct that they adjourned, but they only adjourned for lunch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2671.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2706.7", "colnum": "2706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FILM INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Rank.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "ses, those who are becoming unemployed cannot readily use their skill and talents elsewhere. Of course a national film industry is, if not as important, at any rate of comparable importance to a national Press or national literature, and it would be a counsel of despair to imagine that a country which bred Shakespeare and Sheridan, Congreve and Bernard Shaw, to say nothing of Keats and Wordsworth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2706.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2718.1", "colnum": "2718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FILM INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has been.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "That question would be more appropriately addressed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2730.1", "colnum": "2730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FILM INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tory misrule.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "e films. It would also offer tremendous encouragement to the producers of the \"shorts.\" I should like to go back to the old-fashioned cinema programme of my childhood, when, as far as I can remember, we used to have a nice documentary the big feature, a serial with Pearl White or William S. Hart and then Charlie Chaplin. That was the best four pennyworth I have ever had, and it was a contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2730.1", "colnum": "2730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FILM INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "ut I think that, on the whole, it would be desirable if that renting organisation could have behind it a circuit which would be reasonably well disposed to the public renting organisation. I therefore return to a proposal which I and some of my hon. Friends have made several times before, that we must now seriously consider the creation of a State circuit as well as of a State rental organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2763.0", "colnum": "2763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FILM INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"It is dead from the neck up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "posal. That sort of thing was done by the Ministry of Information during the war, and a very considerably improved standard of films resulted therefrom. It is therefore not entirely a revolutionary idea, but if it is so regarded I would point out that the film industry is in a revolutionary situation. We have also the British Film Institute, which can render a lot of assistance in this connection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2768.3", "colnum": "2768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FILM INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn Levy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn Levy", "preceding_text": "sting things. The first demand for a remission of taxation was for no less than £20 million. That figure was proposed conjointly by those heavenly twins of the cinema firmament, my hon. Friend the Member for West Nottingham (Mr. O'Brien) and Mr. J. Arthur Rank. But let us examine what would happen if that admittedly silly figure were remitted, or rather let us examine the later and revised figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2768.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2783.7", "colnum": "2783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FILM INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "The President of the Board of Trade delivered a speech which, I think, to some extent reflected the confusion in which he finds himself. It was a speech which was somewhat soured and churlish, in which he brought down strictures upon the exhibitors and the producers, and this mood persisted, and for the rest of the Debate we have had internecine strife amongst hon. Members on the Benches opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2783.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2784.3", "colnum": "2784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FILM INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "The President was trying to say that this demand for a remission of tax was some innovation, and that there was no justification for the kind of statements that have been made in the last few months, or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2784.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2784.7", "colnum": "2784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FILM INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "to the exhibitor. The hon. Member for Devonport produced figures to show that exhibitors were doing very well, and it is true to say that last year a number of exhibitors did do fairly well. It is also true that a number of exhibitors have in recent months been losing money. Certainly there is no amount of money available which exhibitors now obtain which can be devoted to the production of films.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2784.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2795.5", "colnum": "2795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FILM INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. K. Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. K. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "May I put a question? I have been sitting here through a lot of this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2795.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2818.0", "colnum": "2818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT SQUARE (IMPROVEMENTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "preceding_text": "rliament Square. It is the dimmest piece of Victorian bogus Gothic that can be seen for miles around, and it ought to be taken away. Nor is it a memorial fountain. It does not commemorate the memorable event which it is alleged to commemorate. It was, in fact, put up by some well-disposed philanthropist who thought that the provision of drinking water in any part of the town was a public benefit.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2818.0", "colnum": "2818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT SQUARE (IMPROVEMENTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "preceding_text": " it was thought that somewhere in Parliament Square was a suitable place in which to have another tap, and unfortunately at that time of day, it was thought desirable to embellish a simple tap with all this Gothic masonry. It was only after Parliament gave permission to put this thing in Parliament Square that it was decided to affix to it a plaque or a tablet commemorating a most memorable event—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2822.0", "colnum": "2822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT SQUARE (IMPROVEMENTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "r. Parliament Square is the hub of the Empire. If we do sweep away this fountain, something should be done to commemorate that great and historic act which it commemorates. We have still vast Dominions and Colonies, and in many of them the abolition of slavery still remains as one of the most glorious records of British rule. I should deplore it if, in preparation for the great Exhibition of 1851—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2836.3", "colnum": "2836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "if we are to have any hope, but which Socialism will never allow him to put into effect. It is for that reason that once again we have brought before the House this Motion to annul this order, and we shall vote for the policy of freedom for the workers to select the work to which they wish to go, and for the policy which my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) has put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2836.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2840.3", "colnum": "2840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "ere are men who do not like the work in their particular industry; they might be very good producers in another industry, and very good citizens, but they stay: and how can one calculate the loss of production because they stay? I do not want to delay the House at this late hour, but I would, in passing, point out that this order, as we have seen before, has a habit of coming up at this late hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2840.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2842.3", "colnum": "2842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "e habit of arguing that because something was wrong in the old days and this is wrong now, both of them are all right. It does not make sense. I have condemned unemployment and the inability and incompetence—refusal in cases—in tackling that problem when the Tories were in power. I can say that as a Liberal because we put forward a plan, \"We can conquer unemployment.\" We have a good record on that", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2842.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2843.1", "colnum": "2843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "that I am sure that he believes that it is morally wrong in peacetime to compel people to go into particular jobs. No amount of sympathetic administration—and there is sympathetic administration—can make the maintenance of a wrong principle right. I hope the Minister will agree with me that this is a bad principle. In saying that I should like to refer to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2843.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2845.0", "colnum": "2845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": " areas people who are keen to do their bit in the mining industry. They get a three months' probation period. Something may go wrong with a young man's life. He may want to go out after 18 months. He may meet a girl who lives in some part of the country where there is no mine. It may be unpatriotic, but at least it is understandable. That man becomes a criminal because he wants to do his courting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2846.1", "colnum": "2846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. T. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "press it. of the philosophy that underlies it. However, it is right that when we are dealing with an order which on the surface may seem to attack the liberty of the subject, to give some attention to whether or not it is as bad as the hon. Member for North Dorset would suggest. Liberty is a delicate plant. It is a plant whose growth is difficult to see. It is a plant that can easily be destroyed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2858.1", "colnum": "2858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "pposed to this. I am perfectly convinced that they are. I do not think we did badly at Bradford. If the Party opposite lose 5,000 votes in their majority in all their seats, they are out. I sincerely ask the right hon. Gentleman this. There are things worth a great deal more than organisation and regimentation. There are things worth a great deal more than money. I can assure hon. Members of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-14", "file": "debates1949-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "f8945b00a022c3af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2862.2", "colnum": "2862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF ENGAGEMENT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He would be out of Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ope that those hon. Members opposite who have not spoken tonight, and I believe there are some who agree with what has been so eloquently said by the hon. Member for Westhoughton (Mr. Rhys Davies), will be equally prepared to carry to the logical conclusion the sentiments he expressed on the last occasion. A visitor from another planet would have been a little surprised at our proceedings tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-14a.2862.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2909.2", "colnum": "2909", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTORAL REGISTRATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tolley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tolley", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend press his right hon. Friend to take all possible steps to see that the tragedy which occurred in 1945—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2909.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2941.5", "colnum": "2941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUTRITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "efore the war we are receiving less sugar in this country. Our ration has, in fact, been cut. I want to ask the right hon. Lady to explain why that is and why, at the producers' conference, when the West Indians said that with a guarantee they would largely increase their production, they have been very disappointed? I am certain that if we wished we could produce far more meat and far more sugar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2941.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2941.5", "colnum": "2941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUTRITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "conference, when the West Indians said that with a guarantee they would largely increase their production, they have been very disappointed? I am certain that if we wished we could produce far more meat and far more sugar. [ Interruption. ] I would ask hon. Gentlemen on all sides of the House to try to bring less party politics and more unity into this question of getting more meat and more sugar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2941.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2946.1", "colnum": "2946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUTRITION", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stoddart-Scott", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stoddart-Scott", "preceding_text": "od teeth of our young people and their continued increase in weight and height, and also the fact that there is no rickets in this country is chiefly due to the work of the Mellanbys and the help given by the then Minister and by every Minister of Health since. However the present Minister of Health, by destroying the priority scheme, has done his best to do some harm to the teeth of the children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2965.1", "colnum": "2965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUTRITION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I think the explanation of the right hon. and gallant Gentleman is a little weak. There he was, discussing a matter in front of professional people, and not for one moment did he advance this argument which he has advanced this afternoon. Therefore, I think he has been dishonest with the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2972.2", "colnum": "2972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Otherwise it was all right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "that in paragraph 28 there is one of those fair and honest admissions which one would always expect from any committee presided over by the right hon. and learned Gentleman. It says: In the past no information about the expenditure or income or the requirements at the Centre has been available to responsible constituency officers, Members of Parliament, candidates or ordinary members of the Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2972.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2976.1", "colnum": "2976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "r all this non-political activity in which they indulge, and they therefore advised their members to subscribe to two other non-political bodies, the Economic League and the Aims of Industry. As hon. Members know, the Economic League has a broad, non-party council, of which, perhaps, the most important member—and I am sorry he is not in the House—is the hon. Member for Orpington (Sir W. Smithers).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2979.1", "colnum": "2979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He does not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "Yes. I was asking the hon. Gentleman if he considers that the Aims of Industry, Limited, is a political organisation or not. Perhaps he will deal with that point when he speaks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2980.1", "colnum": "2980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "e different designs on a 16 sheet size \"— a very large size of poster— and these posters occupied 155 sites for three complete weeks before the meeting and were supplemented by 1,000 double crown posters over the same period. I have to give this estimate rather diffidently, because I have not had this display priced, but I understand that the cost of the display alone would be something like £500.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2981.1", "colnum": "2981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Wallace", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Wallace", "preceding_text": "information which I think must disturb every Member of this House who is sincerely concerned with the integrity of our democratic institutions. His appeal that tonight this Motion should be passed without opposition is one which ought to be considered very seriously by every Member of the House. It is my intention to keep away, as far as I can, from dealing with this question on a political basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2983.0", "colnum": "2983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "There is a very simple answer to that. The answer is that the industrialists who expose their contributions or gifts, will. as was said from the Government Front Bench, come under the victimisation of the Government in appointments and in contracts with nationalised industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2984.0", "colnum": "2984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "cking the integrity of the administration and protecting the interests of the public. In the sphere of local Government, we have the same process. If. in Parliament, the parties insist upon publicity and the discussion and checking of accounts. I do not understand why the party opposite do not also set an example and have publicity in connection with their own accounts? Is there something to hide?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2984.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2987.1", "colnum": "2987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": " the right hon. Gentleman right today? I think he is, but if not, will the Tory Party accept the challenge made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield in 1948 and publish their accounts? In the \"Right Road for Britain,\" they declare: restore the House of Commons to its rightful place as the guardian of the individual against the State. I would always say we should protect the individual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2991.1", "colnum": "2991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "passed, it would be a serious blow for democracy in this country. Hon. Members, in fact, do not share that view, but I hope that they will at least listen to it, and try to follow it so far as their intelligences permit and so far as they can exhibit the manners to do so. There has been nothing said in the two speeches to which we have listened to alter my opinion or even to touch these arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2991.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2996.1", "colnum": "2996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ion with the election of a Member to Parliament or to other public bodies. When I say salaries to Members of Parliament, I include salaries to members of local authorities too. If that is not what they go on I should be very interested to know what they do go on. This \"holier than thou\" business of saying \"We publish our accounts\" is all very well, but the fact is that they do nothing of the kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2996.7", "colnum": "2996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "The figures are, of course, published every year by the Registrar of Friendly Societies. The published total reveals the tact that the Labour Party's account is cooked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.2996.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3000.1", "colnum": "3000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the book? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ed to disparage particular candidates, and is it or is it not intended to be disseminated throughout the constituencies of the country? The House may one day have an answer to those questions because I propose to send this little book to the Attorney-General with a request that it be passed on to the Director of Public Prosecutions so that, when the supporters of the Aims of Industry and Mr. Pugh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3001.0", "colnum": "3001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the book? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "—with this difference only, that of the gentlemen who will be in the dock, if the Attorney-General is right, only two would he disqualified effectively from sitting in a House of Commons to which they had been elected. The tendentious character of this material—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3001.0", "colnum": "3001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the name of the book?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ce only, that of the gentlemen who will be in the dock, if the Attorney-General is right, only two would he disqualified effectively from sitting in a House of Commons to which they had been elected. The tendentious character of this material—[An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the book? \"]—and the desirability of including it in any political account which there may be is clearly seen from the index alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3001.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3001.1", "colnum": "3001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Who is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "haracter of this material—[An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the book? \"]—and the desirability of including it in any political account which there may be is clearly seen from the index alone. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the name of the book?\"] I find in the index the following names in close connotation to one another—Herbison, Margaret; Hinchingbrooke, Lord; Hitler, Adolf; Hoare, Sir Samuel; Hogg, Quintin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3003.3", "colnum": "3003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has gone now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "I have not got it, but I understand that the right hon. and gallant Member for Pembroke (Major Lloyd George), who sits on the Conservative Front Bench and was there only an hour ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3003.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3006.3", "colnum": "3006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is done.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "e that is important. The Liberal Party publish annually, as part of the report to the assembly meeting every year, their statement of receipts and payments and details of all expenditure by their organisation on publications, publicity, committees, appeals and so on. They also give a complete list of their investments. I do not know whether that is done by the Labour Party, but we certainly do it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3006.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3010.1", "colnum": "3010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ore detailed disclosures of funds. So far as I am concerned, from our point of view they can have them. We have nothing to hide. It is more important that I should deal with the hon. Member for Oxford, who has now left the Chamber, and with the Tory Amendment. The Tory Amendment has been destroyed by the hon. Member for Oxford. I have never heard a more disgraceful, contemptible speech in my life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3010.3", "colnum": "3010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I withdraw it, and substitute a term which was used by the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition many years ago. The hon. Gentleman was guilty of \"a terminological inexactitude: \"The hon. Gentleman made a speech which was cynical. He does not believe a word of this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3010.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3011.0", "colnum": "3011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ubstitute a term which was used by the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition many years ago. The hon. Gentleman was guilty of \"a terminological inexactitude: \"The hon. Gentleman made a speech which was cynical. He does not believe a word of this Amendment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"] He defeated it by his own arguments. Every argument that he adduced was deadly to his own Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3010.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3014.6", "colnum": "3014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker White", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker White", "preceding_text": "f their workers. These two working in the right spirit will get the country out of a tough spot. Here is a leaflet on agriculture. It states: The land of Britain is a priceless heritage, handed down to us by our forefathers. Within our lifetime, between the wars, we made the tragic mistake of neglecting that heritage. That meant hard times for all on the land. Let us never make that mistake again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3014.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3017.0", "colnum": "3017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "to pay money to the Labour Party. On the same basis, they should publish their accounts. We are not disputing the right of big vested interests to contribute to a political party. We are saying that it is an elementary right of democracy that the citizens should know the forces behind the political parties before they go into this Election. I appeal to the Government tonight to accept this Motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3017.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3022.2", "colnum": "3022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. I shall of course, see that the right hon. Gentleman has that, but that makes my point a fair one. The right hon. Member for Wakefield waxed indignant about the Labour Party accounts. What i say with regard to that is that if the choice is between no accounts and accounts as rendered by the Labour Party, the choice is between no accounts and a completely misleading set of figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3022.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3022.2", "colnum": "3022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "s and accounts as rendered by the Labour Party, the choice is between no accounts and a completely misleading set of figures. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] May I develop the point? What anyone would expect if they were told that the income of the Labour Party is £236,000 a year, is that, apart from a few odds and ends, that represented the financial support given to the Socialist movement in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3022.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3022.2", "colnum": "3022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "oice is between no accounts and a completely misleading set of figures. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] May I develop the point? What anyone would expect if they were told that the income of the Labour Party is £236,000 a year, is that, apart from a few odds and ends, that represented the financial support given to the Socialist movement in this country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] That is what they would expect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3022.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3023.5", "colnum": "3023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman were not so impatient he might gather what I am about to say. These funds do not show it. In no place can one see in aggregate how much of it is used for the production of pro-Socialist pamphlets which are paid for out of the general fund of the union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3023.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3023.5", "colnum": "3023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman were not so impatient he might gather what I am about to say. These funds do not show it. In no place can one see in aggregate how much of it is used for the production of pro-Socialist pamphlets which are paid for out of the general fund of the union. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Oh, yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3023.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3023.7", "colnum": "3023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I do know—because they are not covered by the political fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3023.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3023.7", "colnum": "3023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "er opposite who has been interrupting so loudly will consider that, let me give him one example, of the A.E.U. journal for November: This brings us, as trade unionists, up against the hard facts. Beyond question, the Government is calling upon the organised working-class movement to co-operate in saving the revolution, though they do not call it that. The Labour Party has to win the 1950 Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3023.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3023.7", "colnum": "3023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is all in the accounts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "unionists, up against the hard facts. Beyond question, the Government is calling upon the organised working-class movement to co-operate in saving the revolution, though they do not call it that. The Labour Party has to win the 1950 Election. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Exactly. Nobody on earth can discover how much of trade unionists' money is devoted to Labour Party propaganda of that pattern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3023.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3024.3", "colnum": "3024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "ent. Again, I put it in this way. Nobody has disputed the statement of my hon. Friend as to the £100,000, which is based on 2§d. per member per year, which is paid by 1,003 out of 1,118 Co-operative societies to the Co-operative Union. The Cooperative Union is one of the constituent bodies, with the Labour Party and the T.U.C, of the National Council of Labour. With regard to the education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3024.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3025.6", "colnum": "3025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for giving way, because I wrote to him precisely on this point. I wish to quote the speech he made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3025.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3028.1", "colnum": "3028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "om the executive to the council, a body of some 2,000 people who meet in public. The second method was through the area treasurers to the chairmen and treasurers of divisions, who are 1,250 people. So that we follow it up. The hon. Gentleman will appreciate that it was passed by the body of the party only in July, and it is still in the stage of implementation. When one makes changes of that kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3029.0", "colnum": "3029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "ise. The essence of the Report which bears my name—I am sure he has read it—is to urge on my party the democratisation of financial contribution. It urges on them not only to pay for the constituency expenses, not only to pay all the election expenses of a candidate, but to confine the candidate's payment to £25 and £50 for a Member—which is much less than the Labour Party's, whose figure is £250.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3029.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3029.3", "colnum": "3029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was it? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I do not want to waste the time of the House. My challenge was perfectly clear to hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3029.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3029.4", "colnum": "3029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman. I had forgotten that part of his speech, and I will answer it quite flatly now. I will not agree to the publication—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3029.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3030.5", "colnum": "3030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman said ' Labour Party'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "conomic forces that now goes on in this country, who is behind a particular policy that is being advocated, and who is willing to lend his support to the policy that has been announced. When one is asked to accept the view that the weaker of the two organisations is the Labour Party, I am bound to say that I do not accept the view that the weaker of the two organisations is the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3030.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1949-12-15", "file": "debates1949-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "cd0b5a526c63f13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3034.1", "colnum": "3034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLITICAL PARTIES (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e the people, who are the great organisations, the medium-size organisations and even the small organisations, behind the policies that different political parties are advocating. I cannot believe that it is in the best interests of the country that they should be open to the suspicion that all too often in these days attaches to some of these organisations. I have a letter here from a young lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1949-12-15a.3034.1"}